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.

                                
                                  Wherfor þe kyng wex wroth, & Thomas did exile,
                                
                                  His kynred lefe & loth he did fleme & reuile.
                                
                                  ¶ þe kyng suld haf no plight, þat Thomas so was dede,
                                
                                  He said bot tille a knyght, þat Thomas him misbede; [De morte Sancti Thomæ.] 
                                
                                  & if he had had men, as he wend, of renoun,
                                
                                  þei suld haf venged him of suilk a clergioun.
                                
                                  Foure kyngtes it herd withouten any more,
                                
                                  To Canterbiri þei ferd, & slouh Thomas right þore [In the Cathedral Church at St. Bennet's Altar, as even Rastall takes notice, in his most wonderfull rare Chroni|cle, lent me by the curious and ingenious Mr. John Murray. ¶ Also (saith he) for dyuers actes that the kynge procured to be made agayne the lybertes of the churche. There [saynt tho|mas of Caunter|bury slayne.]  fell a great debate betwene hym and Thomas then Arche|byshop of Canterbury | that the byshoppe fled vnto Rome. But after whan Thomas came agayne to Caunterbury. iiii. of the kynges knyghtes because the kyng beyng in Normandye | they harde the kyng say these wordes | if he had any men about hym | he had ben a veng|ed vpon that traytour longe or that tyme. Therfore these knyghtes came fro the kynge beynge in Normandye | and slewe this Thomas in the cathe|drall church in Canterbury at saynt Benettes auter: whiche Thomas is nowe by the churche canonysed for a holy saynt | & dyuers myracles auctorysed by the churche that god hathe shewed for hym.] .
                                
                                  ¶ Who so wille wit þis chance his lif & his languour;
                                
                                  & how þe kyng of France did him grete honour;
                                
                                  & how þe pape sent his bulle with a legate;
                                
                                  & how, or he went, he serched alle þe state;
                                
                                  & how at Pountney þe angelle to him said;
                                
                                  & how alle his kynde exile was on þam laid;

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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 131
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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