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.

                                
                                  God þat wote alle þing, what is don or whi,
                                
                                  He saue Edward our kyng þore þorgh his merci.
                                
                                  ¶ Bituex þe kyng of France & þe erle William [Tradicio Flandro|rum.] 
                                
                                  Was þat tyme a distance, a wrath bituex þam nam.
                                
                                  þe prouest of þe toun, a wik traytour & cherle,
                                
                                  He þouht to do tresoun vnto his lord þe erle.
                                
                                  To Philip priuely a letter did he make,
                                
                                  If he had oste redy, Brigges mot he take.
                                
                                  Com what tyme he wild, þe toun suld he wynne,
                                
                                  þe comon he suld him ȝeld, & Edward þerinne.
                                
                                  Edward mot he haue, if he wild him rape,
                                
                                  þe toun he suld so saue, þat he suld not ascape.
                                
                                  Of þis whan Philip herd, oste he did sone ȝare,
                                
                                  þat tyme þat he forth ferd, he herd not of his fare.
                                
                                  ¶ þe preuest with þe burgeis þat day to conseile gede,
                                
                                  Edward herd it say of gilerie, as som drede.
                                
                                  & oþer were perceyued, þat þer ȝede disceite,
                                
                                  Bot ȝit was it not reyued, so Edward þouht him streite.
                                
                                  A child of þat land, þat knew not Sir Edward,
                                
                                  Edward sauh him stand, `þe Flem [Dele.]  þe Flemmynges to reward.
                                
                                  Fast he gan behald þe samenyng of Flemmynges.
                                
                                  Edward child cald, & asked him tiþinges.
                                
                                  "Sonne, what hers þou say of burgeis of cite?
                                
                                  He said, "Sir grete aye, þat þe Inglis here in be,
                                
                                  "& for þe Inglis sake tille it wille falle hard.
                                
                                  "For þe Frankes hope take þe toun & Sir Edward.
                                
                                  Sir Edward also sone þer gile gan he knowe,
                                
                                  Dight him to bataile bone, his trumpes did he blowe.

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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 294
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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