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 CREED— CURY The usual reading of the inscription on thi« stone is Nonnita Ercila Viricati tris fill Ercili hci^ which would seem to mean " Nonnita, Ercila and Viricati, three children of Ercilius, lie here ". Neither the inscription, its interpreta- tion, nor its date are quite clear. The church has a Norm. font. St. Cuby's Well is at Duloe (which see). Cubert (5 m. S.W. of Newquay) is a dedi- cation to St. Cuthbert, but how the name of this Northumbrian saint came down here has not been explained. The difficulty is increased by the fact that most Cornish dedications are to saints who are supposed to have actually visited the places in question, if not to have really founded their churches; and there is no story of Cuthbert ever coming so far south. Probably, as Mr. Baring-Gould conjectures, the original dedication was to St. Cybi or Cuby, and later ecclesiastics either mistook this for Cuthbert, or consciously changed the name. The same name attaches to a spring rising in the neighbourhood, which became in time one of the most popular wells for curing children's diseases. This well is in a cave on the beach; Hals says it was formerly visited even from far counties. The church has a peculiarly graceful bell-turret, and there is some Dec. wood-carving about its roof. Here also, as at Cuby, is an inscribed stone of Romano-British character ; the inscription being Conectoci fill Tegerno Mali. Ciiry (5^ m. S.E. of Helston) has a church dedicated to the Breton St. Corentin, and 91