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 head of this noble streame is found in the high mounteines of south
Wales called Helennith or Plim limmon; in English, the blacke mounteins,
or moore heads, from whence also the Wie and the Rhidoll do procéed: and
therefore these thrée waters are commonlie called the thrée sisters, and
haue in latitude two and fiftie degrees ten minutes, in longitude
fiftéene and fiftie, as the description inferreth. So soone as it is out
of the ground, it goeth southeastward, till it come within a mile of
Laundlos, where it receiueth a chanell from by south southwest, called
the Dulas, which commeth thereinto on the south side, & southwest of Lan
Idlos. It riseth (as it should séeme) of diuerse heads in the edge of
Radnorshire, and taking in sundrie small rilles, it meeteth at the last
[Sidenote: Brueham.]
with the Brueham brooke, and so they go togither till they fall into the
[Side note: Clewdogh.]
Sauerne. Beneath Lan Idlos it taketh in the Clewdogh, from northwest, a
water producted by the influence of foure pretie brookes, whereof one is
[Sidenote: Bacho.]
[Sidenote: Dungum.]
[Sidenote: Lhoid.]
[Sidenote: Bigga.]
[Sidenote: Couine.]
called Bacho, another Dungum comming out of lin Glaslin, the third Lhoid
rising in lin Begilin, and the most southerlie called Bigga. After which
confluence our Sauerne procéedeth on by Berhlaid toward Landiman, taking
in by the waie, on the east side the Couine, thence to Cairfuse castell,
[Sidenote: Carnon.]
[Sidenote: Taran.]
where it meeteth with the Carnon, and the Taran both in one chanell, and
going not far from the aforesaid fortresse. After this it crosseth the
[Sidenote: Hawes.]
[Sidenote: Dulesse 2.]
Hawes on the north halfe beneath Aberhawes, next of all the Dulesse that
riseth in the edge of Radnor shire, and méeteth with it before it come
at Newton in Powisie, otherwise called Trenewith, as I find in British
language. Being come to Trenewith, I cannot eschue (right honorable) to
giue one note, as by the waie, touching the originall of my ladie your
bedfellowes ancestrie, which came from hence, & were surnamed Newtons
onelie, for that the grandfather of sir John Newton either dwelled or
was borne there: otherwise the right name is Caradoc, for which some doo
corruptlie write Cradocke, respecting rather the shortnesse of
pronuntiation, than the true orthographie and writing of the word.
Certes the Caradockes haue béene, and yet are a linage of great honor,
antiquitie, and seruice; their lands also sometime belonged (for the
most part) to the noble Connoanies of Summersetshire: but in what order
they descended to the Newtons, in good sooth I cannot tell. But to
procéed with our riuer, which being past Newton, runneth foorth by
[Sidenote: Mule.]
Landilouarne, and so foorth on till it come to the fall of the Mule,
whose head is in the edge of Radnor also, and thereto his passage by
Kerie and Lanmereiwijc. After this also it procéedeth further till it
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