Hearne, Thomas, ed., 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 (Oxford, Printed at the Theater, 1725). View Source Online

Text name(s): Story of England; Chronicle

Number of pages of primary source text: 341

Medieval Author(s): Mannyng, Robert of Brune Peter Langtoft

Dates: 1325 - 1325

Archival Reference:

Original Language(s): English - Middle English;

Translation: Original language included.

Translation Comments:

Geopolitical Region(s): England;

County/Region: Lincolnshire

Apparatus: Glossary Appendices Introduction

Comments:

Robert Mannying was a Gilbertine monk in Lincolnshire, and author of two known works. His Story of England is a translation of Wace’s Roman de Brut from Anglo-Norman into Middle English, from the time of the Romans up to King Cadwalader. After that, he translates Peter of Langtoft’s Anglo-Norman chronicle from Cadwalader up the the reign of Edward III. This volume includes only the second half, the sections translated from Peter Langtoft. The book includes as appendices some rather miscellaneous texts from later dates: (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. There is also a rather eccentric glossary. The full book is available on the Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse website.

Introduction Summary:

The book includes a lengthy introduction, but since it was written nearly 300 years ago, it is more valuable as a source for 18th-century historiography than as background information for Robert Mannyng’s text.

Cataloger: MK