Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales : descriptive, historical, pictorial . KYE, FROM THE FERRY. RYE AND WINCHELSEA. TWO OLD \EACE does not always bring prosperity. This is true not onlyin the moral sense, as Ruskin has indicated in eloquentwords, but also in the material sense. If spears, metaphori-cally speaking, were beaten into pruning-hooks, WoolwichArsenal, so soon as this process of conversion was over,must infallibly lose its trade. Now, although this millennialperiod is far distant, the character of war, so far as Europeis concerned, has changed, and it is n
Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales : descriptive, historical, pictorial . KYE, FROM THE FERRY. RYE AND WINCHELSEA. TWO OLD \EACE does not always bring prosperity. This is true not onlyin the moral sense, as Ruskin has indicated in eloquentwords, but also in the material sense. If spears, metaphori-cally speaking, were beaten into pruning-hooks, WoolwichArsenal, so soon as this process of conversion was over,must infallibly lose its trade. Now, although this millennialperiod is far distant, the character of war, so far as Europeis concerned, has changed, and it is needless to guard ourshores against the attacks of pirates or marauders. Thus theCinque Ports of our southern coast, except where they have been able to makea new start in life, have fallen far away from their mediaeval prosperity. Theoriginal five ports were Dover, Hastings, Hythe, Romney, and Sandwich;and to these sundry limbs or subordinate ports attached themselves, amongwhich were numbered Winchelsea and Rye. Dover still remains, as everyoneknows, an important fortress; Hastings has sought new life as a watering-place ;but the other ports ha
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