CINQUE PORTS, CORPORATION OF.

CINQUE PORTS, CORPORATION OF. Per pale gules and azure three demilions passant guardant in pale dimidiated with and conjoined to as many demihulks of ships, all or.

[Recorded in College of Arms. If reference be made to the arms of Dover (Mayor's Seal), Deal, Romney, Sandwich, Hastings, Rye, and Tenterden, one cannot help wondering whether the dimidiation of the arms of England with the azure, three hulks of ships, may not have stood for the Ro)'al Naval privileges and duties formerly assigned to the Cinque i'orts as a part of the State.]

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