Holinshed Chronicles: England, Scotland, and Ireland. Volume 1, CompleteHolinshed, Raphael
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Holinshed Chronicles: England, Scotland, and Ireland. Volume 1, Complete
Holinshed, Raphael
Great Britain -- History -- To 1485; Great Britain -- History -- Tudors, 1485-1603
[Sidenote: Polwitherall.]
From thence we went by Polwitherall creeke (parted into two armes)
[Sidenote: Polpenrith.]
then to the Polpenrith, wherevnto a riueret falleth that riseth not
farre from thence, and so goeth to the maine streame of the hauen at
the last, whither the créeke resorteth about thrée miles and more from
the mouth of the hauen, and into which the water that goeth vnder Gare
bridges, doo fall in one bottome (as Leland hath reported.) Vnto this
[Sidenote: Wike.]
[Sidenote: Gare.]
[Sidenote: Mogun.]
[Sidenote: Penkestell.]
[Sidenote: Callous.]
[Sidenote: Cheilow.]
[Sidenote: Gilling.]
hauen also repaireth the Penkestell, the Callous, the Cheilow, and the
Gilling, although this latter lieth against saint Mawuons on the
hither side hard without the hauen mouth (if I haue doone aright.) For
so motheaten, mouldie, & rotten are those bookes of Leland which I
haue, and beside that, his annotations are such and so confounded, as
no man can (in a maner) picke out anie sense from them by a leafe
togither. Wherefore I suppose that he dispersed and made his notes
intricate of set purpose: or else he was loth that anie man should
easilie come to that knowledge by reading, which he with his great
charge & no lesse trauell attained vnto by experience. Thus leauing
Fala hauen, as more troublesome for me to describe, than profitable
for seafaring men, without good aduise to enter into, we left the
rocke on our left hand, and came straight southwest to Helford hauen,
[Sidenote: Haile.]
whose water commeth downe from Wréeke (where is a confluence of two
small rilles whereof that rill consisteth) by Mawgan and Trelawarren,
and then it receiueth a rill on the north ripe from Constantine, after
whose confluence it goeth a maine vntill it come to the Ocean, where
the mouth is spoiled by sand comming from the tinworks. See Leland in
the life of S. Breaca. Beneath this also is another rill comming from
S. Martyrs, by whose course, and another ouer against it on the west
side that falleth into the sea by Winniton, all Menage is left almost
in maner of an Iland. From hence we go south to the Manacle point,
then southwest to Lisard, and so north and by west to Predannocke
points, beyond which we méet with the fall of the said water that
riseth in the edge of Menag, and goeth into the sea by Melien on the
north, and Winniton on the south. By north also of Winniton is the
[Sidenote: Curie.]
Curie water that runneth short of Magan, and toucheth with the Ocean
south of Pengwenian point.
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