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.

                                
                                  Sir Jon wild not so, þer for was he dede.
                                
                                  Bot Roberd wild do, & oþer þat gaf him rede,
                                
                                  þat he suld go to Scone, & mak redy þe se,
                                
                                  & whan it were alle bone, to tak þe dignite.
                                
                                   [Et la gerlaunde i prist, qe Reis solait porter, En signe de seignorye a son en|coronner, E mayntenaunt apres par tut fist crier Citez, burgs & villes, des Englays voyder. Euesqes deus estoy|ent primatz au [vel a] dubber Oue le abbe de Scone, qe puys lachata cher, [vel le chata chier,] Countes & ba|rouns, chiualer, esquier, Du realme descoce estoynt [vel estoyent] conseyller, Jurez en eyde al Breus, par tere & par mer, &c. MSS. Gall.] þe garland Roberd tok, þat whilom was þe right,
                                
                                  þe lond forto loke, in signe of kynge's myght.
                                
                                  Primatis bisshopes tuo þo with croice & ryng,
                                
                                  & an Abbot mo of Scone, þat dubbid þe kyng,
                                
                                  Erles, barons inowe mad him þer feaute,
                                
                                  With oth he did þam bowe, at his wille to be,
                                
                                  & alle Inglis men did he woyde þe lond,
                                
                                  þat þei mot fynde or ken in stede þer he þam fonde.
                                
                                  ¶ Now gos þe Brus about, werre he þinkis to hold,
                                
                                  þe Inglis þe katched out, to þe kyng þe told.
                                
                                  Edward þan he toke folk with his banere,
                                
                                  þe erle went of Penbroke, his name was Sir Eymere.
                                
                                  & oþer men fulle gode, barons & barons pere,
                                
                                  At tyme wele þei stode, & did þer deuere.
                                
                                  ¶ þe date was a þousand, þre hundred mo bi sex,
                                
                                  Whan þe werre of Scotland þorgh þe Brus eft wex.

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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 331
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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