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They were direct successors of Chaucer's Franklyn, of whom we are told, "A schirreeve had he been." The exacting duties of the office led the sheriff very frequently to appoint, at his own cost, such a subordinate and to empower him to perform such services as could be legally transferred to another. He relieved the sheriff, however, of his more onerous and invidious duties.
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