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 9" s. vin. DEO. si, 1901.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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National Biography ' has " He died at Eskrick [? Escrick], Yorkshire." The Sheffield Mercury dated Saturday, 22 October, 1825, says that h died in London, and also says, " He came from Paris in 1821, to be present, as an instru mental performer, at the Coronation o George IV., having sixty-one years previously attended the Coronation of George III. The ' Dictionary of National Biography ' has "In July, 1790, his father died." It is " Nov. 6" in the Gentleman's Magazine for November, 1790, p. 1055. Musgrave'* 'Obituary,' Harleian Society's Publications 1900, has "Rich Crosdill, music., 6 Nov. 1790, set. 92." H. J. B.

"WEEK-END" (9 th S. viii. 162, 292, 414). MR. GOSSELIN'S observations induce me to state that I first heard the phrase at Leicester during Christmas visits in 1858, 1859, and 1860. I am enabled to fix these dates, as on one of these occasions, when I was at Leicester, news arrived that South Carolina had seceded from the U.S. The expression was used by a lady, since deceased, who also mentioned another end phrase viz., "the back end of the year" (autumn).

I am uncertain as to my impression at the time whether these colloquialisms were then in general use in Leicestershire, or were imported by my informant, who, some years previously, had changed her residence from a short distance further north.

HENRY T. POLLARD.

Molewood, Hertford.

"THERE is A DAY IN SPRING" (9 th S. viii- 423). The passage in which these lines occur is quoted in the late Dean Church's * Life of St. Anselm' as from the 'Story of Queen Isabel,' by M, S. W. C. B.

ST. TEILO (7 th S. viii. 9, 194). It may be worth while to correct a mistake into which NOMAD has fallen viz., that Tenby was one of the three parishes that claimed his body. It was not Tenby, but the adjoining parish of Penally. In the churchyard of that parish one of St. Teilo's disciples, Tyfei, after- wards spoken of as "the martyr Tyfei," is buried.

While on this subject I may ask whether any of your contributors can suggest a deri- vation for the name Penally. Pen is probably the Welsh "head," but no Welshman that I have asked could give a satisfactory explana- tion of the rest of the word, which is, I sup- pose, like Lamphey in the same neighbour- hood, a corruption of some Welsh word. The Latin form is Penalum, and the name is also spelt "PennAlun." Speed, in his map of

Pembrokeshire, the date of which is, I think, 1610, spells it "Pennalye," so that the ad- ditional I is probably a modern introduction. It is noteworthy that the local pronunciation is as if the word contained one I only Pen- ay ly, the second syllable riming with lay.

J. P. LEWIS.

SPIDER -EATING (9 th S. viii. 304, 409). Robert Lovell, in his ' History of Animals and Minerals,' Oxford, 1661, after relating various uses to which the spider can be out- wardly applied, states, "Some of the Indians eate spiders to cause vomiting," and again, "The field spiders eaten or drunk doe in- equally affect the whole body by heate, cold, horror, and itching, inflaming it, causing it to swell, disturbing it, and much troubling the braine, whence followeth a distention of the nerves, trembling, and diabetes."

He then proceeds to give cures for the poison and bites of the various spiders, and quaintly finishes up by stating, "The de- scription is needlesse, they are engendered of aereal seeds, corrupted and pu trifled. They hate the Stellion, Lizard, and Serpents, and spin in foule weather, out of their excre- ments : and feele easily."

HERBERT SOUTHAM.

Shrewsbury.

GREEN CRISE OR CRYSE (9 th S. viii. 384). The origin of this name was much discussed by local antiquaries many years ago, but without any very elucidating result. A sug- gestion I ventured to make at the time, that the name is simply a corruption, by con- traction, of "Green Oak Rise "- an appella- tion accurately descriptive of the character of the place still seems to me the most pro- bable explanation of it.

JOHN HUTCHINSON.

Middle Temple Library.

"Crise" and "cryse" are both obsolete
 * orms of "crisis." One of the meanings of

'crisis" is "a turning-point." Taking this

meaning in a secondary sense, it will apply f the road take a turn in the length of the

avenue. "Crise" is the more correct form.

See * H.E.D.' ARTHUR MAYALL.

CASTOR- OIL PLANT (9 th S. viii. 224). I do not think that this plant, Ricinus communis, also called Palma Chris ti, will keep a room
 * ree from flies, but in this country, where

inosquitos abound, it is alleged that the neighbourhood of land planted with Ricinus ommunis is free from this pest, and many people have a few of these plants in their gardens to keep their houses undisturbedly ,hese unwelcome visitors.