_Cassock_ (Vol. ix., pp. 101. 337.).--A note in Whalley's edition of _Ben Jonson_ has the following remark on this word: "_Cassock_, in the sense it is here used, is not to be met with in our common dictionaries: it signifies a soldier's loose outward coat, and is taken in that acceptation by the writers of Jonson's times. Thus Shakspeare, in _All's Well that Ends Well:_ 'Half of the which dare not shake the snow from their _cassocks_.'" This is confirmed in the passage of _Jonson_, on which the above is a note. "This small service will bring him clean out of love with the soldier. He will never come within the sign of it, the sight of a _cassock_."--_Every Man in his Humour_, Act II. Sc. 5. The cassock, as well as the gown and band, seem to have been the usual attire of the clergy on all occasions in the last century, as we find from the paintings of Hogarth and the writings of Fielding, &c. When did this custom cease? Can any reader of "N. & Q." supply traditional proof of clergymen appearing thus apparelled in ordinary life? E. H. M. L. _Tailless Cats_ (Vol. ix., p. 10.).--On the day on which this Query met my eye, a friend informed me that she had just received a letter from an American clergyman travelling in Europe, in which he mentioned having seen a tailless cat in Scotland, called a Manx cat, from having come {480} from the Isle of Man. This is _not_ "a Jonathan." Perhaps the Isle of Man is too small to swing long-tailed cats in. UNEDA. Philadelphia. Mr. T. D. Stephens, of Trull Green, near this town, has for some years had and bred the Manx tailless cat; and, I have no doubt, would have pleasure in showing them to your correspondent SHIRLEY HIBBERD, should he ever be in this neighbourhood. K. Y. Taunton. A friend of mine, who resided in the Park Farm, Kimberley, had a breed of tailless cats, arising from the tail of one of the cats in the _first instance_ having been cut off; many of the kittens came tailless, some with half length; and, occasionally, one of a litter with a tail of the usual length, and this breed continued through several generations. G. J.