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.

                                
                                  Dufnald, þat is put oute, alle about wendes
                                
                                  In fele stedes aboute, & gadres his frendes,
                                
                                  & conseiled with þam þis cas, þat alle suld þei go,
                                
                                  & spie where þe kyng was, Dunkan if he mot slo.
                                
                                  Slayn haf þei Dunkan, & eft corouned Dufnald,
                                
                                  Of kyng William wild þei no more hald.
                                
                                  ¶ þe kyng was in affray, he might not tent þerto
                                
                                  With Roberd þe Moubray, his coroune he wild for do. [Contumelia orta est in|ter Regem & Rober|tum Mou|bray.] 
                                
                                  Roberd wild haf reft William alle his right,
                                
                                  þe coroune his kosyn left, & gif it him þorgh myght.
                                
                                  William is war of þis, þorgh for Roberd he þretis,
                                
                                  & takes him maugre his, his kastelle doun betis.
                                
                                  Better were Roberd, in pes haf holden him stille,
                                
                                  þan layn in prison sperd, & at his fomen wille.
                                
                                  In Wyndesouere is he leued, sorow þan is his pyne,
                                
                                  þat he wis ouer his heued, þe chip falles in his ine.
                                
                                  ¶ þe next ȝere þer bi William to Wales went,
                                
                                  þe Walsch men did foli, his lond robbed & brent.
                                
                                  þerfor William ne wold vnneþis leue on o lyue,
                                
                                  þat boþe ȝong & old alle ȝede to þe kryue.
                                
                                  Neuer bifor in Wales was don so grete greue,
                                
                                  Bi dounes & bi dales, þar folk at suilk mischeue.
                                
                                  Sen þis greuance hard, þe slauhter & þe drede,
                                
                                  Fulle sone afterward þe kyng to ȝork ȝede.
                                
                                  þider com Edgar, was Malcolme sonne,
                                
                                  & Sir Dunkan broþer, þat slayn was þorgh tresonne,
                                
                                  & schewed to William, þat heyre he was of kynde,
                                
                                  Of Malcolme he kam, righter salle non fynde.

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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 91
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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