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off your wig in a rage." I certainly well re- member often hearing when a boy the ex- pression, now, I believe, quite obsolete, "dash my wig," referred to by MR. H. Y. J. TAYLOR. But Lord ^Chatham seems to use the same, or nearly the same, expression in a totally dif- ferent sense. W. T. LYNN.

"ACCORDER" (9 th S. xii. 89). I should say EMERITUS is right in identifying this with Persian ndkhudd, captain, skipper. The stress, which in Persian is upon its first and third syllables, in Malay is shifted to the middle one (nakhoda). The other terms about which he asks appear to be corrupt or mis- printed. The first element in two of them, jere, is evidently Malay juro, master. Malay bdtu means (1) a stone, (2) an anchor. Malay ka-mudi means helm. Hence the compounds " jere-bottoo," " jere-mode," in more scientific orthography furo-bdtu, boatswain, the officer in charge of the anchor, and juro-mudi, steers- man, mate of a vessel. JAS. PLATT, Jun.

Charles Annandale in the 'Imperial Dic- tionary ' says this word is rare, and defines it to mean one that aids or favours. He attributes its use to Cotgrave (1634).

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. [Our correspondent's remark is scarcely to the point.]

PECULIARS (9 th S. xii. 69). See 'A Hand- book to the Ancient Courts of Probate and Depositories of Wills,' by George W. Marshall, LL.D., 1889. W. C. B.

COINCIDENCES (8 th S. viii. 124, 177, 270 334). When this subject was being con- sidered in ' N. & Q.' in the year 1895 I was allowed at the penultimate reference to record two coincidences which occurred in my own experience. May I now submit a third, which happened to me a week or two ago ? I was staying in the town of Cromer, and on the Sundays included in my visit I attended several services at the parish church. The hymn-book used is Bickersteth's ' Hymnal Companion.' It is now many years since I attended a church at which this was the case. There is one hymn in this book, viz., Cousins's " The sands of time are sinking " (set to C. J. Vincent's tune * Glory '), to which I am par- ticularly partial. On the last Sunday evening of our visit I said to my wife before the service, " I wish they would have my favourite hymn to-night," but when I arrived at the church and saw the numbers on the boards I found that such was not the case. The service proceeded to the end, and when we were to sing the last hymn the clergyman, for some reason best known to himself, suddenly sub-

stituted for the number on the boards " The sands of time are sinking." For the first time in probably fifteen years I was thus enabled again to join a large congregation in singing this much - loved hymn. It may perhaps be as well for me to add that when I made the remark to my wife before the service no one else was present, and that I have never spoken to the clergyman (Mr. Sheldon) in my life. JOHN T. PAGE.

West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

UPRIGHT BURIAL (9 th S. xi. 465, 514; xii. 34). In the vault of the Powletts, Barons Bolton, in Wensley Church, co. York, is the coffin of Mary, Marchioness of Winchester, in an upright position, with the heart lying on the top She was the eldest illegitimate daughter of Emanuel Scrope, Earl of Sunder- land, and brought the large Yorkshire estates into the Powlett family, created Dukes of Bolton.

In the church of Blickling, co. Norfolk, is the vault of the Hobart family, now under the organ, in which are their coffins in an upright position in a vault of gauged brick- work.

For many instances of "sepulchral vaga- ries " let me refer your readers to Chambers's 'Book of Days,' vol. i. 627-8 and 804-8, where there is also an account of the burial of Capt. Backhouse in an upright position in a mausoleum at Great Missenden, Bucks, and an amusing anecdote in connexion. The body, however, was afterwards rein ter red in the churchyard of the parish.

JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

Newhourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

The gravedigger in a certain churchyard in Ireland near where I was once quartered thought himself very 'cute until, as I was told, he was discovered turning the coffins up on end to save space.

HAROLD MALET, Colonel.

BALLADS AND METHODISM (9 th S. xi. 442; xii. 19).

" The singing at Surrey Chapel was long a special feature ; and Mr. Hill is said to have once remarked that he ' did not see why the devil should have all the good tunes,' for in his lifetime and some years afterwards it was a common occurrence to hear certain hymns composed by Rowland Hill sung to the tunes of 'Rule Britannia' or the 'National Anthem.'" Walford, 'Old and New London,' vi. 375.

" In 1803 Mr. Hill preached to the volunteer regiments which were raised when hostilities com- menced between England and France, at the close

of the short peace of Amiens Mr. Hill composed

two hymns for the occasion. The first, commencing, Come, thou incarnate Word,