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Court of Admiralty |
| "There is still a 'Court of Admiralty of
the Cinque Ports' presided over by a judge whom the Lord Warden appoints.
He also appoints Commissioners in salvage cases as arbitrators in dispites,
the last remaining acts done by him in his capacity as Admiral; and he still
claims a right to flotsam, jetsam, and lagan, or floating, cast up, and
submerged wreckage." Cinque Ports, Prof. Montague Burrows, quoted in "Records of Walmer", 1890 |