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.

                                
                                  Richard his pallion bi messengere did com,
                                
                                  & his confirmacion fro þe courte of Rome.
                                
                                  ¶ Comen er to kyng Richard boþe erle & baroun,
                                
                                  þat had þe lond in ward þorgh out þe regioun,
                                
                                  Knyghtes & burgeis, serganz als was resoun,
                                
                                  Homage to mak alle weis þat felle vnto þe coroun.
                                
                                  þe pes did he crie, & purueid warnisoun,
                                
                                  þe Sarazins þorgh maistrie haf won Acres toun.
                                
                                  Inglis & Normant, knyghtes for rewardoun,
                                
                                  With Richard ere in conant ageyn Sarazins feloun.
                                
                                  His fader left him inouh, penyes grete foysoun,
                                
                                  ¶ þat he þe way not widrouh opon his benisoun.
                                
                                  þe kyng of France was went to Saynt Denys to holde
                                
                                  His priue parlement, & þer one him it tolde, [Ecce de stultiloquio reg's Fran|ciæ.] 
                                
                                  þat Richard priuely his purueiyance did gynne
                                
                                  Opon þe paemy, þe lond Surrie to wynne.
                                
                                  To Paris turned þe kyng, for þat ilk sawe,
                                
                                  & þer a samenyng his barons þider gan drawe.
                                
                                  He bisouh in þam alle, to conseil at þat nede,
                                
                                  What help mot best falle, for þe Sarazins drede,
                                
                                  & teld þam an outrage, þat Richard þe kyng,
                                
                                  Wille stele þis viage, withouten my wityng.
                                
                                  Loke how kyng Philip said vncurteisly,
                                
                                  Dayet haf his lip, & his nose þerby.
                                
                                  Forto þat parlement com Richard messengers,
                                
                                  þat to Philip wer sent, & to þe duzepers.
                                
                                  þe names of þam þat cam was þe erle of Peiters,
                                
                                  Of Almarle erle William, & an erle Rogers,

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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 143
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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