Cinque Ports in Ireland

In 1462, a charter granted to the Irish borough of Youghal in County Cork made it "one of the Petylymmes [i.e. petty limbs] of the Cinque Ports in Ireland" with all associated liberties and franchises.[1][2][3][4] William Gordon Perrin assumed in 1922 that this referred to the English Cinque Ports, because in 1462 the Lordship of Ireland was subordinate to the Kingdom of England.[2] On the other hand, George Bernard O'Connor stated in 1906 that the Queen's Cinque Ports of Ireland in the reign of Elizabeth I were the important seaports on the east coast of Ireland.[5]

Municipal Seal of Youghal (1527 imprint)
Baronial seal of Hastings (early 14th century)[6]

The medieval seal of the corporation of Youghal displayed a single-masted ship (cog), reflecting its importance as a port;[7][8] while Helen Elrington suggests the seal specifically alludes to the town's Cinque-Port connection,[8] Samuel Hayman dates the seal to Thomas de Clare in the 1270s.[7]

References
  1. Maxwell Lyte, H. C., ed. (July 1897). Calendar of the Patent Rolls Preserved in the Public Record Office. Vol. 14: Edward IV 1461–1467. London: HMSO. p. 226.
  2. Perrin, William Gordon (1922). "Early English, Scottish and Irish flags". British Flags; Their Early History and their Development at Sea, with an Account of the Origin of the Flag as a National Device. Cambridge University Press. pp. 52–53, fn.2. Retrieved 15 August 2013.
  3. Weinbaum, Martin (2010). British Borough Charters 1307-1660. Cambridge University Press. p. 228. ISBN 9781108010351.
  4. Morrin, James (1862). Calendar of the Patent and Close Rolls of Chancery in Ireland. Vol. II: 1576-1602. Dublin: A. Thom for HMSO. p. 98. Retrieved 12 April 2012.
  5. O'Connor, George Bernard (1906). Elizabethan Ireland: Native and English. Sealy, Bryers and Walker. p. 83. Retrieved 12 April 2012.
  6. "Hastings, common seal, early 14th century". Catalogue. Royal Museums Greenwich. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  7. Hayman, Samuel (1863). Nichols, John Gough (ed.). "Municipal Seals of Youghal". The Herald and Genealogist. London: John Bowyer Nichols. 1: 481, 484–485.
  8. Etherington, H. (July 1897). "The Historic Town of Youghal on the Blackwater". The Reliquary and Illustrated Archaeologist. Open Court Publishing Co. 3 (3): 152. Edward IV. made Youghal one of the petty limbs of the Cinque ports, in memory of which the municipal seal of the town bears a ship.


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