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.

                                
                                  þo þat þorgh right dede were worþi,
                                
                                  & atteynt, þorgh þe kyng did þam merci.
                                
                                  With Wales did he so, & þei were neuer trewe,
                                
                                  Whan he had most to do, þei mad him sorow newe.
                                
                                  ¶ þe day of Saynt Hillari þe kyng set þam bituen, [De parlia|mento apud London.] 
                                
                                  At London certeynli his parlement to haf bien.
                                
                                  Was brouht him þis tiþing comen fro Kaunbray,
                                
                                  Of pes to speke no þing, bot werre fro day to day.
                                
                                  Where for þe kyng wille fonde, forto purueie him
                                
                                  Trewe men bi water & londe, for doute of treson grim.
                                
                                  He sent his day to hold of parlement þat he sette,
                                
                                  þe certeyn wite he wold, what þe clergi him hette.
                                
                                  ¶ þe bisshop of Canterbire fulle bold his ansuere was, [Responsio archiepi|scopi ad Regem.] 
                                
                                  For him & alle his schire he vouwed to S. Thomas,
                                
                                  "þat no kirke of hise taliage suld non gyue,
                                
                                  "Ne do to non seruise, to while þat he mot lyue,
                                
                                  "Without þe pape's leue, þat has of vs powere.
                                
                                  Tille his partie gan cheue þe bisshop Oliuere,
                                
                                  He turned not forbi for leue ne for loth.
                                
                                  þe kyng vnto þe clergi was þerfor fulle wroth,
                                
                                  & said with euel wille, "despite he suld him do. [Rex dixit.] 
                                
                                  þe bisshop said þer tille, "I am redi þerto. [Archiepi|scopus.] 
                                
                                  "Nay, Sir," said þe kyng, "þou ert not so worþi, [Rex.] 
                                
                                  "Ne I wille for no þing be so fole hardi.
                                
                                  Tille þo was he so hard out his pes did þam deme,
                                
                                  Bot sone afterward som gan him queme.
                                
                                  Som of þe bisshops said, "þat help behoued him haue,
                                
                                  "At skille þei wild be laid, his right forto saue,

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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 286
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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