| About 50 species were recorded there including long distance migrants like pallid harriers, ruff and reeves, white ibis, comb ducks, etc. |
| The whole system was run by a set of royal officers, the shire reeves, with individual reeves looking after each hundred. |
| At Hereford the reeves consent was necessary when a burgage was to be sold, and he took a third of the price. |
| The landlord took his estates into his own hands, appointed bailiffs and reeves to run them and sell the surplus on the open market. |
| They were jurors, reeves and lessees, and in demanding freedom and economic opportunity, they were simply claiming what they regarded as their own. |
| Some of Colchester's reeves are known from the Pipe Rolls and the earliest from a charter's witness list. |
