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
Héere also it taketh in a rill by the waie from Markesburie by
Wilmerton and Newton, and then going on to Sawford, it méeteth with
[Sidenote: Swinford.]
one rill soone west of Northstocke, named Swinford, and another by
Bitton, from Durhain by Wike, and so procéedeth still holding on his
[Sidenote: Swinford parteth Summerset & Glocestershires in sunder.]
way to Caimsham, a towne in Summerset shire (so called of Caim an
English saint, by whose praiers, as the countrie once beléeued, all
the adders, snakes and serpents were turned into stone, their formes
reserued, and for a certeine space of ground about the said towne, and
whereof some store as yet is to be found in those quaries. But this
miracle is so true as the historie of Hilda, or that S. Patrike should
chase all venemous creatures out of Italie, with his staffe; or that
maid Radegund should driue the crowes to the pound, which did annoie
hir corne while she went vnto a chappell to heare & sée a masse) where
it crosseth the Chute, which issueth at Winford, and goeth by bishops
Chue to Penford, and there receiueth the Clue comming from Cluton, and
from thence to Chute, & so into the Auon. The Auon likewise after all
these confluences goeth to Briselton, and so to Bristow, beneath which
it receiueth a rill on each side (wherof one commeth from about Stoke
lodge in Glocestershire, being a faire water and running by Acton,
Frampton, Hambroch, Stapleton, and through Bristow, the other by south
from Dundreie hill and towne, by Bisport and Bedminster) and so
descending yet lower, goeth to Rawneham passage and Clifton, then by
S. Vincents rocke and Laie, next of all to Crocampill, and finallie
into the sea, whither all waters by nature doo resort.
[Sidenote: Alderleie.]
Beside this water, Leland maketh mention of Alderleie brooke, which in
some ancient records is also called Auon, and runneth by Barkeleie. In
[Sidenote: Douresleie.]
like maner he talketh of Douresleie becke, whose principall head is in
Douresleie towne: howbeit he saith no thing of it more, than that it
[Sidenote: Torworth.]
serueth sundrie tucking lucking milles, and goeth by Tortworth or
foure miles further, before it come at the Sauerne. Finallie, making
mention of an excellent quarrie of hard stone about Douresleie, he
telleth of the Tortworth becke, that runneth within a flight shot of
Barkeleie towne, and falleth on the left hand into Sauerne marches,
taking with all the Alderleie or Auon, except I mistake his meaning,
which may soone be doone among his confused notes.
THE DESCRIPTION OF THE SAUERNE, & SUCH WATERS AS DISCHARGE THEMSELUES
INTO THE SAME.
CHAP. XIII.
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