...and French languages : the carlieet known instance of the English tongue having been used in deeds is that of the indenture between the abbot and convent...John Bustard, dated at York, in the year 1343. The English tongue was ordered to be used in all law pleadings in 1364.* Ordered to be used in all law-suits...

...and French languages : the earliert known instance of the English tongue having been used in deeds is that of the indenture between the abbot and convent of Whitby and Robert, the son of John Bustnrd, dated at York, in the year 1343. The English tongue was ordered to be used in all law pleadings...

...French languages : the earliest known instance of the English tongue having been used in deeds, is that of the indenture between the abbot and convent...John Bustard, dated at York, in the year 1343. The English tongue was ordered to be used in all law pleadings in 1304. Ordered to be used in all law-suits...

...instrument produced by Rymer is dated 1368 (vii. 526) ; but an indenture in the same idiom betwixt the abbot and convent of Whitby, and Robert the son of John Bustard, dated at York in 1343, t is the earliest known."§ AN-QlX)-NORMA\ POETS. French metrical romances and other poetry,...

...instrument produced by Rymer is dated 1368 (vii. 526) ; but an indenture in the same idiom betwixt the abbot and convent of Whitby, and Robert the son of John Bustard, dated at York in 1343,f is the earliest known. "J BE-EMERGENCE OF THE EXGLISH AS A LITERARY TONGUE. French metrical...

...English instrument, produced by Rymer, is dated 1368 ; § but an indenture in the same idiom, betwixt the Abbot and convent of Whitby and Robert the son of John Bustard, dated at York in 1343, II is the earliest known ; the date of 1324, given in Whatley's translation of Rapin's Acta regia...