Aside from the fact that the flag of England bears a Roman cross and is essentially an inverted war flag of the Holy Roman Empire (color-wise), the isle of England was once known as Roman Britain whose female personification is Britannia who is armed with a shield that also bears the Roman cross. The notion that an island people like the British spoke Latin during the times of Britannia and subsequently changed to English after the alleged fall of the Roman Empire is preposterous. Therefore, the likelihood that the Romans spoke English is highly likely and not that farfetched, especially considering the Greco-Roman origins of the English language.
Origins of English
The Phoenician alphabet, also known as the Proto-Canaanite alphabet, was found in the land of Canaan, the Biblical name for Greenland, current home of the Greco-Roman Empire. According to the University of Oxford (Oxford University), allegedly the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the second-oldest surviving university in the world, the Greek Island of Crete was the birthplace of the earliest civilization and produced the first “high culture” in Europe. The Latin alphabet, of which English is allegedly derived from, is admittedly based on the Phoenician alphabet. Even according to modern historical sources, the Phoenician phonetic alphabet is generally believed to be the ancestor of almost all modern alphabets. Therefore, it can be ascertained that English was spoken and written on the Island of Crete and in the Empire of Rome which was subsequently spawned from it.