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.

                                
                                  In alle þis grete pres praied þe kyng of France,
                                
                                  þe Scottis suld haf pes þorgh Edward sufferance.
                                
                                  Vnto þe messengere, þat Philip to him sent,
                                
                                  He gaf þe treus a ȝere, & þan to London went.
                                
                                  Feyntise, liþt duellyng, on mornes long to lie,
                                
                                  Surfeyte in euenyng, & luf of licchorie,
                                
                                  Affiance of feloun, of enmys haf pite,
                                
                                  Wille without resoun, conseile of wise men fle,
                                
                                  Wynnyng forto hold, & gyue not largely,
                                
                                  þe Bretons men of told, forsoke suilk party.
                                
                                  Of Arthure men say, þat rede of him in pas,
                                
                                  Alle tymes in medle euer more first he was
                                
                                  Mornyng & euenyng, sobre & honest.
                                
                                  Felons þat wild him greue, or enmys þat mad chest,
                                
                                  Als he was worþi had he jugement.
                                
                                  Had he of non merci, for praiere no present,
                                
                                  At conseil & at nede he was a skilfulle kyng,
                                
                                  So curteis of non men rede, ne prince of more praysing
                                
                                  Was non in Cristendam, als he was in his tyme,
                                
                                  Ne suilk on ȝit non cam þat man may mak of ryme.
                                
                                  I told ȝow þis resoun, & for ensample sette,
                                
                                  If þe kyng wild haf don þe purale als he hette,
                                
                                  þorghout Inglond, enselid & with scrite,
                                
                                  Bi tyme had mad þat bond, & drawen it not o lite,
                                
                                  It had bien his heires prowe, þe lond had bien alle his,
                                
                                  Long tyme or now, þat now in aucnture is.
                                
                                  þe date a þousand was, & þre hundred euen,
                                
                                  At Lincoln þe parlement was in Lyndesay & Kesteuen.

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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 311
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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