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.

                                  
                                    SIBRIHT duke of Brailes, Egbriht sister sonne, [De militia Anglorum, & nomini|bus eorum.] 
                                  
                                    He com his eam to socour fro fer þer he gan wonne.
                                  
                                    Syward þe gode westreis, Edald þe vavasoure,
                                  
                                    Wilaf kyng of Merce, he com to þat stoure.
                                  
                                    Harald of Donsmore his lord þider led
                                  
                                    Berald of þe Marche, of strength non he dred.
                                  
                                    Haldayn of Donkastre was chosen þat ilk day,
                                  
                                    To bere þe kynge's banere ageyn þe paien lay.
                                  
                                    Bot Hakon, Hernebald sonne, of best he bare þe voice,
                                  
                                    In stede of kynge's banere he did him bere þe croice,
                                  
                                    In wirschip of Jhesu, & of his passion,
                                  
                                    þe paiens were so ferd, þei myght haf no foyson.
                                  
                                    ¶ þe ferþ day of Septembre, in þe [Sic.]  heuest tide, [IIIIo, die Septembris fuit bellum apud Don|kastre inter regem [Sic.]  Eg|briht & Danos.] 
                                  
                                    At Donkastre mot men se manyon to batale ride.
                                  
                                    þat to þe kyng Egbriht alle were þei gyuen,
                                  
                                    For þer heritage þer to die or lyuen.
                                  
                                    þei hewe on þe paiens, as men of wille gode.
                                  
                                    þe paiens ageyn þam fulle stifely þei stode.
                                  
                                    þei fauht alle þat day, ne left þei not þe nyght,
                                  
                                    Wilaf þe kyng of [L. Merce.]  Merte was slayn in that fight,
                                  
                                    & Berald of þe Marche, & þe duke Uttre
                                  
                                    Lord of Cirencestre, þat nyght slayn was he.
                                  
                                    Alle þat nyght þe kynge's folk fulle ille were þei led,
                                  
                                    Many on was slayn, & wonded hard bisted.
                                  
                                    Right in þe mornyng in aldermost nede
                                  
                                    Com þe kynge's sonnes tuo, als Criste wild it rede,
                                  
                                    Out of Germinie with folk inouh of myght,
                                  
                                    Adelwolf & Ethelbert, knyghtes boþe fulle wyght.

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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 17
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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