There is a code which passes under the name of Henry I.; but the best antiquaries have agreed to think it spurious.

It is, however, a very ancient compilation, and may be useful to instruct us in the manners and customs of the times.

We learn from it, that a great distinction was then made between the English and Normans, much to the advantage of the latter.* The deadly feuds and the liberty of private revenge, which had been avowed by the Saxon laws, were still continued, and were not yet wholly illegal.[****] Among the laws granted on the king's accession, it is remarkable that the reunion of the civil and ecclesiastical courts, as in the Saxon times, was enacted.[*****] But this law, like the articles of his charter, remained without effect, probably from the opposition of Archbishop Anselm.
[Footnonte * Sim.Dunelm.p.231.Brompton, p.1000.Flor.Wigorn.

p.
653 Hoveden, p.

471.] [Footnonte ** Sim.Dunelm.p.231.Brompton, p.1000.Hoveden, p.