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 442 NOTES AND QUERIES. n>- s. iv. NOV. 25, •». this record is preserved in the Guildhall (Letter-Book C, fo. 135; Liber Dunthorne, fo. 79). It seems to me unlikely that the Ealsegate of the eleventh century would become the Algata of the twelfth, and MR. STEVENSON will observe that in the Latinized form the e following the I is absent. In the following century, as may be seen from the records of St. Paul's Cathedral (Hist. MSS. Coinm., Ninth Report, pp. 3 b, 10 b, 14 a) and other early authorities, it is almost universal. W. F. PRIDEAUX. DANISH PLACE-NAMES IN THE WIRRAL OF CHESHIRE (9th S. iv. 379).— May I ask where Stonby is ? Although for several years resident in the Hundred of Wirral, I do not remember to have heard of this place, nor does it appear in any map of Cheshire that I possess. By Kirby I suppose West Kirby is meant. The map in Camden has a Kirkby-in- Valley near where Wallasey now is. Was Wallasey formerly known as Kirkby-in- Valley? C. C. B. "TRUTH is THE DAUGHTER OF TIME" (9th S. iv. 289, 338).— The author of this phrase is unknown ; it is first cited in Aulus Gellius, ' Noctes Atticse,' xii. 11, § 2, " Alius quidam veterum poetarum cuius nomen mihi nunc memorise non est veritatem temporis filiam esse dixit." PERCY SIMPSON. "Truth is the daughter of Time," in its Latin form, " Veritas temporis filia," is to be found on the reverses of several of the coins of Queen Mary I. See Hawkins's ' Silver Coins of England," p. 144. EDWARD PEACOCK. LEPROSY OF HOUSES (9tb S. iii. 409, 497 ; iv. 353).— The matter is, of course, more suited to a medical journal, but it will perhaps be not out of place 'to record in 'N. & Q.' that a careful study of the Old Testament descrip- tions of the disease called leprosy in the English translation has shown that it is not in any way identical with modern leprosy. HENRY LEFFMANN. A RELIC OF OLD LONDON : GODFREY'S COURT (9th S. iv. 344). — The readers of 'N. «fe Q.' who are interested in London antiquities may like to know that an illustra- tion of this old street tablet was given in the City Press of 13 September. CHAS. H. CROUCH. Nightingale Lane, Wanstead. ' LES fioLisEs DE PALESTINE,' BY DE (9th S. iv. 328). — The reference your corre- spondent has seen is clearly a misprint. The book he wants is 'Les Eglises de la Terre Sainte'(Paris, 1860), by Charles J. Melchior de Vogue. Q. V. " PARLIAMENTARY LANGUAGE " (9th S. i. 27). —Benjamin Disraeli, in ' Popanilla,' has an echo of the idea contained in Byron's ' Don Juan' lines quoted in this connexion, for, having written in the text that his hero. "apologizing for having so long trespassed upon the attention of the assembly, begged distinctly to state," <fec., he explained in a note that this was " another phrase of Parliament, which, I need not observe, is always made use of in oratory when the orator can see his meaning about as distinctly u Sancho perceived the charms of Dulcinea." POLITICIAN. ST. ERTH (9th S. iv. 398).—It is not quite certain whether this Cornish saint was a man or a woman. The late Mr. W. C. Borlase, in his ' Age of the Saints,' says:— " The word [sic] Etha (or Erth) may possibly be that of the Irish virgin Yth, mentioned by Ussher, and whose life must have been well known, since it was written by Bede himself." And again, to quote from the same gifted authority:— "St. Erth.—William of Worcester had heard a story that Uni and la had a brother called Herygh, a name that might readily become Ergh or Erth. This has been identified by Oliver (Oliver, ' Mon. Dio. Ex.,' p. 446), and more recently by Mr. Kers- lake (in a paper read by him at Bodmin at the Con- gress of Brit. Arch. Assoc., 1876, and reprinted from their Journal, vol. xxxiii. p. 16), with a person of the same name, who was patron saint of Chittle- hampton, in Devon. There is, however, a St. Hierytha, to whom the latter church may, with a greater show of reason, be ascribed (Camden ascribes it to this latter saint), and it seems probable that Mr. Collins, rector of St. Erth in the last century, was correct when he stated his opinion that the founder of hia church was one Ercus, a king's son in Ireland, consecrated bishop by St. Patrick. He adds that in the books at Exeter the name was written Ercy, or Ericus, and in the King's Book Ergh." HARRY HEMS. Fair Park, Exeter. Nothing is certainly known about this saint, whose name is borne by a parish in Cornwall, at the junction of the G.W.R. branch to St. Ives. What is conjectured—that he may have been a brother of SS. la and Uni, fifth-century immigrants to Cornwall from Ireland, or identical with Ere, first Bishop of Slane, died 514—may be read in 'Dictionary of Christian Biograpny,' s.v. 'Ere' (4), and W. C. Borlase,' The Age of the Saints' (p. 70, ed. 1893). C. S. WAED. Wootton St. Lawrence, Basingstoke. St. Ertha, or Erca. was the sister of St. Cathan, who, about the time his sister's son