Charter for the Cinque Ports

"Exemption from Tax and Tallage (or Tolls). Right of Sac and Soc. (i.e. local self-government), Toll (right to levy tolls) and Team (authority to compel holders of stolen goods to divulge their source), Blodwit and Fledwit (authority to punish shedders of blood and seize those who fled from justice), Pillory and Tumbrill (punishment for minor offences). Infrangentheof and Outfrangeneof (power to detain and execute felons both inside and outside the Ports jurisdiction), Mundbryce (authority to try breaches of the King's Peace, Waifs and Strays (right to take lost or unclaimed goods after one year and one day), Flotsam and Jetsam or Ligan (power to claim floating wreckage on the shore or goods thrown overboard). "

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