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English secular law includes a wide range of source materials, which here have been categorized according to the type of law on which they concentrated.
- English Common Law
- English Statutory Law (below)
- Law in British Towns, including Town Courts and Urban Customary Law
- English Manorial Law
- English Maritime Law
General Resources
The Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy Although centered on primary sources from the British Isles, the Avalon Project at the Yale University School of Law provides accessible and easy-to-read translations of legal documents dealing with significant people and events throughout the Middle Ages. Documents include charters, chronicles, laws, ordinances, statutes, and treaties. The documents are organized chronologically, and include sections on: Medieval Documents 400-1399 and 15th Century Documents 1400-1499.
Anglo-Saxon Charters This term refers to charters produced in England between the sixth and eleventh centuries, usually in Latin, but sometimes in Old English. The charters are an important source of early medieval law since they encompass private and royal transfers of and orders about property and privileges.
- ASChart: Anglo-Saxon Charters: This pilot project dating from 2005 at King’s College, London offers access to all the known charters in England before 900 A.D, allowing searches by six indices: names, invocations, proems, dating clauses, dispositive words, curses, and places of promulgation. See also the related site, The Electronic Sawyer, an updated but searchable and browsable catalogue version of Peter Sawyer’s classic Anglo-Saxon Charters: An Annotated List and Bibliography (1968). Entries offer a summary of the charter, its manuscript reference, where it can be found in print, and links to published commentaries on the charter regarding its date, authenticity, and contents. Sponsored by the British Academy-Royal Historical Society Joint Committee on Anglo-Saxon Charters, and the University of Cambridge.
History in Deed: Medieval Society & The Law in England, 1100-1600 
Statutory Law
Early English Laws Project at the Institute of Historical Research and King’s College, London, publishes online and in print new editions and translations of all English legal codes, edicts, and treatises, ranging chronologically from Æthelberht of Kent’s code (c. 600) to the Magna Carta (1215). This website also includes non-narrative and non-administrative legal records, as well as standard editions of English legal texts by Felix Liebermann and William Stubbs. In total, EEL has over 150 new editions, translations, and commentaries of individual texts.
The Statutes of the Realm Printed by command of his Majesty King George the Third, in pursuance of an address of the House of Commons of Great Britain. From original records and authentic manuscripts. Ed. Alexander Luders and others. 11 vols in 12. London, 1810-28, reprint 1963. Volumes 1-3 cover royal charters of liberties, statutes and parliamentary laws of England up to 1545 printed in the original Anglo-Norman, Latin, or Middle English.