The Itinerary of John Leland the Antiquary ...printed at the Theater for the publisher., 1711 - Great Britain |
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Abbay alias aliis almoſt apud Archis autem Autogr Axmouth berith Bern Bert betwixt Bishop brekith Bremenium Bridge buildid Caftelle cafu caullid Chapelle Codd Copy Creeke Creke cummith Defunt Dunmere Eboracum effe Eft fide ejus Epifcopus Epus Eſt etiam Excefter Exon fair Fawey fide firſt Flor ftondith fuiffe fuit fumtyme funt fupra Gate goith Hæc half a Mile Harnham Harrifoni hath Haven Mouth Hedde hîc Houfe Houſe illic juxta King Land litle Longolii Cod Lord Lugd Luguvalium lyith Maner Place Miles lower milliaria Monington moſt nifi nomen nunc obiit oppidum Oterey Oxon Paroch Chirch paullo PLVS MINVS poft Porro portus praty Priory Ptol puto quæ quam quod quum recentiori rennith rifith Ryver Saresbyri Sarum Shippes South Eft Stone Streate Ther theſe Toun Town Tumbe tyme Water Waulle Weft Weſt wher Winburn
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Page 12 - It is a Mile in Cumpace * by the Cumpace " and is almoft environid with the Se. and where it is not the Ground is fo low, and the Cut to be made fo litle that it were infulatid. There lyith a litle Cape or Foreland within the Haven a Mile dim.
Page 9 - Miles in lenght, and betwixt it and the Mayn Se is but a Barre of Sand. And ons in 3. or 4. Yeres what by the wait of the frefch Water and Rage of the Se it brekith out, and then the frefch and fait Water metyng makith a wonderful Noife. But
Page 78 - flat Eft for a fpace: and withyn it is a Waulle of Mudde lyke to the other: and fo thens goith round aboute the Toun to the Circuite of a Myle. There is a Gate of Tymbre at the North
Page 17 - and the thirde and Henry the v. Day, partely by Feates of Warre, partely by Pyracie, and fo waxing riche felle al to Marchaundice : fo that the Town was hauntid with Shippes of diverfe Nations, and their Shippes went to al Nations. The Shippes of Fawey fayling by
Page 52 - Portland hath bene of auncient tyme be al likelihod environid with the Se, and yet berith the Name of an Ifle. It is eminent and Hilly Ground on the Shore of it, and a great Plain yn
Page 35 - or els throuen up from the Shores by rage of Wynd and Water : and this Sand occupieth now a great Quantite of Ground bytwene Teignmouth Towne, wher the Ground mountith, and Teignmouth Haven. Ther be too Tounes at this Point of the Haven by Name of Teignemouth, one hard joining to the other: The Souther of
Page 72 - fair Tourres in the Walle betwixt the Eft Gate and the South Gate : and loke as the Town without the Waulle is doble dichid from the Caftelle to Barre-Gate, and fo to Eft Gate; fo it is from Eft Gate almoft even to South Gate. The South Gate ftondith not even
Page 45 - Rigge and Barre of pible Stones in the very Mouth of it: and the Ryver of Ax is dryven to the very Eft Point of the Haven caullid
Page 11 - from of Morden over the frefch Water that rifith no far diftance of yn the Hilles and goit ftrait into Poulpenrith Creeke. Morden in Conftentine Paroch. About half a Mile farther I rode over an Arme of the Broke that cummith doun to