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
The head of this noble streame is found in the high mounteines of
south Wales called Helennith or Plim limmon; in English, the blacke
mounteins, or moore heads, from whence also the Wie and the Rhidoll do
procéed: and therefore these thrée waters are commonlie called the
thrée sisters, and haue in latitude two and fiftie degrees ten
minutes, in longitude fiftéene and fiftie, as the description
inferreth. So soone as it is out of the ground, it goeth
southeastward, till it come within a mile of Laundlos, where it
receiueth a chanell from by south southwest, called the Dulas, which
commeth thereinto on the south side, & southwest of Lan Idlos. It
riseth (as it should séeme) of diuerse heads in the edge of
Radnorshire, and taking in sundrie small rilles, it meeteth at the
[Sidenote: Brueham.]
last with the Brueham brooke, and so they go togither till they fall
[Sidenote: Clewdogh.]
into the Sauerne. Beneath Lan Idlos it taketh in the Clewdogh, from
northwest, a water producted by the influence of foure pretie brookes,
[Sidenote: Bacho.]
[Sidenote: Dungum.]
[Sidenote: Lhoid.]
[Sidenote: Bigga.]
[Sidenote: Couine.]
whereof one is called Bacho, another Dungum comming out of lin
Glaslin, the third Lhoid rising in lin Begilin, and the most
southerlie called Bigga. After which confluence our Sauerne procéedeth
on by Berhlaid toward Landiman, taking in by the waie, on the east
side the Couine, thence to Cairfuse castell, where it meeteth with the
[Sidenote: Carnon.]
[Sidenote: Taran.]
Carnon, and the Taran both in one chanell, and going not far from the
[Sidenote: Hawes.]
[Sidenote: Dulesse. 2.]
aforesaid fortresse. After this it crosseth the Hawes on the north
halfe beneath Aberhawes, next of all the Dulesse that riseth in the
edge of Radnor shire, and méeteth with it before it come at Newton in
Powisie, otherwise called Trenewith, as I find in British language.
Being come to Trenewith, I cannot eschue (right honorable) to giue one
note, as by the waie, touching the originall of my ladie your
bedfellowes ancestrie, which came from hence, & were surnamed Newtons
onelie, for that the grandfather of sir John Newton either dwelled or
was borne there: otherwise the right name is Caradoc, for which some
doo corruptlie write Cradocke, respecting rather the shortnesse of
pronuntiation, than the true orthographie and writing of the word.
Certes the Caradockes haue béene, and yet are a linage of great honor,
antiquitie, and seruice; their lands also sometime belonged (for the
most part) to the noble Connoanies of Summersetshire: but in what
order they descended to the Newtons, in good sooth I cannot tell. But
to procéed with our riuer, which being past Newton, runneth foorth by
[Sidenote: Mule.]
Landilouarne, and so foorth on till it come to the fall of the Mule,
whose head is in the edge of Radnor also, and thereto his passage by
Kerie and Lanmereiwijc. After this also it procéedeth further till it
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