The development of political theory, of interpretations of what parliament was doing, paralleled these developments in fact. In the early period the knights and burgesses were regarded as the servants or attorneys or procurators of their communities (Cam 1944: chaps. 15 and 16; Chrimes 1936: 131-3; Luce 1930: 434). They were not called representatives because the word did not yet have that meaning legal attorneys in court were not said to represent either. By the fifteenth century, as the Commons came to act as a unified body, the members were occasionally spoken of as being, jointly, procurators and attorneys of all the counties and of all the people of the realm" (Chrimes 1936: 131; the citation dates from 1407).