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.

                                
                                  ¶ Oft was þe pleynt mad vnto þe pape.
                                
                                  þe manfesours ateynt, & cursed ouer þe nape.
                                
                                  þe pape of þer erroure had fulle grete pite,
                                
                                  H sent to þer socoure tuo legates ouer þe se.
                                
                                  At Douere þei gan ariue, Pandolf & Durand,
                                
                                  To London gan þei driue, þe barons þer þei fand,
                                
                                  þorgh Pandolf prechyng þer werre was brouht tille ende.
                                
                                  þe barons & þe kyng were mad felauhes & frendes,
                                
                                  Asoiled & alle on euen, bot þe kyng an oth suore,
                                
                                  He suld him venge on Steuen, whider so euer he fore,
                                
                                  & of þo fourtene monkes, where men mot þam finde,
                                
                                  Be beten alle fonkes or in prison þam binde.
                                
                                  ¶ Pandolf & Durand did com forth þe Ersbisshop, [De pace per legates.] 
                                
                                  & þe monkes forþ þei fand, Jon said, þei suld hedeles hop.
                                
                                  Pandolf proued þe kyng, in his disputeson,
                                
                                  He mayntend wrongfulle þing, & wild to no reson.
                                
                                  He proued þorh wisdam in ilk manere cas,
                                
                                  þat þe kyng misnam, & did grete trespas.
                                
                                  Alle gate þe kyng he pesed, so þat þe werre was ent,
                                
                                  & ilk a clerke sesed ageyn to haf his rent.
                                
                                  Pandolf tok his leue, & to Rome went,
                                
                                  I trow on him gan cleue many riche present.
                                
                                  Now is Pandolf gone, & Steuen Ersbisshop es,
                                
                                  Assoiles kyng Jone of alle his wikkednes.
                                
                                  Jon has sonnes tuo bi Elizabeth þe quene, [De filiis & filiabus Regis.] 
                                
                                  & tuo douhters also, fairere were non sene.
                                
                                  Henry was eldest, heyre of alle his þing,
                                
                                  & Richard ȝongest, of Almayn chosen kyng.

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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 211
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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