 | J. Otway-Ruthven - 1939 - 218 sivua
...when in 1422 they decided to keep their records in English they said that 'our mother-tongue, to wit the English tongue, hath in modern days begun to be honourably enlarged and adorned for that our most excellent lord, king Henry V, hath in his letters missive. . .more willingly chosen... | |
 | Jeffrey N. Cox, Larry J. Reynolds, Larry John Reynolds - 1993 - 360 sivua
...records in English, they explained (in Latin!) that they had done so because our mother-tongue, to wit the English tongue, hath in modern days begun to be honourably enlarged and adorned, for that our most excellent lord, King Henry V, hath in his letters missive and divers touching his... | |
 | Kenneth O. Morgan - 2000 - 724 sivua
...admired king, and when they wrote their ordinances in English they noted that 'our mother tongue, to wit, the English tongue, hath in modern days begun to be honourably enlarged and adorned . . . and our most excellent lord, King Henry V, hath procured the common idiom ... to be commended by the exercise... | |
 | Anne Curry, Elizabeth Matthew - 2000 - 230 sivua
...Reign of Henry V (1414-1422)', BJRL, 16 (1932), 137-87. Company: 'whereas our mother-tongue, to wit the English tongue, hath in modern days begun to be honourably enlarged and adorned, for that our most excellent lord, King Henry V, hath in his letters missive and divers affairs touching... | |
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The emancipation of the national language was subsequently confirmed by another monarch. A curious anecdote in our literary history has recently been disclosed of Henry V. To encourage the use of the vernacular tongue, this monarch, in a letter missive... 
