"Cinque Ports" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH
Five (now seven) ports or havens on the south-east coast of Eng-laud, towards France, formerly esteemed the most important in the kingdom. They are Dover, Sandwich, Romney, Hastings, and Ilythe, to which wincheisea and Rye have been since added. They had similar fran-chises, in some respects, with the counties palatine, and particularly an exclusive, jurisdiction. (before the mayor and jurats, corres-ponding to aldermen, of the ports,) in which the king’s ordinary writ did not run. 3 BL Comm. 79
Five English ports, to which peculiar privileges were
anciently accorded; -- viz., Hastings, Romney, Hythe, Dover, and
Sandwich; afterwards increased by the addition of Winchelsea, Rye, and
some minor places.
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