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tower was rebuilt about 1750 . In a vault under the chancel there is a collection of human skulls and bones supposed to be the remains of men killed in a See also:

BATTLE

battle near Hythe in 456 . Lionel Lukin (1742-1834), inventor of the See also:

LIFE

life-See also:

BOAT (0. Eng. bdt; the true etymological connexion with Dutch and Ger. boot, Fr. bateau, Ital. battello presents great difficulties; Celtic forms are from O. Eng.)

boat, is buried in the See also:

churchyard .

Hythe possesses a See also:

GUILDHALL

guildhall founded in 1794 and two hospitals, that of St See also:

Bartholomew founded by Haimo, See also:

bishop of See also:

Rochester, in 1336, and that of St See also:

John (rebuilt in 1802), of still greater antiquity but unknown date, founded originally for the reception of lepers . A See also:

government school of musketry, in which instructors for the See also:

army are trained, was established in 18J4, and has been extended since, and the See also:

SHORNCLIFFE

Shorncliffe military See also:

CAMP (from Lat. campus, field)

camp is within 21 M. of the town . Lympne, which is now 3 M. inland, is thought to have been the See also:

ORIGINAL

original See also:

HARBOUR (from M.E. hereberge, here, an army; cf. Ger. Heer and -beorg, protection or shelter. Other early forms in English were herberwe and haiborow, as seen in various place names, such as Market Harborough.. The French auberge, an inn, derived through

harbour which gave Hythe a place among the Cinque Ports . The course of the See also:

ancient See also:

ESTUARY (from the Lat. aestuarium, a place reached by aestus, the tide)

estuary may be distinctly traced from here along the road to Hythe, the sea-See also:

sand lying on the See also:

SURFACE

surface and colouring the See also:

SOIL

soil . Here are remains of a See also:

ROMAN

Roman fortress, and excavations have brought to See also:

LIGHT

light many remains of the Roman See also:

PORTUS

Portus Lemanis . Large portions of the fortress walls are See also:

STANDING

standing . At the south-See also:

west corner is one of the circular towers which occurred along the See also:

LINE

line of wall . The site is now occupied by the fine old castellated See also:

MANSION (through O. Fr. mansion, mod. maison, from Lat. mansio, dwelling-place, stage on a journey; manere, to remain)

mansion of Studfall See also:

castle, formerly a See also:

RESIDENCE (Latin residere, to remain behind, to dwell, reside)

residence of the archdeacons of See also:

Canterbury . The name denotes a fallen place, and is not infrequently thus applied to ancient remains . The church at Lympne is Early English, with a Norman tower built by See also:

Arch-bishop See also:

LANFRANC (d. 1089)

Lanfranc, and Roman material may be traced in the walls . A See also:

SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short distance See also:

east is Shipway or Shepway See also:

CROSS

Cross, where some of the See also:

GREAT

great assemblies See also:

RELATING

relating to the Cinque Ports were held . A mile See also:

north from Hythe is Saltwood Castle, of very ancient origin, but rebuilt in the See also:

time of See also:

Richard II .

The castle was granted to the see of Canterbury in ro26, but escheated to the See also:

CROWN

crown in the time of See also:

Henry II., when the See also:

MURDER

murder of See also:

Thomas a Beckett is said to have been concerted here, and having been restored to the archbishops by See also:

King John remained a residence of theirs until the time of Henry VIII . It was restored as a residence in 1882 . About 2 M . N.W. of Saltwood are remains of the fortified 14th-See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century See also:

MANOR

manor-See also:

house of Westenhanger . It is quadrangular and surrounded by a See also:

MOAT

moat, and of the nine towers (alternately square and See also:

ROUND (O. Fr. rond, Lat. rotundus, the Fr. is the source also of Du. rond; Ger., Swed., Dan. and Nor. rond)

round) by which the walls were defended, three remain . The parliamentary borough of Hythe, which includes See also:

FOLKESTONE

Folkestone, Sandgate and a number of neighbouring villages, returns one member . The town is governed by a See also:

mayor, 4 aldermen and 12 councillors . See also:

AREA

Area 2617 acres . Hythe (See also:

HEDA, WILLEM CLAASZ (c. 1594-c. 1670)

Heda, Heya, Hethe, Hithe, i.e. landing-place) was known as a See also:

PORT

port in Saxon times, and was granted by Halfden, a Saxon See also:

THEGN, or THANE

thegn, to See also:

Christ Church, Canterbury . In the Domesday Survey the borough is entered among the See also:

ARCHBISHOP (Lat. archiepiscopus, from Gr. apxceatorcoros)

archbishop's lands as appurtenant to his manor of Saltwood, and the See also:

BAILIFF

bailiff of the town was appointed by the archbishop . Hythe was evidently a Cinque Port before the See also:

CONQUEST

Conquest, as King John in 1205 confirmed the liberties, viz. freedom from See also:

toll, the right to be impleaded only at the Shepway See also:

court, &c., which the townsmen had under See also:

EDWARD

Edward the See also:

CONFESSOR

Confessor . The liberties of the Cinque Ports were confirmed in Magna Carta and later by Edward I. in a See also:

general See also:

CHARTER (Lat. charta, carta, from Gr. Xap-rns, originally for papyrus, material for writing, thence transferred to paper and from this material to the document, in O. Eng. boc, book)

charter, which was confirmed, often with additions, by subsequent See also:

KINGS, FIRST AND SECOND BOOKS OF

kings down to See also:

James II .

John's charter to Hythe was confirmed by Henry IV., Henry V. and Henry VI . These charters were granted to the Cinque Ports in return for The fifty-seven See also:

SHIPS

ships which they supplied for the royal service, of which five were contributed by Hythe . The ports were first represented in the See also:

PARLIAMENT (Anglo-Lat. parliamentum, Fr. parlement, from parler, to speak)

parliament of 1365, to which they each sent four members . Hythe was governed by twelve jurats until 1574, when it was incorporated by See also:

Elizabeth under the See also:

TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title of the mayor, jurats and commonalty of Hythe; a See also:

FAIR

fair for the See also:

sale of See also:

fish, &c., was also granted, to be held on the feast of St See also:

Peter and St See also:

Paul . As the sea gradually retreated from Hythe and the harbour became choked up with sand, the town suffered the See also:

FATE

fate of other places near it, and lost its old importance . the ninth See also:

LETTER (through Fr. lettre from Lat. littera or litera, letter of the alphabet; the origin of the Latin word is obscure; it has probably no connexion with the root of linere, to smear, i.e. with wax, for an inscription with a stilus)

letter of the English and Latin See also:

ALPHABET (see also WRITING)

alphabet, the tenth I in the See also:

Greek and Phoenician, because in these the See also:

SYMBOL (Gr. o-uµ(3oXov, a sign)

symbol Teth (the Greek 0) preceded it . Teth was not included in the Latin alphabet because that See also:

LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language had no See also:

sound corresponding to the Greek 0, but the symbol was metamorphosed and utilized as the See also:

NUMERAL (from Lat. numerus, a number)

numeral C = Too, which took this See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form through the See also:

INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence of the initial letter of the Latin centum . The name of I in the Phoenician alphabet was Yod . Though in form it seems the simplest of letters it was originally much more complex . In Phoenician it takes the form , which is found also in the earliest See also:

SYRIAC

Syriac and Palestinian See also:

INSCRIPTIONS (from Lat. inscribere, to write upon)

inscriptions with little modification . Ultimately in See also:

HEBREW

Hebrew it became reduced to a very small symbol, whence comes its use as a See also:

TERM

term of contempt for things of no importance as in " not one jot or tittle " (See also:

Matthew v . 18) .

The name passed from Phoenician to Greek, and thence to the Latin of the See also:

VULGATE (from Lat. vulgus, the common people)

vulgate as iota, and from the Latin the English word is derived . Amongst the Greeks of See also:

ASIA

Asia it appears only as the See also:

SIMPLE

simple upright I, but in some of the See also:

OLDEST

oldest alphabets elsewhere, as See also:

CRETE (Gr. Kp;rrrr; Turk. Kirid, Ital. Candia)

Crete, See also:

THERA

Thera, See also:

ATTICA

Attica, Achaia and its colonies in See also:

LOWER

lower See also:

Italy, it takes the form 5 or S, while at See also:

Corinth and Corcyra it appears first in a form closely resembling the later Greek sigma 1 . It had originally no cross-stroke at See also:

TOP (cf. Dan. top, Ger. Topf, also meaning pot)

top and bottom, I being not i but z . The Phoenician alphabet having no vowel symbols, the value of yod was that of the English y . In Greek, where the consonant sound had disappeared or been converted into h, I is regularly used as a vowel . Occasionally, as in Pamphylian, it is used dialectically as a glide between i and another vowel, as in the proper name Aaµarpuvs . In Latin I was used alike for both vowel and consonant, as in iugunt (yoke) . The sound represented by it was approximately that still assigned to i on the See also:

CONTINENT (from Lat. continere, "to hold together "; hence " connected," " continuous ")

continent . Neither Greek nor Latin made any distinction in See also:

writing between short and long i, though in the Latin of the See also:

EMPIRE

Empire the long sound was occasionally represented by a longer form of the symbol I . The dot over the i begins in the 5th or 6th century A.D . In See also:

PRONUNCIATION (Lat. pronuntiatio, from pronuntiare, proclaim, announce, pronounce)

pronunciation the English short i is a more open sound than that of most See also:

LANGUAGES

languages, and does not correspond to the Greek and Latin sound . Nor are the English short and long i of the same quality .

The short i. in Sweet's terminology is a high-front-wide vowel, the long i, in English often spelt ee in words like See also:

SEED (from the root seen in Lat. serere, to sow)

seed, is diphthonged, beginning like the short vowel but becoming higher as it proceeds . The Latin short i, however, in final syllables was open and ultimately became e, e.g. in the neuter of i-stems as utile from Wilier . Medially both the short and the long sounds are very See also:

COMMON

common in syllables which were originally unaccented, because in such positions many other sounds passed into i: officio but fucio, redline but See also:

ERNE

erne, quidlibet but lubet (See also:

TIBET, or THIBET

tibet is later); collido but laedo, fide from an older feido, islis (See also:

DATIVE (Lat. dativus, giving or given, from dare, to give)

dative plural) from an earlier istois . (P .

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