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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Others say the 12th. of May. See Stowe's Annals, pag. 194. Ed. fol. But not so rightly, as I take it. See Dug|dale's Baronage, Tome I. p. 408. Rastall says in his Chronicle, that it was fought the 23d. of May.—And than [The ba|tell at Lewys.] (says he) the barons with a great multytude of the citye of London | and with a great hoost of other people came agaynst the kynge—betwene whome the. xxiii. day of May was fought a maruelous cruell battell at Lewys | and the Lon|doners that gaue the fyrst as|sent | by reason of the sharpe shot of Arowes & strokes gyuen by them of the kynges partes began to drawe backe.

But the barons incurrag|ed theyr men in suche wyse that they nat onely set vpon them with fresshe men | but incurraged so them that gaue backe | that they turned a|gayne & fought so fersly that the kynges parte gaue backe | & the kyng lost the fylde. where the kyng hym selfe & the kyng of Romayns & Edwarde the kynges son were takyn prisoners & many other mo | and. xx. M. men slayne for this battell conty|nued the more part of the day.

] fourtend day of May þe batail of Leaus was
A þousand & tuo hundreth sexti & foure in pas. ¶ þe kyng of Almayn was taken to prisoun, [Rex Al|manniæ captus est, multi alii.] Of Scotlond Jon Comyn was left in a donjoun. þe erle of Warenne, I wote, he scaped ouer þe se, & Sir Hugh Bigote als with þe erle fled he. Many faire ladie lese hir lord þat day, & many gode bodie slayn at Leaus lay. þe numbre non wrote, for telle þam mot no man, Bot he þat alle wote, & alle þing scs & can. Edward, þat was ȝing, with his owen rede, For his fader þe kyng himself to prison bede. For þe kyng of Almayn his neuow was ostage, In prison nere a ȝere was Edward in cage. [Prœfige, &.]
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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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Great Britain -- History
Great Britain -- Antiquities, Roman
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Stonehenge (England)
Glastonbury Abbey.

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