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 MICHAEL STANHOPE, VICE-ADMIRAL OF SUFFOLK.

By the charter granted in the twenty-second year of the reign of Edward I., the Cinque Ports were bound to provide, at any time the king passed over the sea, not less than fifty-seven ships fully equipped, each to have twenty armed soldiers maintained at the cost of the ship-owner for fifteen days. Soon afterwards, the constable of Dover Castle set forth, in a proclamation, the proportion of ships which these and other ports, admitted to certain privileges, were bound to furnish. The total number thus collected amounted


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