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.

                                
                                  Inglond to destroye fro Tuede vnto Kent.
                                
                                  þe Frankis withouten noye hauen mot þei hent
                                
                                  In Tuede at þer wille, wan þei wild com or go,
                                
                                  Northumberland to spille, þe folk to robbe & slo.
                                
                                  Right sone afterward þe stiward of Scotland
                                
                                  Com to kyng Edward, & brouht vntille his hand,
                                
                                  Erles & barons, bisshopes plenerly,
                                
                                  Knyghtes, lordes of tounes, & alle com to his crie.
                                
                                  Kyng Jon & his sonne withouten lond or rent
                                
                                  Er now led to London, to bide þer jugement.
                                
                                  Now is Scotland hole at our kynge's wille,
                                
                                  & Jon þe Baliol at London leues stille.
                                
                                  Right as Merlyn spak had Edward þe kyng
                                
                                  Scotlond, als Albanack had at þe gynnyng. [Couwe.] 
                                
                                  ¶ þe Walsh & þe Irish, tille our men Inglysh, halp douhtily,
                                
                                  þat we þe Scottis had, & to prison lad, & com tille our crie.
                                
                                  Now es alle ent, & home ere þei went, þe Iris & Wals,
                                
                                  God gyue at þe parlement, þe Scottis be alle schent, & hanged bi þe hals.
                                
                                  Edward now þenk, þei did þe a blenk, brent Hexham.
                                
                                  þe croice & þe rode, brent þer it stode, or þei þien nam.
                                
                                  Now has þou myght, gyfþi dome right, þer dede is wele sene,
                                
                                  Els wille þei eft, on þo þat er left, bigynne newe tene.
                                
                                  Men may merci haue, traytour not to saue, for luf ne for awe,
                                
                                  Atteynt of traytorie, suld haf no mercie, wiþ no maner lawe.
                                
                                  Jon þe Baliol, no witte was in þi pol, whan þou folie þouhtis,
                                
                                  To leue þe right scole, þou did als a fole, & after wrong wrouhtis.

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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 279
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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