Cinque ports
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Five English ports, to which peculiar privileges were ancientlyaccorded; -- viz., Hastings, Romney, Hythe, Dover, and Sandwich;afterwards increased by the addition of Winchelsea, Rye, and someminor places. Baron of the Cinque Ports. See under Baron.
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