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
of time another little one from the same side, yer it come to Lanurgwaie
and Lanihangle, from whence it goeth to Guennocke and Penrose, & so in
Vske before it go by Caerleon. But here you must note, that the course
of this streame ioining beneath Quenocke chappell, with the other which
descendeth (as I said) from the hilles about foure miles aboue Landgwaie
and Langweth, dooth make an Iland aboue Caerleon, where Penrose
standeth, & much Romane coine is found of all sorts, so that the
influence of the one into the other séemeth to me to be but a draine
deuised by man, to kéepe the citie from the violence of such water as
otherwise would oft annoie the same.
Being past Caerleon it runneth to Crindie, where maister Harbert
dwelleth, and there carieng another brooke withall, that riseth north of
Tomberlow hill, and descendeth by Henlis and Bettus chappell, it runneth
forth to Newport (in Welch castle Newith) and from thence vnder a bridge,
[Sidenote: Ebowith.]
after thrée or foure miles course to the sea, taking the Ebowith water
withall, which méeteth with the same almost in the verie mouth or fall,
and riseth in the edge of Brecknoch shire, or (as Leland saith) high
Winceland, from two heads of which one is called Eberith Vehan, the
other Eberith Mawr, as I haue beene informed. The course of the first
head is by Blamgrent, and after the confluence they passe togither by
Lanhileth, and comming by west of Tomberlow hill (crossing a rill, from
[Sidenote: Serowie.]
north east by the waie) it taketh in thereabout the Serowie, that
runneth by Trestrent, & is of lesse race hitherto than the Ebowith, and
from that same quarter. After this confluence it goeth to Risleie,
Rocheston castell, next of all thorough a parke, and so by Greenefield
castell, and is not long yer it fall into the sea, being the last issue
that I doo find in the countie,
which beareth the name of Monemouth, and was in old time a part of the
region of the Silures.
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