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The Antiquarian Magazine & Bibliographer; Vol. 4, July-Dec 1884

Note 46 — “Port” and “Port-Reeve.”

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Ibid., p. 421. So Mr. Freeman, in the case of Chester, claims that “the name is historically a contraction” (English Towns and Districts, p. 231).

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