_Pennycomequick_ (Vol. viii., p. 113.).--A similar story to that related by your correspondent MR. HELE is told of Falmouth. Previously to its being incorporated as a town by Charles II., it was called _Smithick_, from a smith's shop, near a _creek_, which extended up the valley. The old Cornish word _ick_ signifies a "creek;" and as it became a village it was called "Pennycomequick," which your correspondent H. C. K. clearly explains. The Welsh and Cornish languages are in close affinity. The name "Pennycomequick" is evidently a corrupted old Cornish name: see Pryce's _Archæologia Cornu-Britannica_, v. "Pen," "Coomb," and "Ick," the head of the narrow valley, defile or creek. It has been thought by some to mean "the head of the cuckoo's valley;" and your correspondent's Welsh derivation seems to countenance such a translation. The cuckoo is known in Scotland, Wales, and Cornwall as "the _Gawk_ Gwich." MR. HELE, perhaps, will be amused at the traditional story of the Falmouthians respecting the origin of Pennycomequick. Before the year 1600, there were few houses on the site of the present town: a woman, who had been a servant with an ancestor of the late honourable member for West Cornwall, Mr. Pindarves, came to reside there, and that gentleman directed her to brew some good ale, as he should occasionally visit the place with his friends. On one of his visits he was disappointed, and expressed himself angry at not finding any ale. It appeared on explanation that a Dutch vessel came into the harbour the preceding day, and the Dutchmen drained her supply; she said the _Penny come so quick_, she could not refuse to sell it. JAMES CORNISH. Falmouth. _Captain Booth of Stockport_ (Vol. viii., p. 102.).--In answer to MR. HUGHES'S inquiry about this antiquary, I beg to state that he will find an _Ordinary of Arms_, drawn up by Captain Booth of Stockport, in the Shepherd Library, Preston, Lancashire. It is one among the numerous valuable MSS. given by the executors of the late historian of Lancashire, Ed. Baines, Esq., M.P., to that library. In Lysons' _Magna Britannia_ (volume Cheshire), your correspondent will also find a mention of a John Booth, Esq., of Twemlow, Cheshire, who was the author of various heraldic manuscripts. It may, perhaps, be hardly necessary to inform Cheshire antiquaries that an almost inexhaustible fund of information, on heraldry and genealogy, is to be found in the manuscripts of Randle Holme, formerly of Chester, which are {185} now preserved among the Harleian MSS. in the British Museum. JAYTEE. _"Hurrah," &c._ (Vol. viii., p. 20.).--The _clameur de Haro_ still exists in Jersey, and is the ancient form there of opposing all encroachments on landed property, and the first step to be taken by which an ejectment can be finally obtained. It was decided in Pinel and Le Gallais, that the _clameur de Haro_ does not apply to the opposal of the execution of a decree of the Royal Court.