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.

                                
                                  Grete synne did William, þat suilk wo did wirke,
                                
                                  So grete vengeance he nam of men of holy kirke,
                                
                                  þat not did no wem, tille him ne no trespas,
                                
                                  Fro ȝork vnto Durhem no wonyng stede was.
                                
                                   [Id quod etiam notat Jo|annes Rastellus, sive Rastal|lus, in Chronico suo, supra à me commemorato, libro sane rarissimo, mihi vero (pro more suo) perquam humani|ter mutuo dato ab amicissimo nostro Murraio, cujus cum alibi, tum jam supra etiam mentionem feci. Sic autem Rastellus: ¶ Also about the. [Sege at Yorke.]  iii. yere of his [Wyllyam Conquerour's] rayne | Har|rolde & Cauntus [Sic] sonnes to Suanus kyng of Denmarke enteryd into the North coun|trey | and with the helpe of some of the people of the contrey and of some of the cytezyns of yorke enteryd the citye | and slewe mo than. iii. M. Normans. But sone after kyng Wyllyam chasyd them out | and droue them to theyr schyppes and toke suche displeasure with the inhabytans of that prouynce | that he distroyed the lande from yorke to Durham | that. ix. yere after it lay vnlaboryd and vntylled | and the peo|ple there were kept so harde by the warre of the kynge | & in suche famyne that they ete rattes | cattes | dogges | and other vermyne.] Nien ȝere, sais my buke, lasted so grete sorowe,
                                
                                  þe bisshop clerkes tuke, þar lyues forto borowe.
                                
                                  Seynt Cutberte's bones of fertre toke þei out,
                                
                                  With þam þei fled at ons in sere stedes about,
                                
                                  þat vengeance burd be don, als tellis S. Edward,
                                
                                  He sauh in a vision, þat vengeance suld falle hard
                                
                                  Of prestes & of clerkes, of princes of þe lond, [De Reli|quiis Sancti Cuthberti.] 
                                
                                  Of God ne of his werkes þei dred not þat þei fond.

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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 76
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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