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 folk out of France to Normundie were comen, "To R. desceyuance his londes haf þei nomen. "Bot he com right son, Normundie to fende, "His right bes nouht doun soner þan any wend. [Le Rey Richard as vns la chos certifye, Et a parler de trewe al Soldan plus se plye, MSS. Gall.] Wherfore to som of his he schewed þam þe skille, To treus on alle wise him burd grant þertille.
UNDER þe mount Thabor, in a faire medue, Boþe þe parties wer þore to conseile for þe treue." [Est Sa|ladyn venuz en amour saunz boydie, Et prye al Rey Ri|chard, que son plaisir ly dye, Codices Gall.] "Sir," said Saladyn, "is it þi wille to say, [De pace tractata & ordinata per Ricar|dum & Saladinum.] "þis day is myn & þin, chese þou now what way. For Safadyn's sawe R. had enuie, Wherfore a gode þrawe he stod in a studie. þat sawe þat he þer said, so wele it was of leten, In boke it was vp laid, ȝit is it not forgeten. R. þis ansuerd to Saladyu for treu, For þo men þat it herd wrote vs þat word alle new.
"TREUS þou askes a þrowe, for tuo ȝere or þre, "þo men, þat þe knowe, say þou skornes me. "þe folk of paiemie þe word þer of fer gos, "Of alle þat seignorie þorghout þin is þe los; "In armes is þer none, þat to þi renoun reches, "Wherfor þou has gone, & of þi pruesse preches,
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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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