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MICHAEL STANHOPE, VICE-ADMIRAL OF SUFFOLK.
Duties of the Cinque Ports. By the charter granted in the twenty-second year of the reign of Edward I., the Cinque Ports[1] were bound to provide, at any time the king passed over the sea, not less than fifty-seven ships fully equipped, each to have twenty armed soldiers maintained at the cost of the ship-owner for fifteen days. Soon afterwards, the constable of Dover Castle set forth, in a proclamation, the proportion of ships which these and other ports, admitted to certain privileges, were bound to furnish. The total number thus collected amounted
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2. Poole—sigillvm. commvne. de. la. pole.
3. Dover—sigillvm. commvne. baronvm. de. dovoria.
4. Faversham—sigillvm. baronvm. de. faversham.
5. Suffolk—sigillvm. michaelis. stanhope. armigeri. vice-*admiralli. comitatvs. svffolcie.
]
- ↑ See Appendix No. 4.
