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.

                                  
                                    AFTER þe Pask sone þe kyng did make alle ȝare, [De capci|oneStriue|lyn.] 
                                  
                                    þat þis oste were bone, to Striuelyn to fare.
                                  
                                    Whan þei were alle comen, þei ȝede about to se,
                                  
                                    How it mot be nomen, & þe engynes set suld be.
                                  
                                    Thrittene grete engynes, of alle þe reame þe best,
                                  
                                    Brouht þei to Striuelyne, þe kastelle doun to kest.
                                  
                                    Tuo knyghtes were þer in, þe castelle had in warde,
                                  
                                    Sir William of Depplyn, Sir William Olifarde,
                                  
                                     [Et. xx. gentyls homes, saunz pages & porter, Un frere Jacobyn, vn moygne counsayller, MSS. Gall.] & tuenti of honour, without page & portere,
                                  
                                    & a frere prechoure, a monke þe conseilere.
                                  
                                    þer was with in þrittene maydens & ladies,
                                  
                                    & no mo men to mene, þat felle to telle of pris.
                                  
                                    An engyn had þei þer in, & profred for to kast,
                                  
                                    þe ȝerde brast in tuyn, to help mot it not last.
                                  
                                    þe engyns with oute, to kast were þei sette,
                                  
                                    Wallis & kirnels stoute, þe stones doun bette.
                                  
                                    ¶ þe kyng did mak right ȝare an hidous engyn,
                                  
                                    þe name þei cald Ludgare or Lurdare of Striuelyn.
                                  
                                    Whan þei kest þerto, þe walle þorghout þei clef,
                                  
                                    & non oþer did so bifor him alle doun dref.
                                  
                                    þre monethes & þre days þe sege so long þei teld,
                                  
                                    Fulle & hard affrays had alle þo þat it held.
                                  
                                    Sore þei were trauailed, & socour com þam non,
                                  
                                    & alle þer store failed, þer mete was nere gon.
                                  
                                    Tille þer kyng þei sent, þei wild be at his wille,
                                  
                                    Bot he wild not consent, he þouht to do þam ille.

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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 326
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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