3-003-787 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Installation of Lord Palmerston as Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports: the ceremony at the Grand Court of Shepway, Dover, 1861. 'The ceremony [of inauguration]...took place in a tent improvised for the occasion...Mr. E. Knocker, Town Clerk, called over the roll of mayors and bailiffs, when the following answered to their names: The Mayors of Hastings, Dover, Sandwich, Hythe, New Romney, Winchelsea, Tenterden, Margate, Deal, Folkstone, Faversham, and Rye ; and the Bailiffs of Lydd, Pevensey, and Seaford. Each as his name was called delivered in a formidable parchment roll, upon which, in accordance with ancient custom, the names of the delegates were engrossed. The patent was then read. This was a voluminous document, to which the Great Seal was appended, and it set forth that the office of Constable of the Castle of Dover, and Lord Warden, Admiral, and Chancellor of the Cinque Ports, had been granted to "our right trusty and well-beloved cousin and counsellor" [Prime Minister] Lord Palmerston, and that to him was granted the "jetsam and flotsam and lagan," with all perquisites and emoluments of all kinds whatsoever, enjoyed by his predecessors, with the somewhat important exception of the annual payment of £1500 a year'. From "Illustrated London News", 1861.