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 riseth aboue Limington, and going to Norton in the Marsh, and
through a patch of Worcestershire vnto Euenlode, betweene it and the
[Sidenote: Comus.]
foure shirestones, it taketh in a rill called Come, comming by the
long and the little Comptons. After this also it goeth by Bradwell,
Odington, and so to Bleddenton, aboue which towne it taketh in the
[Sidenote: Rolrich.]
Rolrich water that issueth at two heads, in the hils that lie by west
of little Rolrich, and ioine aboue Kenkeham, and Church hill. From
thence also it goeth vnto Bruerne, Shipton vnderwood, Ascot, Short
hamton, Chorleburie, Corneburie parke, Stonfield, Longcombe, and
[Sidenote: Enis.]
southeast of Woodstocke parke, taketh in the Enis, that riseth aboue
Emstone, and goeth to Ciddington, Glimton, Wotton (where it is
increased with a rill that runneth thither from stéeple Barton, by the
Béechin trée) Woodstocke, Blaidon, so that after this confluence, the
said Enis runneth to Cassinton, and so into the Isis, which goeth from
hence to Oxford, and there receiueth the Charwell, now presentlie to
be described.
[Sidenote: Charwell.]
The head of Charwell is in Northamptonshire, where it riseth out of a
little poole, by Charleton village, seuen miles aboue Banberie
northeast, and there it issueth so fast at the verie surge, that it
groweth into a pretie streame, in maner out of hand. Soone after also
[Sidenote: Bure.]
it taketh in a rillet called the Bure, which falleth into it, about
Otmere side: but forasmuch as it riseth by Bincester, the whole course
therof is not aboue foure miles, and therefore cannot be great. A
friend of mine prosecuting the rest of this description reporteth
thereof as followeth. Before the Charwell commeth into Oxfordshire, it
[Sidenote: Culen.]
receiueth the Culen, which falleth into the same, a little aboue
Edgcote, and so descending toward Wardington, it méeteth with another
comming from by north west, betweene Wardington and Cropreadie. At
[Sidenote: Come.]
Banberie also it méeteth with the Come (which falleth from fennie
Conton by Farneboro, and afterwards going by kings Sutton, not far
from Aine, it receiueth the discharge of diuerse rillets, in one
bottome before it come at Clifton. The said water therfore ingendred
of so manie brookelets, consisteth chiefelie of two, whereof the most
[Sidenote: Ocus.]
southerlie called Oke, commeth from Oke Norton, by Witchington or
Wiggington, and the Berfords; and carieng a few blind rils withall,
dooth méet with the other that falleth from by northwest into the
same, within a mile of Charwell.
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