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
It should séeme by some that they are not worthie to be placed among
Ilands: yet othersome are of opinion, that they are not altogither so
base, as to be reputed amongst flats or rocks: but whatsoeuer they be,
this is sure, that they oft annoie such passengers and merchants as
passe and repasse vpon that riuer. Neither doo I read of any other
[Sidenote: Barri.]
Iles which lie by east of these, saue onelie the Barri, and Dunwen:
[Sidenote: Barri is a flight shot from the shore.]
the first of which is so called of one Barroc, a religious man (as
Gyraldus saith) and is about a flight shot from the shore. Herin also
is a rocke standing at the verie entrance of the cliffe, which hath a
little rift or chine vpon the side, wherevnto if a man doo laie his
eare, he shall heare a noise, as if smithes did worke at the forge,
sometimes blowing with their bellowes, and sometimes striking and
clinking with hammers, whereof manie men haue great wonder; and no
maruell. It is about a mile in compasse, situat ouer against
Aberbarry, and hath a chappell in it.
[Sidenote: Dunwen.]
Dunwen is so called of a church (dedicated to a Welsh woman saint,
called Dunwen) that standeth there. It lieth more than two miles from
Henrosser, right against Neuen, and hath within it two faire mils, &
great store of conies. Certes if the sand increase so fast hereafter
as it hath done of late about it, it will be vnited to the maine
within a short season. Beyond these and toward the coast of southwales
lie two other Ilands, larger in quantitie than the Holmes, of which
[Sidenote: Caldee.]
the one is called Caldee or Inis Pyr. It hath a parish-church with a
spire steeple, and a pretie towne belonging to the countie of
Pembroke, and iurisdiction of one Dauid in Wales. Leland supposeth the
ruines that are found therein to haue béene of an old priorie
sometimes called Lille, which was a cell belonging to the monasterie
[Sidenote: Londy.]
of S. Dogmael, but of this I can saie nothing. The other hight Londy,
wherein is also a village or towne, and of this Iland the parson of
the said towne is not onelie the captaine, but hath thereto weife,
distresse, and all other commodities belonging to the same. It is
little aboue sixteene miles from the coast of Wales, though it be
thirtie from Caldée, and yet it serueth (as I am informed) lord and
king in Deuonshire. Moreouer in this Iland is great plentie of sheepe,
but more conies, and therewithall of verie fine and short grasse for
their better food & pasturage; likewise much Sampere vpon the shore,
which is carried from thence in barrels. And albeit that there be not
scarslie fourtie housholds in the whole, yet the inhabitants there
with huge stones (alredie prouided) may kéepe off thousands of their
enimies, bicause it is not possible for anie aduersaries to assaile
them, but onelie at one place, and with a most dangerous entrance. In
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