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.

                                  
                                    DAVID listend Roberd, to pes fulle ech to drawe,
                                  
                                    Bot on þer was ansuerd, & sturbled alle þer sawe,
                                  
                                    William his neuen, a man of proude wille,
                                  
                                    & said, "Roberd þe bru, traytour hold þe stille.
                                  
                                    Roberd said him nay, traytour was he non,
                                  
                                    "Dauid haf gode day, myn homage now is gon.
                                  
                                    He smote his hors with spors, & fleih fro þat rascaile,
                                  
                                    & comandid his trompors, to blow vnto bataile.
                                  
                                    ¶ Rauf of Orkeney cried, "Inglis go now go,
                                  
                                    "& do þise Scottis deie, þei waken vs euer wo.
                                  
                                    þe Normans were alle glad, þorgh schet þam als þe ro.
                                  
                                    þe Inglis did as he bad, bifor þam stode bot fo.
                                  
                                    Almerle his banere sprad, & oþer barons mo,
                                  
                                    Mikelle blod þei schad of folk þat þei gon slo.
                                  
                                    Dauid away fled, þat bigan alle þat þro,
                                  
                                    Here how a squier sped, sen Dauid fled þam fro.
                                  
                                    ¶ A hede þat was of smyten, þat þis squier fond,
                                  
                                    Priue, þat non suld witen, in an orfreis it wond,
                                  
                                    & sette it on a spere, in an orfreis vnbiwened,
                                  
                                    & said, "lo! here I bere Dauid kyng heued,
                                  
                                    "þis is þe hede þat was of Dauid þe Scottis kyng.
                                  
                                    þe Scottis said, "allas! þis is a grete encumberyng.
                                  
                                    þe Scottis þat stode fer fro, & þe hede biheld,
                                  
                                    Fulle wightly gan þei go, flehand out of þe feld.
                                  
                                    Wolgryn & Dufnald for euer more þei left,
                                  
                                    Of knyght no squier bald on lyue non þei left.
                                  
                                    þe Scottis whan þei cam, bestes ouer alle þei toke,
                                  
                                    Hors & nete alle samen bifor þer oste þei schoke.

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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 117
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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