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
from the French, and borrowed by them from the Latins, but not without
corruption, as it was brought vnto them. I will not here giue notice
how farre they are deceiued, which call the aforesaid church by the
name of S. Marie Auderies, or S. Marie ouer Isis, or Ise: but I will
procéed with the course of this noble streame, which, howsoeuer these
matters stand after it hath passed by Reding, & there receiued the
[Sidenote: Kenet.]
[Sidenote: Thetis.]
Kenet, which commeth from the hilles that lie west of Marleborough (&
then the Thetis, commonlie called the Tide that commeth from
Thetisford) hieth to Sudlington otherwise called Maidenhead, and so to
Windleshore (or Windsore) Eaton, and then to Chertseie, where
Erkenwald bishop of London sometime builded a religious house or cell,
as I doo read.
From Chertseie it hasteth directlie vnto Stanes, and receiuing an
[Sidenote: Cole.]
other streame by the waie, called the Cole (wherevpon Colbrooke
standeth) it goeth by Kingstone, Shene, Sion and Brentford or
[Sidenote: Brene.]
Bregentford, where it méeteth the Brane or the Brene (another brooke
descending from Edgworth) whose name signifieth a frog, in the
Brittish speach. Vpon this also sir John Thin had sometime a statelie
house, with a maruellous prouision to inclose and reteine such fish as
should come about the same. From Brentfoord it passeth by Mortlach,
Putneie, Fulham, Batterseie, Chelseie, Lambeth, and so to London.
Finallie going from thence vnto the sea, it taketh the Lée with it by
the waie vpon the coast of Essex, and another that commeth from
[Sidenote: Darwent.]
Abreche not far off, and the Darnt vpon Kent side, which riseth néere
to Tanrige, and commeth by Shoreham, vnto Derntford, wherevnto the
[Sidenote: Craie.]
Craie falleth. And last of all the Medwaie a notable riuer (in mine
opinion) which watereth all the south and southwest part of Kent, and
whose description shall insue.
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