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.

                                
                                  þat scaþe ne mot bifalle, ne forto wrath þe pape,
                                
                                  Bot for him & vs alle myght it better schape.
                                
                                  ¶ In alle þis spekyng com þe tresorere [Ecce The|saurarius venit.] 
                                
                                  Fro Edward our kyng, to schewe þe chartere here.
                                
                                   [Cil vers la clergye co|menca parler, Et a les ba|rouns issi [vel ency] nouncier, A nous li Reis vos sires bee de gentyl qoer De sa sey|gnorye, tut Engleterre eyser, La chartre des fraunchises vous volt confermer, De la foreste le assise [vel lassise] amender, Cum jadis puruist le Rey Henry son peer. La chartre fu monstre & leu a Wemonster, &c. MSS. Gall.] He spak vnto þe clergie, "ȝe barons þat here be,
                                
                                  "þe kyng fulle curteislie gretis ȝow wele bi me,
                                
                                  "& sais, þat he wille Inglond alle ese,
                                
                                  "& þat ȝe ask in skille ȝour hertes forto pese,
                                
                                  "þe chartre of franchise conferm it ȝow he salle,
                                
                                  "& of þe first assise as his fader gaf it alle.
                                
                                  þe Chartre was red on hi, in Westmynstere & schewed,
                                
                                  Ilk poynt bi & bi, to lerid & to lewed.
                                
                                  þe bisshop of Canterbire in comon alle o liche
                                
                                  Schewed it in ilk schire, alle his bisshop riche.
                                
                                  Whan þei þe Chartre in alle had schewed day bi day,
                                
                                  Sir Roger þe erle Marschalle, of Herford þe erle Umfray,
                                
                                  At ȝork þei tok on hand, þer parlement to sette,
                                
                                  þe hie folk of þe land, þer alle togidere mette. [Ecce comi|tiva baro|num apud Eboracum.] 
                                
                                  þe erle Jon of Surray com with grete powere,
                                
                                  Of Gloucestre stoute & gay Sir Rauf þe Mohermere,
                                
                                   [Oue Jone la Countesse sa lige mulier, Et trestouz ly altre, qe portent baner, De Douer a Dureme i venent volenter, &c. MSS. Gall.] & his wif dame Jone, whilom Gilberde's of Clare,
                                
                                  þo banerettis ilkone fro Douer to Durham ware.

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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 301
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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