EMENDATIONS OF WOROESTEe's ITINERARY. 173 



As the passage stands, one Cornish, word is supposed to ex- 

 plain another. We know from Leland that Glasenith meant 

 ' viridis nidus' ; and this etymology is now accepted by Celtic 

 scholars, as by Norris. (See Mr. Sowell's remarks on the various 

 derivations of Griasney, p. 27.) In Welsh, as in Cornish, seth= 

 arrow, sethow= arrows, but sethar=:i archer. In the legend, the 

 etymology points to a moor or miry bog of arrows, not to an 

 archer, although the first half of the word " pol " is alone inter- 

 preted. Cf. Polwheele, a miry work. Carew. 



I consider sagittarii to be a false copy of "sagittaru," in 

 which form with a vinculum 'sagittarum' would be written, as in 

 the preceding quotation lutu and putes for lutum and puteus. 

 Mr. Sowell has suggested, that there may have been butts here 

 on the strip of the level ground at the bottom. 



A corresponding confused entry in Leland' s Itinerary 

 (Grilbert, p. 271) now becomes intelligible. "The first creke 

 or arme that castith out on the north-west side of Falemuth, 

 goith up [to] Penrin, and at the ende it brekith into 2 armes, 

 the lesse to the College of Glasenith, i. viridis nidus, or wag- 

 mier, at Penrin ; the other to S. Gluvias, the paroch church of 

 Penrine therby." The word " Polsethow," has been omitted 

 before " wag-mier," (quagmire), and the words " of arrows " 

 after it. 



Further on, Leland expressly states that " one Walter 

 [Brounscombe] Bishop of Excestre, made yn a more callid Gles- 

 nith, in the bottom of a park of his at Penrine, a Collegiate 

 chirch, with a provost, xij prebendaries, and other ministers." 



