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
From hence we went by Stokeflemming to another water, which commeth
from blacke Auton, then to the second that falleth in east of Slapton,
and so coasting out of this baie by the Start point, we saile almost
directlie west, till we come to Saltcombe hauen. Certes this port hath
verie little fresh water comming to it, and therefore no meruell
though it be barred; yet the head of it (such as it is) riseth néere
Buckland, and goeth to Dudbrooke, which standeth betwéene two créekes.
Thence it hieth to Charleton, where it taketh in a rill, whose head
commeth from south and north of Shereford. Finallie it hath another
créeke that runneth vp by Ilton: and the last of all that falleth in
north of Portlemouth, whose head is so néere the baie last afore
remembred, that it maketh it a sorie peninsula (as I haue heard it
said.)
[Sidenote: Awne.]
Then come we to the Awne, whose head is in the hils farre aboue Brent
towne, from whence it goeth to Dixford wood, Loddewell, Hache, Aunton,
Thorleston, and so into the sea ouer against a rocke called S.
[Sidenote: Arme.]
Michaels burrow. Arme riseth aboue Harford, thence to Stoford, Iuie
bridge, Armington bridge, Fléet, Orchardton, Ownewell, and so vnto the
sea, which is full of flats and rocks, so that no ship commeth thither
in anie tempest, except it be forced therto, through the vttermost
extremitie and desperat hazard of the fearefull mariners. King Philip
[Sidenote: Sée Hen. 7. pag. 792, 793, 794.]
of Castile lost two ships here in the daies of king Henrie the
seuenth, when he was driuen to land in the west countrie by the rage
[Sidenote: Yalme.]
of weather. Yalme goeth by Cornewood, Slade, Stratleie, Yalmeton,
Collaton, Newton ferrie, and so into the sea, about foure miles by
[Sidenote: Plim.]
south east from the maine streame of Plimmouth. Being past these
portlets, then next of all we come to Plimmouth hauen, a verie busie
péece to describe, bicause of the numbers of waters that resort vnto
it, & small helpe that I haue for the knowledge of their courses; yet
will I doo what I may in this, as in the rest, and so much I hope by
Gods grace to performe, as shall suffice my purpose in this behalfe.
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