_Pennycomequick, adjoining Plymouth_ (Vol. viii., p. 8.).--In days gone by, when the boundaries of the town were much more circumscribed than at the present day, a well-known old female (a perfect character in her way) had long fixed her abode in a curiously built hut-like cot in the locality in question; the rusticity of which, together with the obliging demeanour of its tenants, had gradually induced the good folk of Plymouth to make holiday bouts to this retired spot for the purpose of merry-making. As years rolled on, the shrewd old dame became a general favourite with the pleasure-seekers; the increasing frequency of these pic-nics suggesting to her an opportunity which might be turned to good account, viz. that of providing her visitors with the cheap requisite, boiling water, for the brewing their sober afternoon's beverage, at the low rate of a penny a head. Still later in the evening of life, shrugging herself closely in her old scarlet cloak, which had served her well for better than half a century, she would, with much apparent gusto, recount to her pleased auditory how many a time and often she had made the "penny come quick," by the above-recited inexpensive vocation; until at length her saying became a by-word in the neighbourhood, and universal consent fixed on the ever-happy octogenarian's triplet as a fitting appellation for the then nameless and retired little nook, but now thickly studded grounds, of _Pennycomequick_. That equally simple occurrences have frequently given rise to the names of places, is shown by other remarkable titles of localities not far distant from _Pennycomequick_, such as those of "The Bold Venture," and of "No Place." HENRY H. HELE. Ashburton. Your correspondent R. H. B. is informed that the name of this village is Welsh, viz. _Pen y cwn gwich_, and signifies a village at the head of a valley. H. C. K. ---- Rectory, Hereford. _Longevity_ (Vol. vii., pp. 358. 504. 607.).--May I be permitted a word with your correspondent A. I., and at the same time assist MR. HUGHES in his laudable attempt "to convert him to the faith?" To do this, it will not be necessary for me to search either in annual or parish registers, or to decipher half-defaced inscriptions on marble monuments or humble headstones. A lady is now living, or was two months ago, in Williamsburg, State of South Carolina, by the name of Singleton, who is known to be in the _one hundred and thirty-first year of her age_: