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The history of the Norman conquest of England, its causes and its results, Volume 1 (of 6)

Note 33 — Chapter II · THE FORMATION OF THE KINGDOM OF ENGLAND. 449–975.

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See the Laws of Ine, 23, 24, 32, 33, 46, 54, 74. (Thorpe, Laws and Institutes, i. 119–149; Schmid, pp. 30–55.) In the time of Ælfred the distinction, at least within the strictly English territory, seems to have died out.

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