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.

For gold & siluer strong he gaf so grete plente, Bifor þe kyng it song, Placebo domine. With wrong alle it cam, with gile salle gyuen be, Dilexit Sir Adam gilerie & falste.
THISE justise er atteynt of falshed & folie, Now comes a new pleynt, to destroie þe Juerie. þe kyng was enquere of þer wikked dedes, [De iniqui|tate Judeis|mi sive Ju|dæorum.] So many þer were, dome on þam salle nedes. For þam þe kyng was sette his priue parlement, þei said, þorgh þe rescette þe Cristen men were schent. þe barons alle said, alle holy þe clergie, þe lond þei wild voide of þat herisie. I wene þe kyng alegid, þei were of his tresour, Noþeles he wild haf briggid, þe fals leue & erroure. For þe penie fiftend, þe Jues wild he fleme. þe clergie said at þe end, "we grante it as ȝe deme. þe lerid & þe lay granted þat þei said, & assigned a day, þat taxe to be laid. þe dettes þat men þam auht, þer stedes & þer wonyng. Wer taxed & bitauht to þe eschete of þe kyng. þe [Rees ameraduk, vel Rees admiraduk sive Rees amereduk, in Codd Gall.] Reseamiradie was taken þat ilk ȝere, In Wales þorgh a spie, for all his powere. Whan þe kyng herd it seie, to ȝork he did him lede, Schames dede to deie, als traytour for his dede. First was he drawen for his felonie, & as a þefe þan slawen, on galwes hanged hic.
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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 10, 2025.
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