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.

                                
                                  þe venom alle þei hent, in þe se cast it away,
                                
                                  þe folk it mot haf schent, þat about Acres lay.
                                
                                  Armour þei had plente, & god besquite to mete,
                                
                                  It sanke son in þe se, half myght þei not gete.
                                
                                   [Le Rey Richard les sy|gles comaunde eschaucer, Et haster vers Akres, les Cri|stiens eyder, Gallice.] Richard bade, "hale vp hie ȝour sailes, þer God vs lede,
                                
                                  "Our men at Acres lie, of help þei haf grete nede.
                                
                                  þe date was a þousand, a hundreth nienti & one,
                                
                                  Fro Cipres he was sailand, a toun he wan Acon.
                                
                                  ¶ Als grace of God wild be, þe wynde gan him dryue, [Ricardus applicuit ad portum de Acres.] 
                                
                                  þe euen of þe Trinite vnder Acres R. gan aryue,
                                
                                  Dame Jone & Berengere bifor him fond he eft:
                                
                                  Isaac þe Emperere at Triples was left.
                                
                                  þe folk of Griffonie, whan R. was gone,
                                
                                  To Statin had envie, a monk þei ches ilkone,
                                
                                  þat Isaac cosyn was, & corouned him for kyng.
                                
                                  þei did a foule trespas, it was vnsemly þing.
                                
                                  Statin wild þei greue, mispaied was Roberd,
                                
                                  He said, "þei salle mischeue," whan he þat tiþing herd.
                                
                                  Night & day þei woke, Roberd & Statyn,
                                
                                  þorgh force þe monke þei toke, & brouht him to Cheryn.
                                
                                  ȝit he skaped out, þe monke of prisoun,
                                
                                   [On hors de la prisone noctauntre est passe, Statyn & Robert af armes ount crye, Gallice.] þei cried, "has armes about Roberd fro toun to toun.
                                
                                  þe folk whan þei were comen to Statyn & Roberd,
                                
                                  Eft þe monke þei nomen, at Cheryn þei him sperd.
                                
                                  Opon þe þrid day þe folk he did somoune,
                                
                                  Lered men & lay, fre & bond of toune.

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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 171
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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