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.

                                
                                  "No tille prince no kyng it is no maner told
                                
                                  "To mak eft lokyng, ne deme þat dere was sold.
                                
                                  "Sir, fairere þe wore, graunte vs þi curteysie,
                                
                                  "þan parties pinched more, þe auantage set so hie,
                                
                                  "þat þou may gyue with right, whan þou wille & how,
                                
                                  "þat salle not be þorgh sight demed of lesse þan þou.
                                
                                  "Put þe not so louh, to deme þi power fre,
                                
                                  "ȝeld vs þat þou ouh, & we salle luf þe,
                                
                                  "& serue þe we wille alle at þin avis,
                                
                                  "& help þe at skille, to renne on þin enmys.
                                
                                  ¶ He sent þam bode ageyn, schortely to say & here, [Non vult Rex adqui|escere dictis baro|num.] 
                                
                                  þer prayere was in veyn, to ese þam in no manere;
                                
                                  His wille & his auise, þat he asked certeyn.
                                
                                  þei ȝede be partise, disputed þer ageyn.
                                
                                  þe parties wer so felle altercand on ilk side,
                                
                                  þat non þe soth couth telle, whedir pes or werre suld tidc,
                                
                                  Bot God þat is of myght, & may help whan he wille.
                                
                                  For for boþe þe parties dight, & put þam in þis skille,
                                
                                  þat or Michelmesse þei suld reise to þe kyng
                                
                                  þe fiftend penie no lesse, for þer Chartre selyng,
                                
                                  & for þe purale, set with certeyn bounde,
                                
                                  þorgh þe lond suld be delaied no lengere stounde,
                                
                                  On þat þei grantid, & abated alle þer þro,
                                
                                  Whan þe kyng wild þam calle, to Scotlond suld þei go.
                                
                                  ¶ ȝit our [Sic.]  messengrs for Gascoyn were at Rome,
                                
                                  Foure lordes fulle fers, to here þe pape's dome,
                                
                                  þer foure at Rome ware, to areson þe pape,
                                
                                  þe right forto declare, & for þe parties so schape,

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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 314
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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