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.

                                  
                                    "SIR," þe bisshop said, "of þis we pray þe, [Archiepi|scopus dixit.] 
                                  
                                    "þat no wikked braid of minystres þat be,
                                  
                                    "Tille vs ne non of ours, ne nouht of our lay fe
                                  
                                    "Be taxed with non of ȝour's grante it per charite.
                                  
                                    ¶ "Sir bisshop drede þe nouht, þou salle no þing tyne,
                                  
                                    "Scaþe salle non be wrouht þorgh no man of myne.
                                  
                                    "Sir bisshop I pray þe, & þou alle holelyche,
                                  
                                    "þat ȝe pray for me þorghout ȝour bisshopriche.
                                  
                                    Ilk bisshop tille his se, whan it was don þei went,
                                  
                                    For þe kyng & his meyne forto pray þei sent.
                                  
                                    ¶ þider to Saynt Edmoun com þe tresorere, [Thesaura|rius venit.] 
                                  
                                    Walter of Langtoun, þat had bien messengere
                                  
                                    With þe Cardinalle forto enforme þe pes.
                                  
                                    Nouþer of som no alle, ne wist what þei ches,
                                  
                                    Bot þo þat were priue, oþer myght not witen,
                                  
                                    Tille my maister no me was not told no writen.
                                  
                                    ¶ ȝit com afterward oþer messengers
                                  
                                    Tille our kyng Edward, with luf & faire maners,
                                  
                                    þat contek suld not skip eft, þorgh no treson,
                                  
                                    Bituex him & Filip for þe lond of Gascon.
                                  
                                    þe cardinalle was wys, ordeynd how it suld be:
                                  
                                    þe kyng at his auys sent messengers þre,
                                  
                                    Sir Waltere of Langton, Sir Hugh Despensere,
                                  
                                    Jon of Berwik was boun þe þrid messengere.
                                  
                                    þise wist þe certeyn of alle þe kynge's wille,
                                  
                                    God bring þam wele ageyn, & saue þam fro ille.
                                  
                                    ¶ Of þe barons of Scotland at þe parlement
                                  
                                    Were non had ȝit in hand, no gyuen jugement.

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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 285
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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