By Ken Clarke Although the origins of the Cinque Ports are unknown, their individual beginnings preceded the Norman Conquest, for the Domesday Book records that during the reign of Edward the Confessor the burgesses of Dover.
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Sir Winston Churchill runs through this selection from the Rye’s Own archive, linking individual reports and recollections into a broader picture of local life. Stories such as “The Cinque Ports”, “The Cinque Ports Coronation Privileges”, and “A Time Tested Alliance” give the collection its range and its distinctly local texture. The result is less a formal history than a lively bundle of evidence, voices and remembered moments from the magazine’s pages.
A Time Tested Alliance
By Jim Hollands The age old links that bind three of the head Cinque Ports, Hythe, Romney and Hastings, the two Ancient Towns of Rye & Winchelsea and the corporate members Folkestone, Lydd and Tenterden are rooted in the Cinque Ports Confederation, Romney Marsh, Smuggling, Defence of the Realm and the Royal Military Canal.
The Cinque Ports
CORONATION PRIVILEGES By Kenneth Clarke Although the origins of the Cinque Ports are unknown, their individual beginnings preceded the Norman Conquest, for the Domesday Book records that during the reign of Edward the Confessor the burgesses of Dover, Sandwich and Romney were liable to supply to ‘the King, once in the year.