Adam's illustrated guide to Rye (with map) : Winchelsea, Northiam, Camben-on-Sea, and all places of interest in the neighbourhood . lin, of Winchelsea, and to cause a list to be made oftheir stores. (Liberate Roll, 24 Henry HI., m. 6). On 2gth November, 1243, the Sheriff of Sussex is com-manded to enlarge the house, at Rye, in which the Kingsgalleys are kept, so that it may contain seven galleys.(25 Henry III., m. 3, Liberate Roll). In 1253, the Sheriff of Sussex is ordered to providesailors and stores for the Kings two small galleys in thecustody of William Beaufoy, at Rye, and have them inre
Adam's illustrated guide to Rye (with map) : Winchelsea, Northiam, Camben-on-Sea, and all places of interest in the neighbourhood . lin, of Winchelsea, and to cause a list to be made oftheir stores. (Liberate Roll, 24 Henry HI., m. 6). On 2gth November, 1243, the Sheriff of Sussex is com-manded to enlarge the house, at Rye, in which the Kingsgalleys are kept, so that it may contain seven galleys.(25 Henry III., m. 3, Liberate Roll). In 1253, the Sheriff of Sussex is ordered to providesailors and stores for the Kings two small galleys in thecustody of William Beaufoy, at Rye, and have them inreadiness for the Kings arrival. (Liberate Roll, 37 HenryHI., m. 3). In the Ordinance touching the Service of Shippingto be furnished by the Cinque Ports, issued by KingHenry HI. in 1229, which was entered in the customal ofthe Town of Rye, the services due to our Lord the Kingare five ships, and (Old) Winchelsea ten ships, and inevery ship twenty-one men and one boy, called a gromet (an obsolete word, being a diminutive form ofgrome, a man, whence our modern word groom). In 1277, the services of the Cinque Ports Fleet in the i. or IDF. ro RVF,. 73 first Welsh War of Edward I., in obtaining possession oithe Isle of Anglesea, and cutting oif communicationbetween Snowdon and other parts of Wales by sea, towhich, doubtless (Old) Winchelsea, and Rye contributedtheir quota of fifteen ships, were rewarded by a charter ofadditional privileges, granted at Westminster on June 17th,1278. (The Chronicle of Walter of Hemingford, 1-5). In 1282, the Cinque Ports Fleet was at Rhuddlan, whichserved as a naval base! On July isth, and on August18th, it assisted in the construction of a bridge of boatsfrom Bangor to the Isle of Anglesea, across the MenaiStraits. In I 299-1300, the ships, The Snake, The Rose, and TheGodyere, of Rye (Masters John Kittey, Robert Mitchell,and Reginald Baudethon, each with two constables and 39mariners), were employed in the Scotch War. The serviceof the ships was for 1
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