[796] Ibid. 522, 524, 526, 528.

[797] Ibid. 516, 532.

[798] Hist. MSS. Com. v. 606-7.

[799] It was a common custom in the Cinque Ports for the accuser to be executioner. Burrows’ Cinque Ports, 76.

[800] The customs levied by S. Augustine’s on the imports at Fordwich quay were to be the same as those collected by Christ Church at Sandwich. Hist. MSS. Com. v. 443.

[801] Literæ Cant. iii. 358. Hist. MSS. Com. viii. 326.

[802] See case of Old Romney. Hist. MSS. Com. v. 544.

[803] For the difficulties which attended the government of a group of dependent villages by the head town see Lyon’s Dover, i. 26-29. See also the relations of Sandwich and Stonor. Boys’ Sandwich, 547-8.

[804] Polydore Vergil, 84.

[805] Archæologia Cantiana, vii. 234; Hist MSS. Com. v. 520.