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.

                                
                                  þei did it for a wile, þorgh & þorgh toun,
                                
                                  To put bestes in perile, our folk to bere doun.
                                
                                  Our men herd it say, þei were warned beforn,
                                
                                  In ilk strete & way þei ordeynd an erþe horn.
                                
                                  Whan þe com þam blewe, þe bestes ageyn fled,
                                
                                  þe Scottis men doun thewe, for roryng wer þei dred.
                                
                                  þe bestis þorgh þam ȝede, & ouer þer rascaile ran,
                                
                                  þe Inglis after with dede, & slouh þam ilk a man.
                                
                                  þis was at Kouton more, þat þe erþe hornes blewe.
                                
                                  þer þe Scottis misfore, men telle þe tale ȝit newe.
                                
                                  Sir Henry, Dauid sonne, þe romance sais so þere,
                                
                                  His dedis were more to mone, þan sex þe best þer were.
                                
                                  Our barons had þe pris, with þam held þe right,
                                
                                  þe Scottis side doun lis, þei þanked God all myght.
                                
                                  ¶ þe moneth of heruest was Dauid disconfite, [De capci|one David, & de Eus|tathio filio Stephani.] 
                                
                                  þe next ȝole alle preste Steuen dight him fulle tite,
                                
                                  & tille Scotlond went, & tok he kyng Dauid,
                                
                                  & tille Inglond him sent, his sonne Henry him wit.
                                
                                  ¶ A sonne had Steuen þe kyng, Eustace was his name,
                                
                                  In armes gode gynnyng, of pruesse had he fame,
                                
                                  Lowys douhter of France Eustace tok to wife,
                                
                                  Steuen for þat chance was more stouter in strife.
                                
                                  Alisander, þat was bisshop of Lyncoln schire,
                                
                                  I ne wote for what trespas, þe kyng tille him had ire.
                                
                                  Sleford & Neuwerk þe kyng reft him þo tueyn,
                                
                                  At Wynchestere þorgh conseile he had þam boþe ageyn.
                                
                                  ¶ þat ilk tyme so felle Mald þe Emperice com to lond, [Matildis Imperatrix venit in Angliam.] 
                                
                                  þe castelle of Arondelle open ageyn hir fond.

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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 118
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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