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In Anglo-Saxon England (from about the fifth century A.D. until 1066) a reeve was a person who helped to administer an area on behalf of the king. The area might have been as small as a town or as large as a shire (also known as a county). The title "shire reeve" eventually became contracted to "sheriff".

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