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.

                                
                                   [Taunt fust la traine longe de la pees parler, Ke ioe ne say ne pusse la maite recorder, MSS. Gall.] So long was þe trayne, or it wer brouht to stalle,
                                
                                  It were to me grete payne, forto telle it alle.
                                
                                  I wote wele at þe last alle com þei oute,
                                
                                  Withouten conaunt cast, tille his mercy gan loute.
                                
                                  Boldely þei camen, & schewed þam to his face,
                                
                                  Felle it to gode or grame, þei did þam in his grace.
                                
                                  þe castelle now is ȝolden, þe kyng dos wardeyns wise,
                                
                                  To kepe þe lond & dres, þe folk forto justise.
                                
                                  þe lond was so wast, he mad þer no soioure,
                                
                                  Tille Inglond in hast he turned with honoure.
                                
                                  ¶ þe moneth of September ȝolden was Striuelyn, [Ecce de Traileba|stoun.] 
                                
                                  Edward may remembre þe trauaile & þe pyn.
                                
                                  With many grete encumbre of in hard stoure,
                                
                                  At Brustwik opon Humbre þer he mad soioure.
                                
                                  Sir Jon of Warenne þat ilk tyme gan deie,
                                
                                  His body was redy þen in graue forto leie.
                                
                                  After þe enterment þe kyng tok his way,
                                
                                  To þe South he went þorgh Lyndesay.
                                
                                  He spired as he ȝede, who did suilk trespas,
                                
                                  Brak his pes with dede, tille he in Scotlond was,
                                
                                  Of suilk suld be spoken, if men of þam pleyned,
                                
                                  þo þat þe pes had broken, if þei mot be atteyned.
                                
                                  ¶ [Re|spouns ount fet al Reiz gentz de bien voillaunce, Coment par my la tere fet est graunt greuaunce, Par commune contekours, qe sunt par fi|aunce Obligez ensemble a vne purueaunce, Traylba|stouns sunt nomez de cel re|tenaunce. En faires & en marches se profrerent [vel proferent] fere couenaunce, Pur. iij. souz ou. iiii. ou pur la vayllaunce Batre vn prod|home, qe vnqes fist nosaunce, &c. MSS. Gall.]  Wise men of gode gaf ansuere to þe kyng, [De Traile|bastone per totum.] 
                                
                                  þat suilk foles ȝode, it was certeyn þing,

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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 327
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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