In a late Number of your miscellany, you say it is a general practice for congregations in churches to _stand_ during the reading of the Lord's Prayer, when it occurs in the order of Morning Lessons. In my experience, I do not remember any such custom prevalent in this part of the country; but may mention, as a curious and (as far as I know, or ever heard of) singular example of kneeling at the reading of St Matt. vi. and St. Luke xi., that at Formby, a retired village on the Lancashire coast, my first cure, the people observed this usage. The children in the schools were instructed to kneel whenever they read the section of these chapters which contains the Lord's Prayer. And at the "Burial of the Dead," as soon as the minister came to that portion of the ceremony where the use of the Lord's Prayer is enjoined, all the assembled mourners (old and young, and however cold or damp the day) would devoutly kneel down in the chapel yard, and remain in this posture of reverence until the conclusion of the service. I observed that their Roman Catholic neighbours, who often attended at funerals, when they happened to be present, did the same. So that it seemed to be "a tradition derived from their fathers," and handed down "from one generation to another." R. L. Great Lever, Bolton. This custom is observed in the Cathedral at Norwich, but not (I believe) in the other churches in that city. I remember seeing it noticed in a very old number of the _Gentleman's Magazine_, and should be glad if any of your correspondents could tell me which number it is. I have looked through the Index in vain. The writer denounced it as a _Popish_ custom! W. _A dead Sultan, with his Shirt for an Ensign_ (Vol. ix., p. 76.).--MR. WARDEN will find a long and interesting description of Saladin in Knolles' _Turkish History_, pp. 33. 57., published in London by Adam Islip in 1603. I take from this learned work the following curious anecdote: "About this time (but the exact period is not stated) died the great Sultan Saladin, the greatest terrour of the Christians; who, mindfull of man's fragilitie, and the vanitie of worldly honours, commanded at the time of his death no solemnitie to be vsed at his buriall, but only his shirt in manner of an ensigne, made fast vnto the point of a lance, to be carried before his dead bodie as an ensigne. A plaine priest going before and crying aloud vnto the people in this sort: '_Saladin Conquerour of the East, of all the greatnesse and riches hee had in this life, carrieth not with him after his death anything more than his shirt._'"--"A sight (says Knolles) woorthie so great a king, as wanted nothing to his eternall commendation, more than the true knowledge of his salvation in Christ Jesu." W. W. Malta.