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.

                                
                                  What did þan Sir Edward? pere he had non like,
                                
                                  Opon his stede bayard first he wan þe dike.
                                
                                  In Pask weke it was, þe Friday þei it wan,
                                
                                  In þe non tyme felle þis cas, þat slayn was ilk a man,
                                
                                  þat were in Berwik ['Tis only four thousand, according to the French Copies.]  fourti þousand & mo,
                                
                                  Was non of þam left quik, bot alle to dede ȝede þo.
                                
                                  Of þe Inglis sanz faile bot o knyght dede I wote,
                                
                                  Sir Richard of Cornwaile, a Flemmyng him smote.
                                
                                  Right out of þe rede haule schot was a quarelle,
                                
                                  Fire þei fest on it alle, & brent it þat it felle.
                                
                                  þe wardeyn of þe castelle sauh þer chance fulle hard,
                                
                                  Untille mercy he felle, & ȝalde him tille Edward.
                                
                                  William of Duglas ȝalde him also tite.
                                
                                  Symon Freselle þer was, he wild haf don dispite.
                                
                                  He wend haf had fulle light, Edward at his wille,
                                
                                  Bot, þanked be God alle myght, his prisoun leues he stille.
                                
                                  þe erle of þe Marche Patrik, lord of next cuntre,
                                
                                  He did no maner wik, þe kyng gaf him his gre.
                                
                                  Sir Gilberd Umfreyvile wholom was with þe kyng,
                                
                                  Sir Robert Brus þat while ageyn him did no þing.
                                
                                  Golde & siluer þei fonde, & oþer metalle plente,
                                
                                  Now has þe Baliol a stounde lorn issu & entre,
                                
                                  & on þe fairest toun, þat was in his pouste,
                                
                                  Of ricchesse it had renoun, þat felle to a cite.
                                
                                  Now is Berwik born doun, abaist is þat cuntre,
                                
                                  Jon gete þi coroun, þou losis þi dignite.
                                
                                  Now dos Edward dike Berwik brode & long,
                                
                                  Als þei bad him pike, & scorned him in þer song.

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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 272
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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