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A standard English accompanies the rise of Chancery

-    "Chancery" comes from the word chanal or chapel ofthe king, where the chaplains (priests) kapelan of the court originally spent their time between sen/ices writing the king's letters.

-    By the end of 14c, Chancery came to be the place where official documents were produced.

-    By the mid 15c, the term came to refer to the national bureaucracy as a whole.

-    Chancery English is the Ig ofthe scribes charges with making the official documents of England from about the 1380s to the 1450s.

-    These documents illustrate a move towards standardalization of spelling, usage, vocabulary and pronunciation.

-    What matters is not the use of individual scribe, but an institutional, or official, set of uses.

-    Royal clerks used English for official writing after 1417.

-    Chancery is located in Westminster, the administrative seat of government.

-    The most important point about Chancery English is that it developed a form of writing that was a standard, irrespective of the speech or dialect of the writer.

-    Spelling was standardized without regard for pronunciation.

-    The official Ig ceased to represent any living, spoken dialect.

-    Writing became truły conventional and arbitrary.

-    Chancery was the first standard of writing the English Ig in England.

-    The Ig of literaturę started to derive from the Ig of politics.