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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.

"& þat suld holden be, euer withouten ende, "þou brak þat certeynte wikkedly & vnhende. ¶ "ȝit he biddes þe se, how wrong þou wilt him lede, "Bituex him & þe was mad a priue dede, "Of Gascoyn certeyn was þat feffement, "Forto feffe him ageyn in þat tenement. "þi seisyn is wele knowen, þe days has þou plenere, "To restore him his owen, he sent to þe duzepers, "As lawe wild & right, & couenant was in scrite. "ȝeld it, þou has no right, with wrong holdes it in lite, "Ageyn alle maner skille, & ȝit þou ert so grefe. "For whilom þou wrote him tille, & cald him in þi brefe, "þi kynde, faythfulle & leale of Gascoyn noble duke, "þerto þou set þi seale, þat right wilt þou rebuke. "Neuer siþen hiderward suilk speche vnto him touched, "Werfore our kyng Edward in þouht fulle wele has souched. "þou holdes him not þi man, no þing holdand of þe, "Ne he þinkes neuer for þan, to mak þe more feaute. "He hopes to wynne þat land with dynt of douhty [F. knyght.] kyght, "Of God he claymes holdand, & neuer of no right. ¶ "At þis tyme is not els of Sir Edward to seye, "Bot of Edmunde þat duellis with him als breþer tueye, "Forbi any oþer with him wille hold & be. "He is his lord & broþer, he certifies þat to þe, "þat no man in þis werld he lufes so mykelle no dredis, "Ne with him is non herd so mykelle may help at nedis. "For he sees so wele ȝour grete controued gile, "Ageyn his broþer ilk dele compassed in a while,
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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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