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c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 10614 Vor sir Richard fiz le rei..& oþere kniȝtes manion & þe sink pors, scarseliche mid ssipes eiȝtetene, & ȝeue hom bataile in þe se.]

c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 1169 (MED) Þe vif tounes of þe vif pors [a1400 Trin. Cambr. ports] he let walli aboute.

c1400 Brut (Rawl. B. 171) 235 (MED) Þe see costes..þe v Portes token to kepe..& also þe see.

?c1475 ( in T. Wright Polit. Poems & Songs (1861) II. 146 (MED) Six erles in their estate shewid them alle, And the v poortis beryng up the palle.

a1500 (a1450) tr. Secreta Secret. (Ashm. 396) (1977) 75 (MED) The perfeccion of euery such þing is in 5 thynges..kynde of bestis ben 5..And ther ben 5 portes of the see.

1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 138 William the Norman Conquerour..instituted a Warden of the five Ports, Hastings, Dover, Hith, Rumney and Sandwiche.

1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 268 Lord Warden of the fiue ports.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Baron Barons of the cinque ports, are members of the house of commons elected by the five ports, two for each port.

1877 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 6 302 Edward the Confessor is said to have been the first monarch who bestowed the immunities and privileges enjoyed by the five ports.

1914 Times 16 May 5/1 Hastings, Sandwich, Dover, Romney, and Hythe are the original five ports on which for some centuries may almost be said to have rested the defence of England.

1959 Econ. Hist. Rev. 11 459 The liability of the five ports to the crown grew out of the earlier sea-service and the ship fyrd of Saxon times.

2002 R. H. Fritze & W. B. Robison Hist. Dict. Late Medieval Eng. 116 The five ports and the two Ancient Towns were required to send deputations to all meetings.