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
There are other little brookes which fall into the Stoure, whereof
Leland speaketh, as Fishpoole becke that ariseth in Stonehirst wood,
and meeteth with it foure miles from Canturburie: another beginneth at
Chislet, and goeth into the Stoure gut, which sometime inclosed
Thanet, as Leland saith: the third issueth out of the ground at
Northburne (where Eadbert of Kent sometime past held his palace) and
runneth to Sandwich hauen, as the said authour reporteth: and the
fourth called Bridgewater that riseth by S. Marie Burne church, and
going by Bishops Burne, meeteth with Canturburie water at Stourmouth:
also Wiham that riseth aboue Wiham short of Adsam, and falleth into
Bridgewater at Dudmill, or Wenderton: and the third namelesse, which
riseth short of Wodensburgh (a towne wherein Hengist & the Saxons
honored their grand idoll Woden, or Othine) and goeth by Staple to
Wingam: but sith they are obscure I will not touch them here. From
hence passing by the Goodwine, a plot verie perilous for sea-faring
men (sometime firme land, that is, vntill the tenth of the conquerours
sonne, whose name was William Rufus, and wherein a great part of the
inheritance of erle Goodwine in time past was knowne to lie) but
[Sidenote: Dour.]
escaping it with ease, we came at length to Douer. In all which voiage
we found no streame, by reason of the cliffes that inuiron the said
coast. Howbeit vpon the south side of Douer, there is a pretie fresh
riuer, whose head ariseth at Erwell, not passing foure miles from the
sea, and of some is called Dour, which in the British toong is a
common name for waters, as is also the old British word Auon for the
greatest riuers, into whose mouthes or falles shippes might find safe
entrance; and therefore such are in my time called hauens, a new word
growen by an aspiration added to the old: the Scots call it Auen. But
more of this else-where, sith I am now onelie to speake of Dour,
wherof it is likelie that the towne & castell of Douer did sometime
take the name. From hence we go toward the Camber (omitting
peraduenture here and there sundrie small creeks void of backwater by
[Sidenote: Rother.]
the waie) whereabouts the Rother a noble riuer falleth into the sea.
This Rother separateth Sussex from Kent, and hath his head in Sussex,
not farre from Argas hill néere to Waterden forrest, and from thence
directeth his course vnto Rotherfield. After this it goeth to
Ethlingham or Hitchingham, and so foorth by Newendon vnto Mattham
ferrie, where it diuideth it selfe in such wise, that one branch
thereof goeth to Appledoure (where is a castell sometime builded by
the Danes, in the time of Alfred, as they did erect another at
Middleton, and the third at Beamflete) and at this towne, where it
[Sidenote: Bilie.]
méeteth the Bilie that riseth about Bilsington, the other by Iden, so
that it includeth a fine parcell of ground called Oxneie, which in
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