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.

                                
                                  & þe duke of Burgoyn, Edmunde sonne, Reynere.
                                
                                  þe brouht kyng Athelston present withouten pere,
                                
                                  Fro Charles kyng sanz faile thei brouht a gonfaynoun
                                
                                  þat Saynt Morice in bataile befor þe legioun,
                                
                                  & scharp lance þat thrilled Ihesu side;
                                
                                  & a suerd of gold, in þe hilte did men hide
                                
                                  Tuo of þo nayles, þat war þorh Ihesu fete
                                
                                  Tached on þe croyce, þe blode þei out lete,
                                
                                  & som of þe thornes þat don were on his heued,
                                
                                  & a fair pece þat of þe croyce leued,
                                
                                  þat Saynt Heleyn sonne at þe bataile wan
                                
                                  Of þe Soudan of Askalone, his name was Madan.
                                
                                  ¶ þan blewe þe trumpes fulle loud & fulle schille,
                                
                                  þe kyng com in to þe halle, þat hardy was of wille.
                                
                                  þan spak Reyner, Edmunde sonne, (for he was messengere)
                                
                                  "Athelstan, my lord þe gretes, Charles þat has no pere.
                                
                                  "He sendes þe þis present, & sais, he wille him bynde
                                
                                  "To þe þorh Ilde þi sistere, & tille alle þi kynde.
                                
                                  Befor þe messengers was þe maiden brouht,
                                
                                  Of body so gentille was non in erth wrouht.
                                
                                  No non so faire of face, of spech so lufly,
                                
                                  Scho granted befor þam alle to Charles hir body,
                                
                                  & so did þe kyng, & alle þe baronage.
                                
                                  Mykelle was þe richesse, þei purueied hir passage,
                                
                                  & led hir vnto France, spoused forto be,
                                
                                  Athelstan leues stille, & passed not þe se. [Iterum de perjura|tione regis Scottorum, & de bello Dacorum.] 
                                
                                  In þe ȝere after þat Ilde wedded was,
                                
                                  Constantyn of Scotlond did ȝit more trispas.

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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 30
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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