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[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.