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.

                                
                                  Whan Steuen vnderstode Mald was in Arondelle,
                                
                                  With mykelle folk & gode [Sic.]  bigeged þat kastelle.
                                
                                  Mald þouht of þis stoure, scho biþouht hir straite,
                                
                                  & douted dishonoure, þat mot com þorgh disceite.
                                
                                  Scho did hir to Bristow, & duellid oþer half ȝere,
                                
                                  & þider fro Anjowe com hire a messengere,
                                
                                  & told to Mald here, þat scho fulle wele trod,
                                
                                  Hir lord lay on bere, his soule bitaken God,
                                
                                  & Henry hire sonne had þe heritage,
                                
                                  To hold as it was wonne, don was his homage.
                                
                                  Mald in Bristow lettres fast sendes,
                                
                                  Bi messengers trowe, forto procore frendes, [Misit baro|nibus pro auxilio.] 
                                
                                  To burgeis & citez (þe wardeyns alle scho freistes,)
                                
                                  & to lordes of feez, þat scho on treistes.
                                
                                  Of help scho þam bisouht, in right & leaute,
                                
                                  þat þei failed hir nouht, for heyre þe wist hir be.
                                
                                  þe barons said, scho had right in hire askyng.
                                
                                  Son was þe contek schad bituex þam & þe kyng.
                                
                                  Ilkon on his side to bataile purueid him,
                                
                                  þat power had to bide most was stoute & grim.
                                
                                  ¶ Sir William of Almarle wex a stoute sire,
                                
                                  He ȝerned to haue alle Lyncolnschire,
                                
                                  Ageyn Gilbert þe Gaunt reised his banere.
                                
                                  Gilbert was valiaunt, ageyn him fulle austere.
                                
                                  Gilbert had þe erledam þat tyme of heritage.
                                
                                  Bituex him & William was don many outrage.
                                
                                  Of Gilbert first to telle, to William did he wouh,
                                
                                  He did brenne Helwelle, & William broþer slouh.

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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 119
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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