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
Leland writing of this riuer Guie or Wie saith thus; The Wie goeth
thorough all Herefordshire by Bradwarden castell, belonging to sir
Richard Vehan, and so to Hereford east, thence eight miles to Rosse, a
[Sidenote: Vmber a fish onelie in the Wie.]
market towne in Herefordshire: and in this riuer be vmbers, otherwise
called grailings. It is also found by common experience, that the salmon
of this riuer is in season, when the like fish to be found in all other
riuers is abandoned and out of vse; wherof we of the east parts doo not
a little maruell. But let vs not staie vpon these descriptions, sith an
other is come to my hand more exact than either of these.
The Guie therefore riseth out of the blacke mounteines of Wales, out of
which the Sauerne springeth in Radnorshire, and comming by Lhangerike,
[Sidenote: Darnoll.]
and Raiadargoie, it receiueth one rill from the west called Darnoll, and
another from by northeast comming by saint Harmon. Thence it goeth to
Lhanuthell, and in the waie betwixt Raiader and Lhanuthell, it ioineth
[Sidenote: Elland.]
with the Elland, whose head is néere to Comeristwith, and taketh
[Sidenote: Clardwen.]
likewise into him the Clardwen that diuideth for a season Radnorshire
from Brecknoch, which Clardwen is likewise increased by the Clarthie
within thrée miles of his head and lesse, hauing his course from
southwest & hille soile adiacent. From Lhanuthell it goeth west of
[Sidenote: Ithan.]
Dissart, where it receiueth the Ithan, a riuer rising aboue Lhanibister,
and from whence it runneth to Landwie, and Lambaderne vawr: beneath
which it crosseth a water on ech side, whereof that on the right hand
[Sidenote: Dulesse.]
[Sidenote: Cluedoch.]
consisteth on the Dulesse and the Cluedoch, after their confluence: the
[Sidenote: Lamaron.]
other hight Lomaron, whose head is aboue Lanthangle, and in the forrest
of Blethwag. After these confluences, it runneth on crinkeling in
[Sidenote: Hawie.]
strange manner, vnder the name of Ithor, till it come to Dissart, taking
in the Hawie on the left side yer it come there, and then into the Wie
on the north side, which directeth his course further to Bealt, where it
[Sidenote: Yrwon.]
receiueth the Yrwon, a notable streame, descending from the hilles aboue
Lanihangle Abergwessen, and thence comming downe by Lanurid Lang marsh,
Lanauan, Vechan, Langantan, and so to Beth or Bealt, being inlarged by
[Sidenote: Weuereie.]
the waie with sundrie faire waters, as the Weuereie, whose head is about
Lanauan moore, the Dulasse, or (as some call it) the Dowlasse, that
[Sidenote: Dulasse.]
[Sidenote: Comarch.]
[Sidenote: Dulasse.]
commeth from the hilles west of the head of Weuereie. The Comarch whose
head and course is west of the Dowlasse on the north side, and likewise
by two other on the southwest, and Dilasse from by southwest, which last
rehearsed falleth into him halfe a mile and more aboue the influence of
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