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.

                                  
                                    IN þe ȝere folowand þat I rekened here [Coronacio Edwardi filii præ|dicti Hen|rici.] 
                                  
                                    Edward com to land, als prince of grete powere.
                                  
                                    þe next Sonenday [Others say it was the very day of the Assumption, or the 15th. of August.]  after þe assumpcioun
                                  
                                    Of Mari moder & may Sir Edward had þe coroun.
                                  
                                    In þe kyrke of Westmynstere, at þe abbay sollempnely,
                                  
                                    þe bisshop of Canterbere, Robert of Kilwardeby,
                                  
                                    Corouned Edward þore biforn alle þe clergy,
                                  
                                     [Ausint la Rayne Elyanore sa amye Fu coroune le jour, vnqes a seint Dynie Ne fu si bele feste, ne si grant noblye, MSS. Gall.] & dame Helianore corouned quene & lady.
                                  
                                    Was neuer at Saynt Denys feste holden more hy,
                                  
                                    Ne was of more pris, ne serued so redy.
                                  
                                    Was neuer prince, I wene, þat I writen of fond,
                                  
                                    More had treie & tene, þan he had for his lond.
                                  
                                    In Scotlond & in Wales, in Gasconie also,
                                  
                                    If ȝe liste alle þe tales, þis storie tellis ȝow to.
                                  
                                    Pray we alle to God of myght, & his modere Marie,
                                  
                                    Grante him conquere his right Gascoyne & Normundie,
                                  
                                    þat þe kyng of France chalanges falsly.
                                  
                                    Help him to þat chance moder of mercy,
                                  
                                    & Thomas þe martire, St. Jon of Beuerle,
                                  
                                    St. Cutbert be þer fere, he trestres on ȝow þre.
                                  
                                    Towhile in Gascoyne es þe pes ȝit alle certeyn,
                                  
                                    We salle leue þat pas vnto we com ageyn,

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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 235
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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