A Meeting of the Grand Court of Shepway at Dover

The proceedings open with the Proclamation. The Seneschal reads Lord Warden's Precept. The Mayors of the Ports and Towns hand in the Returns, and the Mayors and Barons answer their names.

The Seneschal announces that the Court is formed, and the Lord Warden states that he has summoned the Court in order that his Patent may be read.
The Mayor of Hastings requests the Lord Warden to take upon himself the duties of his Office and to maintain the liberties, etc., of the Ports, to which the Warden accedes. The Lord Warden's salute of nineteen guns is fired from the Castle.
The Right Honble. Sir Frederick Pollock, Bt., K.C., Judge Official and Commissary of the Court of Admiralty of the Cinque Ports offers an address of congratulation, to which the Lord Warden replies. The Court is then dissolved.

Relayed from the Close of Dover College, the site of the ancient Priory of St. Martin.
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