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.

                                
                                  þe Flemmynges vndirstode, þe kyng warned was,
                                
                                  þe cheynes & ȝates gode þei sperd, þat non mot pas.
                                
                                  þe Walsch without þe toun euerilkon þei lay,
                                
                                  þat was þe enchesoun for fight & for affray.
                                
                                  Whan þei þe trumpes herd, þat he to bataile blewe, [Salvatus fuit Rex per Gual|lias.] 
                                
                                  & saw þe ȝates sperd, þan gamened þam no glewe.
                                
                                  Ouh! for Saynt Dauy! þe Flemmyng wille him gile,
                                
                                  þe kest alle suilk a crie, þat men mot here a myle.
                                
                                  Fire & brondes þei nam in houses of þer gatis,
                                
                                  & ouer þe water suam, & set fire on þe ȝatis.
                                
                                  Maugre þe Flemmynges on þam þe ȝatis þei brent,
                                
                                  Cheynes þei hew & rynges, & tille Sir Edward went,
                                
                                  & fond him alle redy armed on his stede,
                                
                                  Was no cheyne so hie, þat he ne sprong ouer als glede,
                                
                                  & comandid ilk man, to schip suiþe to go,
                                
                                  þorgh þe Flemmynges he ran, & many on did slo.
                                
                                  His stede was blak as rauen, þei kald his name Feraunt,
                                
                                  He rode vnto þe hauen, & said he wild to Gaunt.
                                
                                  Unneþis fro þat felons ascaped he þat wo.
                                
                                  If he had had his barons, he had not gyuen of þo.
                                
                                  þe kyng of Almayn had hight him his help,
                                
                                  He mad a fals trayn, of him is not a ȝelp.
                                
                                  He sent Edward to say, help him mot he nouht,
                                
                                  Werrand on ilk a way his enmys on him souht.
                                
                                  Allas! þat a kyng es fals ageyn his pere!
                                
                                  Edward dred him no þing, bot was ay glad of chere.

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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 295
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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