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 we haue in this wise described the Ile of Man, with hir
commodities, we returned eastwards backe againe unto the point of
Ramshed, where we found to the number of six Ilets of one sort and
other, whereof the first greatest and most southwesterlie, is named
[Sidenote: Wauay.]
the Wauay. It runneth out in length, as we gessed, about fiue miles
and more from the southeast into the northwest, betwéene which and the
maine land lie two little ones, whose names are Oldborrow and Fowlney.
[Sidenote: Fouldra.]
The fourth is called the Fouldra, and being situate southeast of the
first, it hath a prettie pile or blockhouse therin, which the
inhabitants name the pile of Fouldra. By east thereof in like sort lie
[Sidenote: Fola.]
[Sidenote: Roa.]
the Fola and the Roa, plots of no great compasse, and yet of all these
six, the first and Fouldra are the fairest and most fruitfull. From
[Sidenote: Rauenglasse.]
hence we went by Rauenglasse point, where lieth an Iland of the same
denomination, as Reginald Wolfe hath noted in his great card, not yet
finished, nor likelie to be published. He noteth also two other Ilets,
betwéene the same and the maine land; but Leland speaketh nothing of
them (to my remembrance) neither any other card, as yet set foorth of
England: and thus much of the Ilands that lie vpon our shore in this
part of my voiage.
Hauing so exactlie as to me is possible, set downe the names and
positions of such Iles, as are to be found vpon the coast of the
Quéenes Maiesties dominions, now it resteth that we procéed orderlie
[Sidenote: Iles in Scotland.]
with those that are séene to lie vpon the coast of Scotland, that is
to saie, in the Irish, the Deucalidonian & the Germans seas, which I
will performe in such order as I may, sith I cannot do so much therin
as I would. Some therefore doo comprehend and diuide all the Iles that
lie about the north coast of this Ile now called Scotland into thrée
parts, sauing that they are either occidentals, the west Iles, aliàs
the Orchades & Zelandine, or the Shetlands. They place the first
betwéene Ireland and the Orchades, so that they are extended from Man
and the point of Cantire almost vnto the Orchades in the Deucalidonian
sea, and after some are called the Hebrides. In this part the old
[Sidenote: Hemodes of some called Acmodes,
sée _Plinie, Mela, Martianus, Capella,
Plutarch. de defect. orac._]
writers indéed placed the Hebrides or Hemodes, which diuers call the
Hebudes and the Acmodes; albeit the writers varie in their numbers,
some speaking of 30 Hebudes and seuen Hemodes; some of fiue Ebudes, as
Solinus, and such as follow his authoritie. Howbeit the late Scottish
writers doo product a summe of more than 300 of these Ilands in all,
which sometime belonged to the Scots, sometime to the Norwegians, and
sometime to the Danes. The first of these is our Manaw, of which I
haue before intreated: next vnto this is Alisa a desert Ile, yet
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