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 &» S. IV. Nov. 4, '99.] 379 NOTES AND QUERIES. Vic, cap. 93) for carrying out this arrange- ment, and in the same year Parliament voted a sum of 16,889^ for the erection of the build- . ing at Buckingham Gate, where the office of the Duchy is at present located. The build- ing was designed by Sir James Pennethorne, the architect to the Office of Works, the lowest tender being 9,377£. There is a plan and perspective view in the Builder, xiii. 527. John Hebb. Canonbury Mansions, N. St. Augustine's Chair.—In Dean Stanley's ' Hist. Mem. of Canterbury ' (1851), p. 24, is a brief account of this chair, ''in which, for so many generations, the Primates of England have been enthroned." The author reports it to be " probably of a later date" than the. period of the saint after whom it is named, and "the arguments against" its antiquity are noted to be: "1. That it is of Purbeck marble. 2. That the old throne was of one piece of stone ; the present is of three." The second point does not concern the present note ; but respecting the one based on the supposition of the non-antiquity of the use of that material in this country, may I inquire whether this statement is known to have been commented on or corrected 1 Purbeck marble was certainly used in England for building purposes long prior to the arrival of St. Augustine, many fragments of it having been discovered among the remains of Roman structures in London ■ while in Chester a large portion of a thick polished slab of this material, containing letters that formed part of a dedicatory inscription, was discovered in the year 1863. T. N. Brushfield, M.D., F.S.A. Salterton, Devon. Danish Place - names in the Wirral of Cheshire.—Mr. J. Horace Round, in the first of the exceedingly valuable " Territorial Studies" which he has given us in his 'Feudal England,' quotes (p. 86) an allusion in Green's ' Conquest of England' to a number of Danish "byes" said to exist "about Wirral in Che- shire." He also quotes from Green a further reference to "the little group of northern villages which we find in the Cheshire penin- sula of the Wirral" ('Conquest of England,' 1883, pp. 121n„ 276). Of this Mr. Round says, " I cannot find them myself." His search appears to have been confined to a paper by Mr. Fergusson Irvine, ' Notes on the Domes- day Survey, as far as it relates to the Hun- dred of Wirral,' printed in the fifth volume of the Chester Archaeological Journal. Referring to this paper, Mr. Round says, '"Raby'is the one place I can there find in the peninsula with the ' bye' termination." I have before me the Liverpool and Runcorn sheets of the new one-inch Ordnance Survey (sheets 96, 97), and thereon, within the limits of the Wirral, I find the following towns in " by "—Stonby, Frankby, Kirby, Greasby, Irby, Pensby, Raby, and Whitby. It is only fair to say that Green's attention appears to have been drawn to these Danish settlements in the Wirral by Canon Taylor's 'Words and Places.' Canon Taylor's list of Northern place-names in the Wirral extends to seventeen, but includes several doubtful forms. Canon Taylor is also respon- sible for the astounding statement that "in this space of about twelve miles by six [i.e., in the Wirral] there is scarcely a single Anglo- Saxon name." The truth, however, is that the Anglo-Saxon names far outnumber the Norse names, even if we admit that every name in Canon Taylor's list is Norse. No one, I pre- sume, will question that Thingwall and Shot- wick are Scandinavian. Both these names are mentioned by Taylor. My chief object in writing this note is not to criticize either Round or Taylor, but to inquire whether any instances of "by," other than those I have named, exist amongst the place-names of the Wirral, and whether even a solitary "thorp" is found in that district. J. R. Boyle. Town Hall, Hull. Entries. We must request correspondents desiring infor- mation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that the answers may be addressed to them direct. " Head and harigald money." — This phrase is found in Note E to Scott's 'Red- gauntlet,' chap. xxi. It was a term used for money payable to colliers and salters by the proprietors when a female, by bearing a child, made an addition to the live-stock of the master's property. What is the etymology of harigald ? A. L. Mayhew. Oxford. Benjamin Heath, of Exeter.—The ' Dic- tionary of National Biography' ascribes to this well-known classical scholar of the last century the authorship of two anonymous works, viz., 'A Revival of Shakespeare's Text' and 'A Version of the Book of Job,' the former published in 1765, and the latter about the same time (within a year or so). This is in accord with Lowndes, also with the British Museum Catalogue • but in Watt's ' Bibliotheca Britannica ' the Job' is assigned to his brother, Thomas Heath, whereas in the