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	Cinque Ports@Everything2.com
		The Confederation of the Cinque Ports is an ancient feudal union of towns providing naval defence of the south-east coast of England, facing the Continent.
		The Cinque Ports were granted extensive powers of self-government, administration of justice, and freedom from tax and toll by a charter in the 1200s.
		The Barons of the Cinque Ports have the right to hold a canopy over the Sovereign at the Coronation, though the last time this happened was that of George IV in 1821.
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	Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports is a ceremonial official in the United Kingdom.
		The Lord Warden also holds the offices of Admiral of the Cinque Ports with a maritime jurisdiction extending to mid Channel, from Redcliffe near Seaford, in Sussex to Shoe Beacon in Essex, and of Constable of Dover Castle.
		The office of Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports has been traced from the year 1226 from the appointment William de Averanch, although he was not the first incumbent of this office.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lord_Warden_of_the_Cinque_Ports (1026 words)

	Thomas Cheney - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		As the Constable of Saltwood Castle (near Hythe), Queenborough Castle (in Sheppey), Rochester Castle and Dover Castle, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports and Lord Lieutenant of Kent (1551-3), Thomas Cheney was much 'involved with musters and coastal defence'.
		Conspicuously in April 1545 Cheney suffered a bout of illness, and was temporarily replaced in his duties as the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports by Sir Thomas Seymour, Hertford’s brother.
		He was elected to the position following the execution of the previous Lord Warden, Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond and Somerset, the ceremony duly performed on the same day as that lord's demise, December 16, 1558, a month into the reign of Elizabeth I.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_Cheney (742 words)

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		Cinque Ports Cinque PortssĬngk [O. Fr.,=five ports], name applied to an association of maritime towns in Sussex and Kent, SE England.
		Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, self-sustaining public corporation established in 1921 by the states of New York and New Jersey to administer the activities of the New York-New Jersey port area, which has a waterfront of c.900 mi (1,450 km) lying in both states.
		port port [from Oporto], fortified wine made in Portugal from grapes grown in the Douro valley; Portuguese law allows only this wine to be called port.
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	Walmer Castle Information
		In 1708 Walmer Castle took on a new role as the residence of the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports.
		The Cinque Ports Confederation originated in the 11th century when the five ports of Hastings, Romney, Hythe, Dover and Sandwich joined forces to provide ships and men for the defence of the coast and protection of cross-channel trade.
		In the 13th century the office of Warden was instituted to oversee and regulate the affairs of the Confederation.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Walmer_Castle (460 words)

	Encyclopedia: Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Roger de Leybourne or Roger Leyburn was a Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports and Sheriff of Kent, and was known as a general administrator.
		Henry Cobham 1st lord Cobham, (1260-1339) was Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports in 1307, and also held the titles of Sheriff of Kent, Constable of Canterbury, Tonbridge, Dover and Rochester Castles.
		Lord Dufferin as a young man Frederick Temple Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, PC (June 21, 1826 â€“ February 12, 1902) was a British public servant and prominent member of Victorian society.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Lord-Warden-of-the-Cinque-Ports (4096 words)

	Cinque Information
		Cinque Terre are five coastal villages in the province of La Spezia in Italy.
		Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports is a ceremonial official in the United Kingdom.
		Cinque Cento is a term used to describe the Renaissance in literature and art in the sixteenth century.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Cinque (173 words)

	Dover and the Cinque Ports
		The post of Lord Warden is held for life, and in modern times it is bestowed as an honour, rewarding long and faithful service to the Crown.
		The Cinque Ports reached the peak of their power in the 13th Century, acting on many occasions for the King but also suffering some disgrace for unofficial piracy, robbery and pillage that had become commonplace activities of many of the Portsmen.
		In the thirteenth century the combination of the office of Constable of Dover Castle with that of Lord Warden made Dover the headquarters of this important representative of the King.
	www.dover-kent.co.uk /history/cinque_ports.htm (751 words)

	United Kingdom: Cinque Ports
		Lord Curzon records that Prime Minister William Pitt reviewed a fleet of vessels from the Cinque Ports in 1803 and that the warden's flag was saluted by the boats anchored in line opposite Walmer Castle.
		During Sir Winston's funeral procession in January 1965, a replica of the Cinque Ports' banner preceded the coffin, and when the Port of London Authority launch Havengore bore his body from Tower Pier to Waterloo, the flag of the lord warden was flown from the vessel's jackstaff.
		Admiral the Lord Boyce, former Chief of the Defence Staff, was appointed 29 July 2004, after, according to a newspaper report, the 14 mayors of the Channel port towns threatened to march in full regalia on the office of John Prescott (Deputy Prime Minister).
	www.atlasgeo.net /FOTW/flags/gb-cinq.html (1191 words)

	The Five Cinque Ports Dover Kent England
		The number of ships to be furnished by each Port gives a good idea of the relative importance of the towns at the time Dover had to send 21, Winchelsea 10, Hastings 6, and Sandwich, Hythe, Romney, and Rye 5 each.
		Many of the Cinque Ports custumals or records are still preserved, and throw an interesting light on the life of the period.
		The last gallant effort of the Ports was made against the Spanish Armada but decay had set in long before, owing mainly to the remorseless action of the " Eastward Drift" of shingle and sand from Dungeness through the narrow Straits of Dover, to the Thames estuary.
	www.doverpages.co.uk /cinque.htm (582 words)

	AllRefer.com - Cinque Ports (British And Irish Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
		Cinque Ports[singk] Pronunciation Key [O. Fr.,=five ports], name applied to an association of maritime towns in Sussex and Kent, SE England.
		Later, neighboring places were added as "limbs" or "members." The Cinque Ports reached their peak of significance during the Anglo-French struggle in the 14th cent.
		The highest officer of the chartered organization was the lord warden of the Cinque Ports, who had extensive civil, military, and naval duties.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/C/CinquePo.html (355 words)

	Sir Thomas Cheyne and the Cinque Ports
		This particular abuse of the ports' privileges seems to have increased under Edward V1: in 155O the mayor and jurats of Dover refused to accept a royal writ because it was not accompanied by a letter of attendance from the lord warden.
		The Cinque Ports were traditionally granted exemptions from flfteenths and tenths and subsidies, ostensibly in recognition of the contribution they made to the king's navies; this had been recognised in a charter of 1465, despite the fact that by then their contribution to the navy was largely confined to a handful of transport ships.
		In disputes with the lord warden the ports' usual recourse was to the charters that guaranteed their privileges; the incumbent of Dover castle had a larger armoury, ranging from threats to withdraw his protection to the use of force.
	www.sheppey.free-online.co.uk /history/cheyne/essay.html (8414 words)

	United Kingdom: Warden of the Cinque Ports (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Lord Curzon records that Prime Minister William Pitt reviewed a fleet of vessels from the Cinque Ports in 1803 and that the warden's flag was saluted by the boats anchored in line opposite Walmer Castle.
		During Sir Winston's funeral procession in January 1965, a replica of the Cinque Ports' banner preceded the coffin, and when the Port of London Authority launch Havengore bore his body from Tower Pier to Waterloo, the flag of the lord warden was flown from the vessel's jackstaff.
		Admiral the Lord Boyce, former Chief of the Defence Staff, was appointed 29 July 2004, after, according to a newspaper report, the 14 mayors of the Channel port towns threatened to march in full regalia on the office of John Prescott (Deputy Prime Minister).
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/gb-cinq.html (1099 words)

	WARDEN - LoveToKnow Article on WARDEN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The lords wardens of the marches, for example, were powerful nobles appointed to guard the borders of Scotland and of Wales; they held their lands per baroniam, the king's writ not running against them, and they had extensive rights of administrating justice.
		Warden was until 1870 the alternative title of the master of the mint, and " warden of the standards " the title of the head of the Standards office (see STANDARDS).
		The principal or head of several of the colleges of Oxford University is also termed warden.
	78.1911encyclopedia.org /W/WA/WARDEN.htm (174 words)

	Cinque Ports biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports was appointed, and the office still exists, though it is now a purely honorary title.
		A further reason for the decline of many older ports may be ascribed to the development of the railway network across Britain, and the increased quantity of overseas trade it could distribute from the new major ports developing from the 18th Century.
		However by the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, the Cinque Ports had effectively ceased to be of any real significance, and were absorbed into the general administration of the Realm.
	cinque-ports.biography.ms (719 words)

	The Cinque Ports
		The headquarters of the Lord Warden are therefore at Dover Castle, but since early in the 18th century, Walmer Castle has been his official residence.
		For the Lord Warden, it made sense of the extending of his powers so far north of Sussex and Kent over the full width of the mouth of the Thames.
		The Cinque Port Wreck House built at that time still stands in Brightlingsea Waterside, a unique survival and as late as 1848, the Cinque Port Agent was active in the Colne.
	www.ledwards.net /brightlingsea/thecinqueports.htm (1083 words)

	The Cinque Port Liberty of Brightlingsea - The Lord Warden
		Admiral the Lord Boyce GCB, OBE, DL Lord Warden and Admiral of the Cinque Ports
		The new Lord Warden and Admiral of the Cinque Ports and Constable of Dover Castle is Admiral the Lord Boyce, GCB, OBE, DL.
		The new Lord Warden was appointed by The Queen, on the advice of the Prime Minister and was installed in office at a session of the Grand Court of Shepway, held in Dover on Tuesday 12 April 2005.
	www.cinqueportliberty.co.uk /lordwarden.htm (300 words)

	Sir Thomas CHENEY Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Warden of the Cinque Ports 17 May 1536-d.; ?high steward, lands of abpric.
		Above all, it was said to have been at Cromwell's suggestion that in 1536 Cheney was made Warden of the Cinque Ports, in return for his surrender to the minister of the stewardship of Writtle, Essex, which he had held since the death of William Carey, the first husband of Mary Boleyn.
		After the conclusion of a treaty between France and England on 7 Jun 1546 Cheney was sent on an embassy to France to stand proxy for Henry VIII at the christening of a daughter of the Dauphin.
	www.tudorplace.com.ar /Bios/ThomasCheney.htm (4212 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports
		The Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports was originally in charge of the Cinque Ports, a group of five port towns on the south coast of England.
		The Lord Warden was solely responsible for the return of all writs to the Crown, along with the collection of taxes and the arrest of criminals.
		The office of Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports has been traced from the year 1226 from the appointment William de Averanch, although he was not the first incumbent of this office.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Lord_Warden_of_the_Cinque_Ports (1042 words)

	Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports - Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports was originally in charge of the Cinque Ports, a group of five port towns on the south coast of England.
		The Lord Warden was solely responsible for the return of all writs to the Crown, along with the collection of taxes and the arrest of criminals.
		The office of Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports has been traced from the year 1226 from the; appointment William de Averanch, although he was not the first incumbent of this office.
	lord-warden-of-the-cinque-ports.zdnet.co.za /zdnet/Lord_Warden_of_the_Cinque_Ports (1480 words)

	SeaBritain 2005 - Maritime Factsheet - A Brief History of the Cinque Ports (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother was installed as Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports in Dover on 1st August 1979.
		The history of the Cinque Ports is a complex and fascinating one.
		Bretnall – The Cinque Ports and Romney Marsh; Gifford 1972.
	www.whitecliffscountry.org.uk /seabritain/cinqueports.asp (721 words)

	CINQUE PORTS - Online Information article about CINQUE PORTS
		commissary of the lord warden, just as the judge of the high court of admiralty sat as the official and commissary of the lord high admiral.
		And, as the office of lord warden is more ancient than the office of lord high admiral (The Lord Warden v.
		The Cinque Ports from the earliest times claimed to be exempt from the jurisdiction of the admiral of England.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /CHR_CLI/CINQUE_PORTS.html (2230 words)

	Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports - The Churchill Centre
		Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports - The Churchill Centre
		Their parliamentary representatives, appointed by the Lord Warden at first, later elected, were not abolished until the 19th century.
		In the ages since their founding, the Cinque Ports had been affected by the he shingling of the rivers.
	www.winstonchurchill.org /i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=791 (883 words)

	Walmer Dollhouses
		The official residence of Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports since the 18th Century, the building is now an English Heritage property and features a collection of memorabilia of the Duke of Wellington, of the Battle of Waterloo fame, who made Walmer his home for 23 years.
		In 1708 Walmer Castle took on a new role as the residence of the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports.
		In the 13th century the office of Warden was instituted to oversee and regulate the affairs of the Confederation.
	www.artistbooking.com /trips/220/walmer-dollhouses.html (1055 words)

	The Office of Lord Warden
		The Lord Warden and Admiral of the Cinque Ports and Constable of Dover Castle is Admiral the Lord Boyce, GCB, OBE, DL.
		The Lord Warden was appointed in July 2004 by The Queen, on the advice of the Prime Minister.
		By the 14th Century, the Lord Warden played an increasing role in naval affairs and as Admiral of the Cinque Ports was responsible for mustering the fleet, as well as exercising discipline.
	www.cinqueports.org /lordwarden.htm (672 words)

	Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It is a widely held view that the confederation of the Cinque Ports was established long before 1066, but no exact date can be found.
		The Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports was originally in charge of the Cinque Ports.
		Yet after two years of mourning the Queen Mother (last Lord Warden of the 20th century), during a time of war, the appointment of Admiral Lord Boyce indicates something of the importance still attached to the post, even against modern political reforms.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/L/Lord-Warden-of-the-Cinque-Ports.htm (1267 words)

	Lord Warden of The Cinque Ports
		The Queen has been pleased to approve that Admiral the Lord Boyce GCB OBE, be appointed Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, and also Constable of Dover Castle and Admiral of the Cinque Ports, in succession to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.
		Lord Boyce was elevated to the peerage in June 2003.
		Lord Boyce is a keen sportsman, on and off the water, and a follower of opera and ballet.
	www.number-10.gov.uk /output/Page6177.asp (309 words)

	Dover Museum Information Resources - Cinque Ports Pilots
		However, the Cinque Port Pilots are often referred to in early years as the Fellowship of Pilots of the Trinity House of Dover, Deal and the Isle of Thanet.
		The Lord Warden and the Court of Lodemanage supposedly regulated the Fellowship and appointed new pilots but in practice much was left to the Wardens and pilots themselves.
		In 1853 the Cinque Port Pilots were transferred to the Trinity House of Deptford Strond (London) and the Court of Lodemanage was closed.
	www.dover.gov.uk /museum/resource/articles/cinqueportspilots.asp (1710 words)

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