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.

                                
                                  To fend þe Walschrie with him at þer powere,
                                
                                  To him þei gan alie, & ros fulle austere.
                                
                                  ¶ Whan þe kyng herd say, þat Dauid werred on him,
                                
                                  To Wales he went his way fulle scharply & fulle brim.
                                
                                  Edward did him chace, fulle febilly he defendes, [Captus est Dauid.] 
                                
                                  To rest had he no space, his tyme he tynes & spendes.
                                
                                  þe euen of Saynt Morice was taken Sir Dauid,
                                
                                  Als a fole nyce he brak þe kynge's grith.
                                
                                  His hede þei of smyten, to London was it born,
                                
                                  þe dede body þe britten on four quarters corn.
                                
                                  þe quarters wer sent to henge at four citez,
                                
                                  So is he worth be schent, who so traytour bez.
                                
                                  ¶ Leulyn & Dauid haf born grete honour,
                                
                                  And Snowdon com to grith, ilk castelle & toure
                                
                                  To þe kyng is eschete, als to chefe of alle.
                                
                                  þe [Qe fount les Waleis, qe sunt de valour? Fount che|uaunce al Reis, com a go|uernour, MSS. Gall.]  lordes þat er grete þe cheued as tenauntz salle.
                                
                                  þe kyng þorghout þe lond he did crie his pes,
                                
                                  & with þe lawe þam bond, als skille wild he ches.
                                
                                  Wardeyns gode he sette, to stabille þe lond & mende,
                                
                                  Justice þat þe lawe gette to vnkonand þei kende.
                                
                                  Whan alle was don & ent, þat felle to conqueroure,
                                
                                  To London he went, a while to mak soioure.
                                
                                  He sent to his barouns, a parlement to hold,
                                
                                  þei com at his somouns, in parlement he þis told:
                                
                                  To Gascoyn bihoued him go, & þat hastilie,
                                
                                  Tiþing com him þer fro, þer was contek & crie,

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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 244
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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