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.

                                  
                                    IN to Wales þat coste went Eilred pitously, [Tercium tormentum.] 
                                  
                                    For to gadre him oste, if he mot haf maistrie.
                                  
                                    In þat ilk tyme, as he to Wales went,
                                  
                                    Tuo outlandes kynges on þis lond hauens hent.
                                  
                                    Anlaf of Norway, of Danmark kyng Suane,
                                  
                                    Aryued in þis lond, to many wer þei bane.
                                  
                                    þer ostes boþe at ons vnto London nam,
                                  
                                    þei toun was warned wele, & wist þat þei cam.
                                  
                                    Folk inouh redy was gadred, to þe cite
                                  
                                    þei went egrely, & did þo kynges fle.
                                  
                                    Fro London þei were dryuen, & com to Southampton.
                                  
                                    Man & beste þei slouh, destroied þe cuntre doun.
                                  
                                    Eilred myght nouht to stand þam ageyn,
                                  
                                    For pes he þam bisouht, to gyf þam a certeyn.
                                  
                                    ¶ Fyue þousand pound of siluer þe Danes kyng toke. [Summa.]  [Quartum tormentum.] 
                                  
                                    þe went to þer schippes, & to Danmark schoke.
                                  
                                    & many of þo Danes priuely were left,
                                  
                                    & busked Westward, forto robbe eft.
                                  
                                    Wilton had þei taken, Southampton also,
                                  
                                    Cornwaile & Wales bouwed þam vnto.
                                  
                                    þe cuntre of Dorseth, lond & tenement,
                                  
                                    Alle had þei wasted, fro Seuerne vnto Kent.
                                  
                                    Eilred on a stound þe told of þat wo,
                                  
                                    Four & tuenti þousand ponde he gaf away to go, [Summa.] 
                                  
                                    To haf pes in his lyue, þe lond no more schende.
                                  
                                    þe Danes tok þe siluer, to Danmark gan wende.

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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 39
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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