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.

                                
                                  þat ilk a kyng of reame suld mak him alle redie.
                                
                                  At þe Paske after þe kyng Ine [F. gan. Quod si gart reti|neas, tum idem erit quod pre|pared.]  gart [F. crie.]  trie,
                                
                                  Home forto wend to childe & to wife,
                                
                                  To visitte þer londes, to solace þer life.
                                
                                  Ine kyng of Westsex for his [Ethel|burga,]  wife sent
                                
                                  Vnto [Id est, Manchester, in agro Lancastrensi, quod Ma|mecestre appellat Hovedenus, Mamerceaster Florentius, Ma|nige-ceaster Chron. Sax. Fu|tilem autem eorum conjecturam esse arbitror, nec ulla confuta|tione egere, qui vocem Mani|ge ceaster (in Chronico Saxo|nico) non de unica duntaxat urbe, sed de multis civitatibus esse intelligendam putant. Sed en tibi ipsa verba è Chronico, sub anno DCCCCXXIII. ubi de Edmundo Seniore agens, docu|it, ipsum eodem illo anno, mox post æstatem, ad Thælwæle [i. e. Thelwel, sive Thelwall, viculum ad ripam fluminis Mer|sey in agro Cestrensi, notante cl. Gibsono, p. 45. Explicat. No|minum Locor. in Chr. Sax.] cum exercitu profectum, primum jus|sisse eam urbem construi, & fir|mari, præsidioque muniri; de|inde jussisse etiam alium exer|citum, dum ibi commoraretur, de Merciorum terra, adire Ma|nigeceaster in Northymbria, ac eam resarcire, præsidioque mu|nire. Her on þyssum geare. For Eadweard cyning mid syrde on ufan hærfest to Dælwæle. & het gewyrcan þa burh. & gesettan. & gemannian. And het oðre fyrd eac of Myrcna þeode. þa hwile þe he þær sæt gefaren Manige|ceaster on Norð-hymbran. & hie gebetan & gemannian. Proon ufan hærfest,autum|nali tempore habet Florentius Wigorniensis. Sic enim ille sub A.D. 920. (quo anno, non, ut Chr. Sax. 923. rem gestam fuisse retulit.) Autumnali tem|pore rex invictissimus Eadwardus ad Tealweale profectus est, ibid|emque urbem construxit, & ad ejus præsidium quosque fortissi|mos de exercitu suo reliquit. Mi|sit etiam in Northimbriam Mer|ciorum exercitum, ut urbem Ma|merceastram restaurarent, & in ea fortes milites collocarent. Ne|que hac in re quid discrepat ex|emplar præstantissimum editio|nis Florentii Wigorniensis in4to. Londini 1592. quod, doctissimi Langbainii notis quamplurimis MSS. (maxim a ex parte è duobus Mariani Scoti, è quo pleraq; sua surripuit Florentius, sicut in Lelando nostro, Col. Vol. III. p. 277. monui, Codicibus exi|miis, calamo exaratis, petitis) adornatum, è Muséo Arthuri Charletti, nuper defuncti, rede|mi, idem nimirum illud exem|plar, quod ad pag. 212. editionis nostræ vitæ Ælfredi Magni Spelmannianæ commemoravi.]  Malmcestre, þe quene tille him went.

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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 4
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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