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Show Thedefcription of Britaine. ornamne of the forefafdcountie. Dtheraffivinelikes into their mothers lap , 48 Politian fableth of the thefe coniecures are to be contemned, fo thelaf -ercefient, fveet and pleafant fith , Hbheretwith (uch as cometh most nere tomine aid, thoadirme, thatnot -inbabit neere bnto bir bankes are fed and fallte infle, that Reding is fo called of the Drecke toy (ca) fthichisto ouerfloive, Cerfes,as neitherof The defcription of Britaine. Abene, py/folarvm ib. 8. epi.6.no2 peeldeth clots of gold as the Lagus doth: but an infinit plentie of onelte the courle of cucrie water itfelfe, but alfobis nourithe, overflowing twas in tinte pal called Whe , by feb What Hhonld F (peake of the fat and fndt fale syatmons, Sarons as inhabited in this Fland: aydcuen to this 10 mong,datlic taken tithis freame, and that in fach Date in Ciler J haue off obferucd, that then thelow -_plentic(after the time of the {melt be paft)as no river ergrounds bp rageof tater baue bene ouerflotey it Enropa is abletoereedit., That ftore alfo of en, the people brbsloing the fame,baue faid;Alison -_barbels,tronts.cenins, pearches, (melts, breames, ARhz,as if thep Honld have fatd;Alisnowariuer, roryes,baces,quoginas, flounders, (2imps, rc: are albeit the food iter be deriued Rom the French, commoniie tobe had therein, y refer me to then that and booted by them from the Latins , but not knotw by erperience better than 4, byreafonof their fwithout corruption, as tt twas brought bntothem., -_dailictrave of filhing in the fame, And albett it fees F will not bere gtue notice holw farce theparedecet> meth from time fo time, to be as it were DefrauDdcd Honet. Thetis. ued, Hhichcall the aforefatd church) by the nameof S. in fundaie Wife of thefe bir large commodities , by commieth ftom the billes that lie tet of arleba: itis not longfince that kind of ff) twas brought o» ra Parie Auderies,o2 B. Maric once Flis, or Fle : but 20 the infattable auarice of the fi}ermen, pet this fa3 Will proceed with the courte of this nobleftreame, mous river complaineth commontie of no tpant,but thich, hotfocuer thefe matters ftand after it hath -_-the more it lofeth at one fine,the more it peeloeth at paffed bp Reding, there receiued the Lhenet,thicy another, Dnelicin catps it feemeth to be fant ,fith tongh (then the Ahetis, commonliecatledthe Live that commeth ftom Thetifford) bicty to Sudlings fonrothertnife called Paidenbead, andi to Win dlefyore (02 THindfoze) Caton,andthentoGhertfeie, tabere Erkehwald bifhopof London fometimebuil: erent ee tue nmkipe backe andebeckethe ftreame inbis ry faith, that this riuer ts feloome tnereafed o2 rather this reame, bp the violent rage of fundsée Lamps anDateris flouds,that beakcopen the beans and dams ofDiucrs tY* Chasis gentlemens ponds,bp tbicy micansit becante fonte. bat partakeralto ofthis fata commonditic tebereof Deda religions houfeo2 cell,as Jooread, 30 earflit had no postion that % could euer beare - Db From Ghertleicit hatteth directlie onto Stanes, thatthis riuer mightbe {paren but euen one peare and receiuing an other freame by the aie, called from hets, ¢c! Wut alas then thonly manic at 026 Darwent, Crave, the Cole(tberebpon Colbzake fanbeth) itgocty by man be bridone.In the meanetime it is lamentable ford.tchere it méetety the Wrane o2 the \rene(anes ther brake detcending from Coginorth} ehofename -_fands and fhelnes rough the penning and tnpettin of the courfeofthe {water for commodities fake. ‘But -_to fee , bolu it is and. bath béene chokeof Late with fignifieth frog , inthe wzittith {peach . Gponthis as thisis antnconuentenceeafilie temedied, ‘ ifgod alfo fir John Thin bad fomctime a ftatelie boute, o2der tere taken for the renzefle thereof + fo nov, witha maruellous proutfion to inclofe ano reteine the fine o2 ppife fet opon the ballatte fometi fut 1% as Hould come about the fame . Ftom mefreelis 40 ginento ¢be merchants by patent » euen bnito WBrentfordit patleth by Portlach,Putneie, Fulban y, lands end (74/4ees axpoiné?)will be another caute the Watterteie > Chelfcie, Lambeth > and of fo fo London, barine onto this noble treame > MD all Finallie going front thence onto the fea,it through arn taketh Aduantage taken at the iant of an(s)i the Lee with it bp the waie ponthe coatt n the ford of Gtter, pond : thteh greto though an erro: and another that commeth from Abzcch committed by art e not far off, Cnglih notarie ontkilfull in 0 the Darnt bponikent fide > thich vifeth U nere to therein that patent mas want: Tanrige,andcommeth by Shoreham, gnto Si Dernt: Furthermore , the faid riuer flotueth ero forb, therebnto the Crate falleth. Ano and fillet latfof ail the altbis chanels toffe in the vate ano Pediwaic a notable riucr(in mine opinio hight, that is ir n) frbich eueric tylue houres once; ann this tuatereth all the fouth and fouthtwett ebbing ¢ flotypart of kent, 50 ing, bolocty On foth " thofe vefeription fall intue, e face of fcane withinthe maine land : the ftreame 02 nti¢ miles, Pauitig in this mance byeefelie torich fide beting al ey i Iuates bighct at London stihen riner,and {uch bakes as fall into the mone deth eye the "wir ae Actlie touch the nostheatt ano fouth how addea particular delcription of o2 cach of the fe late the beauens,of tbicy oneis bifibl Inet points of by themfelues,hereby their e , the other bnoder courfes alfo (all be fes the earth and not {ubiedt to our fight uerallic defcribed to the fatiffacton .dhefe tives alfo of the ftudtous, differ in thetr fimes,cach one comm Wut per J take the fame ing latter thar in band, % will inferta other, bp fo manie minuts as pafle per Wor 02tivo of the commodities the reuoluti of the fato riuer on and natural courte of the heaucnsd Hhith X twill performe with fo o reduce,and much breuitic as is bring about the fain planet pollible. Wave by alto findi we nto ng ont thofe coutletoufthe beanto ty falthebis whole r reat tsetrac a and Do 6o places :: ahereby the common differ bir forme ‘ ence betipene fea, we One fide and another, is foun ‘Mapeareth cuirentlic that a the len: sth thereof d to conf nfie pace t at is foure minuts,ebich toanteth but tivc ift the leatt,one bundyeth ano bette eightic mites, if it be meas lue *=ole oretet boure in foure and twentie,as Expe faredbpthe fourneies of the lan d . ind as it és { rience deth cons anethete firme.nlite fort tuefee bp courte, the fongeftof the thr dallie trfall,tbat each tine e famous svi=‘this (Ss notof equall hefgth and Gtea Mert is nothing infertour nt le : for at the full DaNCeIOF all kind of fil) , uho o them in abou and change of the mone tue hantnel reo e the greatete flouds, tit tsb ard to fair ibich of the three baue eit and fuch is thei r ordinarte courte, that ag thep her mot plentie,o greate dint: r barictic, if the ctreum ne from their changes and ffance fuls, onto the firif ara What fome other tite of s be Duelie {weighed aa n e fo afterivards thep increafe the riuers of their cou agai ne, tries it Thilleth nornether i ee tothe full and l F (as diuerte ng) j change. Sometimes hent trange things of this Wil . P rife fo bigh (if the wind noble treame,therewith be at the no2th 03 to Nobilitateandmate atheattobich beingett in the tate tt moze honozable : but rtwith moze ber this Wi Xin plaine termes bemencie , bicante the tide adlicme,tat neithe thich filleth the chanell r Qwals Formmeth from Scotlany Ward) that the Thames gueys -fpeake ante more of them here, as hot lingering -but batting to perfoxme mppromife made euen now, not pet forgotten, andtn performance Hbereof Pthinke if belt to refumre the veferiptionof thts noble riuer againe into my hands, and in abping -frhatforner is before omitted, fodeliver a full ana perfect demonfkrationof his courte, ow and ahere -_the fain ftreame artfeth,is alveadiee Bit (udiciens -_cie fet polwne, noting the place to be Moithina mile itrentrance etittance, as the call and noztheatk dw balten the 10 of Detbhurie, chereof fome dm bfterlic miflike, bt mtotheland. comming in thereof ,o2elfefome other ertraosdinas -_caufe that rill in ftmmer drouths is off (odzie, hat tie occafion, put bp the oxdinarie courfe of the noz -_-there ts littleo2no {waterat all (ene running aboue thernefeas,th ich fll the fatd river bythetenaturall ground inthe fame. $02 this canfe therefore mani¢ returned flowing, And that both thefcdm happen -_affirme the berieheadof Afs to comefrom the pole Fis; eftamong , Jrefer metolucyashaue not filoome abouedkemble. Dther confoundit with the bean of obferuedit, as allo the fenfiblechoping in of three2 -_-the Cirneo2 Ghirne,called tn X atine Coriniumthat foure tides in one natural date,tbherof the bnikilfull -_rifetyaboue Coberleie. Jfo2mp part J follow LeDo delcant manie things. land,as he doth the monke of Malmesburic, tbtcy ‘But hots focuer thefe finall matters do fall {wrote the hifforte intitnle Eulogiumhiftoriarum, out, and holw offen focuerthis courfeaf the freame 20 tho fearced the fame of fet purpofe, and pronoun» boty happen to bediffurbedspet attwoleucralltimes ced with Leland, although at this peefent that of the age of the mone, the waters returne to their -courfe be berie fmall,and choked bp(as Z heare)with naturall courte andlimits of fimecradlic.Polydore grauell and fand . Wzoceeding therefore from the -_uer into Gngland,and but of late to fpeake of {ito into én dkingone, Shene,Ston,and eentfoyd02IBiegents oucrfloiveth hfe banks né&re bnto Londons abid) bapneth efpecialie in the fuls and changes of Janus aie and Febzuarie, thereinthe lowergroundsare of cuftomeforet nowned. This order of flowing it like fort ts perpetuall,fo that ahen the mone ts bpon the fouthwett and nogth of points, thenisthetwater bp Londonat the highett; neither owthe tives alter, erceptfome rough winds out of the weff o2foutty ZLondon bzidge, bpontwentie arches, thereof ech oneis made of er cellentivee fquarenftone,eucvie of them being thre E Soom coe Khe Colnots a faire riper rifing by moth mere Colncius, Cox fo Wlitchington, ¢ from thence goeth fo Shiptons, peest See . Compton Abdale ,wWittenton,warneworth, Colne (rez fot i beigth,and full twwentie in diftance one from anotber,as Z Baue offen bietwen, 6o Deanes, and Colne Rogers, Wintton , Wiberte. > §u like maner J could mtreatof the infinit num Colne Alens,Q ucningtos, Faireford, and toctk of ber of fiyans Dailie tobe fene bpon this riuet, tye Chamesand toethonfand aberrics ann {mall beats, torby three rené thouland: pare watermenate matitteimed; through thecariageadrecartage of {udypertonsias pafic 02 ofe gaines tepatie;fromtime to tine. bponthc fame: befive 1 mot thefe huge tineboats,tiltbotes,mb barges, tibich cis ntifuihein her carrie pallempens, o2 bring neteflarie proutfiow cad faring oe bead,it firit of all receiueth the 4semble watercalied neuerouerflowwethbir banks byluoflouds:buthets -the Cour, abtch rifeth aboue ikemble towne, goeth Couns. herein berte much deceiued, asitMalbe moze aypas bp dkembleif {elfe bato Poole and Somerford, ano rantlie feene hereatter, Jto2 the moze that thisriuer them (accompanicth the Thames) onto Canes, Athy isput bp of bir right courte, the moze the Water ton, Canes, and Hotwiton,boloing on in one chanel muff of neceflttic fvell twith the bite waters whic) otithep nIeet with the Chtrne, the nestof all tobe tundotone fromthe land: bicaule the paflage can 30 deferibeD. notbe fo fivift and readie in the winding as in the ihe Chine ts a faire water arffing ont of the Corinium fireightcourfe. Hhefe landflouds alfo do greatlie ground aboue Coberieie, from whence tt runneth fraine the finetle of the ftreame, infomuch that af to Cowleie, Cotlefburne, Kandcome, amd fo into fer agreat landfloud,pou thall take hanbocks with -«the Ais on the left five aboue Crebelave, hele thre pour hands beneath the beibge, as thepflote alot pps watersbeing thus bnited andbzought into one char onthe twater, thofe cies are fo blinded with the nell; feithin alittle {pace of the headof Afis,it ruw thicknefle of thatelement,that they canniotfe there net on bp Crebelade, beneath abich totunest recet: fo become,and make fhifttofane themfelucs before -suetly the he, oefcending from Glcombe > Elcof, ihe. deathtake bold of them, Dtheriutfe the waterof ft Medburne, Ulivhill,+ at the fall into Ffis,o2 not far felfe ts berp cléere,anb in compartion nert bnto that 40 off icineth twith another that runneth welt of pours of the fea, thfchismott fubtiie and pure of all other; fon bp Ieaden forrett,ee. Mert ofall our Bois mees : as that of great riuers ts moff ercellent, incompar teth with the Anineic on the left hand, which come Pele rifor of fmaller brakes : although Ariftotle tilt ming from aboue Wolte tode Amneie, runneth bp baue the falt tuater to be moft grofle, bicaufe a thip Dotwne Amneie, and finallie into the Jlisalittleas fwill beare a greater burden on the fea than on the boue Fete. Fun like fort J read of another that mes fretpiwater ; andaneg finke inthis that fwimnicth tefb iwithall onthe right hand aboue Afete allo, ahicy on the offer. Int be map eafilie be anfivercd bp the fofaras J csncall to temembzance,conuneth from quantitie of ronteand abounbdanceof fyaters in the about Dzifielo and falleth fo into ont Iis, that thep fea; thereby tt becommeth of moze force totutteine run ag one bitill thep come at the Colne,although (uch veffcls as are committed to the fame,ann ther: 0 notfo nakcolic and twithout belpe, but that in this bnto the greatettriners(God wot)atenothing com: bofage, the maine ftreame doth croffe one tater parable. 4 iould bere make mention of fundzie that defcendeth from Stwindon, and going alfoby bridges placed oner this noble freame,of thich that Stratton toward Seuingham , isi felfe increas of dLondon is _moft chieflieto be commended, for'it fed twith tivo rils by the tuaie, thereof one commnethi is itt manera cotinnall recttwell replenithen with front iLindenton bp WWambeie,as ¥ haue beeiie tt large and fatelie bonfes on both fives, anv. fituat founred, from ali quarters of Drfordthire; Barkethtee, uci binghamfhire, Wenfornthire, ierforothires apiote fer, Cfler, Surrie,and ent, onto the citie of Low Dott. Sut forfommel as thele things are tobe repeas fedagame in the particular oefcription of Lonvor, avhercd to bis cata ; F farcealle at this time to Lachclave into the riuer Fis, khich hereabout on the fouthfive alfo taketh tr another, thereof 4 find this remembyance. Lhe Ffis being once pak He« uiighan,croffeth a broke from fouthett that mouns teth about Athbirie, and recetninga rill from bys lweff (that commeth front Winton) beneath Shrines bam,it affertward fo diutoeth tt felfe,that the armes therof tnclude Yngletham, and by reafon that tt fale leth into the Zits at two fenerall places,there is ¢ plefant Jland propucted, hereoftet this fuffice, Weing pat Lechclave a mile,it rametto faine Aeeus 08 Fobns bridge , ¢ thereabout mecteth with the Leche Hed" onthe lef band, his bake, abereot Leclave tas beth Reo Sere aoe lotweth op battarogofthe Celibmd, 02 cafketh ty -the right begottenthat are thaowne in without burt =ete: sense filerebnto tr part the Thames isabound. 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