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 next is a corner of Denbigh, by which we doo as it were step ouer
into Flintshire, and whose first water is not great, yet it commeth
from southwest, and falleth into the north or Irish sea called
Virginium, beneath Landilas; as the next that commeth south from
Bettas dooth the like thrée miles beneath Abergele, and is not onelie
[Sidenote: Gele.]
called Gele (as the name it selfe importeth) but also noted to take
his course through the Canges. Hauing thus gone ouer the angle of
Denbighshire, that lieth betwéene those of Carnaruon and Flint, we
come next of all vnto Aber Cluide, or the fall of Clotha or Glota,
which is a streame not to be shortlie intreated of. It riseth among
certeine hilles, which lie not far distant from the confines of
Merioneth and Denbighshires. Southeast from his fall, and hauing run
foure or fiue miles from the head, it commeth about to Darwen, taking
[Sidenote: Maniton.]
in the Maniton on the left hand, and the Mespin on the right: and
soone after the third from bywest, whose head is not farre from
Gloucanocke. Beneath Ruthen also it taketh in the Leueneie: and after
that another, and the third, all on the right hand, and so holdeth on
[Sidenote: Cluedoch.]
till it méet with the Cluedoch, then with the Ystrade, which passeth
by Whitchurch on the left hand. After which we come to the Whéeler on
the right, and so to his ioining with the Elwie, which is beneath
[Sidenote: Elwie.]
S. Asaphes, a bishops sée that is inuironed with them both. This Elwie
riseth aboue Gwitherne, & beneath Lanuair taketh in the Alode, which
commeth from lin Alode, by Lansannan, and ioineth with him fiue miles
beneath Langrenew. The Cluda therefore and the Elwie being met, the
confluence passeth on to the sea by Rutland castell, where it taketh
in the Sarne, which commeth from by east, and hath a course almost of
sixteene miles. From hence we tooke sea toward the Dée mouth: and as
we passed by the rest of the shore, we saw the fall of a little brooke
néere Basing Werke, of another néere to Flint, of the third at Yowleie
castell, which with his two armes in maner includeth it; and the
fourth beneath Hawarden hold, which in like sort goeth round about the
same, & from whence we came to the Dée, where we landed and tooke vp
our lodging in Chester. In this place also it was no hard matter to
deliuer & set downe the names of such riuers and streames as are also
to be found in Angleseie, finding my selfe to haue some leasure and
fit opportunitie for the same: and imagining a iourneie thither also,
as vnto the other places mentioned in this description, whither as yet
it hath not béene my hap to trauell: I thought it not amisse to take
it also in hand, and performe it after this maner.
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