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.

                                
                                  ¶ Whan þei wer inowe, on whilk þei mot afie,
                                
                                  To Lyncoln þei drowe, & þer þei suld relie. [De rapaci|tate Judeis|mi apud Lincol. niam.] 
                                
                                  þe tuelft day of Aprile, whan þer powere was grete,
                                
                                  & went alle at o wile, in to Lyncoln þei schete.
                                
                                  þorghout þe Juery þei robbed þam & slouh,
                                
                                  þe cofres with tresory þe braken & þe awey drouh.
                                
                                  þe chartres & þe scris þat noied Cristen men,
                                
                                  þat lay for vsure in pris elleuen als for ten,
                                
                                  Were casten in fire & brent in podels vilaynly,
                                
                                  Of Jues slayn & schent a hundred & sexty.
                                
                                  ¶ Whan Sir Edward herd, þat þei had Lyncoln taken,
                                
                                  & þe Juerie misferd, þer tresorie ouerschaken,
                                
                                  He sped him þider in haste, with hilled hors of pris,
                                
                                  He com & fond alle waste, away were þo enmys,
                                
                                  þei went to þe ilde of Hely vnto Sir Hugh Pecche,
                                
                                  þei manned þam so boldely, on þam had non entre.
                                
                                  Edward lete not wele, þat he with þam not mette,
                                
                                  To Kilyngworth castele he went, þe sege to sette.
                                
                                  Fro Midsomeretide to þe Apostle S. Thomas
                                
                                  þe fled mayntend þer side, þe castelle holden was.
                                
                                  For alle þat þider went, Sir Edward & ilkon,
                                
                                  Untille þe pape sent his legate Ottobon.
                                
                                  Whan þis legate was comen, of som he was bisouht,
                                
                                  In forward out þei nomen, els wild þei nouht.
                                
                                  Sir Henry of Hastyng he ȝald it bi his wille,
                                
                                  Ouer alle maner þing life & lymmes haf stille,
                                
                                  & alle þer tresorie, þat þerin was fonden,
                                
                                  Withouten vilenie vnto þe pes bonden.

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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 224
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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