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.

                                  
                                    WHAN kyng R. herd, þe Cristen had suilk pyn.
                                  
                                    Fulle soft he him ansuerd, wepand with his ine,
                                  
                                    "To Criste for me biseke, þat he gyue me þat grace,
                                  
                                    "þe Cristendom to eke, þe Sarazins to chace.
                                  
                                    R. also suiþe did set his pauilloun,
                                  
                                    His maistrie sone gan kiþe, he dight him to þe toun.
                                  
                                    Now ere þe dikes wonnen opon Gode's enmys,
                                  
                                    & sautes has bigonnen, þorgh whilk he getis pris.
                                  
                                    So did kyng Philip with sautes on þam gan pres,
                                  
                                    Bot for a forgetilschip R. & he boþe les.
                                  
                                    Philip left his engynes withouten kepyng a nyght,
                                  
                                    þat perceyued þe Sarazines, with fire brent þam doun right.
                                  
                                    For he com on þe morne, assaut he wild haf gyuen,
                                  
                                    His Engyns fond he lorne, brent & tille askes dryuen.
                                  
                                    R. said his avis, blamed him for þat dede.
                                  
                                    A werreour þat were wys, desceyt suld euer drede,
                                  
                                    Wele more on þe nyght, þan opon þe day,
                                  
                                    In mirke withouten sight wille enmys mak affray.
                                  
                                    R. lent him of hise, Acres for to assaile;
                                  
                                    Philip withouten fayntise did alle his trauaile.
                                  
                                    þe to kyng & þe toþer assailed it so hard,
                                  
                                    þat þe Soudan broþer cried pes opon forward.
                                  
                                    Alle þei went to here, what þe Soudan wild say:
                                  
                                    þe folk com alle in fere with þo kynges tueye.
                                  
                                    ¶ þis was þe Sarazins sawe, "þe toun ȝeld ȝow we wille,
                                  
                                    "If ȝe grant vs þe lawe, I salle say ȝow þe skille.
                                  
                                    "Late vs alle out com, þis is þe first we chese.
                                  
                                    "þat non be slayn ne nom, ne life no lymme lese;

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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 176
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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