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.

                                
                                  Henry has four sonnes, & douhters has he tuo,
                                
                                  As þe story mones, þese ere þe names of þo:
                                
                                  Henry & Richard, erle Geffrey & [John.]  Jone,
                                
                                   [Perperam. Nam tres duntaxat reges erant, Gal|fridus vero Britanniæ tantum|modo Comes sive Dux, id quod mox ipse notat Auctor, qui pro|inde forsitan voluit, comitem híc loci pro regulo accipi. haud enim aliud alibi etiam valet, sicut ex IIemingo nostro colligi potest.] Ilkon afterward was kyng, & quene [Quin & hîc etiam auctor secus atque alii, qui do|cent, tam Johannam quam & Elianoram reginam fuisse. Ad|eo ut pro eorum sententia mox infra quene of Cezile pro lady of Cezile sit reponendum. id quod etiam liquet ex Petri de. Langtoft Codicibus Gallicis, in quibus, Alyenore sa fylle fu Rayne de Espayne, Rayne de Secylle Johane la fylle darayne.]  bot on.
                                
                                  Geffrey was no more, bot erle of Bretayn:
                                
                                  & dame Helianore scho we quen of Spayn.
                                
                                  Dame [Joane.]  Jon was ȝongest, & lady of Cezile.
                                
                                  þer fader kyng richest lyuand in alle his while.
                                
                                  ¶ þis ilk Henry is told Henry þe scecunde,
                                
                                  So riche a prince in wold in þis lond siþen non funde.
                                
                                  Aniowe & Normundie alle holy he held,
                                
                                  Of Gascoyne þe seignorie bowed vnto his scheld.
                                
                                  Ilk a knyght & squiere, clerkes were to him suorn.
                                
                                  þan was his Chancelere Thomos of London born.
                                
                                  Saynt Thoma fader I fynd hight Thomas Beket,
                                
                                  In London of noble kynd, & maste of alle was let.
                                
                                  A riche man he was, mot spend þre hundreth pound:
                                
                                  Ersdeken his sonne Thomas of Canterbiri þat stound,
                                
                                  In alle manere cause he sought þe right in skille,
                                
                                  To gile no to fraude wild he neuer tille.

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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 128
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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