[7] Infangtheof, outfangtheof, thol, theam, soc, sac, blodwite, fythewite, flyhtewite, fledwite, ferdwite, hengewite, leirwite, childwite, wardwite, grithbrech, hamsocn, forstall, ordel, oreste, flemenefrith, miskennyng, burgbruch, &c. &c.
[8] Kennet, Par. Ant. Glos. v. præpositus. Another title common to sheriff, bailiff, and reve.
[9] This privilege was restored to the people by the Articuli super Chartas; 28 E. 1. c. 8. but resumed in the following reign, and has ever since continued in the crown. 9 E 2. st. 2. Jenk. 229. They enjoy the right of electing the coroner still; chiefly, it is supposed, because it has not been thought worth taking from them.
[10] Fleta. l. 2. c. 53. § 1. The steward has been in possession of this branch of the bailiffs office for many centuries. When this transfer took place would be scarcely possible to discover. It should seem, however, to have been gradual, and might possibly have its rise from the Senescallus, the Styweard or major-domo being sometimes more conversant in forensic matters than the bailiff, whose office chiefly concerned the management of the lords demesne and other out-of-door concerns. The Mirror (written in the time of E. 2.) constantly speaks of the bailiff as judge of the court leet; see also Ken. Par. Ant. p. 319. And thus Finch, speaking of the County Court and Court Baron, says "the suitors are the judges and the bailiff and sheriff are but ministers." Law. 248. And hence, perhaps, it has been held that both offices might be enjoyed by one and the same person. Cro. Jac. 178. (cites 29 H. 8.) And it should seem from Bracton that writs were indifferently directed to either the steward, or the bailiff, ballivo vel senescallo. l. 5. c. 32.
About the time that this separation took place, the lowest branches of the bailiffs office were transfered to an inferior minister, named a reve, of whom we read at large in Fleta. l. 2. c. 76. But possibly this was only the case in extensive manors and demesnes, where a single person was found unequal to the discharge of the united functions of steward, bailiff, and reve.
[11] Lambards Perambulation of Kent. p. 484.
[12] V. Prynne, Animad. on 4 Inst. p. 150. Hickes. Dis. Ep. p. 8. 48. See however in Madox, His. Ex. p. 100. an instance of justices itinerant in the time of K. Stephen. Writs unknown to the Saxons. Hickes. u. s. p. 8.
[13] A collection of all the writs and charters that can be met with of the first three or four Norman kings would be a useful, curious, and interesting work.
[14] Most hundreds have, by statute or otherwise, been united to the body of the county and power of the sheriff. But many of them, having been granted in fee, still exist as independent franchises.