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 Padstow hauen also they saile out full west to Waterford in
Ireland. There are likewise two rockes, which lie in the east side of
the hauen, secretlie hidden at full sea, as two pads in the straw,
whereof I think it taketh the name. Yet I remember how I haue read
that Padstow is a corrupted word for Adlestow, and should signifie so
much as Athelstani locus, as it may well be. For it is euident that
they had in time past sundrie charters of priuilege from Athelstane,
although at this present it be well stored with Irishmen. But to our
purpose. Leland supposed this riuer to be the same Camblan, where
Arthur fought his last and fatall conflict: for to this daie men that
doo eare the ground there, doo oft plow vp bones of a large size, and
great store of armour, or else it may be (as I rather coniecture) that
the Romans had some field (or Castra) thereabout, for not long since
(and in the remembrance of man) a brasse pot full of Romane coine was
found there, as I haue often heard. Being thus passed Padstow hauen,
and after we had gone three miles from hence, we came to Portgwin a
poore fisher towne, where I find a brooke and a péere. Then I came to
Portissec aliàs Cunilus two miles further, and found there a brooke, a
péere, and some succor for fisher boats. Next of all vnto a brooke
that ran from south east, directlie north into the Sauerne sea, and
within halfe a mile of the same laie a great blacke rocke like an
Iland. From this water to Treuenni is about a mile, where the paroch
church is dedicated to saint Simphorian, and in which paroch also
Tintagell or Dundagie castell standeth, which is a thing inexpugnable
for the situation, and would be made with little reparations one of
the strongest things in England. For it standeth on a great high
terrible crag inuironed with the sea. There is a chappell yet standing
in the dungeon thereof, dedicated to saint Vlet. Tintagell towne and
Treuenni are not a mile in sunder.
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