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
Héere also it taketh in a rill by the waie from Markesburie by Wilmerton
and Newton, and then going on to Sawford, it méeteth with one rill soone
[Sidenote: Swinford.]
west of Northstocke, named Swinford, and another by Bitton, from Durhain
by Wike, and so procéedeth still holding on his way to Caimsham, a towne
[Sidenote: Swinford parteth Summerset & Glocestershires in sunder.]
in Summerset shire (so called of Caim an English saint, by whose
praiers, as the countrie once beléeued, all the adders, snakes and
serpents were turned into stone, their formes reserued, and for a
certeine space of ground about the said towne, and whereof some store as
yet is to be found in those quaries. But this miracle is so true as the
historie of Hilda, or that S. Patrike should chase all venemous
creatures out of Italie, with his staffe; or that maid Radegund should
driue the crowes to the pound, which did annoie hir corne while she went
vnto a chappell to heare & sée a masse) where it crosseth the Chute,
which issueth at Winford, and goeth by bishops Chue to Penford, and
there receiueth the Clue comming from Cluton, and from thence to Chute,
& so into the Auon. The Auon likewise after all these confluences goeth
to Briselton, and so to Bristow, beneath which it receiueth a rill on
each side (wherof one commeth from about Stoke lodge in Glocestershire,
being a faire water and running by Acton, Frampton, Hambroch, Stapleton,
and through Bristow, the other by south from Dundreie hill and towne, by
Bisport and Bedminster) and so descending yet lower, goeth to Rawneham
passage and Clifton, then by S. Vincents rocke and Laie, next of all to
Crocampill, and finallie into the sea, whither all waters by nature doo
resort.
[Sidenote: Alderleie.]
Beside this water, Leland maketh mention of Alderleie brooke, which in
some ancient records is also called Auon, and runneth by Barkeleie. In
[Sidenote: Douresleie.]
like maner he talketh of Douresleie becke, whose principall head is in
Douresleie towne: howbeit he saith no thing of it more, than that it
[Sidenote: Torworth.]
serueth sundrie tucking lucking milles, and goeth by Tortworth or foure
miles further, before it come at the Sauerne. Finallie, making mention
of an excellent quarrie of hard stone about Douresleie, he telleth of
the Tortworth becke, that runneth within a flight shot of Barkeleie
towne, and falleth on the left hand into Sauerne marches, taking with
all the Alderleie or Auon, except I mistake his meaning, which may soone
be doone among his confused notes.
THE DESCRIPTION OF THE SAUERNE, & SUCH WATERS AS DISCHARGE THEMSELUES
INTO THE SAME.
CHAP. XIII.
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