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.

                                  
                                    ELFRIDE had a kosyn, þat kyng was of schelde, [De Sancto Edmundo martire, & de morte ejus per to|tum.] 
                                  
                                    Northfolk & Southfolk of Elfride he helde,
                                  
                                    þat was Saynt Edmunde, þe croune þat tyme bare.
                                  
                                    A duke of Danmark, his name was Inguare,
                                  
                                    Ubbe an erle of Huneis with þat Inguar kam,
                                  
                                    Uppon Saynt Edmunde Northfolk he nam.
                                  
                                    Edmunde sent his messengers, of pes þam bisouht.
                                  
                                    Inguar sent bode ageyn, þat pes wild he nouht,
                                  
                                    Bot if he ȝald him þe lond, þan he suld haf pes.
                                  
                                    þat wild not Saynt Edmunde, þe bataile he ches.
                                  
                                    He atired him to bataile with folk þat he had.
                                  
                                    Bot þis cursed Danes so grete oste ay lad,
                                  
                                    þat Edmunde was taken, and slayn at þe last.
                                  
                                    Fulle fer fro þe body lay was þe hede kast.
                                  
                                    þe body son þei fonde, þe hade was in doute.
                                  
                                    Up & doune in þe felde þei souht it aboute,
                                  
                                    To haf knowyng þerof, alle þei were in were, [Ecce mira|culum de capite San|cti Edmun|di.] 
                                  
                                    Tille þe hede him self said, here, here, here.
                                  
                                    þer þei fond þe hede is now a faire chapelle,
                                  
                                    Oxen hate þe toun, þer þe body felle.
                                  
                                    þer where he was schotte a noþer chapelle standes,
                                  
                                    & somwhat of þat tre, þei bond vntille his handes.
                                  
                                    þe tone is fro þe toþer moten a grete myle,
                                  
                                    So fer bare a woulfe þe hede, & kept it a grete while,
                                  
                                    Unto þe hede said, here, als I befor said.
                                  
                                    Fro þe woulf þei it toke, vnto þe body it laid.
                                  
                                    Men sais, þer he ligges þe flesch samen ȝede,
                                  
                                    Bot þe token of þe wonde als a rede threde.

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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 22
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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