[2] See _Co. Lit. 168, b._ Whenever the sheriff in any judicial proceedings speaks or is spoken to of his county, the law in fact has regularly no other name for it; _in comitatu meo_ or _tuo_ for instance has (frequently at least) a very different meaning. [3] _2 Inst. 19._ Blount, _voce_ Bailiff. And see _Fortescue on Monarchy_, 124. _Sed quia_ vicecomes ... _fuit_ ... magnus domini Regis ballivus. _M. Paris._ 801. The governors of the city of London were originally called portreves, then bailiffs, then sheriffs, and at last mayors. _Stows Survey_, by Strype. _B. v. c. 6._ [4] _Ingulphus (apud scriptores post Bedam)._ 870. _Gul. Malmesburiensis de Gestis Regum. Ibi._ 44. Camdens _Britannia. clxvii._ _Seldeni Analecta, Opera, ii._ 922. Notes upon Draytons Polyolbion. Song xi. (Works. iv. 1839.) Shires, however, it is certain there were before this time. See Bradys Hist. of Eng. i. 84. 116. and Sir J. Spelmans Life of Ælfred. 110. [5] The _præpositus villæ_, or bailiff of a manor, was also called the =tungerefa= or Tungreve. _Vide_ Spelman, _voce_ Grafio. [6] Hickes. Dis. Epis. 49. [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._