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 Sauerne therefore being past Glocester, it méeteth with a litle
rill on the right hand, and thence holding on his course by Elmore,
Minsterworth, Longneie, to Framilode, it receiueth yer it come at this
[Sidenote: Strowd.]
latter the Strowd brooke, which rising not farre from Side, goeth by
Massade, Edgeworth, Frampton, Strowd, and receiuing there a water that
commeth from Panneswijc Lodge, by Pittescombe on the one side, and
another from Radbridge on the other, it prosecuteth his voiage to
Stone house, Eslington, white Misen, & so toward Framilode, where the
said Strowd dooth fall into the Sauerne. After the fall of Strowd, the
Sauerne goeth from thence to Newenham, and Arlingham, and soone after
receiuing a water on each side, whereof one commeth from Vleie by Cham
and Chambridge, the other by Blackneie and Catcombe, it goeth foorth
till it méet with another water on ech side, whereof that on the
English halfe is forked, so that one head thereof is to be found about
Borwell, the other at Horton, and méeting aboue Tortworthie, they run
by Stone and Barkeleie castell, and so into the Sauerne. That on the
[Sidenote: Newarne.]
Welsh halfe is named Newarne, which cömeth from the forrest of Deane,
and so into the Sauerne.
OF SUCH WATERS AS FALL INTO THE SEA IN COMPASSE OF THE ILAND, BETWÉENE
THE SAUERNE AND THE HUMBER.
CHAP. XIV.
The Sauerne being thus described, it resteth that I go forward with
the names of those that lie vpon the coast of Southwales, making my
entrie at the ferrie ouer betwéene Aust in Glocestershire, and a
village on the further banke of Sauerne, not farre from Tarendacus
[Sidenote: Wie mouth.]
chappell, in the mouth of the riuer Wie, which ferrie is about three
[Sidenote: Guie aliàs Wie.]
miles ouer (saith Leland) or else my memorie dooth faile me. This
riuer Guie or Wie beginneth (as I said before) on the side of the
hilles, where the Sauerne dooth arise, and passing through Wenceland,
that is, southeast by Raiader Guie to Buelt (where the Irwon meeteth
withall) it goeth to Glasburie, Hereford, Monmouth, and finallie into
the Sauerne sea at Chepstow: for so they call Monhafren, which
seuereth Wales from Summersetshire, Deuonshire, Cornewall: as for the
Rhidoll which is the third sister, it hath the shortest course of all,
for it runneth northward, and into the sea at Aberistwith, which is
not farre off, as the writers doo report.
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