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to that grant to be the
eral your bailiwick, « . .f
Just this method of a tax
far from permanent, but the use of for
purposes was permanent big with possibilities*
The Norman never wholly wit1!
the sheriff. They had this of the
system as something which to be useful in
conducting the interests
because he resembled the Norman but the
was resident in his shire, usually a
with landed and there; he to
the influences, always in the
tended to destroy the really of the
dent official. Henry I. of
to use the itinerant justice to the
part of Ms work from him* The of the
sheriffs in Henry II.'s the of
them is well in the "Inquest of the
iffs";2 and although
to the office afterwards, the possibility in-
terests would be neglected for private
existed. The knights or others, for the
purposes just discussed, were doing king's business;
might be called upon to tell the of the
sheriff himself. Doubtless the to feel
some form of popular choice a of
these representative men of of an
unbiassed statement from them* A
developed, largely independent of the for
the truth about local affairs, at the
needs* and hearing its complaints.3
1 A. and S., document 30; W. and K, p. 96.
2 /Wei., document 15 and pp. 88, §9-
a Speaking of election, Professor Pollard o/ p.
152) penetratingly comments: '* Election not, in the middle
reveal the person of the elector, and means no than the selection by
the persons authorized to select. It is a matter of common
that knights of the shire were selected in the county court, but by