Note 283 — Chapter IX · The State.
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Ini, 36·50. Edg. II. 5. C.S. 18. The Vicarius seems to have been the original deputy of the Frank Graphio, and the Gingra, or junior, of the king’s Ealdorman, Alf. 38. Both were replaced by the royal Vicecomes and Gerefa; amongst the Franks probably when the Comes became a hereditary noble instead of an official.