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 Antoyn first bigan, spak hastily & wilde, "Sir kyng þou was a man, be not now hold a childe. "þou suld do right nouht without þe comon sight, "þat may of scaþe be wrouht ageyn þe reame's right. "Do ȝit be be consaile, þou salle not it repent, [Ecce dicta Antonii.] "Bot som þat may not auaile, þi wille to suilk es went. "þi manace drede þei more, in hastynes suorn, "þan if þi reame alle wore in poynt forto be lorn. "Sir Antoyn," said þe kyng, "I wite þis no man, "Bot myn vnconyng, þis foliè my self bigan. ¶ "Sen þou has don [Said þe bishop addenda sunt, si Codices Gallicos sequamur.] amysse, at þin vnconyng, "We may not faile at þis, to help þe in alle þing, "& if þou þink to wynne Gascoyn ageyn þi lond, "Hastily bigynne Philip to folow þou fond. "þou may not ligge & slepe as monke in his dortoure, "þou salle rise vp & lepe, & stirre vnto þe stoure, "& gete þe frendes fele, þorgh gifte of mone, "Tresore may þou non spele of lordes biȝond þe se. "þe kyng of Almayn, & þe duke of Boloyn, "þe to help were fayn, & þe erle of Burgoyn, "þe kyng of Aragoun, & þe erle of Sauuay. "þise er redy boun, to help þe nyght & day. "Whan þou of þise ert sikere to þe þorgh aliance, "þan is tyme to bikere with þe kyng of France.
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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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