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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.

"þerfor I am comen, to wite at ȝow our heued, "þe londes þat we haf nomen, to whom þe salle be leued; "& at ȝour jugement I will stand & do, "With þi þat it be ent þe strif bituen vs tuo. Philip said bliþely, & sent his messengers Tille Inglond to þe clergy, erles, barons þer pers, & askid if þei wild stand to þer lokyng. þe duke Roberd fulfilled, so did William þe kyng. þe barons wrote ageyn, at his demyng þei ches, þei held his dome certeyn, for he was prince of pes. Philip was fulle wis, with scrite he bond þam boþe. He said þan his avis, "kisse & be not wroþe. At þe first þei kiste, as frendes felle to be. "Of ȝour fader biqueste, dome þan salle ȝe se. Doun þei sat on benke, among þe duze pers. Philip gan him [Sic.] thnke, & said on þis maners. ¶ "William þe Conquerour his ancestres & he [Ecce dis|cussio facta est coram Philippo inter Wil|lelmum Rufum & Robertum fratrem e|jus, ducem Norman|niæ.] "Held with grete honour Normundie in fe "Of alle kynges of France, & so did he of me, "For alle oþer distance, with homage & feaute. "Alle Inglond he wan þorgh his vassalage, "& Harald kyng ouer ran, þat did William outrage. "þerto had he no right, no non of his linage. "þat William wan with myght is told non heritage. "We se alle day in place þing þat a man wynnes, "It is told purchace, whedir he it hold or tuynnes. "& þat comes of grace or of conquest bigynnes, "He may, tille he has space, gif it withouten synnes.
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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.
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Peter, of Langtoft, d. 1307?
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[Reprinted for S. Bagster, in the Strand,
1810]
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Great Britain -- History
Great Britain -- Antiquities, Roman
Scrooby, Eng.
Stonehenge (England)
Glastonbury Abbey.

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"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." In the digital collection Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/aba2096.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 10, 2025.
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