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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.

"þat if þou me mot mete bi our seluen tuo, "My lif I suld forlete, or my hede for go. "& if þou wille it proue, þat þou ert so worþi, "A stede tille our behoue here is on alle redi. "Now for þi grete valow, I ask þe a bone, "þat or we grante trew, fight we als so sone, "þan on non oþer side body so bolde to be, "On fote ne hors ride, to socour me no þe. "& whilk of vs is doun, & mad is recreant, "Cleyme & accioun he lese, & þe remanant "Of þat ilk land, þat Cristen euer auht, "þat þei held in þer hand of God þat þam it tauht. ¶ þan said Saladyn, "if þou fynd any man, "Cristen or Sarazin, [Id est, that knows or can tell what, &c.] þat what tyme or whan, "I mad auancement with þe alone to fight, "Bot I to bataile went for my reame's right, "Here I salle þe gyue alle myn heritage, "& als along as I lyue to be in þin ostage. ¶ þe maister of þe Temple com procurand þe pes, "No more of þis to demple, tak þat þat ȝe first ches. Saladyn for alle hise hette to hold conaunt, Seuen ȝere at his deuise, & R. þer to graunt, þat ilk a Cristen man suld hold & haue certeyn Alle þat he þer wan, & no þing ȝeld ageyn.
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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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