1toponymCinque Ports, group of sea-ports on the coast of south-east England, originally consisting of Hastings, Sandwich, Dover, Romney and Hithe, but gradually extended:
(
c.1290
)
les barons des Cinke Portz
167
(
MS: c.1300
)
Hardement de
(l. dé) Cinkpors
101
(
1401-02
)
[...] qe le dit maire deust mesner au roi s'il busoigne mille hommes defensables des gentz de .v. Portz
iii 242
(
MS: c.1450
)
et hors de la dicte fraunchise dé Cinque Portes
415
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Cinkpors (c.1290)