Chronicles (1 of 6): The Description of BritaineHolinshed, Raphael
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Chronicles (1 of 6): The Description of Britaine
Holinshed, Raphael
Great Britain -- History -- To 1485; Great Britain -- History -- Tudors, 1485-1603
After this, procéeding on still with our course, we fetched a compasse,
going out of the north toward the west, and then turning againe (as the
coast of the countrie leadeth) vntill we sailed full south, leauing the
shore still on our right hand, vntill we came vnto a couple of Iles,
which doo lie vpon the mouth of the Soch, one of them being distant (as
we gessed) a mile from the other, and neither of them of anie greatnesse
almost worthie to be remembred. The first that we came vnto is called
[Sidenote: Tudfall.]
Tudfall, and therein is a church, but without anie parishioners, except
they be shéepe and conies. The quantitie thereof also is not much aboue
[Sidenote: Penthlin.]
six acres of ground, measured by the pole. The next is Penthlin, Myrach,
or Mererosse, situat in maner betwixt Tudfall or Tuidall and the shore,
and herein is verie good pasture for horsses, wherof (as I take it) that
[Sidenote: Guelyn.]
name is giuen vnto it. Next vnto them, we come vnto Gwelyn, a little Ile
which lieth southeast of the fall of Daron or Daren, a thing of small
quantitie, and yet almost parted in the mids by water, and next of all
vnto Bardsey an Iland lieng ouer against Periuincle the southwest point
or promontorie of Northwales (where Merlin Syluestris lieth buried) and
whither the rest of the monks of Bangor did flie to saue themselues,
when 2100. of their fellowes were slaine by the Saxon princes in the
quarell of Augustine the monke, & the citie of Caerleon or Chester raced
to the ground, and not since reedified againe to anie purpose. Ptolomie
calleth this Iland Lymnos, the Britons Enlhi, and therein also is a
parish-church, as the report goeth. From hence we cast about, gathering
still toward the northest, till we came to Caer Ierienrhod, a notable
rocke situat ouer against the mouth of the Leuenni, wherein standeth a
strong hold or fortresse, or else some towne or village. Certes we could
not well discerne whether of both it was, bicause the wind blew hard at
southwest, the morning was mistie, and our
mariners doubting some flats to be couched not far from thence, hasted
awaie vnto Anglesei, whither we went a pace with a readie wind euen at
our owne desire.
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