tice. The office of marshal in the high court
is represented in this court by a serjeant, who also bears a silver oar.
There is a registrar, as in the high court. The appeal is to the king in
council, and is heard by the judicial committee of the privy council.
The court can hear appeals from the Cinque Ports salvage commissioners,
such appeals being final (Cinque Ports Act 1821). Actions may be
transferred to it, and appeals made to it, from the county courts in all
cases, arising within the jurisdiction of the Cinque Ports as defined by
that act. At the solemn installation of the lord warden the judge as the
next principal officer installs him.

The Cinque Ports from the earliest times claimed to be exempt from the
jurisdiction of the admiral of England. Their early charters do not,
like those of Bristol and other seaports, express this exemption in
terms. It seems to have been derived from the general words of the
charters which preserve their liberties and privileges.

The lord warden's claim to prize was raised in, but not finally decided
by, the high court of admiralty in the "Ooster Ems," 1 _C. Rob._ 284,
1783.

See S. Jeake, _Charters of the Cinque Ports_ (1728); Boys, _Sandwich
and Cinque Ports_; Knocker, _Grand Court of Shepway_ (1862); M,
Burrows, _Cinque Ports_ (1895); F.M. Hueffer, _Cinque Ports_ (1900);
_Indices of the Great White and Black Books of the Cinque Ports_
(1905).

CINTRA, a town of central Portugal, in the district of Lisbon, formerly
included in the province of Estramadura; 17 m. W.N.W. of Lisbon by the
Lisbon-Cacem-Cintra railway, and 6 m. N. by E. of Cape da Roca, the
westernmost promontory of the European mainland. Pop. (1900) 5914.
Cintra is magnificently situated on the northern slope of the Serra da
Cintra, a rugged mountain mass, largely overgrown with pines,
eucalyptus, cork and other forest trees, above which the principal
summits rise in a succession of bare and jagged grey peaks; the highest
being Cruz Alta (1772 ft.), marked by an ancient stone cross, and
commanding a wonderful view southward over Lisbon and the Tagus estuary,
and north-westward over the Atlantic and the plateau of Mafra. Few
European towns possess equal advantages of position and climate; and
every educated Portuguese is familiar with the verses in which the
beauty of Cintra is celebrated by Byron in _Childe Harold_ (1812), and
by Camoens in the national epic _Os Lusiadas_ (1572). One of the hi