[1] [2] The citie before those daies euer since the comming in of William Conquerour, and a good while before his time, was gouerned by certeine officers or ru|lers named Port Greues (which word is deriued of two Saxon words,Port Greues. as Port and Greue. By Port is meant a towne, and by Greue a gardian or ruler, as who should saie, A kéeper or ruler of a towne.) These rulers with the lawes & customes then vsed within this citie, were registred in a booke called (as some haue said) Doomesdaie, but through negligence after these lawes and customes were changed and altered, the booke was lost, so that the remembrance of such rulers as were before the daies of this Richard the first, are not to be had. These bailiffes euer entred at Michaelmasse, and so continued foorth their yeare.