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.

                                
                                  þise teld to þe kyng alle þer lorde's wille,
                                
                                  & for þis tiþing leue ȝit þe prisons stille.
                                
                                  ¶ For þise ilk chances, þat I haf of tolde,
                                
                                  Was no deliuerance of þe Scottis bolde.
                                
                                  Nouþer [Pro, at.]  as Saleberi, no at Saynt Edmunde's toun,
                                
                                  Was non ȝit at þe wiri, ne ȝolden for raunsoun.
                                
                                  Of many foule mischeue com him tiþing þikke,
                                
                                  Bot on þer was oure greue, & þat him þouh most wikke.
                                
                                  ¶ þe tiþing is so nowe, his courte it dos to blaken,
                                
                                  þe soth ilk on þei knew, Sir Jon of Saynt Jon is taken.
                                
                                  He kept his castels, his vitaile, his mone,
                                
                                  Undere þe kyng seales, þe chance listnes me.
                                
                                  ¶ þe Wednesday next at euen befor Kandilmesse [De cap|cione Do|mini Jo|hannis de Sancto Jo|hanne apud Belgarde.] 
                                
                                  A spie did Sir Jon leue, þat Frankis oste non was.
                                
                                  Namely in þat pas, þat he suld lede þam bi,
                                
                                  He lied þat Judas, ten þousand were redi.
                                
                                  Sir Jon mad him prest, he trost þat losengere,
                                
                                  His bataile was formest, displaied his banere,
                                
                                  & passed alle þe pas, þat þei alle so dred,
                                
                                  Biside enbussed was fiften hundred sped,
                                
                                  In foure grete escheles alle to batail sette,
                                
                                  þe first he disconfet wele, þe toþer with him so mette.
                                
                                  Sir Jon fulle hardely to fight did his peyn,
                                
                                  & bad Sir Henry Lacy, þat he suld turne ageyn.
                                
                                  "þis oste is grete biforn, I rede þat ȝe fle.
                                
                                  þer vitaile was alle lorn, herneis & þer mone.
                                
                                  Sir James of Beauchamp wonded, & may not stand,
                                
                                  In a water stampe he was dronkled fleand.

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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 288
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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