A Shire Reeve was a local government official, in charge of a shire or county (as in Lancashire, Yorkshire etc.)
It is the derivation of the word sheriff.
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In the 12th century and probably as early as the 10th, if not earlyer the representative of the King was the Shireman also better known as an Earl and continues to be so to this day.
The Venerable Bede, a monk who was England's greatest scholar in the seventh and eighth centuries, wrote down the history of this early period in The Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation.
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