Abstract
In this paper a short extract from the Latin/English Petty Customs Account Roll, Port of London, 1481, is analysed. This account roll details commodities brought to the Port of London by Hanseatic and non-Hanseatic merchants. It contains words of Latin, Anglo-Norman, Low German and English etymology, with Latin occurring in all parts of speech, and the other languages restricted to nouns and adjectives only. As this text type has been considered by historians, some of their opinions are given, including the observation that some nouns and adjectives occur in both their English and Latin form in the same text. It is concluded that the use of more than one language was compulsory in this text-type.
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