Holinshed Chronicles: England, Scotland, and Ireland. Volume 1, CompleteHolinshed, Raphael
History
Holinshed Chronicles: England, Scotland, and Ireland. Volume 1, Complete
Holinshed, Raphael
Great Britain -- History -- To 1485; Great Britain -- History -- Tudors, 1485-1603
But sith the author of this
report did not flatlie auouch it, I passe ouer that fish as not in
season at this time. Thus haue we viewed the richest and most wealthie
Iles of Sylley, from whence we must direct our course eastwards, vnto
the mouth of the Sauerne, and then go backe againe vnto the west point
of Wales, continuing still our voiage along vpon the west coast of
Britaine, till we come to the Soluey whereat the kingdomes part, &
from which foorth on we must touch such Ilands as lie vpon the west
and north shore, till we be come againe vnto the Scotish sea, and to
our owne dominions.
[Sidenote: Helenus. Priamus.]
From the point of Cornewall therefore, or promontorie of Helenus (so
called, as some thinke, bicause Helenus the son of Priamus who arriued
here with Brute lieth buried there, except the sea haue washed awaie
his sepulchre) vntill we come vnto the mouth of Sauerne, we haue none
Ilands at all that I doo know or heare of, but one litle Byland, Cape
or Peninsula, which is not to be counted of in this place. And yet
[Sidenote: Pendinas.]
sith I haue spoken of it, you shall vnderstand, that it is called
Pendinas, and beside that the compasse thereof is not aboue a mile,
this is to be remembered farder thereof, how there standeth a Pharos
or light therein, for ships which saile by those coasts in the night.
There is also at the verie point of the said Pendinas, a chappell of
saint Nicholas, beside the church of saint Ia, an Irish woman saint.
It belonged of late to the Lord Brooke, but now (as I gesse) the Lord
Mountioy enioieth it. There is also a blockhouse, and a péere in the
eastside thereof, but the péere is sore choked with sand, as is the
whole shore furthermore from S. Ies vnto S. Carantokes, insomuch that
the greatest part of this Byland is now couered with sands, which the
sea casteth vp, and this calamitie hath indured little aboue fiftie
yeares, as the inhabitants doo affirme.
There are also two rocks neere vnto Tredwy, and another not farre from
Tintagell, all which many of the common sort doo repute and take for
Iles: wherefore as one desirous to note all, I thinke it not best that
these should be omitted: but to proceed. When we be come further, I
meane vnto the Sauerne mouth, we meet the two Holmes, of which one is
called Stepholme, and the other Flatholme, of their formes béeing in
déed parcels of ground and low soiles fit for little else than to
beare grasse for cattell, whereof they take those names. For Holme is
an old Saxon word, applied to all such places. Of these also Stepholme
lieth south of the Flatholme, about foure or fiue miles; the first
also a mile and an halfe, the other two miles or thereabout in length;
but neither of them a mile and an halfe in breadth, where they doo
seeme to be the broadest.
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