Peter Langtoft's Chronicle, (as illustrated and improv'd by Robert of Brunne) from the death of Cadwalader to the end of K. Edward the First's reign. Transcrib'd, and now first publish'd, from a ms. in the Inner-Temple Library by Thomas Hearne, M.A. To which are added, besides a glossary and other curious papers, (1) A roll concerning Glastonbury abbey, being a survey of all the estates belonging to that house at the dissolution, taken by King Hen. the Eigth's order and for his use. (2) An account of the hospital of St. Mary Magdalen near Scroby in Nottinghamshire, by John Slacke, master of that hospital. (3) Two tracts by an anonymous author; the first relating to Roman antiquities, near Conquest in Somersetshire, the second concerning Stonehenge. Oxford, Printed at the Theater, 1725.

                                  
                                    IN Westsex was þan a kyng, [Pro, his name was.]  his was Sir Ine. [De Rege de Westsexe.] 
                                  
                                    Whan he wist of þe Bretons, of werre ne wild he fine.
                                  
                                    Messengers he sent þorghout Inglond
                                  
                                    Unto þe Inglis kynges, þat had it in þer hond,
                                  
                                    & teld how þe Bretons, men of mykelle myght,
                                  
                                    þe lond wild wynne ageyn þorh force & fyght.
                                  
                                    Hastisly ilkone þe kynges com fulle suythe,
                                  
                                    Bolde men & stoute, þer hardinesse to kiþe.
                                  
                                    In a grete Daneis felde þer þei samned alle,
                                  
                                    þat euer siþen hiderward Kampedene men kalle.
                                  
                                    Of all þo Inglis kynges, þat þan comen wore,
                                  
                                    Sigbert, kyng of Estsex, in elde was he more.
                                  
                                    He bigan to speke tille alle þe chiualrie:
                                  
                                    "We be comen alle of kynde of Germenie,
                                  
                                    "þat chaced has þe Bretons here of þer kythe.
                                  
                                    "Now ere þei comen to clayme it, & mykelle force þam with.
                                  
                                    "Oiþer bihoues vs defend it, or ȝelde vp our [L. right.]  righ.
                                  
                                    "I rede we chese a hede, þat vs to werre kan dight,
                                  
                                    "& to þat ilk hede I rede we vs bynde.
                                  
                                    "For werre withouten hede is not wele, we fynde.
                                  
                                    þe barons ȝede to conseile, & teld it siþen on hie,
                                  
                                    Ine kyng `kyng [Redundat.]  of Westsex was a knyght worþic,
                                  
                                    Forto gye vs alle, þat now er comen here.
                                  
                                    Ine toke þe feaute, displayed his banere,
                                  
                                    & went to þe bataile in a fulle faire grene,
                                  
                                    þat is vnder Kampedene, a medew I wene.
                                  
                                    Iuor & Ini were disconfite þat day,
                                  
                                    þe Iris & þe Wals with þam fled away.

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Title: Peter Langtoft's Chronicle, (as illustrated and improv'd by Robert of Brunne) from the death of Cadwalader to the end of K. Edward the First's reign. Transcrib'd, and now first publish'd, from a ms. in the Inner-Temple Library by Thomas Hearne, M.A. To which are added, besides a glossary and other curious papers, (1) A roll concerning Glastonbury abbey, being a survey of all the estates belonging to that house at the dissolution, taken by King Hen. the Eigth's order and for his use. (2) An account of the hospital of St. Mary Magdalen near Scroby in Nottinghamshire, by John Slacke, master of that hospital. (3) Two tracts by an anonymous author; the first relating to Roman antiquities, near Conquest in Somersetshire, the second concerning Stonehenge. Oxford, Printed at the Theater, 1725.
Author: Peter, of Langtoft, d. 1307?
Canvas: Page 2
Publication: [Reprinted for S. Bagster, in the Strand,; 1810]
Subject terms: Great Britain -- History; Great Britain -- Antiquities, Roman; Scrooby, Eng.; Stonehenge (England); Glastonbury Abbey.

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