[9] For a discriminating view of the effects of the Norman Conquest on the English Language, see Freeman, Norman Conquest, ch. xxv.
[10] There is no reason to suppose that any attempt was made to proscribe or suppress the native tongue, which was indeed used in some official documents addressed to Englishmen by the Conqueror himself. Its social degradation seemed even on the point of coming to an end, when it was confirmed and prolonged for two centuries more by the accession of the Angevin dynasty, under whom everything French received a fresh impetus.
[11] MS. Cotton Vesp. A. 22.
[12] Gospels in Anglo-Saxon, &c., ed. for Cambridge Press, by W.W. Skeat (1871-1887), second text.
[13] Old English Homilies of Twelfth Century, first and second series, ed. R. Morris (E.E.T.S.), (1868-1873).
[14] The article þe becomes te after a preceding t or d by assimilation.
[15] Earle, Two of the Saxon Chronicles parallel (1865), p. 265.
[16] Skeat, Anglo-Saxon and Northumbrian Gospels (1874).
[17] Edited for the Surtees Society, by Rev. J. Stevenson.
[18] Edited for the Early English Text Society, by Rev. Dr Morris.