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Chap. VIII. from the Conquest,

*260. Duchy, as well as Anjou, in Considera-tion whereof Lewis IX. King of France,paid him a certain Sum of Mony, andgave up le Limojin and le Perigord, withall that France possessed beyond theGarronne, on certain Conditions. Fromthat Time the King of England left outthe Title of Duke of Normandy andR . Anjou, in his Grants and Letters Patent.egia ‘ {lo) This Treaty was signed the twenti-eth of May.

1261. The Year following, the Barons,Cinq preparing for a War with the King, pre-a Filet* ° Ut vailed upon the Governours of the CinqPorts, to fit out a. Fleet to guard theCoasts, and to prevent any Succours com-ing from any foreign Prince. Theywere obliged by Charter to equip sevenand fifty Sail of Ships for the Serviceof the King, whenever the Exigency ofhis Affairs required it. And here theBarons of the Cinq Ports, taking theService of the King to be that of theKingdom, pretended to serve him by fit-ting out a Fleet against him.(z)

to the Death of ^JMary I. gi

The next Year, about the latter End 1262.of July, or the Beginning of August, the An. Burton.Affairs of Guienne carried the King toBourdeaux , from whence he did not re- France a-turn till the Year following. The fame gain.

Year Richard, Emperour elect, wentover into Germany, {k)

The Year 1264. the King, with the 1264.Prince of Wales, and sevejral of his Holinsli.Council, went over again into France, xing awardsbut returned in a short Time : During against thehis Stay at .Amiens it was, that th e French Barons.King, to whom Henry, and his Barons,had referred their Differences, gave hisdefinitive Award in the Favour of Fhen~ry. Some Historians fay it was donethe Year before; but be that as it will,it had no Effect, the Barons averred theKing of France had acted partially, andtherefore would not stand to his Award.

See a Copy of this Award, in Manuscript , /v/y. jnBM.in the Cottonian Library. Cotton.

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over to France, and spent some Time in the Plea-sures of that Court at Paris, where he was rega-led in the most splendid Manner : And after hisReturn sent over Prince Edward, under the Pre-tence of a Tournament, but in Reality to provideForces.

^ ac kluyt (0 The Cinq Ports were, for their signal Ser-L I. p, ' vices done to the State, very early endowed with' ’ Charters entitling them to great and manifest Pri-vileges, with Regard as well to their Honour andEase, as their Freedom and Exemption. Themost ancient we find mentioned in History weregranted in the Reigns of Edward the Confessor,and William the Conquerour, which were con-firmed, and the Privileges enlarged by TVilliamRiifus, Henry II, Richard I. and the present KingHenry III. The ancientest and best Account Ifind of the Services they were tied down to, inConsideration of these Privileges, is in Hackluyt,from a Latin Record (or Custumal, as he callsit) of the Town of Hith. The fame Authormentions, indeed, another more ancient, butwhich he fays (and with apparent Reason) seemsnot to have so much Likelihood and Credit.

Tiie Record of Hith runs thus.

These are the five Ports of our SovereignLord the King, having Liberties which otherforts have not: Hastings , Romenal, (now Rom-ne y) Hith, Dover, Sandwich, the chief Towns.

The Services due by the fame.

Hastings shall find one and twenty Ships,and in every Ship, one and twenty Men, and 2Boy. The Members of this Port are the Sea-sooar in Seaforth, Pevenjhey, Hodeney , Winchel-f e <s, Rye, Ihame, Bekesbourne, Grenge, Horthieand Bulwerheth.

Romenal, five Ships, Men as Hastings:Members : Promhell, Lede, Eastwestone, Denge-merys, Old Romney.

Hith, Ships and Men as Romenal ; Member;

Tefi-bith,

Dover, Ships and Men as Hastings: Mem-bers ; Folkstane, Feverjham, and St. Margaret’snot for the Land, but for the Goods and Chat-tels.

Sandwich, Ships and Men as Romenal andHith : Members; Fordwich, Reculver, Serre andDeal, not for the Soil, but for the Goods.

Sum of Ships 57, Men 1187, and 57 Boys.

This Service the Barons of the Cinq Ports doacknowledge to owe to the King, upon Summonsyearly (if it happen) for the Space of fifteenDays together, at their own Costs and Charges,to be reckoned from the first Day they spreadtheir Sails to depart for the Place the King order-ed : And to serve after the fifteen Days, at theKing’s Pleasure, he paying them.

The more ancient Record mentions but fiveDays Service, upon forty Days previous Notice,and that they were to pay the Master and Con-staple fix Pence per Diem each, and theMarinersthree Pence.

(*) In the Year 1257. Richard, Earl of Corn- Holinjhead,wal, the King’s Brother, was elected Emperourof Germany ; and the fame Year the Archbishopof Cologne, with a Duke, and another Bishopcame over and did Fealty to him, as to their So-vereign Liege Lord and Governour. He was Affa Regie,chosen by the Intrigues of the Pope, who set himup in Opposition to the King of Castille, who waselected by another Party.

He went to Germany, with all the ready -> •

Mony that he could amass, as well to reward ACta Ke & t9%those who had elected him, as to defray theCharges of his Coronation, which was performedat Aix la Chapelle ; tho’ he was never acknow-ledged by all the Princes and States of Ger-

many.

In Compliance with our Historians, and, per-haps, with the Custom of those Times, I haveststed him here Emperour Eleft: But the Electorsat this Time never , chuse an Emperour, they on-ly chuse a King of the Romans ; to whose Titlethey add, in Order to he a suture Emperour,