Chancery Standard (Chancery English).
A term used to refer to the 15c written usage of the clerks of Chancery in London, who prepared the king’s documents. Before the 1430s, official records were mainly in Latin and French, but after that date mainly in an English dialect. There had been a long-held belief that the Central Midland dialect was the source of written ... ...
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