Stranica 120 [120]
CITY GOVERNMENT
English or Anglo¬
Saxon office of reeve
means primarily
like
a steward, and the
something
word is still in use
in places in that
sense. If, however,
my readers can as¬
to the first
assumption, namely,
that the
left a comes civitatis
behind them, they
sent
Romans
First, he
reeve of the
port, that is, the
market, and pri¬
Was
marily, perhaps,
of that
which, aS we
market
Saw, was nearest
to Buillingsgate.
Portus would
mean a gate,
but this "port"
comes from