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the Anglo-Indian synonym nacoder, and the probable influence of the Hindostani arkdtl. I suspect that the latter word is derived from ndkhudd,&s our orange from waran/,and, similarly, accorder may come from nacoder. I remember many years ago the master attendant of a large Indian port, an Indian marine officer with a due sense of the inferior position of the port pilots belonging to the ''country-captain" (q.v. ap. Yule arid Burnell) class, always calling them his arcotties. I was at first puzzled by this expression of our "Port Admiral," the town of Arcot not being a sea- port, and it only very gradually dawned upon me, in those days before Yule and Burnell had even planned their 'Glossary,' that this was a corruption of ndkhudd. An analogous corruption would be through the English form nacoder. The first letter being dropped, as in arkdtl, arcotty, there would be, first, acoder, pronounced acawder, and then, by the Hobson-Jobson process, accorder.

EDWARD NICHOLSON.

Liverpool.

GERMAN "HAFF" (OR LAGOON) FISHERFOLK (9 th S. xi. 149). ffaffis of Low German origin, M.L.G. das haf, Danish hav, Swedish haf, O.E. heaf, O. Frisian hef, all meaning ocean, open sea, connected with O.H.G. hap= (1) haven, (2) ocean, and English haven ; the whole family are derived from the Gothic kaban, and further on from capere. The primary meaning must have been " the hold- ing place," but then the designation must have been transferred to that which adjoins the sheltering harbour, the open sea.

G. KRUEGER.

Berlin.

JOHN ANGIER (9 th S. xii. 128). A John

Angier was rector of Inworth, Essex, in 1674,

and several others of the same name were

among his successors in the following century.

W. D. MACRAY.

Inquiries were made for this celebrated Nonconformist minister so long ago as August, 1854 (I 8b S. x. 126), but without effect. The querist stated that he had three children. Elizabeth, born at Denton, 24 June, 1634, married the Rev. Oliver Hey wood (after wards her father's biographer), and died in 1661 ; John was in holy orders ; and of the third child nothing was known.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

71, Brecknock Road.

CHILDREN'S FESTIVAL (9 th S, xii. 148). When the Hussites besieged Naumburg and threatened to burn it, the inhabitants sent forth their children to intercede. Proco

}ius, touched by their pleading, granted >heir prayer and entreated them kindly. This is the second time I have had the Dleasure of referring to the story in ' N. & Q. 1 [t was mentioned 7 th S. iv. 417, 531.

ST. SWITHIN.

WATSON OF BARRASBRIDGE, NEWCASTLE-ON- TYNE (9 th S. ix. 388 ; x. 177, 237, 272, 351). Since sending my last letter relative to the death of Lieut. Charles Mitford Watson, I lave found the following obituary notice n the Neivcastle Courant for Saturday, 27 November, 1824 :

"On 17 June last, at Kandy, island of Ceylon, aged 34, Lieut. Charles Watson, of the 1st Ceylon Regiment, son of the late Mr. Ralph Watson, of the Customs, of this port."

A longer notice appears in the Durham County Advertiser for Saturday, 4 December, in the same year. H. R. LEIGHTON.

East Boldon, R.S.O., Durham.

WELSH DICTIONARY (9 th S. xii. 128). A dictionary in Welsh with English explana- tions, by William Owen, 8vo, 2 vols., was published in London, 1803 ; also another at Bristol in 1753 by the Rev. Thomas Richards, entitled 'Antiquse Linguae Britannicse The- saurus ; being a British or Welsh-English Dictionary.' These may be consulted in the Corporation Library, Guildhall, London, and also the first named at the London Institu- tion, Finsbury Circus, E.C.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

71, Brecknock Road.

JOHN WILKES BOOTH (9 th S. xii. 25, 150). Your Connecticut correspondent F. M. has proposed an interesting problem to psycholo- gists of which at the present time I dare not even make an attempt at a solution. It would, I imagine, be possible to compile a long list of criminals who have assuredly suffered death, but who have been held to be alive many years after their execution. One noteworthy example is that of Dr. Dodd, who was hanged at Tyburn for forgery in 1777. Of his death by the hands of the hangman there cannot be a doubt, but I have heard my father and others say that in the earlier years of the nineteenth century it was a common belief in Lincolnshire that by some means or other he had escaped. A gentleman who lived at Gainsburgh truthful, and in other respects sensible told my father that he was sure Dodd lived several years after his supposed death on the scaffold, and that he himself had seen him some time after he was reputed to be dead. Dodd was a Lincoln- shire man, born at Bourne, and consequently much sympathy was wasted on him in his