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.

                                  
                                    SAYNT Cutberte's clerkes in hidnes euer ȝede,
                                  
                                    At Geruans  [Vide Sim. Dunelm. p. 199. & Leland. Coll. Vol. II. p. 380.]  set þer merkes, a hous þe gan vpspede.
                                  
                                    ȝit Northermore þei ȝed vntille Bethlyngton,
                                  
                                    At Toghalle was þe þrid, & þer restid þam doun.
                                  
                                    þe ferth was holy Eland, þer þe se it withdrouh,
                                  
                                    þei ȝede on þe sand, to þat Ilde wele inouh.
                                  
                                    Whan þei wer þerinne, of non had þei doute,
                                  
                                    þe flode bigan to gynne, & klosed it aboute.
                                  
                                    Siþen dred þei no þing, of þefe ne of feloun
                                  
                                    þat were with þe kyng, Norman no Burgoloun.
                                  
                                    þe kirke of Geruans þat ilk tyme was brent,
                                  
                                    Durham þe same sans, alle to fire went.
                                  
                                    þe croice & þe rode, right as Criste vs bouht,
                                  
                                    Tille askes alle it ȝode, þe fire spared nouht.
                                  
                                    þe Normans did it alle in þe guyse of theft,
                                  
                                    þe godes þerof stal, no þing þei ne left.
                                  
                                    ¶ Whan William vnderstode, how his men ferd with alle,
                                  
                                    Of holy kirke þe gode his serganz robbed & stal,
                                  
                                    He comandid alle his, to mende þat trespas,
                                  
                                    In alle maner wise, as it ore feffed was,
                                  
                                    & on þe same asise serued & alowed
                                  
                                    Of alle þe franchise, þat it are was dowed.
                                  
                                    Bot of þat wikkednes, þat men suld haf wroken,
                                  
                                    Was noiþer more no lesse of þer penance spoken. [Reliquiæ Sancti Cuthberti ad Durham ubi prius in feretro re|conduntur.] 
                                  
                                    þe bisshop brouh the bones ageyn vnto þe se,
                                  
                                    Tille Durhame's wones, þer þei were wont to be.

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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 77
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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