LORD, BRASSEY.
;I 4 , WARDEN/ OF THE CINQUE PORTS. ' Nt TBt.Eartirn—i'UESs association— coptrioht. I (Reo. Jan.; 16, 11.32 p.m.) London, January 16. Lord Brassey, Lifao:al Peer, and a writer on 'naval and cconsraio questions, has been appointed Warden of the Cinque Ports. About the timo of Edward the Confessor the five towns of Dover, Hastings, Sandwich, llomney, and Hy the wero incorporated for the defence of the "kingdom. Subsequently Rye and Winch'oster wero added. The inhabitants wero, fishermen, and therefore were chiefly concerned with the earliest attempts at national : defenco. ' Gradually, with growth of the power of tho State, and the necessity for a better organisation for defence, the importance of tho " Oinque Ports' 1 declined, but the Wardon and his courts still continue in name.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 97, 17 January 1908, Page 7
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