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.

                                
                                  On warned him of a þing, þat Malcolme with poysoun,
                                
                                  Schuld begile þe kyng, with som þat lufed tresoun.
                                
                                  William sent his sond his eldest sonne Roberd,
                                
                                  If he mot vnderstond, or any suilk of herd.
                                
                                  Roberd about did spie, if Malcolme wild haf wrouht.
                                
                                  Bot alle it was a lie, þat þing was neuer þouht.
                                
                                  In his auhtend ȝere þat William was regnand, [Extendere fecit ter|ram, & di|visit terras filiis suis.] 
                                
                                  Extendours he sette forto extend þe land,
                                
                                  Erldam & baronie how mykelle felle to þe schelde,
                                
                                  Knyght & sergeancie als how mykelle þei helde.
                                
                                  How mykelle lond & rent holy kirke had to a prowe,
                                
                                  Alle þei did extend to witte þe verrey valowe,
                                
                                  & William wist of alle, what it suld amounte,
                                
                                  Of lordyng & of thralle þe extente þorgh acounte.
                                
                                  ¶ Roberd Courthose his sonne he gaf all Normundie,
                                
                                  To hold, as it was wonne, als heyre of ancestrie.
                                
                                  William passid þe se, þer of he mad þe skrite,
                                
                                  Of France to hold þat fe of oþer tenement alle quite.
                                
                                  ¶ His oþer sonne William Inglond assigned he,
                                
                                  & alle þat of him cam with chartre mad he fre.
                                
                                  His sonne Henry was sire of Wales with chartre streite,
                                
                                  Of alle Loncastre schire vntille Bromsthueite.
                                
                                  ¶ Ade his douhter dere, he lufed hir als his life,
                                
                                  þe erle of Plesance Steuene weddid hir to wife,
                                
                                  & kyng Steuen on hir gate, þat withouten reson
                                
                                  Of þis lond had þe state, & conquered þe coroun.
                                
                                  ¶ His douhter Custance was wedded to Bretayn,
                                
                                  With William's ordenance, vnto þe erle Alayn.

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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 83
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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