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.

                                
                                  On fele þinges he þouht, & wex heuy als lede,
                                
                                  How chances on him souht, & þat þe quene was dede.
                                
                                  His solace was alle reft, þat scho fro him was gon,
                                
                                  Ne no sonne him left, bot ȝing Edward alon.
                                
                                  He was tendre & ȝing, of him had he no speyre,
                                
                                  Himself in ille likyng, & had no waxen heyre,
                                
                                  þat mot kepe þe coroune, if he of lond went,
                                
                                  He drouped þerfore donne, & said þe lond were schent,
                                
                                  If [Et si le Reis Edward vers Akres fust ale, Mult serreyt en perylle regne & re|galte, MSS. Gall.]  he tille Acres ȝede, in perile sulle alle be,
                                
                                  Of þe child wer drede þe lond als wele as he.
                                
                                  ¶ In þinkeng of alle þis, þe batailed in þe se, [De bello inter Porti|cos & Nor|mannos.] 
                                
                                  Normans & Inglis were slayn grete plente.
                                
                                  þe Normans þat day les, for þer powere was nouht,
                                
                                  þe portes had als þei ches schippes inow þam brouht.
                                
                                  To Douer & [Gerne|meue, vel Gernemue sive Ger|newe, MSS. Gall.]  Germne cam, & vnto Wynchilse,
                                
                                  To Romeneye & Schorham, & to Peueneshe,
                                
                                  To Gipwiche & Sandwiche, & to Southamptoun,
                                
                                   [Irays & Baonays [vel Bayonays) ount grant partye waygne, Codd. Gall.] Alle þe portes were riche, Irays & Bayoun.
                                
                                  þe fiue portes þorgh powere þe se had so conquerd,
                                
                                  þat Normans alle þat ȝere durst not be sene for ferd.
                                
                                  þorgh þe lond of France was said fulle sone,
                                
                                  Philip herd þat chance, how þe Inglis had done,
                                
                                  & alle how it bigan, & alle þe skille why,
                                
                                  þat þei togider ran, & we had þe maistrie.

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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 252
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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