Adam's illustrated guide to Rye (with map) - Winchelsea, Northiam, Camben-on-Sea, and all places of interest in the neighbourhood (1900) (14776440614)

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Title: Adam's illustrated guide to Rye (with map) : Winchelsea, Northiam, Camben-on-Sea, and all places of interest in the neighbourhood
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Publisher: Rye : Adams
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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e, in obedience to asummons, set out for Canterbury to meet the Earl ofMarch (afterwards Edward IV.) and the Earl ot Warwick ;but by the time of their arrival at Sittingbourne, theEarls had passed onward to the west. They comfortedthemselves, however, by halting at Leene, and enjoyedthere not improbably for the first time, the pleasure ofsleeping on a bed made of something better than straw.Apologising, apparently, for the exorbitance of the sumthey had paid for accommodation—namely, one penny—they call attention to the fact that it was really ;^worththe money, for it was a feather bed they slept upon. During the Wars of the Roses, in expectation of anattack by the Lancastrian party, cart-loads of stone werelaid upon the town walls for hurling down upon the foe. In the year 1377, the French having done great damageto the town of Rye, the men of the town and of Winchelseacrathered a great number of people together the followingyear and embarked towards Normandy, with tlie intent to
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GIBBET CHA1N5, with SKULL, and PILLORY, !o. h;/ )Vhiiemaii\l:i/e. GUTDF. TO RYK. 105 make np their last years damages done tliem by the French.Having landed in the night, they entered St. Peter Port,Guernsey, and put all the inhabitants they met to thesword, except such of them as could pay for their ransom,and these they carried oft bound to their ships. Theypillaged every house and church as the French had beforeserved them at Rye, and found abundance of plunderwhich had been brought thither from Rye, particularly thebells, and such like, which had been taken from the church,and the lead of which its roof had been stripped. Theirlast work was to set all on fire, and passing thence toanother town named Wilet (St. Heliers, in Jersey), andplaying over the same game, they returned with a very richbooty. In 1565, the Corporation passed a bye - law that nodouble beer should be sold for more than one penny forthree pints, nor single beer less than three quarts for apenny. In 1567, every ho