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Show Cinque Port, of England The original Cinque ports of England Eng-land were located on the coast of the counties of Kent and Sussex. The original ports were Dover, S.-dwtch, Hastings, Hythe and Romney. Later Winchelsea and Rye were added. These ports were granted special privileges by the later Saxon and early Roman kings of Britain, on condition of furnishing furnish-ing a certain number of ships during dur-ing a war. There was no permanent perma-nent British navy before the reign of Henry VIL 1 |