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Excerpt from The History and Antiquities of the Ancient Town and Port of Rye, in the County of Sussex: With Incidental Notices of the Cinque Ports; Compiled From Manuscripts and Original Authorities The town of Rye, a small isolated spot, may seem at first sight little deserving of being recorded in history; but when we recollect that the Cinque Ports were called into existence at a very early period, perhaps even while the Romans yet remained in England, that these Ports were the first parents of our navy, that it was from these all our earliest monarchs, down to the accession of the Tudors, drew the whole of their naval force, and their successors partially so late as the reign of Charles I, and added to this, that Rye became one of the Ports, under the title of an ancient town, as early as the reign of Edward the Confessor, then we see that this little town is no longer the insignificant spot which, at the first glance, it appeared to be. To enable them to meet the heavy expenses, attendant on fitting out their ships, the Ports were endowed with great privileges and immunities: these were not granted by individual Charters to each Port, but by one general Charter to all of them in their corporate character. Thus the history of any one Port must necessarily embrace more or less of that of every other; and hence, though this work is called a History of Rye, yet still, so far as regards the Charters, the Customals, and the Courts, it contains matters interesting to all the Ports, from which fact I venture to hope to obtain the patronage not only of the Barons of Rye, but of those of all the other Ports and their members. By the Parliamentary and Municipal Corporation Reform Bills the ancient constitution of the Cinque Ports has been completely changed; their privileges have become, in a great measure, a dead letter, and thus, in another generation or two, the memory of them would be clean gone for ever, were not some record made of them ere it be too late. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.