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.

                                  
                                    THE conquerour is laid at Kame dede in graue, [Willelmus Rufus coro|natus est apud West|monaste|rium.] 
                                  
                                    þe Courthose befor said Normundie salle haue.
                                  
                                    To William þe rede kyng is gyuen þe coroun,
                                  
                                    At Westmynstere tok he ryng in þe abbay of Londoun.
                                  
                                    Whan he had alle plenerly seisyn of þe lond,
                                  
                                    þe barons & þe clergy ageyns him he fond.
                                  
                                    þis was þare comon sawe in burgh & cite,
                                  
                                    "þe Courthose with þe lawe suld þare lord be.
                                  
                                    "He is broþer eldest, þe coroun salle he bere.
                                  
                                    "He is of body best, þe reame forto were.
                                  
                                    What did þe grete lordynges, erles & barounes?
                                  
                                    Kastels & oþer þinges seised, maners & tounes.
                                  
                                    þe kyng had fulle grete þouht, his reame ageyn him ros,
                                  
                                    Frendes fast he souht, to venge him on his fos.
                                  
                                    þis sorow & þis drede lastid him þre ȝere.
                                  
                                    Of pes ne myght he spede, bot euer in þer dangere.
                                  
                                    His frendes gan him rede, to go to þe kyng of France,
                                  
                                    To conseile him in þis nede, to abate þat distance.
                                  
                                    For þis kyng William dight him vnto schip,
                                  
                                    His frendis with him nam vnto kyng Philip.
                                  
                                    ¶ Vnto kyng Philip he schewed ilka dele,
                                  
                                    How his barons gan kip ageyn him did not wele,

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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 85
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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