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
Lansanfraid, and the marches of Merioneth into Denbighshire, and so to
Langellon, Dinas, Bren, &c: kéeping his course by certeine windlesses,
[Sidenote: Gristioneth.]
till he receiue the Gristioneth, descending by Ruabon, then another
[Sidenote: Keriog.]
est of the same; the third from by west called Keriog (whose head is
not farre from the bounds of Merioneth and course by Lanarmon,
Lansanfraid, and Chirke) the fourth from south east out of Shropshire,
called Morlais, and so passeth as bounds betwéene Denbighshire, and
the Outliggand of Flintshire, to wit by Bistocke on the one side and
Bangor on the other, till it come to Worthenburie: whereabout it
receiueth a chanell descending from foure influences, of which one
commeth by Penlie chappell, the second from Hamnere, which goeth downe
by Emberhall, and falleth in a little by east of the other; the third
from Blackmere (by Whitchurch) &c: and the fourth from betwéene Chad
and Worsall. These two later méeting aboue nether Durtwich, doo hold
on to Talerne, as mine information instructeth me.
From Wrothenburie the Dee goeth northwestwards toward Shocklige,
[Sidenote: Cluedoch.]
méeting by the waie with the confluence of the Cluedoch (or Dedoch
originall mother to those trouts for which the Dée is commended) and
[Sidenote: Gwinrogh.]
descendeth from Capell Moinglath) and the Gwinrogh, that runneth
through Wrexham, both ioining a mile and more beneath Wrexham, not far
from Hantwerne. Soone after also our maine riuer receiueth another
becke from by east, which is bound on the northwest side to the
Outliggand of Flintshire, and so passeth on betwéene Holt castell and
Ferneton, Almere and Pulton, as march betwéene Denbighshire and
[Sidenote: Alannus.]
Cheshire, and then taketh in the Alannus or Alen; a pretie riuer and
worthie to be described. The head of this Alen therefore is in
Denbighshire, and so disposed that it riseth in two seuerall places,
ech being two miles from other, the one called Alen Mawr, the other
Alen Vehan, as I doo find reported. They méet also beneath Landegleie,
and run northwards till they come beyond Lanuerres, where meeting with
a rill comming from by west, it runneth on to the Mold to Horsheth,
and so in and out to Greseford, taking the Cagidog from southwest with
it by the waie; then to Traue Alen, and so into the Dée, a mile and
more aboue the fall of Powton becke, which also descendeth from
southwest out of Flintshire, and is march vnto the same, euen from the
verie head. After which confluence the Dée hauing Chestershire on both
sides, goeth to Aldford with a swift course, where it méeteth with the
Beston brooke, whereof I doo find this description following.
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