—In the accounts of the churchwardens of St. Edmund's, Sarum, temp. Edw. IV., this item often occurs, for which a payment was made. Does it not mean the dying knell, from the German "to depart."
H. T. E.
Clyst St. George, June 3. 1851.
3. John Wood, Architect.
—Can any of your readers inform me if any likeness is in existence of the author of An Essay towards a Description of Bath? or if any of his descendants are still living? He built the Bristol Exchange; and Bath is indebted to him for many of its most noble edifices. He was a magistrate for the county of Somerset, and died in 1754.
GAMMA.
4. Derivation of "Spon."
—Can you or your readers give me a derivation of the word "spon," in its application to street names? There is "Spon End," and also "Spon Street," in Coventry, "Spon Lane" at West Bromwich, and "Spon Terrace" at Birmingham. Can you supply any other instances?
Mr. Halliwell merely says, "Spon, a shaving of wood;" and it is used in this sense in Scott's Sir Tristrem, p. 119.:
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