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.

                                
                                   [Ne Normaund, ne Pi|kard, ne ly Burgylloun, Ne Vienays, ne Bascle, ne Bra|ban, ne Bretouns, &c. MSS. Gall.] Of Huneys er þei clene, Pikard & Burgoilloun,
                                
                                  Of Bascel & Viene, of Braban & Bretoun.
                                
                                  þat tyme no at a noþer had þe Frankis no foisoun,
                                
                                  þei & alle þe toþer þe Flemmynges laid þam doun.
                                
                                  þat schame has ȝit non ende, no þat vpbraidyng,
                                
                                  þat on France salle lende, for falsnes of þer kyng.
                                
                                  Now salle we turne ageyn tille our owen lessoun,
                                
                                  Whan Charles courte is pleyn, I gyue it my malisoun.
                                
                                  ¶ þe date was euenlik, a þousand þre hundred & tuo, [Mo. CCCo. IIo.] 
                                
                                   [Le Count de Kar|ryk les Escotz werpist As genz le Rey Edward de gre se rendist. Ly quens Vum|fray de Boune cel an a fem|me prist La fylle al Rey Edward, Elizabeth est dist, &c. Gall.] Whan þe erle of Karrik turned þe Scottis fro.
                                
                                  Sir Umfrey Boun þe kyng his wife wedded þat ȝere
                                
                                  Edward douhter þe kyng, Elizabeth þat clere.
                                
                                  In alle þise spekynges men ȝede þat wer wise
                                
                                  Bituexen þise tuo kynges, þat no contek suld rise,
                                
                                  Bot contene forth þe trew vnto þe Paske's terme
                                
                                  Fro þe Saynt Andrew, so long þe pes to afferme.
                                
                                  Of þis þe kyng of France praied Sir Edward,
                                
                                  þat with his sufferance & leue in forward
                                
                                  Suffre þe Scottis to go, þat men þat he for sent. [Peticio pro Scottis facta.] 
                                
                                  þe kyng tille alle þo gaf leue, & þei alle went.
                                
                                  ¶ For perille of suilk goynges þe kyng purueied to go,
                                
                                  Sir Jon of Hastynges he was first of þo,
                                
                                  & Sir Emery þe Brette, to [Sic.]  Goscoyn forto wende,
                                
                                  To bide þe terme sette, þe treus how it suld ende.

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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 318
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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