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.

                                  
                                    IN þis ȝere, als I told, at þe Whitsonen day, [De solem|pnitate festi Regis apud West|monaste|rium.] 
                                  
                                    þe kyng his fest suld hold at Westmynstre fulle gay,
                                  
                                    His sonne Edward þe prince, & fiftene for his sake,
                                  
                                    þre [Others say, that the whole number then knighted was, two hundred threescore and seven. See Dugdale's Baronage, Tom. I. p. 80. b.]  hundred of þe prouince, knyghtes wild he make.
                                  
                                    It was þe kynges costage, for ilk a knyght was gest,
                                  
                                    Also þei mad mariage of som þat were þe best.
                                  
                                    þe ȝong erle of Warenne with grete nobley was þare,
                                  
                                    A wif [Dugdale observes (loc. cit.) that John E. of War|ren, having an offer made unto him by the King, in his Cham|ber at Westminster, in Parlia|ment, upon Munday next, be|fore the feast of S. Edward, King and Martyr, 33 Edw. I. of Joan, Daughter to Henry, Earl of Baar, gratefully accepted there|of (he being not then fully twenty one years of age) and took her to wife.]  þei him bikenne, þe erle's douhter of Bare.
                                  
                                    þe [Le Count de Aroundel, saisie de ses feez, Il prist la damoisele, ki [vel qe] pere fu clamez Willam de Warenne, a dieu comaun|dcz, MSS. Gall.]  erle of Arundelle his londes lauht he þan,
                                  
                                    & toke a damyselle, William douhter of Warenne.
                                  
                                    ȝong Sir Hugh was þare, þe Spensere stoute & gay,
                                  
                                    Gilbert douhter of Clare wedded he þat day.
                                  
                                    It is not to wene, bot certeynly to witen,
                                  
                                    Joye inouh is sene, þer suilk a fest is smyten.
                                  
                                    In alle Breteyn was nouht, siþen Criste was born,
                                  
                                    A fest so noble wrouht aftere no biforn,
                                  
                                    Out tak Carleon, þat was in Arthure tyme,
                                  
                                    þare he bare þe coroune, þereof ȝit men ryme.

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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 332
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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