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the Master shall take six Pence per day, and the Constable six Pence per day, and every one of the others shall take three Pence per day.
- "Kent; Romney , the Head Port, Old Romney and Lydde, Members of the same, which Port, with its Members, shall find to the King, Five Ships in form aforesaid . The Port of Hithe ought to find to the King Five Ships in Form aforesaid. Dover is an Head Port ; whose Members are, viz. Feversham , Folkestone, and Margate, and this Port, with its Members aforesaid, ought to find Twenty and one Ships in Form aforesaid . Sandwich is an Head Port ; whose Members are Fordwich, Stonor, and Sarre, which Port, with its Members, ought to find to the King Five Ships in Form aforesaid. The Sum of the Service of the Cinque Ports, 57 Ships. And as to the Service in the Coronation, &c., it is contained in the same Booke thus: In the 20 yeare of King Henry, the Son of King John, Queen Elianor, the daughter of Hugh, Earl of Provence, being crowned at West.. on Sunday before the purification of the blessed Marie, among other things it is found thus ; And a Cloth foure square of purple Silke by foure Staves Silvered over, borne up with Foure little Bells silver and gilt, over the King, going whither he would, did the Barons of the Cinque Ports assigned beare ; at every Staffe Foure , according to the diversity of the Ports, lest Port should seeme to be preferred to Port. Likewise the same, a Silke Cloth over the Queene going after the King ; which said Clothes they did claime to be theirs of Right and obtained them in Court, although the Marquesses of the Marches of Wales, viz. John Fitz Alan, Ralfe De Mortimer, John De Monemne, and Walter De Clifford, in the name of the Marquissate, said it to be the right of the Marquissate, to find and bear those Staves, it was reputed in a sort frivolous, and the Barons of the Cinque Ports did affirm their Right of sitting at the King's Table the same day, at the right hand of our Lord the King, and so they sate. It is found also, in a certain Foure Square Booke at the Exchequer in the 31 yeare of the said King Edward, -
