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 runneth also by Cheston nunrie, and out of this a little beneath
the said house, breaketh an arme called the Shirelake, bicause it
diuideth Eastsex and Hartford shire in sunder, and in the length of
one medow called Fritheie. This lake runneth not but at great flouds,
and méeteth againe with a succor of ditchwater, at a place called
Hockesditch, halfe a mile from his first breaking out, and halfe a
mile lower at Marsh point ioineth againe with the streame from whence
it came before. Thence commeth the first arme to S. Maulie bridge (the
first bridge westward vpon that riuer) vpon Waltham causie, & halfe a
mile lower than Maulie bridge, at the corner of Ramnie mead, it
méeteth with the kings streame & principall course of Luy, or Lee, as
it is commonlie called. The second arme breaketh out of the kings
streame at Halifield halfe a mile lower than Cheston nunrie, and so to
the fulling mill, and two bridges by west of the kings streame,
wherinto it falleth about a stones cast lower at a place called
Malkins shelffe, except I was wrong informed. Cheston & Hartfordshire
men doo saie, that the kings streame at Waltham dooth part
Hartfordshire and Essex, but the Essex men by forrest charter doo
plead their liberties to hold vnto S. Maulies bridge. On the east side
also of the kings streame breaketh out but one principall arme at
Halifield, three quarters of a mile aboue Waltham, & so goeth to the
corne mill in Waltham, and then to the K. streame againe a little
beneath the kings bridge.
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