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Winchelsea
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Winchelsea (wĭn`chəlsē), village, East Sussex, SE England. Winchelsea was an important member of the Cinque Ports Cinque Ports [O. Fr.,=five ports], name applied to an association of maritime towns in Sussex and Kent, SE England. They originally numbered five: Hastings, Romney (now New Romney), Hythe, Dover, and Sandwich. The association was informally organized in the 11th cent.
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It begins with the works of John Skelton, who died in 1529 and ends with Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea who died in 1720.
The Story of Poetry. Volume II: English Poets from Skelton to Dryden. by Contemporary Review
When Lord Winchilsea accused the Duke of double-dealing after he gave Roman Catholics the vote, a furious Wellington threw down the gauntlet.
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Yet when Anne Finch, countess of Winchilsea, searches for a tradition in her "Introduction," she does not acknowledge Philips or her contemporaries, but, like Pembroke, claims her poetic predecessors in scripture; like Pembroke, she pictures herself as a bird, but whereas Pembroke's doves soar, Finch's bird sings "with contracted wing, / To some few freinds.
Constructing a city of ladies by Hannay, Margaret P. / Shakespeare Studies
 
 
 
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