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
the said Ile were much giuen to witchcraft and sorcerie (which they
learned of the Scots a nation greatlie bent to that horrible practise)
in somuch that their women would oftentimes sell wind to the mariners,
inclosed vnder certeine knots of thred, with this iniunction, that they
which bought the same, should for a great gale vndoo manie, and for the
[Sidenote: Tall men in Man.]
lesse a fewer or smaller number. The stature of the men and also
fertilitie of this Iland are much commended, and for the latter supposed
verie néere to be equall with that of Anglesei, in all commodities.
There are also these townes therein, as they come now to my remembrance,
Rushen, Dunglasse, Holme towne, S. Brids, Bala cury (the bishops house)
S. Mich. S. Andrew, kirk Christ, kirk Louel, S. Mathees, kirk S. Anne,
Pala sala, kirk S. Marie, kirk Concane, kirk Malu, and Home. But of all
these Rushen with the castell is the strongest. It is also in recompense
[Sidenote: Riuers.]
of the common want of wood, indued with sundrie pretie waters, as first
of al the Burne rising in the northside of Warehill botoms, and
branching out by southwest of kirk S. An, it séemeth to cut off a great
part of the eastside thereof, from the residue of that Iland. From those
hils also (but of the south halfe) commeth the Holme and Holmey, by a
towne of the same name, in the verie mouth whereof lieth the Pile afore
mentioned. They haue also the Bala passing by Bala cury, on the
westside, and the Rame on the north, whose fall is named Ramesei hauen,
as I doo read in Chronicles.
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