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.

                                
                                  He brouht þe kyng Anlaf aryued vp in Humbere,
                                
                                  Seuen hundreth schippes & fiftene, so fele were þe numbere.
                                
                                  Athelstan herd say of þer mykelle oste,
                                
                                  He & Edmunde his broþer dight þam to þat coste.
                                
                                  At Brunesburgh on Humber þei gan þam assaile,
                                
                                  Fro morn vnto euen lastell þat bataile.
                                
                                  At þe last to þer schippes þe kyng gan þam chace,
                                
                                  Alle away þei fled, þat was of Gode's grace.
                                
                                  Bot þe most partie algate was slayn,
                                
                                  þat with life fled I trowe þei were fulle fayn.
                                
                                  ¶ Whan þe kyng Anlaf sauh his folk lorn,
                                
                                  He fled vnto Danmark þer pere he was born.
                                
                                  At þe Pask after he ryued in þe South,
                                
                                  At a hauen of Sandwich, in þe portis mouth.
                                
                                  Whan he was aryued, þe folk was affray,
                                
                                  & com unto Wynchestre þer þe kyng lay.
                                
                                  He brouht with him a deuelle, a hogge Geant,
                                
                                  Wele haf ȝe herd telle, he hight Colibrant.
                                
                                  Anlaf sent messengers vnto Athelstan,
                                
                                  & bad him ȝeld þe lond, or fynd a noþer man
                                
                                  To fight with Colibrant, þat was his champion;
                                
                                  Who felle to haf þe lond, on þam it suld be don.
                                
                                  Athelstan tok a day, a parlement did make,
                                
                                  If any ageyn Colibrant þe bataile durst take.
                                
                                  He fond no man þat durst, for non had myght,
                                
                                  With Colibrant alone in bataile to fight.
                                
                                  þan praied Athelstan to Criste & sore wepe,
                                
                                  & God sent him tokenyng on nyght als he slepe,

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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 31
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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