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.

                                
                                  ¶ þorgh tiþing brouht bi tide þe Scottis wist of þis,
                                
                                  Ilk Scotte on his side mad þerof joy & blis.
                                
                                  þe rascail of þer route bigan to werre alle newe,
                                
                                  Now Edward is oute, þe barons be not trewe.
                                
                                  þe suffred, as it sais, þe Scottis eft to rise,
                                
                                  & William þe Walais þer hede & þer justise.
                                
                                  þorgh fals concelement William did his wille,
                                
                                  Our castels has he brent, our men slayn fulle ille.
                                
                                  ¶ Sir Hugh of Crissengham he did nycely & mys, [De Hugone Cressyng|ham.] 
                                
                                  þe tresore with him he nam, sperd it in his coffris,
                                
                                  & wild gif no wages to þe folk þer ware,
                                
                                  þerfor ȝomen & pages home gan alle fare.
                                
                                  ¶ Whan Sir Jon of Warenne þe soth vnderstode,
                                
                                  þat þe Waleis gan brenne, an oste he gadred gode,
                                
                                  & went to Striuelyne agayn Waleis William,
                                
                                  Bot þe erle with mykelle pyne disconfite away nam.
                                
                                  & þat was his folie, so long in his bed gan ligge,
                                
                                  Untille þe Waleis partie had vmbilaid þe brigge.
                                
                                  With gauelokes & dartes suilk ore was non sene, [De Striue|lyn & de Domino Johanne de Warenne.] 
                                
                                  Myght no man þam departe, ne ride ne go bituene.
                                
                                  þore first þam tauht, how þei did fawe kirke.
                                
                                  Alle gate þe brigge he rauht, of nouht our men were irke.
                                
                                  ¶ Whan þe erle herd say, þe brigge how William toke,
                                
                                  He douted to die þat day, þat bataile he forsoke.
                                
                                  þe Inglis were alle slayn, þe Scottis bare þam wele,
                                
                                  þe Waleis had þe wayn, als maistere of þat eschele.
                                
                                  At þat ilk stoure was slayn on our side
                                
                                  God men of honour, þat wald to þe bataile bide.

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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 297
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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