Note 106 — TINTERNE ABBEY.

With regard to this tract Camden relates:—Beneath this lieth spred for many miles together a Mersh, they call it the Moore, which, when I lately revised this worke, suffered a lamentable losse; for when the Severn sea, at a spring tide in the change of the moone, what being driven back for three daies together, with a south-west winde, and what with a verie strong pirrie from the sea troubling it, swelled and raged so high, that with surging billowes it came rolling and inrushing amaine upon this tract lying so low, as also upon the like flates in Somersetshire over against it, that it overflowed all subverted houses, and drowned a number of beasts and some people withal. Camden, 635. See also Note supra, page 5. Neere to this place there remaine the reliques of a Priorie, that acknowledge those of Chandos for their founder and patron.—Ibid.