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
But to go forward with my description of the Ouse, which being past
Oxford goeth to Iflie, Kennington, Sanford, Rodleie, Newnham, and so to
Abington, som time called Sensham, without increase, where it receiueth
[Sidenote: Ocus.]
the Oche, otherwise called the Coche, a little beneath S. Helens, which
runneth thither of two brooklets, as I take it, whereof one commeth from
Compton, out of the vale and west of the hill of the White horsse, the
other from Kings Letcombe, and Wantage in Barkshire, and in one chanell,
entreth into the same, vpon the right side of his course. From Abington
[Sidenote: Arun.]
likewise (taking the Arun withall southwest of Sutton Courtneie) it
goeth by Appleford, long Wittenham, Clifton, Wittenham the lesse, &
beneath Dorchester, taketh in the Thame water, from whence the Isis
loseth the preheminence of the whole denomination of this riuer, and is
contented to impart the same with the Thame, so that by the coniunction
of these two waters Thamesis is producted, and that name continued euen
vnto the sea.
[Sidenote: Thame.]
Thame riuer riseth in the easterlie parts of Chilterne hils, towards
Penleie parke, at a towne called Tring west of the said parke, which is
seauen miles from the stone bridge, that is betweene Querendon and
Ailsburie (after the course of the water) as Leland hath set downe.
Running therefore by long Merston, and Puttenham, Hucket, and Bearton,
it receiueth soone after a rill that commeth by Querendon from Hardwike,
and yer long an other on the other side that riseth aboue Windouer in
the Chilterne, and passing by Halton, Weston, Turrill, Broughton, and
Ailsburie, it falleth into the Tame west of the said towne (except my
memorie doo faile me.) From this confluence the Tame goeth by Ethorpe,
the Winchingtons, Coddington, Chersleie, Notleie abbeie: and comming
almost to Tame, it receiueth one water from southeast aboue the said
towne, and another also from the same quarter beneath the towne; so that
Tame standeth inuironed vpon thrée sides with thrée seuerall waters, as
maie be easilie séene. The first of these commeth from the Chiltern east
of Below or Bledlow, from whence it goeth to Hinton, Horsenden,
Kingseie, Towseie, and so into the Tame. The other descendeth also from
the Chilterne, and going by Chinner, Crowell, Siddenham, and Tame parke,
it falleth in the end into Tame water, and then they procéed togither as
one by Shabbington, Ricot parke, Dracot, Waterstoke, Milton, Cuddesdon,
and Chiselton. Here also it taketh in another water from by-east, whose
head commeth from Chilterne hils, not farre from Stocking church, in the
waie from Oxford to London. From whence it runneth to Weston (and
méeting beneath Cuxham with Watlington rill) it goeth onto Chalgraue,
Stadham, and so into the Tame. From hence our streame of Thame runneth
to Newenton, Draton, Dorchester (sometime a bishops see, and a noble
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