('HAP. V. 



OF l'>KADIN(r IIAVKN. 



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ti have liini conn- down and take some further course; but within 

 lour days alter the sea had won so much on the haven, and made the 

 breach so wide and deep, that on the 15th of March when I came 

 thither to see it I knew not well what to judge of it, for whereas at 

 the first 5/. would have stopped it out, now I think 200. will not 

 do it, and what will be the event of it time will tell. Sir Bevis 

 on news of this breach came into the island on the 17th of March, 

 1630, and brought with him a letter from my Lord Conway to me 

 and Sir Edward Dennies, desiring us to cause my Lady Worsley, on 

 behalf of her son, to make up the breach which happened in her 

 ground through their neglect. She returned us an answer that she 





ENTRANCE TO BRADING HARBOUR, FROM ST. HELEN'S OLD TOWER 1 

 [By R. P. Leitch, after a Sketch by the Author.] 



1 The above view represents the 



present state of the entrance to tra- 

 ding Haven. A wide ridge of drifted 

 sand lies across it, in front of the old 

 Itank raised by Sir Hugh, which ex- 

 ten. led from a point below the hill 

 under "Mrs. Grant's house," a little 

 ti the westward of the village of 

 nembridgc (seen on the opposite 

 shore) to what are now called " The 

 Hoat Houses," situated towards the 

 northern side of the haven, and be- 

 hind the sand-ridge extending across 

 the view. The black piles driven 

 into the bottom of the haven in the 

 process of embankment are still to lx? 

 ^eii sticking up at l'>\v-\vater; and 



only a few years since the old gates 

 which served for a sluice were dug up 

 near the Boat Houses. At the ex- 

 tremity of the sand-ridge there is a 

 ferry across to the village of 15cm- 

 bridge, in front of which is the narrow 

 entrance into the haven. There have 

 been serious encroachments of the sea 

 on that side of late years, and the 

 channel has become much impeded; 

 so much so that it has been feared 

 that the navigation would be li.st. 

 The old church-tower of St. Helen's, 

 I'aeed with brick and whitewashed, on 

 the right of the view, is still used as a 

 sea-mark. 



