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From 1688 to 1700, two Bailiffs were chosen instead of a Mayor.
Crisp’s History Of Great Yarmouth.
A.D. 46.
The Romans entered this part of Britain when the valleys of the Yare, Waveney, and Bure, as well as the sand-bank upon which Yarmouth stands, were covered by the ocean.
100.
Burgh Castle, a Roman encampment, supposed to have been founded.
495.
Cerdic, a Saxon Prince, and Qenrick his son, with five ships, entered the port of Yarmouth and named in Cerdic Shore. This Cerdic Shore seems to have been a great sand-bank formed along the shore between two branches or channels of the Yare called Havens, by which two channels the river entered the sea, one running near Caister and the other near Gorleston.