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?