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.

                                
                                  & duelled þer a ȝere biside Roberd his broþer,
                                
                                  þat noiþer werre wo did þe ton to þe toþer.
                                
                                  ¶ In alle þis ilk chek of Roberd & Henry, [Iterum re|versus est in Nor|manniam.] 
                                
                                  Bituex þam wex contek, þe kyng & þe clergy.
                                
                                  þe kyng in þe courte of þe lay þe clerkes wild justise.
                                
                                  Saynt Anselm said him nay, he wild on no wise.
                                
                                  þe kyng on gan hald, to haf þam at his dome.
                                
                                  S. Anselm þerfor appeld vnto þe courte of Rome.
                                
                                  ¶ Whan he had sped his nedis, & fro þe courte comen, [Dicta An|selmi pro clero.] 
                                
                                  þe kyng for oþer dedis to Normundie was nomen.
                                
                                  Anselm duelled nouht, bot sone ouer þe se
                                
                                  To þe kyng tiþing brouht, what þerof suld be.
                                
                                  þe bisshop schewed him skille, þat he mayntend þe ille.
                                
                                  þe kyng consented þer tille, & gaf Anselm his wille.
                                
                                  þorgh Anselm maytenyng was þe contek ent.
                                
                                  He tok leue at þe kyng, & home to Inglond went.
                                
                                  þe kyng his retenanz alle tille him he drouh
                                
                                  Of Inglis & Normanz, & gadred folk inouh.
                                
                                  Whan he had samned his oste of folk fer & nere,
                                
                                  He seged bi þat coste þe kastelle of Tenkere.
                                
                                  Whilom Wiliam Mortayn þerof lord was,
                                
                                  þe Courthose is vnfayn, him þenk it a trespas.
                                
                                  þerfor þe duke him dight, as man of grete value,
                                
                                  Roberd Beleyse with myght, þe sege þei wend remue. [De cap|cione Roberti Courthose fratris Hen|rici, & de fine ejus|dem Ro|berti vide per totum.] 
                                
                                  þe Mortayn befor spoken, with his nevow Reynere,
                                
                                  þe sege þe wend haf broken, þei com with þer powere.
                                
                                  ¶ þe kyng sauh þat þei kam, his trompes did he blowe,
                                
                                  To þe bataile he nam, Roberd side ȝede lowe.

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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 100
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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