Chronicles (1 of 6): The Description of BritaineHolinshed, Raphael
History
Chronicles (1 of 6): The Description of Britaine
Holinshed, Raphael
Great Britain -- History -- To 1485; Great Britain -- History -- Tudors, 1485-1603
The Sauerne therefore being past Glocester, it méeteth with a litle rill
on the right hand, and thence holding on his course by Elmore,
Minsterworth, Longneie, to Framilode, it receiueth yer it come at this
[Sidenote: Strowd.]
latter the Strowd brooke, which rising not farre from Side, goeth by
Massade, Edgeworth, Frampton, Strowd, and receiuing there a water that
commeth from Panneswijc Lodge, by Pittescombe on the one side, and
another from Radbridge on the other, it prosecuteth his voiage to Stone
house, Eslington, white Misen, & so toward Framilode, where the said
Strowd dooth fall into the Sauerne. After the fall of Strowd, the
Sauerne goeth from thence to Newenham, and Arlingham, and soone after
receiuing a water on each side, whereof one commeth from Vleie by Cham
and Chambridge, the other by Blackneie and Catcombe, it goeth foorth
till it méet with another water on ech side, whereof that on the English
halfe is forked, so that one head thereof is to be found about Borwell,
the other at Horton, and méeting aboue Tortworthie, they run by Stone
and Barkeleie castell, and so into the Sauerne. That on the Welsh halfe
[Sidenote: Newarne.]
is named Newarne, which cömeth from the forrest of Deane, and so into
the Sauerne.
OF SUCH WATERS AS FALL INTO THE SEA IN COMPASSE OF THE ILAND, BETWÉENE
THE SAUERNE AND THE HUMBER.
CHAP. XIV.
The Sauerne being thus described, it resteth that I go forward with the
names of those that lie vpon the coast of Southwales, making my entrie
at the ferrie ouer betwéene Aust in Glocestershire, and a village on the
further banke of Sauerne, not farre from Tarendacus chappell, in the
[Sidenote: Wie mouth.]
mouth of the riuer Wie, which ferrie is about three miles ouer (saith
[Sidenote: Guie aliàs Wie.]
Leland) or else my memorie dooth faile me. This riuer Guie or Wie
beginneth (as I said before) on the side of the hilles, where the
Sauerne dooth arise, and passing through Wenceland, that is, southeast
by Raiader Guie to Buelt (where the Irwon meeteth withall) it goeth to
Glasburie, Hereford, Monmouth, and finallie into the Sauerne sea at
Chepstow: for so they call Monhafren, which seuereth Wales from
Summersetshire, Deuonshire, Cornewall: as for the Rhidoll which is the
third sister, it hath the shortest course of all, for it runneth
northward, and into the sea at Aberistwith, which is not farre off, as
the writers doo report.
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