. The Cinque Ports; a historical and descriptive record. ost practical, the most days when the pursuit of pilgrimages was almost more of a nationalnecessity than is, say, sea - bathing to - day, some such place was anabsolute necessity in a town like Dover, where for one reason andanother vast crowds of disconsolate pilgrims were occasionally huddledtogether. The house was a place of shelter for these. It was adminis-tered by a master and several brethren and sisters, was maintained bygrants of land from Hubert himself. Shortly after its foundation, DeBurgh resigned the managemen
. The Cinque Ports; a historical and descriptive record. ost practical, the most days when the pursuit of pilgrimages was almost more of a nationalnecessity than is, say, sea - bathing to - day, some such place was anabsolute necessity in a town like Dover, where for one reason andanother vast crowds of disconsolate pilgrims were occasionally huddledtogether. The house was a place of shelter for these. It was adminis-tered by a master and several brethren and sisters, was maintained bygrants of land from Hubert himself. Shortly after its foundation, DeBurgh resigned the management of it to the king, Henry HI., whodedicated it to God and the Blessed Virgin in 1227. John is said in this house to have held a private meeting withPandulph, prior to his resignation of the crown, and from here too heand a numljcr of other kings directed their rescripts to the men of the * This seems to Ijceii ]),irl of llic ortliodox Hannckins exploit at llic battle of Lcspayiiolstactics of the Ioitsmcn—cf. Froissarls account of sur Mcr. ,tt*. PORT OF DOVER AND ITS MEMBER, FAVERSHAM. 265 Ports. The house seems to have been largely sustained by small pay-ments in kind, which were doubtless of extreme use to the place. Thuswe read that—- William and Thomas le Cupere and their mother gave thirteenpence, four hens and five eggs, or William Burmashe and his brethrengave ninety-five pence, twenty-four hens and one hundred eggs. Oneimagines the good pilgrims setting out from Dover well fortified by ameal off these eggs. Perhaps they followed Caxtons advice to men oftheir kind, to buy a few hens and keep them aboard the vessels. Cax-tons book of advice to pilgrims forms excellent reading even to-day—there must have been more danger in bargaining with ships captainsthan we have to undergo on our ways to the Continent. SaysCaxton :— Also hyre yow a cage for half-a-dozen of hens or chikyns to havewith you in the shippe or galley, for you shall have nede of them amany times
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