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.

                                
                                  After þe Martynmesse þat he died here,
                                
                                  He regned more ne lesse þan sex & fifty ȝere.
                                
                                  At Westmynstere he lis toumbed richely,
                                
                                  In a marble bis of him is mad story.
                                
                                  Sen þat he was dede God has schewed his life.
                                
                                  Edward with his rede in his lyue tok a wife,
                                
                                  þe kynge's douhter of Spayn da Helianore fulle ȝing.
                                
                                  Of hir fairhede was fayn Edward our ȝong kyng.
                                
                                  In Acres of hir is born a mayden childe dame Jone,
                                
                                  Was non fairer biforn of Inglis als scho one.
                                
                                  A þousand & tuo hundred þe date sexti & tuelue [Anno. Mo. CCmo. LXXIIo.] 
                                
                                  Sir Edward help is sundred, o lyue is bot him selue.
                                
                                  ¶ þe day of Saynt Edmound, þat martir [This is the 20th. of Nov. but then others (among whom is Rastall) observe, that he died on the day of Saint Edmund archbishop of Canterbury, which is the 16th. of that Month, and this I look upon as the truest account, notwith|standing the former is followed (through mistake) by Dr. Brady, contrary to his own Author Matthew Paris.]  is & kyng,
                                
                                  Sir Henry at Londoun in God mad his endyng. [De morte Henrici Regis tertii.] 
                                
                                  þat tyme his sonne Edward was in paemie,
                                
                                  His chance felle þer so hard, þat home behoued him hie.
                                
                                  For alle his help was dede, als I said beforn,
                                
                                  þis lond behoued haf hede, his heritage in born.
                                
                                  þe date of Criste pundred, þes fele ȝeres to mene
                                
                                  A þousand & tuo hundred sexti & fourtene. [Anno. Mo. CCo. LXXIIIo.]

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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 230
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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