The metrical chronicle of Robert of Gloucester. Edited by William Aldis Wright. Published by the authority of the lords commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, under the direction of the master of the rolls.

                                
                                  At þe torment of wareine · sir gilebert þe marschal · [At þe torment] at comemēt C. wareine] ware C. gilebert þe marschal] gilberd erl marchal C.] 
                                
                                  Defouled was þoru mesauntre · & debrused al · [Obitus marscalli.] 
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                                  & deide as tuelf hundred ȝer · & fourti & on · [as tuelf] in tuelf C. ȝer] ȝer of grace (originally) A.] 
                                
                                  Of grace & þo were dede · þe four breþeren echon ·
                                
                                  As þe tueie willames & richard · & gileberd atten ende ·
                                
                                  & god nolde non of hom · eir of is bodi sende · [10,907-10,909. See Appendix, Note WW.]  [.x. sorores,] 
                                
                                  Ac to four sostren & hor eirs · þe eritage was þo ·
                                
                                  To deled & to gadere · ne comþ neuer eft mo ·
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                                  Elianore of brutaine · deide ek þulke ȝer · [Hearne page 530] 
                                
                                  Þat was arþures soster · þat king Ion let sle er · [Þat was] at brystowe C.] 
                                
                                  Suþþe was gileberd ibore · þat richardes sone was · [þat . . . . was] of clare þat was C.]  [Ortus gil|berti de clare.] 
                                
                                  Of clare erl of gloucestre · as god ȝef þut cas · [Of clare] Suþþe C.] 
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                                  As tuelf hundred in ȝer of grace · & þre & fourti þer to · [ȝer] þe ȝer C.] 
                                
                                  Þo was is fader verst of elde · & out of warde ido ·
                                
                                  Erchebissop of canterburi · imad was þulke ȝer ·
                                
                                  Boneface · & þe erl of cornwaile · of wan we speke er · [wan] wham C.] 
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                                  Weddede dame ssenche · þat vr quene soster was · [ssenche] schenche C.] 
                                
                                  & þe quene soster of france · as god ȝef þut cas ·
                                
                                  & þe erles doȝter of prouince · & ir moder þe con|tesse ·
                                
                                  Brouȝte hire hider in to þis lond · & was her in glad|nesse ·
                                
                                  Fouke basset was suþþe imad · bissop of londone · [suþþe] om. C.] 
                                
                                  & sein Richard of chichestre · & edmond þe kinges sone ·

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Title: The metrical chronicle of Robert of Gloucester. Edited by William Aldis Wright. Published by the authority of the lords commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, under the direction of the master of the rolls.
Author: Robert, of Gloucester, fl. 1260-1300.
Canvas: Page 729
Publication: London,: Printed for H. M. Stationery off., by Eyre and Spottiswoode,; 1887.
Subject terms: English language -- Dialects -- England; English language; Great Britain -- History

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