. The Cinque Ports; a historical and descriptive record. magistrates of the town (Dover) be summoned system under which these favourites were be- before the King and his Witan and there be ginning to deal with England as with a conquered heard in their own difence. Prof Freemans country. The eloquent voice of the great Earl authority here is William of Malmesbury, with was raised in the presence of the King, probably wliom Godwin was no favourite. Norman in the i)resence of Eustace and the other C(in(|uest, 1st ed., pp. 136, In England he told llicm there was a PORT OF DOVER AND
. The Cinque Ports; a historical and descriptive record. magistrates of the town (Dover) be summoned system under which these favourites were be- before the King and his Witan and there be ginning to deal with England as with a conquered heard in their own difence. Prof Freemans country. The eloquent voice of the great Earl authority here is William of Malmesbury, with was raised in the presence of the King, probably wliom Godwin was no favourite. Norman in the i)resence of Eustace and the other C(in(|uest, 1st ed., pp. 136, In England he told llicm there was a PORT OF DOVER AND ITS MEMBER, FAVERS/fAM. 251 Dover was a premonitory grumble of the coming storm of feudalism. Theretainers of Eustace of Boulogne sought free lodgings in Dover, and beino-the retainers of a great lord expected no resistance—they would certainlyhave received none at home. They committed an outrage which couldonly be paralleled to-day if a troop of Prussian ofificers—retainers ofWilliam II.—took it into their heads to cinquarticr themselves in the. Near Sibertswold. Dover of to-day, to slash off the head of any man who resisted them. Tounderstand Godwins position—the position too of the men of Dover—oneshould realise that such a thing would be not absolutely impossible inGermany at the present moment—and that, let us say, England was as freeand as law-respecting then as now. These, then, are the principal happen-ings in Dover up to the time of the Conquest. In only one thing does it 252 THE CINQUE PORTS. differ from the rest of the ports—in the fact that it had guilds and a gihalla of its own. Why this should have been so is by no meanscertain. Ireland indeed says that the guilds were formed for the supplyof ships to Edward the Confessor; but this seems to be nonsense, for oneis accustomed to think that it was precisely the supplying of ships thatrendered the Five Ports (together with the town of London) able todispense with such organisations. It seems, however, r
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