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.

                                
                                  S. Donstan þe bisshop was at his [F. coronyng.]  coronment,
                                
                                  & of alle his ancestres was neuer better kyng.
                                
                                  He was boþe gode & wys in alle his dedis,
                                
                                  & right vnderstandyng, to help at alle nedis.
                                
                                  Mikille he wirschiped God, & serued our Lady,
                                
                                  þe abbey of Rumeye he feffed richely,
                                
                                  With rentes fulle gode & kirkes of pris,
                                
                                  He did þer in of Nunnes a hundreth ladies.
                                
                                  ¶ Edgare forto fle lichery of lyfe,
                                
                                  His barons gaf him conseile for to take a wyfe
                                
                                  Elfled þe faire, þe duke's douhter Ormere.
                                
                                  He gate of hir S. Edward, þat is þe martere.
                                
                                  Dame Elfled died sone, ȝit wild he luf mare,
                                
                                  He tok bittere Estrild, duke's douhter Orgare.
                                
                                  Of hir lord Edgar had scho sonnes tueye,
                                
                                  Edmunde, þat in his tende ȝere at Peterburgh gan deie.
                                
                                  Eylred was the ȝongest, & Estrild fulle dere.
                                
                                  Wo was in his tyme, as ȝe may after here.
                                
                                  Edgar þer fader had alle Ingland,
                                
                                  He went to Kerlion, þe Walsch men he band
                                
                                  With homage & feaute, in right & in lawe. [Omnes isti fecerunt homaginum regi Ed|garo.] 
                                
                                  Kymak kyng of Scotland, he com for fyne awe,
                                
                                  & Malcolme of Combirland was at his wille,
                                
                                  Maccum kyng of þe Iles, Dufnald fitz Omere,
                                
                                  Sifreth & Huwalle, Jacob & Juthille,
                                
                                  He did þam mak feaute, als right was & skille.
                                
                                  Siþen he went aboute, kirkes vp to raise,
                                
                                  Abbayes forto help, were fallen in miseyse.

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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 35
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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