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.

                                
                                  Forto norise pes, his benk he did þer crie.
                                
                                  Shireues, balifes he ches, þat office couþe guye.
                                
                                  Of Inglis men trewe, þat lufed alle þe right,
                                
                                  He mad wardeyns newe, & gaf þam alle his myght,
                                
                                  þat Frankis no Flemmyng power suld non haue,
                                
                                  Bot forto selle þer þing, merchandise to saue.
                                
                                  þat to þe pes þam toke, & com vnto his mercy,
                                
                                  He did þam suere on þe boke, to com vnto his crie.
                                
                                  Homage & feaute mad him with þer hand,
                                
                                  At his wille to be, bi se & bi land.
                                
                                  þo þat þe werre bigan, & kid it so couth,
                                
                                  Were taken ilk a man, & sent in to þe South.
                                
                                  ¶ Oure men ere in Gascoyn, to werre on þer enmys.
                                
                                  þe gode bisshop Antoyn þer he bare þe pris,
                                
                                  His dedes ere to alowe, for his hardynesse.
                                
                                  He did many on bowe in þat lond þorgh stresse,
                                
                                  His boldhede did þam wynne, & com vnto his crie,
                                
                                  Were it now to gynne, we wan it not lightly.
                                
                                  ¶ þise duze pers com to þe freres, þam for to schriue, [Couwe.] 
                                
                                  þe jugement ageyn þam went, to schorte þer liue.
                                
                                   [Kambyn hoye se teent tut coye, ne volt eyder. La sorcerye de Albanye ne put valer. Andreu se dort, &c. MSS. Gall.] Cambinhoy beres him coy, þat fende's whelp, [De Cam|binhoy.] 
                                
                                  þer with craft he has þam raft, it may not help.
                                
                                  þe Trulle þe drenge on se, þei lenge þe fendes tueye,
                                
                                  þe hold þam fer, & dar no ner, þan Orkeneye.
                                
                                  Andrew is wroth, þe wax him loth, for þer pride.
                                
                                  He is þam fro, now salle þei go, schame to betide.

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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 281
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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