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.

                                
                                  Whan herd say with luf, tille him he sped,
                                
                                  & with grete noblay tille London him led.
                                
                                  With in þo auht daies com William þis tiþing,
                                
                                  þe North had fele affraies, þorgh þe Scottis kyng,
                                
                                  þe cuntre gan assaile, þe folk forto schende,
                                
                                  Roberd gaf him consaile, þider samen to wende.
                                
                                  With þider þei ferd William & Roberd.
                                
                                  Malcolme, whan be it herd, fled for ferd,
                                
                                  & William toke him þere, his folk slouh ilk man,
                                
                                  & als þei were fleand vnto Louthian,
                                
                                  So ferd thei him found, þei obliged þam to gyue,
                                
                                  Fourti þousand pound, at his pes to lyue.
                                
                                  Opon þat he suore, to hold of him his fe,
                                
                                  & or William fore, tok homage & feaute.
                                
                                  To London William turnes, & had alle his wille,
                                
                                  & Malcolme soiornes in Scotland with ille.
                                
                                  Whan he was at London, a haule [Concerning which I find a very remarkable Passage in Rastall's Chronicle, together with a Note about the first coming of the Cistercian Monks into England, which others refer to the Reign of King Hen. I. The Book being, as I have before noted, extremely scarce, I shall give the Passage at large from Mr. Murray's Copy. ¶ The. iiii. yere of his rayne a great wynde was in London | that blewe downe. v. c. howses and the rofe of Bowe churche | & dyd great hurte in wynchester and in dyuers other places. In this tyme also the welchemen re|bellyd | but they were sub|dued & theyr duke or kyng called Ryse was slayne which was accompted the last kynge of wales. After that Malcolyn kyng of Scot|tes rebellyd and came into Englande with [The kyng of his Scottes slayn.]  retenewe | whome one Ro|bert erle of Northumberlande inconter|yd | & there the kyng Mal|colyn was slayne | and by the ayde of kyng wyllyam Edgare his son was made kynge of Scotlande. ¶ A|bout this tyme the order of Cysteaux was fyrst brought into Englande | by one wa|ter Espeke that founded the fyrst Abbey of that Religyon at Ryuall. ¶ This kynge wyllyam was a very couetous man | a proude & wylfull | and pylled bothe the spery|tualte & temperalte | with sellynge of Bysshoprykes | Abbeys | & benefyces | and leuyenge vnresonable taxes & trybutes on the temperalte | specially by the onely coun|sell of one Ranulphe hys pro|curatour. whiche ryches the kynge dyd spende vpon the Towre of London | & some say vpon the makynge of westmyster halle: but yf that sayenge be trewe of westmy|ster halle | it must be some olde halle there | & nat the newe halle that is nowe. For the armes that appere in the halle that nowe is aswell in the stone worke as in the tymber worke | be the armes whiche kyng Rycharde the second gaue | which be. iii. Lyons with the flour delyce quarterly | & the whyte hart for his badge. For there was neuer kyng of Englande that bare the armes of Fraunce | whiche be the flour delyce | before kyng Edwarde the thyrde | for in his tyme the armes of Fraunce was fyrst ioyned to the armes of Eng|lande. wherfore it shuld seme euydently that westmyster halle that is nowe | was nat bylde in the tyme of kynge wyllyam Rufus | except it were onely the foundacyon therof | or els it was the halle in westmyster aboue the steyres | which is nowe called the whyte halle. Stowe tells us (in his Survey of Lon|don, p. 521. Ed. fol. 1633.) that this Hall was repaired by K. Rich. II. which will recon|cile what is observ'd by Rastall about the Arms.]  he did vp wright.
                                
                                  First þouht & founden, for chambre was it right.

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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 88
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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