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.

                                  
                                    THE kyng after þe Pask his messengere sent, [De parlia|mento apud Londone.] 
                                  
                                    For þe bisshopes askis to com to þe parlement,
                                  
                                    For erles & barons at London suld it be,
                                  
                                    Four [Pro, knyghtes.]  knyghtes be somons chosen in ilk counte.
                                  
                                    ¶ First þe nemnid alle þe, þe purale suld make, [Prima ra|cio.] 
                                  
                                    þat þorgh þe reame suld go, þe boundes forto stake.
                                  
                                    Whan it wer brouht tille ende, & stabled & sette,
                                  
                                    To gyue þe penie tuentende þe kyng þer þei hette.
                                  
                                    ¶ þis was þe toþer reson, men þan suld þei ȝare [Secunda.] 
                                  
                                    For þe lond of Gascon, to Rome forto fare,
                                  
                                    To wite at þe pape, why he mad delay,
                                  
                                    þe tyme he wild not rape, no set a certeyn day,
                                  
                                    þat Edward suld haue þe lond of Gascoun,
                                  
                                    His seignorie to saue, als it was resoun.
                                  
                                    ¶ Now was þis þe þridde of þat parlement, [Tercia.] 
                                  
                                    For chance þat him bitidde, þe kyng þus þam bisent.
                                  
                                    "I praie ȝow in þis nede, to help me with ȝour oste,
                                  
                                    "þe Scottis on me bede, I wild abate þer boste.
                                  
                                    To maynten his partie þei hete to help him wele,
                                  
                                    He aiorned þam to relie in þe North at Carlele,
                                  
                                    After Midesomer's tide þorgh comon ordinance,
                                  
                                    No lenger suld þei bide, bot forth & stand to chance.
                                  
                                    Norreis & Surreis, þat seruise auht þe kyng,
                                  
                                    With hors & herneis at Carlele mad samnyng.
                                  
                                    þe erle Marschalle Rogere no hele þat tyme mot haue,
                                  
                                    He went with his banere Sir Jon þe Segraue,
                                  
                                    To do alle þo seruise þat longed þe office tille,
                                  
                                    & mayntend alle þe prise, þer he sauh lawe & skille.

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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 309
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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