Adam's illustrated guide to Rye (with map) : Winchelsea, Northiam, Camben-on-Sea, and all places of interest in the neighbourhood . ^r sW / \m J§ 1. GUIDK TO RYE. I25 pillars of Caen stone as meant to have houses overthem, fit for famous merchants. There is in the narrowseas no place so fit to have a good haven made, as it ismidway in a fair bay between Rye and Hastings with rockswithin half-a-mile to make piers and jetties and threefathoms at low water without any sand, flat bar, or anyother danger near; with less than 100 rods of cuttingthrough good firm marsh ground, the sea might be brough
Adam's illustrated guide to Rye (with map) : Winchelsea, Northiam, Camben-on-Sea, and all places of interest in the neighbourhood . ^r sW / \m J§ 1. GUIDK TO RYE. I25 pillars of Caen stone as meant to have houses overthem, fit for famous merchants. There is in the narrowseas no place so fit to have a good haven made, as it ismidway in a fair bay between Rye and Hastings with rockswithin half-a-mile to make piers and jetties and threefathoms at low water without any sand, flat bar, or anyother danger near; with less than 100 rods of cuttingthrough good firm marsh ground, the sea might be broughtinto a great fleet two fathoms deep, and so into the oldchannel where the tide ebbed and flowed. Queen Besscame herself in 1573, and admired the old town greatly,which is not to be wondered at. The Mayor and twelveJurats made such a brave show in their scarlet robes, andso many Sussex gentlemen assembled to greet her, that shecalled the place Little London, warning, however, allconcerned that their welfare and prosperity were whollydependent upon the return of the sea. Beyond givingback certain Kings rents to the town, she did nothing forit.
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