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
It runneth also by Cheston nunrie, and out of this a little beneath the
said house, breaketh an arme called the Shirelake, bicause it diuideth
Eastsex and Hartford shire in sunder, and in the length of one medow
called Fritheie. This lake runneth not but at great flouds, and méeteth
againe with a succor of ditchwater, at a place called Hockesditch, halfe
a mile from his first breaking out, and halfe a mile lower at Marsh
point ioineth againe with the streame from whence it came before. Thence
commeth the first arme to S. Maulie bridge (the first bridge westward
vpon that riuer) vpon Waltham causie, & halfe a mile lower than Maulie
bridge, at the corner of Ramnie mead, it méeteth with the kings streame
& principall course of Luy, or Lee, as it is commonlie called. The
second arme breaketh out of the kings streame at Halifield halfe a mile
lower than Cheston nunrie, and so to the fulling mill, and two bridges
by west of the kings streame, wherinto it falleth about a stones cast
lower at a place called Malkins shelffe, except I was wrong informed.
Cheston & Hartfordshire men doo saie, that the kings streame at Waltham
dooth part Hartfordshire and Essex, but the Essex men by forrest charter
doo plead their liberties to hold vnto S. Maulies bridge. On the east
side also of the kings streame breaketh out but one principall arme at
Halifield, three quarters of a mile aboue Waltham, & so goeth to the
corne mill in Waltham, and then to the K. streame againe a little
beneath the kings bridge.
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