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Four legal codes were adopted at Royal Councils in the early 930s at Grately in Hampshire, Exeter, Faversham in Kent, and Thunderfield in Surrey.
Keynes sees the Grately code as "an impressive piece of legislation" showing the king's determination to maintain social order.
The first of these later codes, issued at Grately, prescribed harsh penalties, including the death penalty for anyone over twelve years old caught in the act of stealing goods worth more than eight pence.
The Grately code included a provision that there was to be only one coinage across the king's dominion.