Based on the book "In The Beginning - The Story of the King James Bible..." by Alsiter McGrath".. it took the English generations to love, respect, and use their own language."
"In the early Middle Ages, literacy was rare, and often limited to the clergy...The ability to read had once been the exclusive preserve of the clergy. By the beginning of the 15th century, this literary monopoly was in the process of being decisively overthrown."
"English was seen as a language of peasants, incapable of expressing anything other than the crudest and most basic of matters. English was just fine when dealing with spreading dung on fields. But how could such a barbaric language do justice to such sophisticated matters as philosophy or religion? To translate the Bible from its noble and ancient languages into English was seen as a pointless act of debasement."
"The English upper class spoke Anglo-French as a matter of principle, to distinguish themselves from the lower class, who spoke Middle English, in much the same way as the Russian nobility in the nineteenth century preferred French to their native Russian."
""Opposition to translating the Bible into English rested on the fears that the English peasantry might be encourage to rise against their maters... English thus became the language of the religious underground."
"One of the most remarkable facts of the English history during the middle ages is that the ruling elite chose not to use their native language of English, except when dealing with social inferiors, Yet it took the English generations to love, respect, and use their own language."