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 archbisshop Stigand, of Inglond primate,
                                
                                  þat tyme was suspended, þe pape reft him þe state.
                                
                                  & abbot & prioure, men of Religion,
                                
                                  & oþer men of honour, archdecane & person,
                                
                                  Wer priued of þar office, of woulfes had renoun.
                                
                                  For lichorie þat vice wer many als don doun.
                                
                                  þe archbisshope of ȝork com with deuocioun,
                                
                                  þorgh William praiere, com to London toun,
                                
                                  Bifor þe barons brouht, he gaf William þe coroun.
                                
                                  To chalange was he nouht, Sir Stigand was don doun.
                                
                                  Whan William was coruned kyng so solemply,
                                
                                  & had taken homage of barons bi & bi,
                                
                                  He turned ouer þe se vnto Normundi.
                                
                                  Dam [Matildin appellant alii.]  Helienore quene was sche, scho bare him company.
                                
                                  Whan he had duelled þore at Pask he com ageyn,
                                
                                  & dam Helianore with many knyght & sueyn.
                                
                                  To London alle þei went þe courte holy alle pleyn,
                                
                                  For þe archbisshop þei sent, messengers ȝede tueyn.
                                
                                  Elred þe archbisshop of ȝork had þe se,
                                
                                  þe kyng him bisouht, als clerk of dignite,
                                
                                  To coroune Helianore, þat biseke I þe. [Helianora regina [L. coronata.]  co|ronate est.] 
                                
                                  þe bisshop corouned hir þore, bifor þat faire semble.
                                
                                  Whan þe folk had bien at þe coronment ilk dele,
                                
                                  Boþe þe kyng & þe quene þe barons paied wele.
                                
                                  þe kyng & þe clergie ordeynd þat ilk seele,
                                
                                  þe pes to ȝeme & gyue with lawes trewe als stele.
                                
                                  Edmunde & [Godwyn aliis.]  Edwyn, Harald sonnes of Kent,
                                
                                  Alle Somersetschire þei wasted & brent,

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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 73
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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