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.

                                  
                                    FOUR & tuenti wynter lasted þis sorow,
                                  
                                    If he had pes at euen, he had non at morow.
                                  
                                    For so hette S. Dunstan, he suld alle his lyue
                                  
                                    With werre his lond welde, & with his suerd stryue.
                                  
                                    Now has Eilred nede of help & socoure,
                                  
                                    For boldenes he wild him bynd to som berde in boure.
                                  
                                    Fulle so frendes he had, & fele foos inowe,
                                  
                                    Unto þe duke of Normundie he went for to wouwe.
                                  
                                    He wedded þe duke's douhter, faire Emme þe blaunche,
                                  
                                    þre bouwes of þam spronge, þe ton es holy braunche.
                                  
                                    Edmunde Irenside was eldest of þo þre, [De filiis Eilredi re|gis.] 
                                  
                                    þe to high Edward, þe þrid Alfrid hight he.
                                  
                                    ¶  [Id est, through aid of.] þorgh of Sir Richard, duke of Normundie,
                                  
                                    Eilred ȝede þorgh his lond, priuely to spie
                                  
                                    Euerilkon þe Danes, & smertly bounde
                                  
                                    Or smyte of þer hedes, ay as men þam founde.
                                  
                                    þus had Eilred þe lond at his wille,
                                  
                                    Bot þe duke died sone, & þat felle him fulle.
                                  
                                    þan was Eilred socoure sone away went.
                                  
                                    Tiþing com to Danmark, þat he þe Danes schent.
                                  
                                    Suane þe Danes kyng þerwith had enuy.
                                  
                                    To aryue on Hingland he dight his nauy.
                                  
                                    Whan he was aryued, he sent fulle baldely
                                  
                                    Messengers to Eilred, als tille his cnmy.
                                  
                                    þis was his message, his Danes wild he venge
                                  
                                    Ageyn him in bataile, to renne & to renge.
                                  
                                    Eilred our kyng his help had he lorn
                                  
                                    Of þe duke of Normundie, þat dede was beforn.

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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 40
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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