Domesday Book is of course invaluable for the Norman settlement.

The chief documents for the early history of Anjou have been collected in the "Chroniques d'Anjou" published by the Historical Society of France.

Those which are authentic are little more than a few scant annals of religious houses; but light is thrown on them by the contemporary French chronicles.

The "Gesta Consulum" is nothing but a compilation of the twelfth century, in which a mass of Angevin romance as to the early story of the Counts is dressed into historical shape by copious quotations from these French historians.
It is possible that fresh light may be thrown on our earlier history when historical criticism has done more than has yet been done for the materials given us by Ireland and Wales.

For Welsh history the "Brut y Tywysogion" and the "Annales Cambriae" are now accessible in the series published by the Master of the Rolls; the "Chronicle of Caradoc of Lancarvan" is translated by Powel; the Mabinogion, or Romantic Tales, have been published by Lady Charlotte Guest; and the Welsh Laws collected by the Record Commission.