In many areas of society there was continuity, as the Normans adopted many of the Anglo-Saxon governmental institutions, including the tax system, mints and the centralisation of law-making and some judicial matters; initially sheriffs and the hundred courts continued to function as before.
I mange områder af samfundet var en kontinuitet, da normannerne adopterede de samme angelsaksiske regeringsinstitutioner, inklusive skattesystem, møntslåning og centraliseret lovskrivning samt visse juridiske forhold: oprindeligt fortsatte sherifferne og de hundredvis af domstole med at fungere som før.