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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 seint hillari tid · þis parlement was · [Incarce|racio r. de ferers.] Þer was þe erl of ferers · ibrouȝt in hard cas · [in hard] in an hard C.] Vor he hadde after þe pais · robberie iwroȝt · Þe king wolde in ech manere · þat he were to deþe ibroȝt · [in ech . . . . were] þt he were in eche manere C.] Sir simon de mountford · wisliche dude inou · [simon de mountford] symond de montfort C.] 11,460 Vor he wolde in eiþer half · riȝt do & no wou · In þe tour of londone · in prisoun he let him bringe · Vor to saui is lif · & to paye þe kinge · Þo was þe erl of gloucetre · anuid uor mani dede · [gloucetre anuid] gloucestre anuyed C.] Þat he huld so prisons · al wiþoute is rede · 11,465 Vor suich man as he was · me tolde of him to lute · [lute] lite C.] & him þouȝte þat þer was · mid sir simon to gret prute · & me sede he was adrad · þat me him nome al so · [me sede he] men sede þt he C.] Wiþ treson vor he was hext · & in prison him lete do · 11,469 Sir Ion giffard þo verst · aȝe sir simond turnde · Vor he askede prisouns · þat me mid riȝte wurnde · [wurnde] hym wurnde C.] Vor he was him sulf at lewes · sone inome bi cas · Ac sir willam matrauers · a kniȝt þat mid him was · In þe bataile suþþe inome · sir reinaud le fiȝ peris · [inome] nom C.] [Hearne page 551] & sir alein de la souche · þat barons were iwis · Ac he let hom suþþe go · & sir reinaud was þer · In þe bataile suþþe inome · Iarmed as he was er ·
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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.
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Robert, of Gloucester, fl. 1260-1300.
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Page 753
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London,: Printed for H. M. Stationery off., by Eyre and Spottiswoode,
1887.
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English language -- Dialects -- England
English language
Great Britain -- History

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