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
lands end, or Bresan Ile eastward, & rather more, if you reckon to the
fall of the Haile, which lieth in the very middest and highest part of
the baie of the same. The soile also is verie hillie here, as for
saint Ies towne, it is almost (as I said) a byland, and yet is it well
watered with sundrie rilles that come from those hilles vnto the same.
[Sidenote: Haile.]
The Haile riseth in such maner, and from so manie heads, as I haue
before said: howbeit I will adde somewhat more vnto it, for the
benefit of my readers. Certes the chéefe head of Haile riseth by west
of Goodalfin hilles, and going downe toward saint Erthes, it receiueth
the second, and best of the other three rilles from Goodalfin towne:
finallie, comming to saint Erthes, and so vnto the maine baie, it
[Sidenote: Clowart.]
taketh in the Clowart water from Guimer, south of Phelacke, which hath
two heads, the said village standing directlie betwixt them both.
[Sidenote: Caine.]
The Caine riseth southeast of Caineburne towne a mile and more, from
whence it goeth without increase by west of Gwethian, and so into the
sea west of Mara Darwaie. From hence we coasted about the point, &
left the baie till we came to a water that riseth of two heads from
those hilles that lie by south of the same: one of them also runneth
by saint Vni, another by Redreuth, and méeting within a mile, they
[Sidenote: Luggam.]
fall into the Ocean beneath Luggam or Tuggan. A mile and a halfe from
this fall we come vnto another small rill, and likewise two other
créekes, betwixt which the towne of saint Agnes standeth; and likewise
the fourth halfe a mile beyond the most easterlie of these, whose head
is almost thrée miles within the land in a towne called saint Alin.
Thence going by the Manrocke, and west of saint Piran in the sand, we
find a course of thrée miles and more from the head, and hauing a
forked branch, the parts doo méet at west aboue saint Kibbard, and so
[Sidenote: S. Pirans créeke.]
[Sidenote: Carantocke.]
go into the sea. I take this to be saint Pirans créeke, for the next
is Carantocke pill or créeke, whose head is at Guswarth, from whence
it goeth vnto Trerise, and soone after taking in a rill from by west,
it runneth into the sea coast of saint Carantakes. Beyond this is
another créeke that riseth aboue little saint Colan, and goeth by
lesse saint Columbe: and east and by north hereof commeth downe one
more whose head is almost south of the Nine stones, & going from
thence to great saint Columbes, it passeth by Lamberne, and so into
the sea. S. Merous créeke is but a little one, rising west of Padstow,
and falling in almost ouer against the Gull rocke. Then turning
[Sidenote: Padstow.]
[Sidenote: Locus bufonis.]
betwéene the point and the blacke rocke, we entred into Padstow hauen
thrée miles lower than port Issec, and a mile from port Ewin, whose
waters remaine next of all to be described.
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