The volumes written in pre-Conquest England which contain the laws of lay society are devoted for the most part to non-legal texts. A numerous and important class of post-Conquest law book covers books that might be characterised as legal encyclopedias. Post-Conquest volumes provide suggestive clues to the way that law-codes were disseminated in the Old English kingdom. Archbishop Wulfstan's Institutes of Polity gives each segment of a Christian society its role and standards. Æthelred's codes are labelled Be Angolwitena gerednesse, or Be cyricgriðe, just like homilies or sections of the Institutes. Allowing for the possible exception of the case, one of the messages of pre-Conquest pairs is the consistent integration of Anglo-Saxon secular law-making with the yet more binding law of God in various manifestations. The preface of Alfred-Ine's domboc (law-code) put Anglo-Saxon law beside God's. All in all, extant pre-Conquest law books represent a distillation of the new kingdom's formative ideology.