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.

                                
                                  For þe men þat were fled disherited of þer londes,
                                
                                  To purches þam þei sped, now ilk of þam so fondes.
                                
                                  Robert of Ferers he robbėd boþe & slouh
                                
                                  Bi nyght in stede sers, & tille his felawes drouh.
                                
                                  Of þam was þer non þat lufed kyng Henry,
                                
                                  To Chestrefeld ilkon þe com vngratiously.
                                
                                  þe kyng did þam spie with gode men of renoun,
                                
                                  Com on þam priuelie, assailed þam in þe toun.
                                
                                  þe barons fauht ageyn, þei wist of no socoure,
                                
                                  Many of þam wer slayn, & som passed at honour.
                                
                                  þat was þe gode Deyuile, he did wele his deuere,
                                
                                  þat stoure he held a while, & passed quite & clere.
                                
                                  ¶ In þe monyng eft bigan a new stoure,
                                
                                  Robert Ferers þer left, Baudewyn þe vauasoure
                                
                                  Lord of Chestrefeld, þise myght not lightly fle.
                                
                                  þer side alle doun held, taken were þer meyne
                                
                                  Robert Wollerton, I trowe for som trespas,
                                
                                  He had grete renoun, on Kene hanged he was.
                                
                                  ¶ þis douhty Deyuile his name was Sir Jon,
                                
                                  Of Axholm to þe Ile he scaped himself alon.
                                
                                  For to robbe & reue, þer he held his haunt,
                                
                                  He wild spare ne leue burgeis no merchaunt.
                                
                                  & whan he dred him ouht, for ouercomyng of mo
                                
                                  Toward þe South he souht, als he were non of þo,
                                
                                  Bot as a passand man, felawes forto seke,
                                
                                  So often away he wan, & vmwhile cheke bi cheke.
                                
                                  þus did þe Deyuile more þan haf a ȝere,
                                
                                  & gadred him þat while inouh of powere.

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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 223
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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