[1] Furthermore, at the sute of the commons it was ordeined and established by an act in this parlement deuised, that men of law should plead their causes, and write their actions and plaints in the English toong,

Lawiers to plead their ca [...]es in En|glish.

Caxton. Schoolema|sters to teach scholers to construe their lessons in English.

and not in the French, as they had béene accu|stomed to doo, euer since the Conquerors time. It was ordeined also, that schoolemasters should teach their scholers to construe their lessons in English, & not in French, as before they had béene vsed. The K. shewed so much curtesie to the French hostages, that he permitted them to go ouer to Calis, and there be|ing néere home, to purchase friendship, by oft calling on their fréends for their deliuerance. They were suf|fered to ride to and fro about the marches of Calis, for the space of foure daies togither, so that on the fourth daie before sunne setting, they returned into Calis againe. The duke of Aniou turning this liber|tie to serue his owne turne, departed from thence, and went home into France, without making his fellowes priuie to his purpose.