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
After this, procéeding on still with our course, we fetched a
compasse, going out of the north toward the west, and then turning
againe (as the coast of the countrie leadeth) vntill we sailed full
south, leauing the shore still on our right hand, vntill we came vnto
a couple of Iles, which doo lie vpon the mouth of the Soch, one of
them being distant (as we gessed) a mile from the other, and neither
of them of anie greatnesse almost worthie to be remembred. The first
[Sidenote: Tudfall.]
that we came vnto is called Tudfall, and therein is a church, but
without anie parishioners, except they be shéepe and conies. The
quantitie thereof also is not much aboue six acres of ground, measured
[Sidenote: Penthlin.]
by the pole. The next is Penthlin, Myrach, or Mererosse, situat in
maner betwixt Tudfall or Tuidall and the shore, and herein is verie
good pasture for horsses, wherof (as I take it) that name is giuen
[Sidenote: Guelyn.]
vnto it. Next vnto them, we come vnto Gwelyn, a little Ile which lieth
southeast of the fall of Daron or Daren, a thing of small quantitie,
and yet almost parted in the mids by water, and next of all vnto
Bardsey an Iland lieng ouer against Periuincle the southwest point or
promontorie of Northwales (where Merlin Syluestris lieth buried) and
whither the rest of the monks of Bangor did flie to saue themselues,
when 2100. of their fellowes were slaine by the Saxon princes in the
quarell of Augustine the monke, & the citie of Caerleon or Chester
raced to the ground, and not since reedified againe to anie purpose.
Ptolomie calleth this Iland Lymnos, the Britons Enlhi, and therein
also is a parish-church, as the report goeth. From hence we cast
about, gathering still toward the northest, till we came to Caer
Ierienrhod, a notable rocke situat ouer against the mouth of the
Leuenni, wherein standeth a strong hold or fortresse, or else some
towne or village. Certes we could not well discerne whether of both it
was, bicause the wind blew hard at southwest, the morning was mistie,
and our mariners doubting some flats to be couched not far from
thence, hasted awaie vnto Anglesei, whither we went a pace with a
readie wind euen at our owne desire.
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