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
and going by Virginston, runneth on by saint Giles without anie
increase vntill it come to Thamar. Next of all it taketh in two
brookes not much distant in sunder, whereof the one commeth in by
Glanton, the other from Holsworthie, and both east of Tamerton, which
standeth on the further banke, & other side of the Thamar, and west
northwest of Tedcote, except the quarter deceiue me.
[Sidenote: Thamar.]
Certes, the Thamar it selfe riseth in Summersetshire, about thrée
miles northeast of Hartland, and in maner so crosseth ouer the whole
west countrie betwéene sea and sea, that it leaueth Cornewall, a
byland or peninsula. Being therefore descended from the head, by a
tract of six miles, it commeth to Denborow, Pancrase well, Bridge
Reuell, Tamerton, Tetcote, Luffencote, Boiton, and Wirrington, where
[Sidenote: Arteie.]
it meeteth with a water on the west side called Arteie, that riseth
short of Jacobstow. Two miles in like sort fr[=o] this confluence, we
[Sidenote: Kenseie.]
met with the Kenseie, whose head is short of Warpeston by south east:
from whence it goeth by Treneglos, Tremone, Tresmure, Trewen, Lanston,
and so into the Thamar, that runneth from hence by Lowwhitton vnto
Bradston, and going on toward Dunterton, taketh in a rill from south
Pitherwijc, and by Lesant; beneath Dunterton also it crosseth the
[Sidenote: Enian.]
Enian. This riuer riseth at Dauidston, and directeth his race by saint
Clethir, Lancast, and Trelaske first; and then vnder sundrie bridges,
vntill it méet with the Thamar. From hence also the Thamar goeth by
Siddenham to Calstocke bridge, Calstocke towne, Clifton, Cargreue
(there abouts taking in a créeke aboue Landilip) and running on from
[Sidenote: Liuer.]
thence, hasteth toward Saltash, where it receiueth the Liuer water.
The head of Liuer is about Broomwellie hill, from whence it goeth on
to North hill, Lekenhorne, South hill, and taking in a rill by east
(from aboue Kellington) it runneth on to Newton, Pillaton, Wootton,
Blosfleming, saint Erne, and beneath this village crosseth a rillet
that runneth thither from Bicton by Quithiocke, saint Germans, and
Sheuiocke. But to procéed. After the confluence, it goeth betweene
Erlie and Fro Martine castell, and soone after taking in a rill from
by north, that passeth west of saint Steuens, it is not long yer it
fall into the Thamar, which after this (receiuing the Milbrooke
creeke) goeth on by Edgecombe, and betwéene saint Michaels Ile and
Ridden point into the maine sea. And thus haue I finished the
description of Plimmouth water, and all such falles as are betwéene
Newston rocke on the east side, and the Ram head on the other.
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