Some local jito, kokujin (local samurai) and shokan (an officer governing shoen) were hired as low-level bureaucrats by Shugo, and the lords' authority (hegemony over estates) was vulnerable to violation.
在地の地頭・国人・荘官らには、守護の被官となる者もおり、荘園領主の支配権（荘務権）は守護に侵害される傾向にあったのである。