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.

                                
                                  To þe fertre of Saynt Agate Richard made offeryng,
                                
                                  & praied hir of grace to duelle þat with þe kyng.
                                
                                  Alle þre dayes tide Richard mad soioure,
                                
                                  þe barons bi þat side did him grete honoure.
                                
                                  Whan Richard suld wend, he tok leue at Tancrez,
                                
                                  Tancrez was fulle hend, conueied him tuo journez,
                                
                                  Gaf him four schippes grete, & were of way beforn,
                                
                                  þe tuo charged with whete, þe toþer with oþer corn,
                                
                                  & fiue oþer galeis with alle þer apparaile,
                                
                                  Richard was curteis, þanked his trauaile,
                                
                                  & Richard at þat turne gaf him a faire Juelle,
                                
                                  þe gode suerd Caliburne, þat Arthur luffed so welle.
                                
                                  ¶ þan said Sir Tancrede vnto Richard our kyng,
                                
                                  "God, þat saues at nede boþe þe olde & ȝing,
                                
                                  "Kepe þe fro mischance, & fro þe fals enmys,
                                
                                  "þat er with Philip of France, euer ageyn þi vis.
                                
                                  "Bi Hugh of Burgoyn he sent a letter vnto me,
                                
                                  "þat I suld, or þou went, be bitraied þorgh þe,
                                
                                  "& if werre or wo had risen vs bituen,
                                
                                  "þe & þine to slo with me he suld haue bien.
                                
                                  "þe soth þan schewes it, þat my sawe is trewe,
                                
                                  "Sir haf here þis writ, & schewe him alle newe.
                                
                                  "If he it geynsay, I wille proue it on him.
                                
                                  ¶ Tancred went his way, & Richard wex fulle brim.
                                
                                  R. tok his leue, Sir Roger turned & went,
                                
                                  & R. gan him greue, to Philip þe letter sent. [De alterca|tione inter Ricardum & Philip|pum per totum.] 
                                
                                  ¶ þe nauie com on a stounde, to Meschyns þat cite,
                                
                                  Biforn him he founde his sister & his meyne.

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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 154
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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