148 EAELY TOPOGRAPHY OF FALMOTTTH. 



St. "Walloc, St. Wynnear, which are given by Dr. Bannister. 

 Smeddick, another form of Smithick, is given by Hals as current 

 in his day. (Hals, quoted in MS. Notes to the Volubiad). The 

 variant Smethick occurs in the Calendar of State Papers, for 

 1617, and Smitheck in the Penryn Petition cited on page 157. 



Pennycomequick, although currently used as an alternative 

 name for Smithick, and expressly recited in the Proclamation of 

 1661, was in reality a nick-name. "So early were they (the 

 Penrya interest) jealous of the growing of Smithick, nick-named 

 Pennycomequick "(X?7%reM' MS., 1737, by Martin Lister). The 

 legend about Pennycomequick and its consequent etymology have 

 been exploded. Thus Davies Gilbert wrote in 1838: — "Pen-y- 

 cwm-cuick is, in good Welch, the head of the contracted dingle. 

 Pen-y-cuick, near Edinburgh, is another form. This corresponds 

 with the valley going up from the Strand by the market-house." 

 To this origin it is objected, that the name does not suit the 

 locality of Smithick : it might have been applicable to Tresayre 

 or Trevethan ; but we know from the house map and the field 

 map of Arwenack Manor-office, in 1721, that no house lay to the 

 west of the Market Strand, and no road was made up the Moor. 

 Different sites have been assigned to the house Pennycomequick, 

 neither of which suits the Celtic etymology. According to Thomas, 

 the historian of Falmouth (1827, p. 51), the house called Penny- 

 comequick is said to have stood on the north side of the creek, 

 at the place now called Market Strand. On the other hand 

 Whitaker* placed the scene of the legend, not in the Moor, but 

 on the hill opposite to Flushing, near the new Green Bank quay, 

 and described the walled cottage minutely, where it was formerly 



* The Eev. John Whitaker the indefatigable antiquary of Manchester, 

 and Euan Lannyhorne in this county, (of which parish he was rector from 1771 to 

 1808,) accumulated materials for a Parochial History of Cornwall, basing his notes 

 on Tonkin's History of Cornwall. The portion of the "Whitaker MSS. from which 

 the extract was made for the Appendix, was presented to the Eoyal Institution 

 of Cornwall by Mr. Basset of Tehidy. — See -p. 144 of the President's Address, 

 and the Appendix with Note. 



Britton and Brayley have evidently had access to Whitaker's MS. in his 

 life-time, and have quoted largely from it in their description of Falmouth 

 {Beauties of England and Wales, Vol. 2, p. 442 to 452) , but without acknow- 

 ledgment. They have probably preserved extracts from the missing portion of 

 Whitaker's M.S. 



