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
But to go forward with my description of the Ouse, which being past
Oxford goeth to Iflie, Kennington, Sanford, Rodleie, Newnham, and so
to Abington, som time called Sensham, without increase, where it
[Sidenote: Ocus.]
receiueth the Oche, otherwise called the Coche, a little beneath S.
Helens, which runneth thither of two brooklets, as I take it, whereof
one commeth from Compton, out of the vale and west of the hill of the
White horsse, the other from Kings Letcombe, and Wantage in Barkshire,
and in one chanell, entreth into the same, vpon the right side of his
[Sidenote: Arun.]
course. From Abington likewise (taking the Arun withall southwest of
Sutton Courtneie) it goeth by Appleford, long Wittenham, Clifton,
Wittenham the lesse, & beneath Dorchester, taketh in the Thame water,
from whence the Isis loseth the preheminence of the whole denomination
of this riuer, and is contented to impart the same with the Thame, so
that by the coniunction of these two waters Thamesis is producted, and
that name continued euen vnto the sea.
[Sidenote: Thame.]
Thame riuer riseth in the easterlie parts of Chilterne hils, towards
Penleie parke, at a towne called Tring west of the said parke, which
is seauen miles from the stone bridge, that is betweene Querendon and
Ailsburie (after the course of the water) as Leland hath set downe.
Running therefore by long Merston, and Puttenham, Hucket, and Bearton,
it receiueth soone after a rill that commeth by Querendon from
Hardwike, and yer long an other on the other side that riseth aboue
Windouer in the Chilterne, and passing by Halton, Weston, Turrill,
Broughton, and Ailsburie, it falleth into the Tame west of the said
towne (except my memorie doo faile me.) From this confluence the Tame
goeth by Ethorpe, the Winchingtons, Coddington, Chersleie, Notleie
abbeie: and comming almost to Tame, it receiueth one water from
southeast aboue the said towne, and another also from the same quarter
beneath the towne; so that Tame standeth inuironed vpon thrée sides
with thrée seuerall waters, as maie be easilie séene. The first of
these commeth from the Chiltern east of Below or Bledlow, from whence
it goeth to Hinton, Horsenden, Kingseie, Towseie, and so into the
Tame. The other descendeth also from the Chilterne, and going by
Chinner, Crowell, Siddenham, and Tame parke, it falleth in the end
into Tame water, and then they procéed togither as one by Shabbington,
Ricot parke, Dracot, Waterstoke, Milton, Cuddesdon, and Chiselton.
Here also it taketh in another water from by-east, whose head commeth
from Chilterne hils, not farre from Stocking church, in the waie from
Oxford to London. From whence it runneth to Weston (and méeting
beneath Cuxham with Watlington rill) it goeth onto Chalgraue, Stadham,
and so into the Tame. From hence our streame of Thame runneth to
Newenton, Draton, Dorchester (sometime a bishops see, and a noble
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