Adam's illustrated guide to Rye (with map) : Winchelsea, Northiam, Camben-on-Sea, and all places of interest in the neighbourhood . sea, by the men of Winselye, Rye, andothers of the Cinque Ports. * Die town of Cologne complained to Henry HL that their beloved fellow citizen, Hermann, had been plunderedof his goods, to the value of joo marcs, or more, by thecitizens of Winchelsea, and made threats of reprisals. In 1322, Robert de Batlayle robbed two Sherbornemerchants of cargo worth r£So. All was fish that came tothe net ! But, as the scripture saith, an end to all goodthings must be, and the
Adam's illustrated guide to Rye (with map) : Winchelsea, Northiam, Camben-on-Sea, and all places of interest in the neighbourhood . sea, by the men of Winselye, Rye, andothers of the Cinque Ports. * Die town of Cologne complained to Henry HL that their beloved fellow citizen, Hermann, had been plunderedof his goods, to the value of joo marcs, or more, by thecitizens of Winchelsea, and made threats of reprisals. In 1322, Robert de Batlayle robbed two Sherbornemerchants of cargo worth r£So. All was fish that came tothe net ! But, as the scripture saith, an end to all goodthings must be, and the doom of Winchelsea cameswiftly. Li the admirable story of King Edward and NewWinchelsea;, by the late F. A. Inderwick, Esq., , the13th century is well described as a century of storms. The gradual progress of the shingle, which, reversing inits movement the ordinary course of nature, travels fromeast to west, began to silt up the muuth of the old harbour,and successive gales of unprecedented ferocity, bore theChannel waves into the old town, destroying one by oneits churches and its public buildings. In 1230 the sea wall. GUIDE TO RYE. I IJ was in daiig^er, and in 1250 there was a night of horrorwhen the sea flowed twice witliout ebbing, and, more-over, the same sea appeared in the dark ot the night toburn as it had been on fire, and the waves to fightand strive together after a marvellous sort, so that themariners could not devise to save their ships by any cunningor shift whicli they could devise. No wonder that on thatterrible first of October three noble and famous ships wereswallowed up, whilst six churches and 300 houses perishedin a night. Not only had the population of Old Win-chelsea, says INTr. Basil Champneys, , in his charming A Quiet Corner of England, been decimated by theinundations, but it had further involved itself with anenemy little less ruthless than the sea. By siding withSimon De IMontfort, and clinging to his cause long after ithad become hopele
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