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.

                                
                                  & þer oure Inglis men resceyued fulle miry.
                                
                                  þe barons alle with blis brouht hir to Canterbiri,
                                
                                  & as þe courte of Rome had ordeynd þat spousale,
                                
                                  Right opon þat dome he weddid hir sanzfaile.
                                
                                  Robert of Wynchelse, þat corseynt is verray, [De nupciis Regis & Marga|retæ.] 
                                
                                  Did þat solem pnite opon a Wednesday,
                                
                                  Next þe lattere fest þat is of our Lady.
                                
                                  þe Wednesday formest þe kyng had fulle grete hy.
                                
                                  For on þe morn he went his way toward Scotland,
                                
                                  With ille auisement he did, & þat he fand.
                                
                                  Whan he was in þe Marche, he samned his oste,
                                
                                  þan was it bot a parche, & litelle with þe loste.
                                
                                  For him self alone toke þat viage,
                                
                                  Help asked he none of alle his baronage,
                                
                                  þat was for þe purale, þat he had þam hette,
                                
                                  He wild not do þer gre, þat terme þat he sette.
                                
                                  þe Scottis wist þat wele, & schewed him þe vis,
                                
                                  þer side was ilk a dele, in poynt to wynne þe pris.
                                
                                  Boldely þei bed bataile with visage fulle austere,
                                
                                  þe kynge's side gan faile, for he had no powere.
                                
                                  Ferrere mot he nouht, Scotlond forto se,
                                
                                  þat tyme no þing he wrouht, bot spendid his mone.
                                
                                  þe marche vnder wardeyn he left als it was ore,
                                
                                  Unto þe South ageyn he went, & did no more.
                                
                                  Whi þat he not sped, þis skille mot it be,
                                
                                  With hauelon þam led, to mak þe purale.

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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 308
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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