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This is seen in the Ormulum of Orm, a canon of the Order of St Augustine, whose English is nearly as flexionless as that of Chaucer, although about a century and a half before him.

From A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 by Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow

As early as the beginning of the thirteenth century, this dialect had thrown off most of the old inflexions, and had become almost as flexionless 243 as the English of the present day.

From A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 by Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow