free reception he there met with at his first landing in England. But it seems they had some title to that pre-eminence; for in the service to Yarmouth, the town of Hastings found two bailiffs to any of the others one, and paid double the allowance of any of the other towns.
The word cinque necessarily denotes there are but five ports, under which term are comprehended the ancient towns, and the members annexed to the said ports and towns. Those that pass by the appellation of the Cinque, or five ports, and include the rest that enjoy like privileges with them, are
| Cinque Ports, | Hastings | in Sussex |
| Dover, | in Kent | |
| Sandwich, | ||
| New Romney, | ||
| Hythe, | ||
| Ancient Towns. | Rye, | in Sussex. |
| Winchelsea, |
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They are sometimes called the ports, no other ports in England having had such large privileges, or can equal the antiquity of their grants and confirmations, or have been so -
