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A30955 Parerga Barksdale, Clement, 1609-1687.; Barksdale, Clement, 1609-1687. A short view of Suffolk and Glocester-shire. 1660 (1660) Wing B805; ESTC R25860 5,248 18

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a small Town Blithborow which hath a Market by favour of Iohn Lord Clavering 18. Here runns farther into the East the Promontory Easton-ness esteemed the most Eastern point of all Britain and is called by Ptolomy Extensio On the South of it lies Southwold in a plain open to the Sea a Town frequented for the Havens sake which the river Blith entring the sea makes there and when the Tide comes so surrounded with the waters that it seemeth an Iland and you would wonder it is not overflown More inward you have VVingfield and Dunnington and not far off Huntingfeild and nearer it Heveningham the seat of a Noble Family that have their name thence at a little distance is Halesworth now the Seat of the Alingtons 19. On the North this Province as we said is divided from Norfolk by two small Rivers Ouse and VVaveney both which issuing out of a plashy place at Lophamford their springs being very little distant drive their shallow streams divers wayes Upon Ouse which runneth West nothing offers it self on this side worthy of memory upon VVaveney that runneth East you shall see Hoxon first enobled by the Martyrdome of K. Edmund Near it at Broom hath long dwelt the noble Family of Cornwallis Lower is Eay i.e. Isle so called because it is watered round about 20. Thence Waveney runns down by Flixton for Felixton from the first Bp. Felix as many other places were also named from him and almost encompasseth Bungey A little below neer the Bank you shall see Mettingham And now Waveney approaching to the Sea and attempting in vain to go two wayes thither one by the River Garienis another by the Lake Luthing makes a fair Peninsula named by some Lovingland by others more truly Luthingland from that long and diffused Lake which beginning at the shore of the Ocean reacheth to the river Garienis 21. At the entrance of which Peninsula a little Town Lestroffe lies upon the Sea at the end of it Gorlston Inward upon Waveny is seated Somerly and higher where Garienis and Waveny mingle themselves Cnobersburg which we now call Burgh-Castle being onely ruined walls enriched with Roman Coynes often found there Parishes 775. GLOCESTER -- SHIRE THe primary Seat of the Old Dobuni hath Monmouth and Hereford-shire on the West Worcester-shire on the North on the East Oxford and Warwick-shire Wilt-shire and Somerset-shire on the South a Country pleasant and fertile stretched forth from the Summer-rising of the Sun to wintersetting 2. The more Eastern part raising it self in Hills is known by the name of Cotswold the midst is sunk and fallen into a most fruitfull Plain and watered by the most noble River Severn that gives a vital force and verdure unto the Felds the more Western part beyond Severn is all shaded with Woods 3. The Region saith Malmesbury is called from the principall Town The Vale of Glocester all the Land rich in Corn and abounding in fruit You may behold the High-wayes apparrelled as it were were with Apple-trees and Pear-trees not by the industry of Plantation but by the very nature of the Soil A Region more than any other Province in England plentifull in Vines of a more delightfull taste the wines being very gratefull to the palate and not much inferiour to your French wines in sweetness c. No marvel so many places in these parts retain the name of Vineyards yielding wine heretofore and it is rather to be imputed to the ill-husbandry of the Inhabitants than the decay of Nature that there is none pressed at this day 4. The more Western part on the other side Severn possessed of old by the Silures even to the Wye a River running betwixt Wales and England is full of deep woods the Forrest of Dean so called either from a little Town of that name or as I conjecture from Arden signifying both among the Galls and Brittains a wood the Forrest is now since the Iron-works there grown thinner than heretofore 5. Here is Avone of most ancient memory mentioned by Antoninus now called Aventon a little Village probably so called from Avon which to the Britains signifies a River 6. The river Severn Brit. Huffron having gone a long journey in a narrower channel where it first enters this Shire receives the river Avon and another little stream from the East between which is seated Tewkesbury so called from Theoc the Hermite here a large and fair Town having three Bridges noted for clothing and whose Mustard for biting is become Proverbial being made up in balls 7. Lower on the bank of Severn lies Deorhist and suffers much damage by the overflowing of the river when it swells Here in the midst of Severn is At●ey now the Eight i. e. Island famous for the single Combate of Edmund the English King and Canute the Dane 8. Severn goes on in a winding course and dividing it self to make an Island of the green and fertile meadowes washes the City Glocester which Antonine calls Glevum the Britains Caer Glowi i. e. The Fair City It was built by the Romans to awe the Silures and a Colony was brought thither named Colonia Glevum The City is built along upon the river and the other side is in part fortified by a very strong wall The Streets are indeed very neat and they were adorned with many Churches The principall Church or Colledge was built by Aldred Archbishop of York and had a Dean with 6 Prebendaries above the Quire there is a semicircular vault a Whispering-place built with that artifice that a very soft voice is conveyed between the walls from one end to the other to the admiration of the hearers 9. Severn bidding farewell to Glocester uniteth her divided forces and fighteth often with a violent Tide and bends her course to the Ocean on the way visiting Barkley a Town of good note having a Major to govern it and a Castle honoured by the ancient Nobility of her Lords the Barons of Barkley 10. Near unto this a little rivet Aven runs into the Severn Sea at whose springs scarce eight miles off the shore near the Village Alderley are bred stones in the shape of Cockles and Oysters which whether they were living creatures once or are onely the sports of wanton nature let the Physiologers enquire 11. Now let us climb the Hills and view Cotswold so called from the hills for wold signifies a Hill and the Cotes or Folds of sheep famous for their soft and fine wooll through all Nations Under these hills are sheltred several places of especial mark 12. Campden or Camden a Market Town of of note Hales once a most flourishing Monastry famous for that Alexander of Hales the Coryphoeus and chief of Schoolmen Sudeley a most elegant Castle the stately House of the Illustrious Lord George late Lord Chandos Baron of Sudeley VVinchcomb an ancient populous Town but very poor now were it not for the Plantation of Tobacco where Kenulph the Mercian King erected a fair Monastry famed for the Reliques of Kenelm a Childe traiterously made away by his Sister and inserted into the Catalogue of Ma tyrs 1r3 Near the Eastern bounds of this County is to be seen that celebrious Roman way called the Fosse which comes from Warwick-Shire by Lemington a Station of the Romans as the Roman Coyns there found seem to testifie and then by Stow on the wold exposed to the cold windes and Northleach washed by a rivulet of the same appellation to Cirencester or Ciciter 14. Ciciter a Town of very great Antiquity Corinum in Ptolomy exactly 15 Miles from the Gloc taking the name from the river Corinus or Churne which runns on the South of it and affords opportunity of Mills was a place of great dignity as the Roman coyns Marbles and other Monuments often found there do prove The Fourth part scarce is now inhabited the rest turned into Fields and ruines of an old Religious House built as they say by the Saxons The Inhabitants are enriched by clothing and thankfully remember the bounty of K. Richard the first who gave them power over 7 adjacent Hundreds to hear Causes and receive Mulcts and other Emoluments thereby 15. Among the Dukes of Glocester most memorable is Humphry brother to the renowned King Henry the fift a man of high desert toward the Commonwealth of Learning FINIS