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DR. BEKE'S DIARY. Dr. Charles [T.] Beke, in an eight-page pamphlet entitled Central Committee of the Geographical Society of France,' dated 15 Feb., 1850, writes :
 * A Letter to M. Daussy, President of the

" During my absence of upwards of three years from England, I kept a diary, which I carefully wrote up daily and almost hourly, nay, often at the very moment of the occurrences recorded. This diary was transmitted, in duplicate, to England at every opportunity ; and since my return home I have had the whole transcribed, with the intention ot printing it for my own use preparatory to the publication of my travels. A considerable portion of it has, indeed, already passed through the press."

This three years' diary covered Dr. Beke's journey through Shoa and Abyssinia, 1841-3. Is this diary still in existence, and has it been printed ? Dr. Wallis Budge, in a biblio- graphical list in his work "The Egyptian Sudan,' 1907, ii. 519, names " Beke, C.T., Travels and Researches. London, 1846." But I have come across no other reference to such a work, nor is it known at the library of the Royal Geographical Society. All that I have seen of Dr. Beke's travels is contained in detached papers in the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society and Reports of the British Association, mostly reprinted in pamphlet form, and other pamphlets largely of a controversial nature. I have seen no connected account of his travels.

I am inclined to think that Dr. Budge's reference above is a mistake, Dr. Beke's pamphlet, entitled ' A Statement of Facts relative to the Transactions between the Writer and the late British Political Mission to the Court of Shoa, in Abissinia,' 1846, being intended. FREDK. A. EDWARDS.

39, Agate Road, Hammersmith.

SHAKESPEARE : CROKER PORTRAIT. Can any one inform me of the present where- abouts of this portrait ? In 1824 an engraving was published by G. Smeeton " from a portrait in the collection of John Wilson Croker, Esq., M.P." It is sur- rounded by an oval within a square, and the original was painted upon canvas.

Croker died in 1857. Perhaps some one may remember the picture and can help me to trace it. W. S. BRASSINGTON.

Stratford -xipon -Avon.

DAUBUZ, PREVIOUSLY D'AuBus. In the

D.N.B ' article on Charles Daubuz, written

by Mr. Thompson Cooper, who died some

years ago, it is stated that Charles, who was

Vicar of Brotherton in the West Riding of

Yorkshire 1699-1717, was son of Isai'e d'Aubus, Protestant pastor of Nerac in Guienne, and it is said as follows :

" On the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, the father obtained from Louis XIV. a document, still preserved in the family archives, authorising him to leave Prance with his wife, Julie, and four children. He started for England, but on reach- ing Calais he died at an inn, and was privately buried in the garden, the innkeeper helping his widow, during the night, to dig the grave. She was afterwards joined at Calais by her husband's brother, who held some ecclesiastical preferment in the north of England, and he succeeded in bringing the widow and her children over to this country, and settling them in Yorkshire." The italics are mine. I hope that some readers, versed in the ecclesiastical history of the numerous parishes in the diocese of York, may furnish information likely to sup- ply a clue to the discovery (1) of the nature of the preferment held by this brother of a French Huguenot pastor himself of course a Frenchman born and bred, like his brother who must have migrated from France to England and taken orders in the Church of England some years previous to 1685, and (2) of the place where the preferment was held.

I am aware that the term " north of England' 1 '' included at the close of the seven- teenth century the dioceses of Carlisle, Chester, Durham, and York ; but it is, I think, a fair presumption that if this gentleman settled his brother's widow and family in Yorkshire, the place where he settled them was the place of his own residence or somewhere close to it, winch on that supposition would be within the diocese of York. F. DE H. L.

LATIN OBSCURITIES IN ECCLESIASTICAL VISITATIONS. I should be glad of a little assistance with the following references, which I take from records of ecclesiastical visitations dating from temp. Elizabeth onward.

1. Following the name of a rector " Sabor n (sometimes " Sabba ").

2. Following a curate's name " satq [?] p* Cant. Decemb. 1605 et a p r dicat p* Arched. Cat. [sic] 1605."

3. After four elders' names " in v'."

4. What Were " scdeiner J? ? The term occurs following two personal names.

5. After naming churchwardens " D nus Ded. 14 dies ad putand., Jurat exhib. bill 16 Nov. 3s eld sess ne Edrin Michis."

6. Following nominal reference to a curate " D 8 E'pus monuit E um ad compend Cor. Eo. infra mensem."