Mercier and Chervet, Printers, Bartholomew Close, London.

CHRONICLE,

(as illustrated and improv'd by RO-
BERT 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 Dissolu-
tion, taken by King Hen. the Eighth's order and for his
use. (2) An Account of the Hospital of St. Mary Ma-
gdalen near Scroby in Nottinghamshire, by John Slacke,
Master of that Hospital. (3) Two Tracts by an ano-
nymous Author; the first relating to Conquest in So-
mersetshire, the second concerning Stone-henge.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

OXFORD,

Printed at the THEATER, M. DCC. XXV.

Plinius in Præfatione Natural. Histor. ad Vespasianum Augustum.

Res ardua, vetustis novitatem dare, novis auctoritatem, obsoletis nitorem, obscuris lucem, fastiditis gratiam, dubiis fidem, omnibus vero naturam, & naturæ suæ omnia.

THE CONTENTS.

1. THE Publisher's Preface.

pag. ix.

11. De Petro Longatosta [lege Longatofta.] E Pitseo

de illustrib. Angliæ Scriptoribus.

XCIV.

III. De eodem. E Lelandi Comm. de Scriptorib.

Brit.

XCV.

IV. De eodem. E Bibliotheca Gesneri.

ibid.

V. Concerning Peter de Langetoft. Out of Bp. Nicol-

son's Eng. Historical Library.

XCVI.

VI. Robert of Brunne's Prologue to his Chronicle.

ibid.

VII. Extract of a Letter, relating to Robert of

Brunne and Peter de Langtoft, written

Vol. I.

from London to the Publisher by the late learned

John Bridges, Esq. Nov. 28. 1723.

CI.

VIII. Robert of Brunne's Transition (called a Pro-

logue by Mr. Bridges) from the first to the second

Part of his Chronicle.

CV.

1X. The Proceedings of the Abbat and Convent of

Winchester against Joan of London, A. D. 1285.

From an old MS. Fragment of that Age, given to the

Publisher by Thomas Ward of Longbridge near

Warwick, Esq.

CVII.

X. A Letter concerning the reputed Nunnery at Lit-

tle-Gidding in Huntingtonshire. From a MS. lent

to the Publisher on July 6th. 1724. by the foresaid

Thomas Ward, of Longbridge near Warwick,

Esq.

CIX.

XI. A Copy of the printed Pamphlet about the reputed

Nunnery at Little-Gidding in Huntingtonshire.

CXXV.

XII. Dr. Wallis's Account of some Passages of his

own Life. E Coll. MSS. Smithianis
E Coll. MSS. Smithianis penes Editorem,

Vol. 22. p. 38.

CXL.

XIII. An Extract of a Letter from Dr. John Wallis to Dr.

John Fell, then Lord Bishop of Oxford, dated April

8. 1685. concerning the Report spread about of Dr.

Wallis's deciphering King Charles the Ist's. Letters. E

Coll.