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.

                                  
                                    THAT tyme þat þis crie com of þise barouns, [De domino Johanne Vescy, ve|nit cum basklis [Sic.]  & super Leu|linum.] 
                                  
                                    Com Sir Jon Vescy fro þe kyng of Aragouns,
                                  
                                    Brouht fote folk inouh of baskles & Gascouns,
                                  
                                    þat þe Walsh men slouh raumpand as leouns.
                                  
                                    þorghe mountayn & more þe baskles ȝe þer weie,
                                  
                                    Oure nesch & hard þei fore, & did þe Walsch men deie.
                                  
                                    þei passed alle þe Marche, Snowdoun þei wan in,
                                  
                                    Of tounes þei mad þam parche, & souht after Leulyn.
                                  
                                    Dauid couth non oþer, þe folowed þam so streite,
                                  
                                    Bot fled fro his broþer skulkand with disceite.
                                  
                                    Sir Roger þe strange, & Sir Reynald þe Gray,
                                  
                                    þei ne wold turne ne change, bot spied þer Leulyn lay.
                                  
                                    ¶ Leulyn in a wod a bussement he held, [Eece de|collatio Leulini per Robertum Body.] 
                                  
                                    Biside a more a mod quayntly was he teld.
                                  
                                    Sir Roger lay biside with priue folk & stoute,
                                  
                                    & spied tyme & tide whan he suld issue oute.
                                  
                                    Leulyn wend no gile had bien þer so nere,
                                  
                                    He went to play a wile with fo of his banere.
                                  
                                    Sir Roger was perceyued whan Leulyn out cam,
                                  
                                    þer pencels þei weyued, tille Sir [Sic.]  Leuly he nam.
                                  
                                    "Traitoure," said Rogere, "what salle þe werre auaile,
                                  
                                    "Now I find þe here, wele set is my trauaile.
                                  
                                    "Tuys ert þou forsuorn, & tuys þi feaute broken,
                                  
                                    "Tuys was þou doun born, & for pes eft spoken.
                                  
                                    "þis is þe þrid tyme, þat mykelle þou him misbede,
                                  
                                    "Dayet who þe kyme, for þou has souht þi dede.
                                  
                                    "Salle þou neuer þi lyue do Inglis man more wo,
                                  
                                    "Hastilie þe schryue, þi hede þou salle for go.

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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 242
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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