[447]. Cod. Dipl. No. 856.
[448]. Ibid. No. 872.
[449]. Ibid. Nos. 857, 861.
[450]. Ibid. No. 872.
[451]. Ibid. No. 929.
[452]. Ibid. No. 799.
[453]. Ibid. No. 789.
[454]. Ibid. No. 981.
[455]. Cod. Dipl. No. 933. This evidence that the officer in Bath was a portreeve and not a burhreeve may suggest the possibility of those persons whom I have cited under the former head, belonging rather to the present one. The Latin praepositus civitatis will denote either one or the other office, and indeed it is difficult to prove any difference between them by direct testimony.
[456]. Leg. Eádw. § 1. Thorpe, i. 158. Eádm. iii. § 5. Thorpe, i. 253. Æðelst. i. § 12. Thorpe, i. 206.