Britain, or a chorographicall description of the most flourishing kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the Ilands adioyning, out of the depth of antiqvitie : beavtified with mappes of the severall Shires of England / written first in Latine by William Camden ; Translated newly into English by Philémon Holland.

William Camden

Date:: 1610

Credit: Britain, or a chorographicall description of the most flourishing kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the Ilands adioyning, out of the depth of antiqvitie : beavtified with mappes of the severall Shires of England / written first in Latine by William Camden ; Translated newly into English by Philémon Holland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$| DORSETSHIRE. ^ Nr ? He Countie of Dorfet as it ison the Northfide bounded | n with Somerfetfhire and Wiltfhire, on the Weft with De- | Bea vonfhire and fome part of Somerfetfhire, on the Eaft with Hamptthire : fo on the South part , where it carieth the greateft length, it lieth all opento the Sea, bearing upon | | the Britifh Ocean as Laid erewhile for fifty miles together | ie or much thereabout. A fruitfull foile it is : The North part | [A SS thereof being overfpred with woods and forrefts ; from E. 1l NC EC: thence garnifhed with many a greene hill, whereon feed p | ii . flocks of fheepe in great number with pleafant paftures likwife and fruitfull valleis i | bearing corne: it hath a defcent even to the very Sea fhere, which in my defcription I willfollow as it leadeth me, for thatI can find no better order. | In the very entrance into this, out of Denfhire thefirft place that fheweth it felfe » pum m TO on this fhore is Zime, a little towne fituate upon a fteepe hill,fo called ofa {mall river ofthe fame name running hard by: which fcarfely may challenge the name ofa Port or Haven towne though it be frequented with fifhermen , and hath arode un- | 05 der it called the Cobbe, fufficiently defended from the force of winds with rocks and high trees. In ancient booksIcan hardly find any mention thereof: onely thus | v muchI have read, that King Kinwulfe in the yeere of our Lord 774, gave (by thefe c it n words) the land of one Man[ion unto the Church of Scireburne , hard by the Werflerne what | i | | | | ] | MY banks of the river Lime , not far from the place where be bideth the cour[e of his ftreame i | Ti within the Sea : to this end, that for tbe [aid Church falt might be boiled to the fustening of . i | manifold neceffities. py [ Neere thereunto the river Carr diích argeth itfelfe intothe Sea > and there ftan- E ou | 1 c y, — deth Carmouth a little village : where the bold-roving Danes having good fucceffe in N armeutn, VIENT S v . . . . | 4| fea-fights , wonne two victories ofthe Englifh , firft vanquifhed King Egbert in the j Da | , yeere of Chrift 851 :and then eight yeeres after King ethelwulfe. Then there is | NW | Butport. — BWrfport , or more truly Bértport, placed betweene two fmall rivers which there | 4 | meete together : Inthis towne, in the daies of King Edward the Confeffor,there D — 1$. & | werereckoned one hundred and twentie boufes ; but in Williamthe Conquerors, D) reigne, as we find in his booke of Deeme/Zay, one hundred and no more. In ourtime a : in refpe& of the foile yeelding the beft hemp,and skill of the people for making ropes f and cables for fhips,it was provided by a fpeciall ftatute;toremaine in force for a cer- | s * taine fet time , thatropes for the navie of England fhould be twiftednowhereelfe. à Neither isthisplace able to maintaine the name of an haven, albeitinthe mouth of _ | bk | the river being on both fides enclofed withinlittle hilles , nature feemes asit were of E a ru purpofe to have begun an haven , and requireth infome fort art and mans helpe to a n accemplifh the fame. a From hence the fhore winding in and out fhooteth far into the Sea: and a banke | i j Chefill called Che/il of fands heaped up thick together(with a narrow firth betweene)lieth in | length for nine miles which the South-wind when itis up, commonly cutteth.in- a I ! | funder and difperfeth, but the Northren wind bindeth and hardneth againe. By this eda : ? Portland. — DankorSand-ridge, Portland, fo metime an Iland is now adjoined to the main-land: a i . Thereafon of which name is altogether unknowen, unleffe it were fo called becaufe ZE o H | itliethfullagainft the Port Weymouth ; but it foundeth more neere unto the truth, E | g^ ^ that this name was given it ofone Pert a noble Saxon , who about the yeereofour — | a i (| Hitorie of Salvation 703. infefted and fore annoied thefe coafts, This Portland in the declining | BE » | Vinchelter. fate ofthe Saxons Empire (for beforetime writers never {peak of it) felt asmuch as | oe IU any other place, from time to time,the violent rage of the Danes. But when the Da- a t j nifh warzre was ended, it fell to the poffeffion of the Church of Winchefter. For,at a . *$

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