Nov. 1. 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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minster Hall, which hi the reigns of Henry VII. 

 and VIII. bore these portentous names ? The 

 custody of them was evidently a source of profit ; 

 as there are several grants of it to " squires of 

 the king's body" and others. (See liymer, xii. 

 275., xiti. 34. ; Hot. Pari. vi. 372.) <i>. 



255. Dead Letter. — " If the editor of ' Notes 

 AND Queries' will accept an indirect suggestion, 

 we should be glad if he, or some of his learned 

 correspondents, would inform the public of the 

 origin or antiquity of the popular saying by which 

 a thing, under certain circumstances, is designated 

 as a * dead letter.' " 



[Being unwilling that the foregoing Query, which 

 we have taken from an admirable article on the Dead 

 Letters of the Post Office, which appeared in T/ie Times 

 of Tuesday last, should itself become a dead letter, we 

 have transferred it to our columns in hopes that some 

 of our learned correspondents will explain the origin, 

 and show the antiquity of the phrase by instances of 

 its earliest use. We do not believe that it is a Post 

 Office technicality transferred to the vocabulary of 

 every-day life, but that it is in some way connected 

 with " the letter" that " killeth."] 



256. Dominus Bathurst, ^'C. — Who was "Domi- 

 nus Bathurst," a Commoner of ^Vinchester in 1G88 ? 

 "Dominus Anvers" and "Dominus Modyford" 

 occur in 1694 ; who were they ? 



Mackenzie Walcott, M.A. 



257. Grammar Schools. — The Editor of the T^a- 

 mily Almanack would be glad if any of the readers 

 of the " Notes and Quekies" could inform him 

 whether the Grammar Schools founded in the 

 following places are still open to scholars : — 



Neale's School, March, Cambridgeshire; Dil- 

 horne, Staffordshire ; Kirton in Lindsay, Lincoln- 

 shire; Kirton in Holland, Lincolnshire ; Nuneaton, 

 Warwickshire ; Pilkington School, Prestwich, 

 Lancashire ; lloyston, Yorkshire ; Bolton School, 

 Scorton, Yorkshire ; Level's School, Stickney, 

 Lincolnshire ; Stourbridge, Worcestershire ; Tot- 

 tenham, [Middlesex. 



Any letter on the subject can be forwarded to 

 the publisher, 377. Strand. 



258. Fermilodum. — I have an antique metal seal 

 in my possession, which is about two inches and a 

 quarter in diameter, having on its exterior circle 

 in small capitals siaiLi.vM+civiTATis-i-rERMiLODVM. 

 I wish to know if a place with such a seal could 

 be called a City, and want a literal translation of it. 

 My native town was originated by a monastic 

 establishment, and several of the names of tlie 

 streets have long puzzled the learned, such as 

 May-<^ate, Colorow (Collierow), Pdl or Feel Muir ; 

 a placi; called the Rhodes is also in the vicinity. 

 Would any of your anti(juarian correspondents 

 give derivations of those streets ? II. E. 



25fJ. Lord I [uiigerford . — AV'ho was the Lord 

 Ilungerlbrd who was hanged and degraded (and 



for what crime ?), and who is said in Defoe's Tour 

 (cited in Southey's Commonplace Book, 4th series, 

 p. 4'29.) to have had a toad put into his coat of 

 arms ? AVhere can such coat of arms be seen ? 



J. R. Relton. 



260. Consecration of Bishops in Siceden. — As 

 I see " Notes and Queries " attracts notice in 

 Sweden, may I ask whether any record exists of 

 the consecration of Bothvidus Sermonis, who was 

 appointed to the see of Strengness by King Gus- 

 tavus Vasa in 1536 ? E. H. A. 



Effigy of a Pilgrim. — There is in the parish 

 church of Ashby-de-la-Zouch an effigy, which 

 is very interesting from its extreme rarity ; it 

 is placed under a depressed arch in the north 

 wall of the interior of the edifice, and consists of a 

 recumbent figure of a pilgrim habited in a cloak 

 and short boots, which lace in front with six holes 

 just above the instep: his legs are bare, and so 

 is his head, but his cockle hat lies under his 

 right shoulder ; his scrip, hanging from his right 

 shoulder to his left side, is tolerably perfect ; 

 but his row of beads, suspended from his left 

 shoulder to his right side, is mutilated, as is 

 also his staff; the hands, which were proljably 

 raised in prayer, are gone ; a collar of SS. hangs 

 from his neck (will this be of any use to Mr. E. 

 Foss, Vol. iv., p. 147. ?) ; the feet of the pilgrim 

 rest against a curious looking animal, which is said 

 to be a dog. 



Nothing is known as to whom the effigy repre- 

 sents, and I have not Nichols's Leicestershire by 

 me, to see if he hazards an opinion on the subject. 

 I shall feel much obliged by any of your numerous 

 readers kindly informing me where other efligies 

 of pilgrims are to be found, because if anything is 

 known of them it may possibly help to elucidate 

 this present case of obscurity. Thos. Laurence. 



Ashby-de-la-Zouch. 



[Nichols, in his Leicestershire, vol. iii. p. G23., has 

 given some account of this etfigy from Carter and 

 liurton, together with two sketches of the monument. 

 Carter says, " There is no tradition to determine whom 

 this figure represents; but Mr. Gough thinks that it 

 was some person of authority, perhaps a keeper of the 

 castle, or a hallift' of the town." This monument had 

 been noticed by JMr. Burton, subsequent to the publi- 

 cation of his History ; for in the margin of his volume 

 is this MS. note, and a slight sketch of the tomb, when 

 the scrip and staff were more perfect than they are at 

 present : — " On the north side of the church, near to 

 the great north door, lietli in the wall an ancient 

 monument of a Palmer in alabaster, which I guess to 

 be of some of the f.uuily of Zouch ; which, for the ex- 

 pressing of the manner of the habit, 1 caused to be cut 

 and inserted." This sketch is also engraved in plate 

 Ixxvi. of Nichols's Leicesttrsliire.J 



