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
[Sidenote: Loch.]
Portlochbaie, whither commeth a water named Loch that descendeth from
[Sidenote: Durus.]
Stokepero, Lucham and Portloch without increase. Thence to Dunsteir
brooke, which runneth from about Wootton, and Courtneie by Tunbercombe
and Dunsteir, then to another that commeth west of Old Cliffe, leauing
[Sidenote: Vacetus.]
a parke on the west side, next of all to Watchet water, whereof one
head commeth from the Quantocke hils south of Bickualer by
[Sidenote: Williton.]
Westquantocke head, and almost at Doniford, receiueth the Williton
becke, then to east Quantocke brooke (omitting a créeket) & next of
[Sidenote: Doddington.]
all to Doddington water, that goeth by Holford, Alfoxton, and
afterward into the sea. From hence we go by Bottesall point, to Stert
point, where two noble riuers doo make their confluence, which I will
seuerallie describe, as to my purpose apperteineth.
[Sidenote: Iuelus.]
The first of these is called the Iuell, or (as I find it in an ancient
writer) Yoo, who saith that the riuer Yoo dooth runne from Ilchester
to Bridgewater, and so into the sea. It riseth aboue Oburne, and at
Shirburne receiueth a water, whereof Leland saith thus. There are
[Sidenote: The seuen sisters.]
seuen springs in an hill called the seuen sisters, north east from
Shireburne, which gather into one bottome, & come into the Mere.
Another brooke likewise commeth by Heidon from Puscandell, three miles
from thence by flat east, betwixt the parke and the Mere full so great
as the streame of the Mere, and ioining at the lower mill of
Shireburne, with the Mere water, it is not long yer it fall into the
Euill. Thence our Euill goeth on towards Glasen Bradford, and yer it
come there taketh in a forked rill from by south, descending from
about west Chelburie and Chetnall in Dorsetshire, beneath which towne
the other head falleth into the same, so that they run foorth by
Bearhaggard and Thorneford (till they méet with the Iuell) and so to
Clifton, Euill a proper market towne, Trent, Mutford, Ashinton, and
[Sidenote: Cade.]
east of Limminton it méeteth with the Cade that runneth from
Yarlington, by north Cadbirie, and soone after crossing a rill also
from by east, that commeth from Blackeford by Compton, it hasteth to
south Cadbirie, Sparkeford, Queenes Camell, west Camell, and so into
Iuell, which runneth on to Kimmington, Ilchester, Ilbridge, long
Sutton, and yer it come at Langport, taketh in two famous waters in
one chanell, next of all to be remembred before I go anie further. The
first of all these riseth southeast betwéene the Parrets (where it is
[Sidenote: Parret.]
called Parret water) and goeth to Crokehorne, and at Meriot taketh in
a brooke from the east, which consisteth of two courses vnited at
Bowbridge, whereof the one descendeth from Pen by Hasilburie, the
other from aboue the thrée Chenocks, as I doo vnderstand.
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