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Webster 1913 Edition


Cinque Ports

Cinque′ Portsˊ

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Cinque
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port
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(Eng. Hist.)
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.
Baron of the Cinque Ports
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See under
Baron
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