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
From Traith mawr we passe by the Krekith, and come to another water
descending from the north by Lanstidwie, and after that to the Moie,
whose mouthes are so néere togither, that no more than halfe a mile of
the land dooth seeme to kéepe them in sunder.
[Sidenote: Erke.]
Then come we vnto the Erke, a pretie brooke descending from Madrijn
hils, into whose mouth two other of no lesse quantitie than it selfe
doo séeme to haue their confluence, and whose courses doo come along
from the west and northwest; the most southerlie being called Girch,
and the other the Hellie: except my memorie doo faile me. Then casting
about toward the south (as the coast lieth) we saw the Abersoch or
[Sidenote: Soch.]
mouth of the Soch riuer vpon our right hand, in the mouth whereof, or
not farre by south thereof lie two Ilands, of which the more
northerlie is called Tudfall, and the other Penrijn: as Leland did
obserue. I would set downe the British names of such townes and
villages as these waters passe by; but the writing of them (for want
of the language) is so hard to me, that I choose rather to shew their
falles and risings, than to corrupt their denominations in the
writing: and yet now and then I vse such words as our Englishmen doo
giue vnto some of them, but that is not often, where the British name
is easie to be found out and sounded.
After this, going about by the point, and leauing Gwelin Ile on the
[Sidenote: Daron.]
right hand, we come to Daron riuer, wherevpon standeth Aberdaron a
quarter of a mile from the shore betwixt Aberdaron and Vortigernes
vale, where the compasse of the sea gathereth in a head, and entereth
[Sidenote: Edarne beck.]
at both ends. Then come we about the point to Edarne becke, a mile and
more south of Newin. And ten or twelue miles from hence is the Vennie
brooke, whose course is little aboue so manie miles; and not farre
from it is the Liuan, a farre lesse water, comming also from the east:
and next vnto that another, wherinto the Willie by south and the
Carrog by north after their coniunction doo make their common
influence. Hauing passed this riuer, we cast about toward the north
east, and enter at Abermenaie ferrie, into the streicts or streame
called Menaie, betweene Angleseie and the maine, méeting first of all
with the Gornaie, which commeth from the Snowdonie out of the
Treuennian lake, and passeth by Lanunda into the sea or Menaie streame
at Southcrocke. Next of all we meet with the Saint, which commeth from
Lin Lanbereie, passeth by Lanihangle, and so falleth into the Menaie
at Abersaint, which is on the southwest side of Caernaruon: on the
other side also of the said towne is the Skeuernocke, whereby it
standeth betweene two riuers, of which this hath his head not farre
from Dinas Orueg.
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