[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 _The 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 "Dominus Bathurst," a Commoner of Winchester in 1688? "Dominus Anvers" and "Dominus Modyford" occur in 1694; who were they? MACKENZIE WALCOTT, M.A. 257. _Grammar Schools._--The Editor of the _Family Almanack_ would be glad if any of the readers of the "NOTES AND QUERIES" could inform him whether the Grammar Schools founded in the following places are still open to scholars:-- Neale's School, March, Cambridgeshire; Dilborne, Staffordshire; Kirton in Lindsay, Lincolnshire; Kirton in Holland, Lincolnshire; Nuneaton, Warwickshire; Pilkington School, Prestwich, Lancashire; Royston, Yorkshire; Bolton School, Scorton, Yorkshire; Lovel's School, Stickney, Lincolnshire; Stourbridge, Worcestershire; Tottenham, 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 SIGILLVM + CIVITATIS + FERMILODVM. 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 the streets have long puzzled the learned, such as _May-gate_, _Colorow_ (Collicrow), _Pill_ or Peel Muir: a place called the Rhodes is also in the vicinity. Would any of your antiquarian correspondents give derivations of those streets? H. E. 259. _Lord Hungerford._--Who was the Lord Hungerford 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. 429.) to have had a toad put into his coat of arms? Where can such coat of arms be seen? J. R. RELTON. 260. _Consecration of Bishops in Sweden._--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 Gustavus Vasa in 1536? E. H. A. Minor Queries Answered.