ARCHAIONOMIA

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  ARCHAIONOMIA. The name of a collection of Saxon laws, published during the
  reign of the English Queen Elizabeth, in the Saxon language, with a Latin
  version, by Mr. Lambard. Dr. Wilkins enlarged this. collection in his work,
  entitled Leges Anglo Saxonicae, containing all the Saxon laws extant,
  together with those ascribed to Edward the Confessor, in Latin; those of
  William the Conqueror, in Norman and Latin; and of Henry I., Stephen, and


  Henry II., in Latin.