concessions, and narrowed down those that remained, that they might not be operative outside the actual walls of the city. When the shrievalty was restored by John to the citizens (1199) the concession had lost its chief importance through the triumph of the communal principle.'[201] Mr. Round holds that the office of Justiciar of London was created by Henry I.'s charter, and as that officer took precedence of the sheriff he must have been for a time the chief authority of the city. Mr. Round's explanation of this position is of so much importance that it is necessary to quote it here in his own words: 'The transient existence of the local _justitiarius_ is a phenomenon of great importance, which has been wholly misunderstood. The Mandeville charters afford the clue to the nature of this office. It represents a middle term, a transitional stage between the essentially _local_ shire-reeve and the _central_ justice of the King's court.... The _justitiarius_ for Essex or Herts, or London or Middlesex, was a purely local officer, and yet exercised within the limits of his bailiwick all the authority of the King's justice. So transient was this state of things that scarcely a trace of it remains.... Now, in the case of London, the office was created by the charter of Henry I. (as I contend) towards the end of his reign, and it expired with the accession of Henry II. It is, therefore, in Stephen's reign that we should expect to find it in existence, and it is precisely in that reign that we find the office _eo nomine_ twice granted to the Earl of Essex and twice mentioned as held by Gervase, otherwise Gervase of Cornhill.'[202] The question of the date of the charter of Henry I. is discussed in _Geoffrey de Mandeville_ (p. 364), and reasons are given for dating it after 1130 instead of 1100 or 1101. Bishop Stubbs specially refers to the foreign element in London at this time thus: 'Richard the son of Reiner, the son of Berengar, was very probably a Lombard by descent; the influential family of Bucquinte, Bucca-uncta, which took the lead on many occasions, can hardly have been other than Italian; Gilbert Becket was a Norman.' And further, in a note, he adds: 'Andrew of London, the leader of the Londoners at Lisbon in 1147, is not improbably the Andrew Bucquinte whose son Richard was the leader of the riotous young nobles of the city who in 1177 furnished a precedent for the Mohawks of the eighteenth century.'[203] Andrew, who was present at the transference of the Cnihtengild's land to the Priory of Holy Trinity (1125 or 1126), was one of the witnesses of the agreement between Ramsay Abbey and Holy Trinity after that date, where his name is written 'Bocunte.'[204] He was Justiciar of London in Stephen's reign.[205] The Buccarelli were another Italian family whose name is said to be preserved in Bucklersbury, and Round also mentions Osbert Octodenarii (otherwise Huitdeniers), a kinsman and employer of Becket.