Those of Eadward, AEthelstan, Eadmund, and Eadgar, are like the earlier laws of AEthelberht and Ine, "mainly of the nature of amendments of custom." Those of AElfred, AEthelred, Cnut, with those which bear the name of Eadward the Confessor, "aspire to the character of Codes." They are printed in Mr.
Thorpe's "Ancient Laws and Institutes of England," but the extracts given by Professor Stubbs in his "Select Charters" contain all that directly bears on our constitutional growth.

A vast mass of Charters and other documents belonging to this period has been collected by Kemble in his "Codex Diplomaticus AEvi Saxonici," and some are added by Mr.Thorpe in his "Diplomatarium Anglo-Saxonicum." Dunstan's biographies have been collected and edited by Professor Stubbs in the series published by the Master of the Rolls.
In the period which follows the accession of AEthelred we are still aided by these collections of royal Laws and Charters, and the English Chronicle becomes of great importance.

Its various copies indeed differ so much in tone and information from one another that they may to some extent be looked upon as distinct works, and "Florence of Worcester" is probably the translation of a valuable copy of the "Chronicle" which has disappeared.

The translation however was made in the twelfth century, and it is coloured by the revival of national feeling which was characteristic of the time.

Of Eadward the Confessor himself we have a contemporary biography (edited by Mr.Luard for the Master of the Rolls) which throws great light on the personal history of the King and on his relations to the house of Godwine.
The earlier Norman traditions are preserved by Dudo of St.Quentin, a verbose and confused writer, whose work was abridged and continued by William of Jumieges, a contemporary of the Conqueror.