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.

                                
                                   [Nos Englays crioums, laschesse sait maldist, [vel, soit maudit] Kar qaunt al melz ferir, [vel, a meuz ferrir,] plus auoms delit. Deshonour nous veent [vel, vynt] & pert par respit, Jeo parle pur le|scot, qe laltrere assayllist, Nos Englays en Escoce par as|saut subit. Sire Jon de Se|graue son chemyn reprist, &c. MSS. Gall.] þe Inglis men were wone, to wery long trayne;
                                
                                  Of bataile better cone, lite was alle þer payne.
                                
                                  Dishonour haf þei ay of þer long respite,
                                
                                  I spak þis for a day, þe Scottis assailed þam tite,
                                
                                  ¶ Our men in Scotland with sautes sodeynly.
                                
                                  þe Segraue myght not stand, Sir Jon tok the gayn stie. [De fuga Johannis Segraue & occisione Anglorum.] 
                                
                                  His sonne & his broþer of bedde als þei woke,
                                
                                  & sextene knyghtes oþer, þe Scottis alle þam toke.
                                
                                  Sergeantz wele þritty alle ȝald þam þat while,
                                
                                  On þei slouh smertly, Sir Thomas de Neuile.
                                
                                  Sir Rauf þe Coffrers þat tyme was Tresorere,
                                
                                  He was on of þer pers, his life was alle in wehere.
                                
                                  He bed grete catelle, his lif forto saue,
                                
                                  Sir Symon þe Freselle þat ilk catelle suld haue.
                                
                                  Symon was austere, to Rauf spak fulle grim:
                                
                                  "þat mad þe Tresorere þou has desceyued him,
                                
                                  "& me & many mo, fro our wages ȝede quite.
                                
                                  "Sir Rauf þou resceyued þo, bi taile & bi scrite,
                                
                                  "þou did vs more trauaile, ilk man þou reft his wage.
                                
                                  "Now salle I wite þe taile, & put þe in þe Arerage,
                                
                                  "Of preste þou has no merke, albe ne non amite,
                                
                                  "Bot laced in a hauberke, þai is no clerkis abite.
                                
                                  "For alle þo clerkes of Rome, þat sing in kirk or rede,
                                
                                  "þou salle haf þi dome, als þou serued in dede.

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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 319
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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