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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.

SIR [Ly Reis sir Edward ad grant volente, Esposer gen|tyl femme de halt parentee, Dount auer engendrure pur son herite, Pur refourmer la pees, e norir amiste, Codd. Gall.] Edward God him saue, he is in grete longyng A where he mot haue, þat auenant is & ȝing þat wer of hie perage, suilk on wild he take His euenhed in mariage, gentille gendrure to make. His herte gaf tille dame Blanche, if hir wille wer þerto, & holy kirke wild stanche sibred bituex þam tuo, Hire þan wild he wedde, forto saue þe pes [De Blan|chia sorore Regis Franciæ.] In luf þat þei þam ledde, in werre þat nouþer les. For Blanche his cosyn he sent how it mot be, To mak a mariage fyn, Philip sister was sche. & als vnto þe pape, for to wite þe certeyn, What þe clergie wild schape, whan þe courte were pleyn. ¶ Edward [Sire Edward en Fraunce ad messagers maun|de, De vere la damoy|sele enquere de sa bounte. Les messangeres [vel bounte, Si elesait, sive E si ele soyt, auenaunte en face, en cors taylle. Les messagers] i vount, e le ount refigure En cors, en facoun, en mayn, en iaumbe, & pe. [vel en pe] Al Reis sunt reuenuz, e le ount nouncye, Plus bele creature est nule part troue. Sire Ed|ward, allas! deueent en a|moure, Et a la damoysele par lettre ad monstre, [vel admu|stre, sive ad mustre] Et al Rey Phelipp son quoer, & sa pen|se, MSS. Gall.] messengers vnto þat mayden sent, To wite of hir maners, to se hir body gent. þei com vnto þat may, & sauh hir contenance, So fair lady þat day was not in alle France. Whan þei had sene þat sight, þei com & teld our kyng, Creature non myght be fayrer bi no þing.
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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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