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Henry V, the English Chancery, and Chancery English

For the past twenty years evidence has been accumulating which indicates that the origins of Standard Written English are to be found in Chancery English, the written dialect standardized during the reign of Henry VI (1422-1461) by the Chancery, then primarily the great secretariat of the English government.' After centuries of using French and Latin exclusively, the Chancery gradually began to adopt the vernacular as an acceptable language for many of its official documents, a change reflected in the increasing number of English entries in the rolls (official records) of Parliament, the Rotuli Parliamentorum,2 during the 1420s. For nearly a decade after the death of Henry V in 1422, the English documents coming out of the Chancery drifted linguistically toward what has been called Chancery Standard, but still frequently showed the kind of dialectical confusion which might be expected in early fifteenth-century documents composed and copied by several hands. By the early 1430s, however, the Chancery had developed a distinctive language, a coherent, standardized written dialect which in its linguistic forms closely resembles modern Standard English. Bolstered and sustained by the prestige and authority of any documents issued by the Chancery, by the need for a standardized form of English among lawyers, government officials, legal scribes, and the eternally litigious English gentry, and by the increasing patriotic and practical goodwill toward the formerly despised vernacular, Chancery English slowly spread throughout England during the middle years of the fifteenth century to the point where it became the most commonly accepted written dialect and, in turn, the ancestor of modern Standard. Thus current theory runs. Although Chancery English has been described by M. L. Samuels and by