Cinque Ports

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Webster's Dictionary [1]

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.

The Nuttall Encyclopedia [2]

The five ports of Hastings, Romney, Hythe, Dover, and Sandwich, to which were added Winchelsea and Rye, which possessed certain privileges in return for supplying the royal power with a navy; the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports is only an honorary dignity.

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