Hu se man sceal swerie (‘How the person must swear an oath’), c. 900. Textus Roffensis, ff. 38v–39v. Translated from Old English and edited by Dr Christopher Monk.

Textus Roffensis contains the code concerning the infamous administering of trial by ordeal: by water, by fire, and by bread and cheese.

This anonymous law fragment Walreaf (‘Spoil of the Slain/Corpse Robbery’) forbids the robbery of corpses.

The code’s chief concerns are ecclesiastical: clerical celibacy, church dues and alms, and restoration of church buildings. Textus Roffensis, ff. 44r-45r. Translated from the Old English and edited by Dr Christopher Monk.

‘This is the decree which King Æthelred and his council decreed at Woodstock for all the people as a remedy of peace in Mercia…’ Textus Roffensis, ff. 46r–47r. Translated from Old English and edited by Dr Christopher Monk.

Known by its Old English title Willelmes Cyninges Asetnysse (‘King William’s Statute’), this writ, or royal command, introduced to the English the unfamiliar Norman practice of trial by combat.