172 EMENDATIONS OF WORCESTEE's ITINEBABT. 



Evidently the same note is repeated in reverse order : "what 

 in correctly described as the " havyn de Falmouth " in the first 

 sentence is erroneously written in the parallel sentence "villa 

 Falmouth ;" obviously William of Worcester confused the 

 harbour with " villa Penryn," to which he assigns it elsewhere. 

 The local historians are puzzled by this apparent reference to a 

 town, which notoriously did not exist before 1661. 



DE FUNDACIONE COLLEGII PENKYN. 



Locus CoUegii predicti in Penryn ab antiquo vocabatur Glasneyth 

 ia linqua Cornubiae, anglice Polsethow, alitor dictus puteus 

 sagitttarii. 



Before I attempt to correct or explain this extract, I will 

 quote in illustration the legendary account of its origin, 

 which is given in the cartulary or register- book of Glasney 

 College (1264), which is still preserved, and published in an 

 English translation by Mr. Jonathan Rashleigh, President of the 

 E.I.C. in 1875-77, in this Journal, Vol. 6, 1879. 



When thou comest to the place, Glasney, thou shalt search 

 for a certain spot in it near the river of Autre (Autre?) called by 

 the inhabitants Polsethow, which Cornish name being interpreted 

 is "mire, or a pit" (orig. Lat. lutu siue putes, i.e. lutum sive 

 puteus), which said place hath of old time borne much name from 

 the fact, that wild animals in the neighbourhood, when wounded 

 by an arrow, were wont to run thither after the nature and cus- 

 tom of such animals, and to plunge into its depth, and arrows 

 could never be discovered there."* 



Partly guided by the cartulary, I propose to thus amend the 



passage in W. of Worcester Glasneyth in lingua Cornubiae, 



anglice (green nest) , alitor dictus Polsethow, puteus sagittarum. 



* The cartulary, preserved by Mr. Rashleigh, is probably the College register, 

 whose history is given by Sir Henry Ellis : Gilbert, p. 331, and thence copied by 

 Rev. C. R. Sowell in his monograph on the Collegiate Church of St. Thomas of 

 Glasney, 47th Annual Report of R.I.C, 1865 (14 years before the publication of 

 the Cartulary.) The derivations and fanciful interpretations of " (^lasney" given 

 by Mr. Sowell after Hals and others, are disposed of by the fact, that the wood 

 was called Glasney, before the College was built. " To him (Walter Brouns- 

 combe) thrice in vision appeared Saint Thomas, telling him that it was God's will 

 that, when he returned to his diocese, he should speed into Cornwall, and there on 

 the soil of his Bishopric, namely, in his manor of Penryn. in the wood called 

 Glainey, found and establish a collegiate church with Secular Canons." 

 Glasney Cartulary, p. 216. 



