A native speaker of English,  Benedictine monk Adam Easton’s education in the Cathedral Priory at Norwich  and at Oxford would have been conducted almost entirely in Latin, and he would have had a good knowledge of French, that was still the language of high culture and officialdom in England. His surviving letters and his books were all written in Latin, and his much appreciated sermons to the Benedictine community in the Cathedral Priory of Norwich (where he preached from 1356- c.1364) would most likely have been delivered in clerical Latin, too, even though sermons to the laity were given in English.  In 1368 he went to Avignon  as part of the household and working team of Simon Langham, Cardinal of San Sisto Vecchio in Rome and ex Archbishop of Canterbury.  While always able to communicate in Latin with other clerics and international visitors, in daily speech he would have communicated in English with his compatriots, and French with Frenchmen. We know, however, that he spoke English to the Gascon Roger Foucault, Dean of St. Emilion (Harvey 197).  St Emilion was part of a region of France that belonged to the English crown at that time (Thomson).  Foucault’s use of English  may reflect  the personal preference of Foucault; it may also reflect a subtle appeal to a fellow subject of the English crown ( the French and English monarchs were at war), or to a friend who could support him in ongoing Church politics (Foucault had allied himself with the losing side of the Great Schism of the Catholic church);  or it could be that both preferred English since Foucault did not speak the Langue d’oil (French) used by English speakers of French, and Easton was unfamiliar with Gascon.  (Gascon is a variety of Romance, and a variety of Occitan, whose  noticeable differences arise from it being part of the Basque dialect continuum). We have records of Easton travelling, with longer or shorter stays at each place, to and from Avignon, Westminster and Norwich, Montefiascone, Paris, Freton (in Utrecht), Rome, and Genoa. While in Avignon, in the 1370s, he set about learning Hebrew and discussed and debated Biblical issues with Jewish scholars from the famously learned Ghetto there.  He wrote a translation of the Bible from Hebrew into Latin, attempting an improvement upon S Jerome’s translation, the widely used Vulgate Bible; but this manuscript book was lost in the 16th c. when it was stolen from Robert Wakefield, the first lecturer in Hebrew at Cambridge.