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by the Treasurer, the Barons of our Exchequer, at our Command late sent, specifying the Royal Services yearly due from the Cinque Ports, with their Members, if need be, among other things, in these words: The Rolls and Remembrances of the Exchequer, being searched, by pretext of the King's writ to this schedule fixed together, it is found in the Red Book , remaining in the said Exchequer, so to be contained : The Cinque Ports and their Members, with the services to the King due from the Ports aforesaid , yearly, when need shall be. Be it remembered , that in the eighth of St. Hilary, in the 31 yeare of the reigne of King Edward, Son of Henry, Stephen De Pencester, then Constable of Dover Castle, and Warden of the Cinque Ports, being in the Exchequer upon his accompt of his Bayliwick aforesaid, before Sir William de March, then Treasurer of the Exchequer, and the Barons of the same, and to him the said Stephen fully allowed of the Cinque Ports, viz. which were the Ports ; and which their Members, and what services the said Ports owe to the King, and how , and in what manner the said Stephen did certify the aforesaid Treasurer and Barons of the premises, in this wise : Sussex and Kent, Hastings is an head Port, whose Members are, viz. Winchelsea, Rye, the Lowey of Pevensey , and Bulvarhithe, in the County of Sussex, Beaksborne and Grenocle, in the County of Kent; which Port, with its Members aforesaid, ought to find, at the summons of the King, twenty and one ships, and in every ship there ought to be twenty and one men, strong, apt, well armed, and prepared for the services of the King ; so that the Summons thereof be made of the part of the King 40 days before : And when the said Ships and Men in them being, shall come to that Place to which they were summoned, they shall tarry there in the service of our Lord the King by 15 daies, at their own Costs ; and if the King shall need their services after the aforesaid 15 daies, or will them there longer to tarry, the ships, with the Men in them , being in the service of the King, shall be abiding at the Costs of the King, as long as it shall please the King, viz.