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.

Sir Roberd Body a knyght his suerd best bote, Doun sone he he light, & Leulyn hede of smote. Now is Leulyn forsuorn, & his hede of smyten, His heritage is lorn fro his heyres ȝe wyten. More þan a ȝere beforn þat he lauht þis schame, A douhter was him born, Wencilian hir name. In hir credille ȝing tille Inglond scho cam, þorgh conseile of þe kyng was brouht to Sempyngham, & þer was scho inne four & fifty ȝere, [De filia Leulini monacha in Sempyng|ham.] Norised with Wynne, nunne and seculere. Now haf we new tateles, dede is Wencilian, Leulyn douhter of Wales, þat on Inglond ran. Hir dede was mykelle ment, for scho was fulle curteys, Among þe ladies gent, þe los of hir so seys. þe seuent day of Juny, Whitson euen þat tyme, Died þat lady, bituex vndron & prime. þe date of Criste pundred, þus many ȝeres euen, [Mo. CCCo. XXXVIIo.] A þousand & þre hundred þritty ȝere & seuen. Hir cosyn dame Gladous, of Dauid douhter born, A Nunne of Sixille hous died a ȝere beforn. Of Wencilian wrote I here next Leulyn story, Scho was his douhter dere, to bere him company.
NOW skulkes Dauid aboute, to wynne it ilk a dele, His heritage þat is oute, he wenes fulle wele. Alle þat Leulyn held lond & tenement, Holy to haf þe scheld þorgh heritage descent. With lordes þat were nehi he held his parlement At ȝole at Denebeghi, after þam alle he sent,
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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.
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Peter, of Langtoft, d. 1307?
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[Reprinted for S. Bagster, in the Strand,
1810]
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Great Britain -- History
Great Britain -- Antiquities, Roman
Scrooby, Eng.
Stonehenge (England)
Glastonbury Abbey.

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"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 the digital collection Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/aba2096.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 9, 2025.
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