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Excerpt from Old and Ancient Rye Romans here on the coast built a fort to repel the Saxons. Thus back at the dawn of history in England we must begin to measure time as applied to the name and fame of Rye. The inhabitants of Rye were all mariners and for generations the sea had almost encompassed their town; their ships rode at anchor at their very doors, but nature, by a curious freak, gradually withdrew the ocean until in 1660 its waves beat a mile or more away, beyond a wide expanse of marsh. Then it was that some of the more daring spirits of the old Town embarked upon the sea and set sail for the new land they had heard of to the westward. Here they landed with a love of their English home and its traditions in their hearts. They settled by the sea, naming their new habitation after their English home and establishing many of the customs peculiar to the Cinque Ports; they bade history awake and a new Rye started at the dawn of the new country, as the old Rye had commenced with the beginning of the mother country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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