 So that now, the year of our Lord 1385 and of the second King Richard after the Conquest nine, in all the grammar schools of England children leaveth French, and construeth and learneth in English.  History of the English People - Page 503by John Richard Green - 1877Full view - About this book
 | John Wesley Hales - 1872 - 552 pages
...that the year of our Lord a thousand three hundred fourscore and five, of the Second King Richard, after the Conquest nine, in all the grammar schools of England children leave French and construe and learn in English."* To that innovation no doubt resistance was offered... | |
 | John Richard Green - Great Britain - 1877 - 920 pages
...as others did of Pencriche. So that now, the year of our Lord, 1385, and of the second King Richard after the conquest nine, in all the grammar schools...leaveth French, and construeth and learneth in English." A more formal note of the change thus indicated is found in the Statute of 1362, which orders English... | |
 | John Richard Green - Great Britain - 1878 - 622 pages
...men did of Pencrych. So that now, the 1381year of our Lord 1385 and of the second King Richard 14O°' after the Conquest nine, in all the grammar schools...French romances everywhere tended to make French the one literary language at the opening of the fourteenth century, and in England this influence had been... | |
 | Hereford city, cath. sch - 1879 - 338 pages
...this manner of teaching of him, as others did of Pancriche. So that now in the year of our Lord 1385, in all the Grammar Schools of England children leaveth French, and construeth and learneth in English." And of course this tendency to a general use of the national tongue told powerfully in literature.... | |
 | John Richard Green - Great Britain - 1885 - 616 pages
...as other men did of Pencrych. So that now, the year of our Lord 1385 and of the second King Richard after the Conquest nine, in all the grammar schools of England children leaveth French, and construct!) and learneth in English. Also gentlemen have now much left for to teach their children... | |
 | John Richard Green - Great Britain - 1889 - 954 pages
...as others did of Pencrych. So that now, the year of our Lord, 1385, and of the second King Richard after the Conquest nine, in all the grammar schools...leaveth French, and construeth and learneth in English." A more formal note of the change is found when English was ordered to be used in courts of law in 1362... | |
 | Charles William Boase - Cities and towns - 1890 - 258 pages
...grammar, changed the lore in grammar school and construing of French into English. So that now, 1385, in all the grammar schools of England children leaveth...much left for to teach their children French.' This brings us to the period of Wiclif s influence. He was the greatest schoolman of his day, and he organised... | |
 | Anna Swanwick - Poetry - 1892 - 472 pages
...English, and a few years later, as we learn from a contemporary writer, ' In the year of our Lord 1385, in all the grammar schools of England, children leaveth...much left for to teach their children French?' " This recognition of English as the language of the whole nation, is a token that the amalgamation between... | |
 | Oliver Farrar Emerson - English language - 1906 - 448 pages
...now, the year of our Lord a thousand three hundred four score and five, and of the second king Richard after the conquest nine, in all the grammar schools...leaveth French and construeth and learneth in English, and haveth thereby advantage on one side and disadvantage on another side; their advantage is that... | |
 | Oliver Farrar Emerson - English language - 1894 - 446 pages
...year of our Lord a thousand three hundred four score and five, and of the second king Richard afier the conquest nine, in all the grammar schools of England,...leaveth French and construeth and learneth in English, and haveth thereby advantage on one side and disadvantage on another side; their advantage is that... | |
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