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.

                                
                                  Tuo ȝere & a half he duelled in Normundie,
                                
                                  & in þat lond self at Kame gan he die.
                                
                                  At Saynt Steuen's kirke þei laid him with honoure, [Sepultus est in Kame Anno Domini. Mo LXXX. VIIIo.] 
                                
                                  Himself did it wirke, he was þar [This king, in remembrance of the great Victory he had ob|tain'd over Harold (by which he got Possession of England) founded the great Abbey of Battel in Sussex. But then that, for which I am chiefly obliged to make this Note, is, his founding the Cluniack Abbey of Bermondsey in Surrey, if we may give any credit to John Rastall's Chronicle, which is a most rare Book (as I have be|fore noted) and was written by a learned Man (tho' a Printer, for Printers then were Men of Learning) who had married E|lizabeth, the Sister of Sir Tho|mas More, which was of no small Advantage to him in the History of our English Affairs. The Words in Rastall are these. ¶ This wyllyam made the newe forest in Hampshyre and therfore cast downe dyuers churches by the space of. xxx. myles. In his tyme he kept the englysshemen so lowe | that fewe of them bare any offyce of honour or rule | but somwhat he fauored the citye of London. Also he buylded two abbayes in En|glande | that is to say the abbaye of Battell | where he wanne the fylde agaynst Ha|rolde and the abbay of Bar|meseye in Southwarke besyde London | and also he buyld|ed. ii. other abbayes in Nor|mandye. Which Words will give some Confirmation to what is asserted by those, that tell us, that William the Conqueror built many abbyes of the order of Cluny, in relation to which there is this Note in a MS. in the Bodleian Library, as is observ'd by the learned Dr. Tanner. A Note (saith the Dr. Pref. to his Not. Mon. p. 42.) annexed to an old MS. book of Ecclesiastical Constitutions in the Bodleian Library [Inter MSS. Junian. 121.] desires us to note the slyght of the Pope, that when he had causyd the Deuke of Norman|dy to Conquer England; under pretence of penance causyd him to give muche Lands to Abbyes, and that Deuke dyd bylde many of the Order of Cluny, because Pope Gregory VI. was a monk of Cluny. Tho' I cannot find (continues the Dr.) that ever he founded any of this Order, yet he built and endowed the great Abbies of Battel Com. Suss. and Selby in Com. Ebor. and the Priory of Hitchinbroke in Com. Hunt. and the Alien|Priories of Frampton in Com. Dors. Paunsfeld in Com. Essex, Derehirst in Com. Gloc. Ando|ver in Com. Hants. and Stanyng in Com. Suss.]  fondoure.
                                
                                  Tuenty ȝere had he þe land & nien moneth streite,
                                
                                  þe date was a þousand & fourscore & auhte.

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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 84
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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