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.

                                  
                                     [Luy quens Gyllam de Flaundres, vers qi conten|cioun Ly Rey de Fraunce aueit, par sodayn achesoun, Vilement estait trahy par Charloun, &c. MSS. Gall.] KYNG Philip of France had erle William [Bellum in|ter Fran|ciam & Flandriam.] 
                                  
                                    A cheson for a chance, I ne wote whi it cam.
                                  
                                    Charles to William hette, he suld him sauely lede
                                  
                                    Unto þe parlement sette ageyn withouten drede.
                                  
                                    Whan William was comen, & wende no tresoun,
                                  
                                    Sone was he nomen, & don in prisoun.
                                  
                                    Now is þe erle þus schent, bondon in iren & stele,
                                  
                                    Philip to Flandres sent, & sesid it ilk a dele,
                                  
                                    & mad suilk wardeyns in his name to be,
                                  
                                    Destroied at þe geyns, þat þei mot find or se,
                                  
                                    Defoules þer wyues, þer douhtres lay bi,
                                  
                                    þer lordes slouh with knyues, of fo had þei merci.
                                  
                                    ¶ þe tounes spak of þis, þe folk gadred aboute,
                                  
                                    To renne on þe Frankis, þei samned gret route.
                                  
                                    þei folowed on þam hard þorgh out þat cuntre,
                                  
                                    þat Frankis & Pikard alle were fayn to fle.
                                  
                                    þo þat fleih þei ferd vnto þe kyng of France,
                                  
                                    þe kyng he it herd, tak he wille vengeance.
                                  
                                    Of knyght & of burgeis an oste he did relie,
                                  
                                    Bitauht it þe erle of Arteys, þat oste forto guye.
                                  
                                    He did þer no prow, he was first was doun,
                                  
                                     [Un ribaud li tuayt saunz confessioun, Gall.] A foule herlote him slowe, trut for his renoun;
                                  
                                    & oþer withouten numbir, þer names I may not telle,
                                  
                                    Alle þei ȝede tille encumbir, & er went to Helle.

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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 317
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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