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.

                                
                                  His hunger was so grete, he wend haf waxen wode,
                                
                                  Opon þe rode he schete, & ete it als it stode.
                                
                                  Whan be had eten þat, ȝit him hungred eft,
                                
                                  þe Mariole þer scho sat, of hir no þing he left.
                                
                                  Whan he was turned, & went out of þat affray,
                                
                                  For a bisshop he sent at morn whan it was day,
                                
                                  Sir Ode of Wynchestere, so þat bisshop hight,
                                
                                  He told him of allc þe estere, þat him mette þat nyght.
                                
                                  þe bisshop gan it rede, "God is þe turned grym,
                                
                                  "Ouþer in word or dede has þou greued him.
                                
                                  "þerfor alle þat þou may to penance take þou space,
                                
                                  "þau neuer on Friday to wod þou go to chace.
                                
                                  "þe riuer salle þou forsake on Friday ilka dele.
                                
                                  "þat penance I þe take, Sir kyng, þou kepe it wele.
                                
                                  Sir Ode þe bisshop es with leue went him fro,
                                
                                  þe kyng herd his messe, to gamen þan wild he go.
                                
                                  His penance was forgeten, he asked for his archere,
                                
                                  Walter Tirelle was haten, maister of þat mister.
                                
                                  To triste was he sette, forto waite þe chance,
                                
                                  With a herde þei mette, a herte þerof gan lance.
                                
                                  Walter was redi, he wend haf schoten þe herte,
                                
                                  þe kyng stode ouer nehi, þe stroke he lauht so smerte.
                                
                                  þus died William þe kyng, on þis ilk manere.
                                
                                  Sir Ode herd þat tiþing, fulle mournand was his chere.
                                
                                  At Westminstre is he laid, at Saynt Petir kirke,
                                
                                  In a toumbe purtraid, þe bisshop did it wirke.
                                
                                  þe date a þousand was, & a hundreth mo,
                                
                                  Forgif him his trespas, Jhesu, þat lete þe slo.

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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 94
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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