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.

                                  
                                    THE prince after þe fest sone his leue toke, [Iter arri|puit versus Scociam.] 
                                  
                                    With jolif men of gest toward þe North he schoke,
                                  
                                    To chace kyng Robyn, where he myght him fynde,
                                  
                                    þat slouh þe gode Comyn, destroie him rote & rynde.
                                  
                                    His fader Edward, North mad his jorne,
                                  
                                    Him toke a sekenes hard, at [Lanercost vulgo. Et sic MSS. Gall.]  Laynertost lay he.
                                  
                                    Bot Jhesu þorgh his myght, blissed mot he be,
                                  
                                    Reised him vp right, & passed þat hage.
                                  
                                     [Maintenaunt apres surdrent [vel sour|drount] les dolours As ab|bes, as euesques, as clers & lays plusours De la tere de|scoce a [vel as] gentz souent periours, MSS. Gall.] þer after ros hard schoures in Scotlond of þe clergie,
                                  
                                    Bisshops, abbotes, & priours, þei had misborn þam hie,
                                  
                                    & alle þat fals blode, þat often was forsuorn,
                                  
                                    þat neuer in treuth stode, sen Jhesu Criste was born.
                                  
                                    ¶ Sire Eymere of Valence lay at Saynt Jon toun, [Dominus Eymerus de Valen|cia apud Sanctum Johannem. Et de bello de Metfen.] 
                                  
                                    In his alience with many erle & baroun.
                                  
                                    Of Scotlond þe best were þan in his feith,
                                  
                                    þer þei gan alle rest, tille þei herd oþer greith.
                                  
                                    Sir Robert þe Brus sent to Sir Eymere,
                                  
                                    & bad he suld refus þat him had forsaken ilk a pantenerc.
                                  
                                    þe traytours of hise þat him had forsaken
                                  
                                    þei suld to þe Jewise, whan þei þe toun had taken.
                                  
                                    þe toþer day on þe morn com þe Brus Roberd,
                                  
                                    þe toun wist it beforn, þorgh spies þat þei herd.
                                  
                                    Sir Eymere wild haf gon out, Sir Ingram Vmfreyuile
                                  
                                    Preid him forto lout, tille it were none þat while.
                                  
                                    "If we now out wende, & leue þe toun alone,
                                  
                                    "þei gete þe faired ende, & we be slayn ilkone.

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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 333
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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