Adam's illustrated guide to Rye (with map) : Winchelsea, Northiam, Camben-on-Sea, and all places of interest in the neighbourhood . id a visit to Rye and Winchelsea, andwere the guests of the late F. A. Inderwick, Esq., , who,besides representing the Ancient Borough of Rye in Parlia-ment, was also Mayor of Winchelsea in that year. entertained his distinguished visitors at a grandbanquet at the George Hotel, Rye, in the evening, when alarge and influential assemblage attended. On the followingday the Lord Mayor again visited Rye, and was received bythe inhabitants with great co
Adam's illustrated guide to Rye (with map) : Winchelsea, Northiam, Camben-on-Sea, and all places of interest in the neighbourhood . id a visit to Rye and Winchelsea, andwere the guests of the late F. A. Inderwick, Esq., , who,besides representing the Ancient Borough of Rye in Parlia-ment, was also Mayor of Winchelsea in that year. entertained his distinguished visitors at a grandbanquet at the George Hotel, Rye, in the evening, when alarge and influential assemblage attended. On the followingday the Lord Mayor again visited Rye, and was received bythe inhabitants with great cordiality, the town being gailydecorated for the occasion. A handsomely-illuminatedaddress was presented to him by the Mayor and Corpora-tion, and after visiting the various places of interest in theancient town, he was entertained at luncheon, and subse-quently took his departure for London amid generalrejoicing. In 1887, the Mayor of Rye (the late Alderman JamesColeman Vidler), was, by virtue of his office, the Speakerof the Cinque Ports for the year. He, therefore, summoneda Brotherhood and Guestling (virtually a meeting of. I GUIDE TO RYE. I09 those m authority in the Cinque Ports and their limbs),to assemble at the Town Hall, Dover. Nearly all theplaces entitled to send officers were represented. The lateEarl Granville, as Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, tooka lively personal interest in the proceedings, whichincluded a Church Parade, whilst, at the subsequentmeeting, a hearty vote of congratulation to her Majesty, oncompleting the fiftieth year of her beneficent reign, wasunanimously passed. On the occasion of Her Diamond jubilee, in 1897, another Brotherhoodand Guestling was held at Dover, when the proceedingswere of a similar nature. In 1901, at Hastings, the Representatives of the Ports andtheir Limbs once more assembled, when a vote of condolencewith King Edward VH. and the Royal Family, on thedeath of Queen Victoria, was unanimously passed, and aloyal a
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