hands of Reiner, his Dapifer or Steward, a privilege conceded to the great alone.[9] In 1180, he was made Chief Justiciary of all England, as we are informed by his cotemporary Roger Hoveden, whose words are too remarkable to be omitted. _Henricus Rex Angliæ pater constituit Ranulphum de Glanvilla summum Justiciarium totius Angliæ, cujus sapientia conditæ sunt leges subscriptæ, quas Anglicanas vocamus._[10] The Chief Justiciary, presided in the _Curia Regis_ next to the King, as Chief Judge in all civil and criminal questions; and governed the Realm like a Vice-Roy, when the King was beyond Sea, an event of frequent recurrence in that age. In fine, this officer was invested with a power that placed him far above every other subject. No sooner had Glanville arrived at this elevated post, than he exerted himself to restore and confirm many ancient Laws calculated for the good of the Realm.[11] How much to the satisfaction of Henry the Second Glanville filled this arduous situation, we may infer, from finding additional honors heaped upon him by that able and politic Prince. In 1183, our Author held the place of Dapifer to the King,[12] and, in the same year, he was appointed Fermour of Yorkshire:[13] situations, it is to be presumed, not incompatible with that of Chief Justiciary, which he appears to have retained, until the death of Henry the Second,[14] and that with undiminished honor, if we except the imputation cast upon him for condemning Sir Gilbert de Plumptun to death, but which seems to be refuted by the confidence continued to be reposed in him by the discerning Henry.[15] Immediately after the death of that Prince, he assumed the Order of the Cross, and perished fighting valiantly at the Siege of Acon in the year 1190.[16] [Footnote 1: Co. 8. Rep. pref.] [Footnote 2: Madox’s Exch. 439.] [Footnote 3: Ibid. 203.] [Footnote 4: Ibid. 253.] [Footnote 5: Hume’s Hist.] [Footnote 6: Mad. Exch. 297.] [Footnote 7: Ibid. 87.] [Footnote 8: Hoveden, p. 600.] [Footnote 9: Mad. Exch. 662.] [Footnote 10: Hoveden, p. 600. n. 40.] [Footnote 11: Mad. Exch. 24.] [Footnote 12: Mad. Exch. 35.] [Footnote 13: Ibid. 225.] [Footnote 14: Leg. Anglo-Sax. p. 339.] [Footnote 15: Hoveden, p. 622, 623. Note 10.] [Footnote 16: Spelm. Gloss. ad voc. Justitia; and Plowden, 368. b.]