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. 633. Between this and the year 640, a Saxon Monastery was founded at Burgh, by Fursey, an Irish monk. 870. Lodbrog, the Dane, driven by a sudden tempest from Denmark across the sea, and, entering the Yare, landed at Reedham, where the Court of Edmund, King of East Anglia, was then kept. Lodbrog is said to have been received into Court favour, but was soon afterwards murdered in a wood by the King’s huntsman (Bern) through jealousy. This led to the imprisonment and execution of Edmund, and put an end to the Saxon dynasty in East Anglia, after Hinguar and Hubba, two Danish chieftains, at the head of 20,000 men, had ravished all East Anglia. 1008. First houses and habitations erected in Yarmouth on Fuller’s Hill, that being then the only dry land in Yarmouth. 1041–7. Yarmouth belonged to the King in the reign of Edward the Confessor, and had 70 burgesses, besides a number of soccagers. 1045. Bishop Herbert born; and in 1091 was consecrated Bishop of Thetford. 1066. Cocklewater, or Grubb’s Haven, stopped up with sand. 1100. St. Bennet’s Church pulled down. It was built in the time of Edward the Confessor. Yarmouth governed by a Provost, the first constituted magistrate, whose public office was in the _Congé_, North Quay. Foreigners were only allowed to come to Yarmouth at the annual free-fair. 1101. Bishop Herbert de Lozinga, the first Bishop of Norwich [translated from the See of Thetford in the 7th year of William II. (Rufus), whose Chamberlain he was], founded St. Nicholas’ Church, and re-built a Chapel on the North Denes. He was made Lord High Chancellor to Henry I. of England in 1104, and died August 11th, 1119. 1119. St. Nicholas’ Church consecrated. Enlarged 1123, 1250, and 1338. The last attempt after 10 years’ labour in trying to build a west aisle, failing, the ruins were used in the building of a Chapel-of-Ease. 1199. Forty thousand lives lost at sea during the war between King John and the Barons; a great multitude washed ashore on Yarmouth beach. 1204. Monastery of Black Friars founded by St. Dominica. 1205. Yarmouth had three galleys or vessels of war. Two were manned with seven score mariners. 1209. First charter granted by King John, and Yarmouth incorporated as a borough. The document is still preserved (1834). 1216.