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.

                                
                                  Was neuer in alle his lyue þer fadere ore so glad,
                                
                                  Als whan he sauh his sons tuo, þe paiens force to sprad.
                                
                                  Adelwolf his fader saued at þat ilk iorne,
                                
                                  & Ethelbert in the felde his fader lete he se,
                                
                                  How Dardan for his lance doun to þe erth went,
                                
                                  & smote his hede of, his fader to present.
                                
                                  ¶ Harald of Donesmore vppon Done him mette
                                
                                  Vibrand, Dardane's broþer, with suerd so him grette,
                                
                                  þat þorghout his armes Wibrand alle to hewe.
                                
                                  Sone with þe Danes gamned þam no glewe.
                                
                                  þat perceyued Haldayn, þat bare þe croice on hie,
                                
                                  Sex & þritty paiens enbussed priuelie.
                                
                                  He tok his suerd in hand, þe croyce lete he falle,
                                
                                  & medeled him in þe pres, among þe barons alle.
                                
                                  Before þe kyng & his sons he rincthed þam þe way, [Ecce de probitate Haldayn, qui porta|vit crucem pro vexillo.] 
                                
                                  Many wer þe paiens þat Haldayn did slouh þat day.
                                
                                  Bituex vnderon & noen was þe feld alle wonnen.
                                
                                  For alle þat wild abide were ouer riden & ronnen.
                                
                                  þe kyng with þe maistrie went in to þe toun,
                                
                                  þe pris he had wonnen, in vertew of Criste's passioun.
                                
                                  ¶ Whan he had done þere alle þat he suld do,
                                
                                  He went vnto Wynchestre, his conseile gaf him so.
                                
                                  Unto þe somerestide þer gan he lende,
                                
                                  Fyue & þritty batailes had he brouht tille ende.
                                
                                  He felt him heuy & ferly seke, his body wex alle seere,
                                
                                  His childre he wild auance, tille he o lyue were.
                                
                                  Tille Adelwolf gaf he Westsex, hede of alle þe thede,
                                
                                  Lordschip ouer alle þe londes bituex Douer & Tuede.

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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 18
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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