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.

                                
                                  ¶ Tille oþer houses of þe cuntre fiue þousand marke he gaf,
                                
                                  Tille heremites & tille seke men, & oþer of suilk raf.
                                
                                  ¶ Tille monkes & to Chanons, þat were in Inglond,
                                
                                  Fiue þousand marke resceyued þei of his hond.
                                
                                  ¶ To þo of þat religion, þat were in Normundie,
                                
                                  Fiue þousand mark vnto þer tresorie.
                                
                                  ¶ & to meselle houses of þat same lond,
                                
                                  þre þousand mark vnto þer spense he fond.
                                
                                  ¶ To ladies of habite, Vilers & Mortayn,
                                
                                  He gaf tuo hundreth mark, I trowe þei were fayn.
                                
                                  ¶ To þo religiouses þat were in Gascoyne,
                                
                                  He gaf a þousand mark, withouten essoyne.
                                
                                  ¶ To þam of Founz Eberard, þer his body lis,
                                
                                  He gaf tuo þousand mark, þo ladies of pris.
                                
                                  ¶ To þe ladies of Bretayn, men calle Seynt Suplice,
                                
                                  He gaf a hundreth mark, to mend þer office.
                                
                                  ¶ To þe houses of Chartres tuo þousand mark bi counte,
                                
                                  & þre þousand mark to þe order of Grant mounte.
                                
                                  ¶ To þe ordre of Cisteaus he gaf tuo þousand mark,
                                
                                  þe ordre of Clony a þousand, to lay vp in arke.
                                
                                  ¶ þe ordre of Premonstere tuo hundreth mark þei had.
                                
                                  To þe ladies of Markayne a hundreh mark þei lad.
                                
                                  ¶ To þe houses of Arroys, þat ere biȝond þe se,
                                
                                  Tuo hundreth mark þorgh testament gaf he.
                                
                                  ¶ To women of Inglond, of gentille lynage,
                                
                                  A hunderth mark of gold, to þer mariage.
                                
                                  ¶ To gentille, & tille oþer, þat were in Normundie,
                                
                                  A hundreth mark of gold þei had to þer partie.

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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 136
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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