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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.

"An ay bi it selue for fiue schillynges was bouht, "A pere for penyes tuelue, or þei had it nouht. "þe comon of þe oste bouht þam hors flesch, "Or mules or assis roste, or haf bien mete lesse. "Many grete mishappes, many hard trauaile, "Haf comen vs hard clappes, whan þei gan vs assaile. "He told to þe kyng many hard chance, "þat tellis here no þing, bot alle in þe romance. ¶ He tellis in þe romance, sen Acres wonnen was, [Ecce pro|bitas Ri|cardi.] How God gaf him faire chance at þe bataile of Cayfas. ¶ Siþen at Nazareth, at þe Assompcion messe, At Assur he did to deth þe Sarazins more & lesse. ¶ Siþen at Japhet was slayn fanuelle his stede, þe romance tellis grete pas þer of his douhty dede. Bot þe bisshop sais vnto kyng Richard, How þam felle oþer wais so many woes & hard. "Bot," Sir, "we here wele telle, ȝe ere so trew a kyng, "Our folk þat here duelle, ȝerne ȝour comyng. "Ouer alle now is said, his comyng þank we God, "Our hope is on him laid, & fulle wele is it trod, "þat ȝe salle wele spede, to schorten our soiorne, "& mend our grete nede, to ioy þat it mot torne. "ȝour wille is euer so gode, & ȝour treuth so treist, "ȝour douhtynesse of blode þe Sarazins salle freist. "Now, Jhesu, for þat croice, þou þoled on passioun, "Here our sinfulle voice, & grant ȝow wynne þe toun.
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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.
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Peter, of Langtoft, d. 1307?
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[Reprinted for S. Bagster, in the Strand,
1810]
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Great Britain -- History
Great Britain -- Antiquities, Roman
Scrooby, Eng.
Stonehenge (England)
Glastonbury Abbey.

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"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." In the digital collection Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/aba2096.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 10, 2025.
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