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.

                                  
                                    WHAN Edward þer respons knowe, & what þei ment, [Peticio Ed|wardi ad barones.] 
                                  
                                    For clerkis & barons son after he sent,
                                  
                                    & eft þam alle biforn teld þam alle þe chance,
                                  
                                    How Gascoyn was lorn þorgh þer gilerie of France.
                                  
                                    " Withouten help of ȝow wyn it may I nouht,
                                  
                                    " To saue þe londe's prow, to ask þis haf I þouht:
                                  
                                    " I ask half þe godes to haf of þe clergie,
                                  
                                    " & saue ȝour oþer fodes, to maynten my partie.
                                  
                                    " Marchant & burgeis to þe sext be laid.
                                  
                                    He wild on no weis, þat it were geyn said.
                                  
                                    þe barons alle plenere in þe tende him seised,
                                  
                                    So in þat self ȝere it suld be payed & reised.
                                  
                                    ¶ þe lond fulle hard was sette in þat ilk laying,
                                  
                                    No þeles we ere in dette, at nede to help þe kyng.
                                  
                                    & praye God for his right boþe foles & wys,
                                  
                                    To saue him day & nyght ageyn his enmys.
                                  
                                    If þei þat tyme had wonnen, & venquised Sir Edward,
                                  
                                    & þorgh þis lond wonnen Normanz & Pikard,
                                  
                                    þe kirke of Inglond fulle ille þei suld haf said,
                                  
                                    & had alle gon to schond, þe clergie ille bisted,
                                  
                                    þat neuer bisshop, ne person, ne riche perronendere,
                                  
                                    Ne erle, ne baron, ne knyght, ne squiere,
                                  
                                    Ne burgeis of cite, merchant ne Frankeleyn,
                                  
                                    þat euer had bien fre, bot seruage leyn.
                                  
                                    For alle þis þraldam, þat now on Inglond es,
                                  
                                    þorgh Normanz it cam, bondage & destres,
                                  
                                    & if þei now powere had of vs, wite ȝe wele,
                                  
                                    Streiter we suld be lad bi þe tend dele.

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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 261
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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