REPLIES RECEIVED.--_Old Dog--MEANING OF "TO BE MADE A DEACON"--Groom of the Stole--Corrupted Names of Places--Plague Stones--Body and Soul, &c.--Large Families--Emaciated Monumental Effigies--Which are the Shadows?--London Street Characters--Umbrella, &c.--Sir John Wallop--Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell--Poison--Rain Omens--Longevity--Friday Superstition--Son of the Morning--Frog or Thrush--Can a Clergyman marry himself?--Newton, Cicero, and Gravitation--Exeter Controversy--Amyclæ--Passage in Hamlet--The Three Loggerheads--St. Christopher--Article "An"--Bee Park--Musical Plagiarism--Abbot of Croyland's Motto--Breezes from Gas Works--Vikingr Skotar--Throwing Salt over left Shoulder--Man in the Almanack--Curfew--Glass-making in England--Birthplace of St. Patrick--Milton's Epitaph--Devil's Head as a Crest--Moke--Stone Pillar Worship--Inedited Poetry--Tower of London--Mrs. Van Butchel--Sneezing--Liability to Error--Analysis--Dillijon--Grinning like a Cheshire Cat--Donkey--"An tye"--St. Botolph--Clerical Members of Parliament--Seven Senses--Ring Finger_. R. R. R. (Cambridge) _is thanked_. _We have every reason to put faith in the writer of the paper to which he refers._ R. F. L. _will find a Note on the line by Borbonius:_ "Omnia mutantur nos et mutamur in illis," _in_ "N. & Q." Vol. i. pp. 234. 419. J. B. R. (Belper). _The Derbyshire Folk-lore will be very acceptable._ SEXAGENARIUS ALTER. _The article respecting_ "Black Rood of Scotland" _is in the printer's hands. The other has_ not _been lost sight of._ E. G. "When Greeks join Greeks," &c., _is from Nat Lee's_ "Alexander the Great." TEE BEE. _The communication of our Norwich correspondent has been duly forwarded._ H. M. W. _will find his quotation on_ "Stops in Printing" _at_ p. 133. _of the present Volume._ _We are compelled to postpone replying to many correspondents; to some who have given us their names we will communicate by letter._ _The correspondent who writes to us on the subject of Collins is thanked; the date in the Query_ (Vol. v., p. 227.) _is certainly wrong: it should have been 1759. We do not publish Hayley's Epitaph, as it has been, we believe, frequently printed. Our correspondent has been anticipated too_ (_see_ p. 331.) _in the excellent illustration of the word_ BIGOT _from Trench's_ "Study of Words." "NOTES AND QUERIES" _is published at noon on Friday, so that the Country Booksellers may receive Copies in that night's parcels, and deliver them to their Subscribers on the Saturday._ PROVIDENT LIFE OFFICE, 50. REGENT STREET. CITY BRANCH: 2. ROYAL EXCHANGE BUILDINGS. Established 1806. Policy Holders' Capital, 1,192,818_l._ Annual Income, 150,000_l._ Bonuses Declared, 743,000_l._ Claims paid since the Establishment of the Office, 2,001,450_l._ _President._ The Right Honourable EARL GREY.