Stanfield's coast scenery, a series of views in the British channel

by Clarkson Frederick Stanfield

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1836 ...of receiving two thousand tons, and is then conveyed in iron pipes into a second basin of six thousand tons. So much for the information of those who love matters of fact. To those who love the picturesque--to those who out of every thing would extract "Emotions beautiful and new," we invite them to feast their eyes on the scene of repose and harmony--shortly to be disturbed as the threatening clouds assure us--which appears in the representation of Stonehouse Bridge, Plymouth. Rye is one of the Cinque Ports, and is situated at the eastern extremity of the coast of Sussex. It has been conjectured to be the Portus Novus of Ptolemy. In ancient Latin, it is termed Ripa, and its English name is imagined to be either derived from the Norman rive, bank; Saxon rhee, or British rhy, a river or ford. The authentic history of Rye commences in 893, at the latter end of which year a fleet of 250 sail brought an army of Danes from France, to the coast of Kent, when, landing near the town, they seized the neighbouring Fort of Apuldore. Rye was given with the adjacent town of Winchelsea, by Edward the Confessor, to the monks of the Abbey of Fescampe,-in Normandy; but in the thirty-first year of the reign of Henry III. it was exchanged by that monarch for the manor of Chilceham, otherwise Cheltham, or Cheltenham and Sclover, in Gloucestershire. Camden, speaking of Winchelsea, says, "at first it was inclosed with a mud, after a very strong but scarce began to flourish, till it was sacked by the French and Spaniards; and by the seas shrinking back from it, as it were on a sudden, faded and fell to decay. By which accident," he continues, " and the benefit of the sea, its neighbour, Rye, began to flourish, or rather to reflourish; for that it fl...

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Published January 1, 2012