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.