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
The next riuer that runneth into this port, springeth in the new
[Sidenote: Eling.]
Forrest, and commeth thereinto about Eling, not passing one mile by
west of the fall of Test. From hence casting about againe into the
maine sea, and leauing Calde shore castell on the right hand, we
directed our course toward the southwest, vnto Beaulieu hauen,
[Sidenote: Mineie.]
whereinto the Mineie descendeth. The Mineie riseth not far from
Mineiestéed, a village in the north part of the new Forrest; and going
by Beaulieu, it falleth into the sea southwest (as I take it) of
Exburie, a village standing vpon the shore.
[Sidenote: Limen.]
Being past the Mineie, we crossed the Limen as it is now called, whose
head is in the verie hart of the new Forrest (sometime conuerted into
a place of nourishment for déere by William Rufus, buieng his pleasure
with the ruine of manie towns and villages, as diuerse haue inclosed
or inlarged their parks by the spoile of better occupiengs) & running
southwest of Lindhirst & the parke, it goeth by east of Brokenhirst,
west of Bulder, & finallie into the sea south and by east of
Lemington. I take this not to be the proper name of the water, but of
the hauen, for Limen in Gréeke is an hauen: so that Limendune is
nothing else, but a downe or higher plot of ground lieng on the hauen:
neuerthelesse, sith this denomination of the riuer hath now hir frée
passage, I think it not conuenient to séeke out any other name that
should be giuen vnto it. The next fall that we passed by is namelesse,
[Sidenote: Bure.]
[Sidenote: Milis.]
except it be called Bure, & as it descendeth from new Forrest, so the
next vnto it hight Mile, as I haue heard in English. Certes the head
thereof is also in the southwest part of the said Forrest, & the fall
not far from Milford bridge, beyond the which I find a narrow going or
strictland leading fr[=o] the point to Hirst castell which standeth
into the sea, as if it hoong by a thred, from the maine of the Iland,
readie to be washed awaie by the continuall working and dailie beating
of the waues.
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