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.

                                
                                  þise kynges men dred, & alle þe world þam knewe,
                                
                                  For alle þer grete boldehed, þe dede ȝit doun þam threwe.
                                
                                  Where ere `ere [Dele.]   now alle þise, where ere þei bicomen,
                                
                                  þise hardy men & wise? þe dede has alle þam nomen.
                                
                                  Among alle þise hardie may Edward our kyng
                                
                                  Be sette fulle solempnelie, & mad of grete praisyng.
                                
                                  Sen þe dede of Arthure in Inlond was þer non,
                                
                                  þat so wele stode in stoure ageyn his foos ilkon.
                                
                                  þis was Edward, kyng Henry sonne þe last,
                                
                                  Tiþing haf we hard, þe dede him doun has kast.
                                
                                  Now may men sing & say, in romance & ryme,
                                
                                  "Edward is now away, right has lorn his tyme.
                                
                                  "Sir Jon of Badenauh, who salle venge þi dede?
                                
                                  " [Edward le fiz Edward, Rey de la tenure, Ke tenuz est par vowe, le Rey Robin destrure, Gall.] þe prince is heire þorgh lauh, þat to þe coroun him bede.
                                
                                  "He has mad his vowe, to stroie þe kyng Robyn,
                                
                                  "þat in Dunfres slowe Sir Jon þe rede Comyn.
                                
                                  His dede whan it felle here, þe date I salle ȝow neuen,
                                
                                  Of Criste a þousand ȝere, þre hundred & seuen, [Moriebatur apud Burgh bi sandes.] 
                                
                                  In þe moneþ of July euen þe seuend day.
                                
                                  Toward Scotlond to hie, at Burgh bi sandez he lay,
                                
                                  His tyme was no more sette here to regne in landes,
                                
                                  He died at a hamelette, men calle it Burgh bisandes.
                                
                                  ¶ þe body þat nyght þer lay, þe soule at Criste's dome, [Ostensa est papæ mors ejus eadem nocte per visionem.] 
                                
                                  þe pape þe toþer day wist it in þe courte of Rome.
                                
                                  þe pape on þe morn bifor þe clergie cam,
                                
                                  & teld þam biforn, þe floure of Cristendam

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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 340
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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