Als his dedes was, þer on þei gaf þe lawe,
For som of his trespas first þei did him drawe.
Sipen for oper theft, þei hanged him men witen,
Sipen lete him doun eft, & his hede of snyten,
& born to London brigge fulle hie with outheys,
Biside his broper to bigge William þe Waleys,
þat neuer had pite of Inglis man no weys,
Bot brent toun & citez, kirkes & abbeys,

Chanon, monk & frere alle passed porgh his suerd,

Was no man so dere, to dede þei gede in ferd.
Blissed be pou God, þat þou in erth cam,

þi word is wele trod, I say it, bi William.

pou said, "with suerd þat smote, with suerd suld be smyten,' Bi þe Waleis it bote, pe vengeance ze may witen.

A! Jhesu, fulle of myght, þat alle pe world salle deme,

May no man lyue so right, no so wele him geme,
No so stalworth be, ne so douhti of dede,
þat has powere to fle pe dede pat is to drede.
Adam first gan synne, did þat God forbede,
Alle we were bim inne, whan he serued pe dede."
Sipen he & we alle com of him & Eue,

borgh be dede salle falle, be we neuer so leue.
þe hardy kỳng Belyn þe cite of Rome wan,
& sipen Constantýn & Maximian.

Arthure wan alle France, slouh pe Emperour of

Rome,

þise of suerd ne lance douted dynt no dome,

Exemplum.

De morte Regis Edwardi.

S

Magni & parvi,
omnes & singuli,
reges & principes,
superbus & humi-
lis, proth dolor! in
prædam rapit omnia
sillaba quædam.

Moriebatur apud Burgh bi sandes.

pise kinges men dred, & alle be world þam knewe,

For alle per grete boldehed, be dede zit doun þam threwe.
Where ere ere" now alle pise, where ere bei bicomen,

I

pise hardy men & wise? be dede has alle bam nomen.
Among alle pise hardie may Edward our kyng

:

Be sette fulle solempnelie, & mad of grete praising.
Sen þe dede of Arthure in Inlond was per non,
þat so welę stode in stoure ageyn his foos ilkon.
þis was Edward, kyng Henry sonne þe last,
Tiping haf we hard, be 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?

2

"be prince is heire porgh lauh, pat to be coroun him bede. "He has mad his vowe, to stroie pe kyng Robyn,

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'pat in Dunfres slowe Sir Jon be rede Comýn.

His dede whan it felle here, be date I salle zow neuen,
Of Criste a pousand gere, pre hundred & seuen,

In be monep of July euen pe scuend day.

Toward Scotlond to hie, at Burgh bi sandez he laỷ,
His tyme was no more sette here to regne in landes,

He died at a hamelette, men calle it Burgh bisandes.
Ostensa est I be body þat nýght þer lay, pe soule at Criste's dome,

papæ mors éjus eadem

nocte per visionem.

be pape be toper day wist it in pe courte of Rome.

þe pape on þe morn bifor þe clergie cam,

& teld þam biforn, þe floure of Cristendam

I Dele. 2 Edward le fiz
Edward, Rey de la tenure,

Ke tenuz est par vowe, le
Rey Robin destrure, Gall.

Was

Was dede, & lay on bere, Edward of Inglond.
He said with heuy chere in spirit he it fond.
Fiue zere he gaf pardoun, of peyns to be fre,
þat for him with deuocioun said pater & aue.
To Waltham þei him brouht, baronage & þe clergie,
For monethes for him wrouht his seruise solempnelie.
þei bawmid his body, tresore wild þei non spare,
þe pouere þei gaf party, his soule bettere to fare.
Four & tuenty zere, auht monethes & fiue daies,
Noblie regned he here, bi profe & gode assaies.
Fro Waltham beforsaid to Westminster þei him brouht,
Biside his fadere is laid in a toumbe wele wrouht.
Of marble is þe stone, & purtreied þer he lies,

þe soule to God is gone, to be joye of paradis, Amen.
Now must I nede leue here, of Inglis forto write,
I had no more matere of kynges lif in scrite.
If I had haned more, blithly I wild haf writen,
What tyme I left þis lore, þe day is for to witen,
Idus þat is of May left I to write his rýme,
B letter & Friday bi ix. þat zere gede prime.

It should be D.

The End of Langtoft's Chronicle.

The

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The Certificat of Richarde Pollard and Thomas Moyle, esquyers, generall Surveyors of the King's Highnes Landes, made upon the Survey of the Lordships, Mannours, Landes, Tenementes, Woodes, Parkes, Fisshings, Waters, and other hereditaments, belonging to the late attainted Monasterie of Glastonburye, lying and beyng in sondry Counties, hereafter specified, now in the King's handes, by the Attaincture of Richard Whiting, late Abbat of the same, of haute treson attainted. And according unto the vew therof by us in particular Bokes made doe declare, as hereafter doth ensue, videlicet,

The State, Value and Condition of the sayde Landes,
Woods, Waters, Games of Fesauntes, Games of Suannes,
Heronsewes, and all other possessions, as well Spiri-
tuall as Temporall, apperteyning unto the saide late
atteyned Monasterye of Glastonbury within

The Countie of SOMERSETSHIRE.

Temporalties.

The Lordship of Glastonburye. Demaynes kept in the Abbatt's handes. THE Demaines whiche don apperteyne unto

the sayde late Monasterye attaynted, beyng allwayes kept in the handes and occupation of the saide Abbat and Convent, unto the tyme of th'attaincture therof, over and besydes certayn other Demayne Landes, XLVII li. letton to divers persons by Indenture for termexs. viiid. of theire lyves, (the parcells wherof in the particular Boke of Survey, at this present tyme therof made, severally don appere) ar of the yerely value of

Rentes of Assise and Customary Tenannts. The Rente of Assise of the Freholders apperteyning unto the saide Lordeship of Glaston

burye,