The Sussex Armada muster of 1588 demonstrated how the county had organised its coastal defence over the preceding decades. The trained bands mobilised rapidly from inland towns to coastal positions, and Camber Castle at Rye — the only one of Henry VIII Device Forts in Sussex — received reinforcements. The muster was the culmination of fifty years of coastal defence planning that had begun with the French threat of the 1530s.
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Sussex trained bands estimated at several thousand; coastal deployment from Rye to Chichester
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