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.

                                  
                                    AFTER þe ersbisshop þe erle Marschalle Rogere [Dixit co|mes Mar|schalle.] 
                                  
                                    Bifor þe kyng ros vp, & spak tille him austere,
                                  
                                    "Of þis we ask respite, oure conseile to take,
                                  
                                    "Noþeles also tite I say for þe comon sake.
                                  
                                    He said for þe barons, þat non of þer homage
                                  
                                    Suld passe for somons, bot at þe kynge's costage;
                                  
                                    Ne non of þer powere to passe þe se suld grante,
                                  
                                    Without conseile of pere & costage in conante.
                                  
                                    ¶ þe kyng his wordes toke wraþefully tille herte, [Rex.] 
                                  
                                    For ire nere he quoke, & ansuerd him fulle smerte.
                                  
                                    "Sir Erle, I comand þe, þat þou be þe ton,
                                  
                                    "For þou salle wende with me, whedere þou wille or non,
                                  
                                    "Or þin office for go of þe marschalcie,
                                  
                                    "Respite I gyue no mo, but mak alle redie.
                                  
                                    ¶ þe [Subintellige, said, vel, answer'd.]  erle, "wend I nouht so sone myn office lete, [Comes.] 
                                  
                                    "I haf not ȝit so wrouht, to haf maugre þe grete.
                                  
                                    Out of þe courte he went, duellid he no while,
                                  
                                    þe kyng for on sent, Sir Geffrey Geneuile,
                                  
                                    & of þe marschalcie presented him þe ȝerde,
                                  
                                     [Et sur ceo co|maunde ses priuez gentz ar|mer, Et bye lendemayne les barouns arester, &c. MSS. Gall.] Bad arme him priuelie, & priues alle herde
                                  
                                    Now tille armes þat may, als þei suld lyue or deie,
                                  
                                    þei hoped þe toþer day þe barons resteie.
                                  
                                    þe erle wist it sone, in him was no defaute,
                                  
                                    þe barons were alle bone, to mak þe kyng assaute.
                                  
                                    ¶ Right als þe parties togider suld haf smyten, [Episcopus Dunelmi Antonius.] 
                                  
                                    Sir Antoyn was wys, he did þe kyng to witen,

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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 292
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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