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The importance of various reeves varied. Some were important and some were not. The English reeve of after the Norman conquest was serf chosen to supervise other serfs on a manor. But there were also high-reeves and shire-reeves who were important people.

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A reeve was a peasant elected by the other peasants to act as their supervisor and deal with issues relating to the village that the lord did not have time to concern himself with.

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