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
Leland writing of this riuer Guie or Wie saith thus; The Wie goeth
thorough all Herefordshire by Bradwarden castell, belonging to sir
Richard Vehan, and so to Hereford east, thence eight miles to Rosse, a
[Sidenote: Vmber a fish onelie in the Wie.]
market towne in Herefordshire: and in this riuer be vmbers, otherwise
called grailings. It is also found by common experience, that the
salmon of this riuer is in season, when the like fish to be found in
all other riuers is abandoned and out of vse; wherof we of the east
parts doo not a little maruell. But let vs not staie vpon these
descriptions, sith an other is come to my hand more exact than either
of these.
The Guie therefore riseth out of the blacke mounteines of Wales, out
of which the Sauerne springeth in Radnorshire, and comming by
[Sidenote: Darnoll.]
Lhangerike, and Raiadargoie, it receiueth one rill from the west
called Darnoll, and another from by northeast comming by saint Harmon.
Thence it goeth to Lhanuthell, and in the waie betwixt Raiader and
[Sidenote: Elland.]
Lhanuthell, it ioineth with the Elland, whose head is néere to
[Sidenote: Clardwen.]
Comeristwith, and taketh likewise into him the Clardwen that diuideth
for a season Radnorshire from Brecknoch, which Clardwen is likewise
increased by the Clarthie within thrée miles of his head and lesse,
hauing his course from southwest & hille soile adiacent. From
[Sidenote: Ithan.]
Lhanuthell it goeth west of Dissart, where it receiueth the Ithan, a
riuer rising aboue Lhanibister, and from whence it runneth to Landwie,
and Lambaderne vawr: beneath which it crosseth a water on ech side,
[Sidenote: Dulesse.]
[Sidenote: Cluedoch.]
whereof that on the right hand consisteth on the Dulesse and the
[Sidenote: Lamaron.]
Cluedoch, after their confluence: the other hight Lomaron, whose head
is aboue Lanthangle, and in the forrest of Blethwag. After these
confluences, it runneth on crinkeling in strange manner, vnder the
[Sidenote: Hawie.]
name of Ithor, till it come to Dissart, taking in the Hawie on the
left side yer it come there, and then into the Wie on the north side,
which directeth his course further to Bealt, where it receiueth the
[Sidenote: Yrwon.]
Yrwon, a notable streame, descending from the hilles aboue Lanihangle
Abergwessen, and thence comming downe by Lanurid Lang marsh, Lanauan,
Vechan, Langantan, and so to Beth or Bealt, being inlarged by the waie
[Sidenote: Weuereie.]
with sundrie faire waters, as the Weuereie, whose head is about
Lanauan moore, the Dulasse, or (as some call it) the Dowlasse, that
[Sidenote: Dulasse.]
[Sidenote: Comarch.]
[Sidenote: Dulasse.]
commeth from the hilles west of the head of Weuereie. The Comarch
whose head and course is west of the Dowlasse on the north side, and
likewise by two other on the southwest, and Dilasse from by southwest,
which last rehearsed falleth into him halfe a mile and more aboue the
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