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
Hauing thus described the west side of Arun, let vs doo the like with
the other in such sort as we best may. The first riuer that we come vnto
therfore on the east side, and also the second, rise of sundrie places
in S. Leonards forrest, & ioining a little aboue Horsham, they méet with
the third, which commeth from Ifield parke, not verie farre from
Slinfeld. The fourth hath two heads, whereof one riseth in Witleie
parke, the other by west, neere vnto Heselméere chappell, and meeting by
west of Doursfeld, they vnite themselues with the chanell, growing by
the confluence that I spake of beneath Slinfeld, a little aboue
Billingshirst. The last water commeth from the hils aboue Linchemere,
and runneth west and south, and passing betwéene Billingshirst and
Stopham it commeth vnto the chanell last mentioned, and so into the Arun
beneath Stopham, without anie further increase, at the least that I doo
heare of.
[Sidenote: Burne.]
Burne hath his issue in a parke néere Aldingburrie (or rather a little
aboue the same toward the north, as I haue since beene informed) and
running by the bottomes toward the south, it falleth betwéene north
[Sidenote: Elin.]
Berflete and Flesham. Erin riseth of sundrie heads, by east of Erinleie,
and directing his course toward the sunne rising, it peninsulateth
[Sidenote: Del[=u]s.]
Seleseie towne on the southwest and Pagham at northwest. Deel springeth
about Benderton, and thence running betwéene middle Lauant and east
Lauant, it goeth by west of west Hampnet, by east of Chichester, or west
of Rumbaldesdowne, and afterward by Fishburne, where it meeteth with a
rill comming north west from Funtingdon (a little beneath the towne) &
then running thus in one streame toward the sea, it méeteth with another
rillet comming by north of Bosham, and so into Auant gulfe by east of
Thorneie Iland.
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