. A brief and popular history of the Hospital of God's House, Southampton. ervase or Gervaise, Burgess and Portreeveof Southampton. His office was dignified andhonourable ; his duties were onerous and full ofresponsibility; and from his subsequent surname(le Riche) we may infer that he was a man of sub-stance. In the Norman or Mediaeval Latin of thatperiod, he is named Praepositus de office of Portreeve appears to correspondwith that of our modern Mayor, and its dutiesconsisted chiefly in clearing foreign ships in thematter of harbour-dues, and forwarding an accountof them to th
. A brief and popular history of the Hospital of God's House, Southampton. ervase or Gervaise, Burgess and Portreeveof Southampton. His office was dignified andhonourable ; his duties were onerous and full ofresponsibility; and from his subsequent surname(le Riche) we may infer that he was a man of sub-stance. In the Norman or Mediaeval Latin of thatperiod, he is named Praepositus de office of Portreeve appears to correspondwith that of our modern Mayor, and its dutiesconsisted chiefly in clearing foreign ships in thematter of harbour-dues, and forwarding an accountof them to the king. In some of the records of thatperiod his name repeatedly occurs, ^ EtGervas de turo, in full, Gervasius de Thesauro,that is—Gervase who presides over the our term Treasurer. There is a note tothe effect that Nigellus of Havana* (, Copen-hagen) owes L. marks for the interchange of Mer-chandise which he has had with Gervasius ofHanton. And again— In the clearing of the * This is probably a mistake for Havnia, the Latin name 17 Kings yacht, when the Duke of Saxony and theQueen crossed the Channel, it cost and bywrit of Ranulf of Glanville, (that is, apparently,the payment was made on Ranulf s letter, chequeor bill) and * Gervase, Portreeve of Sudhampton,gives the receipt. It would only tire the readerto repeat these small notices, which are interesting,however, so far as they contribute to our knowledgeof the man and his duties. Most of them are datedin Henry reign; but though Henry frequentlylanded at or departed from Southampton on hisvisits to and from his Continental kingdoms, theredoes not seem to be any mention of Gervasius in Henry Itinerary. His name, however,occurs during Richard reign in connection withother matters besides sending in accounts. Richardwas rebuilding and enlarging Portsmouth, and madea grant of a placea —an unoccupied piece ofland—to anyone, free of charge, who would build atene
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