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.

                                
                                  A hardy knyght was he, ouer all bare þe pris,
                                
                                  At Jerusalem Cite, opon Gode's enmys.
                                
                                  Godferay Bolion said, that many man it herd,
                                
                                  "More my triste is laid on þe duke Roberd,
                                
                                  "& I had grete nede ageyn þe Sarazines to go,
                                
                                  "& better suld he spede þan a hundreth mo.
                                
                                  "Take him þe kepyng þe coroun of Jerusalem,
                                
                                  "For seke is the kyng, of him is no bote of beem.
                                
                                  ¶ þe þrid day of Aduent, bifor Criste's messe, [Ecce quo|modo Ro|bertus de|spexit gra|ciam & e|lectionem Dei.] 
                                
                                  þe kyng a seknes hent, þe dede him tok alle fresse.
                                
                                  þe folk of þat Cite to God mad orisoun,
                                
                                  At þe temple dominæ with gode deuocioun,
                                
                                  Who þan were worþi þe coroune forto haue,
                                
                                  Ageyn þe paemy þe Cristendam to saue,
                                
                                  Godfrey & Roberd, & lered men & lewed,
                                
                                  & God þer praieres herd, & to þam alle schewed.
                                
                                  A brightnesse com fro heuen, & on Roberd light,
                                
                                  þre tymes alle euen, þat alle sauh it with sight.
                                
                                  þris þat alle mot se þe light on Roberd toke,
                                
                                  Vngracious man was he, þris he it forsoke.
                                
                                  þorgh conseile of som of hise, refused he þat present,
                                
                                  þei said, on oþer wise he salle haf auancement.

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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 103
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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