of business? if so, what
business? Does the office still exist?

S.S.S.

_Buccaneers--Charles II._--There is a passage in Bryan Edward's _History
of the West Indies_ (vol. i. p. 164. 4to edit. 1793), in which he gives
an opinion that the buccaneers of Jamaica were not the pirates and
robbers that they have been commonly represented; and mentions, on the
authority of a MS. journal of Sir William Beeston, that Charles II. had
a pecuniary interest in the buccaneering, and continued to receive a
share of the booty after he had publicly ordered the suppression of
buccaneering: and also, speaking of Sir Henry Morgan, and the honours he
received from Charles II., gives an opinion that the stories told of
Morgan's cruelty are untrue. Can any of your readers tell me who Sir
William Beeston was, and what or where his journal is? or refer me to
any accessible information about Charles II.'s connection with the
buccaneers, or that may support Bryan Edwards's favourable opinion of
the Jamaica buccaneers and of Sir Henry Morgan?

C.

_Travelling in 1590.--Richard Hooker._--Could any of your readers give
me some particulars of travelling at the above period between London and
Salisbury? I should also feel greatly indebted for any _unpublished_
particulars in the life of the "Judicious Richard Hooker" after his
marriage. Answers might be sent, either through "NOTES AND QUERIES," or
direct to me,

W. HASTINGS KELKE.
Drayton Beauchamp, Tring.

_Decker's Raven's Almanack--Nash's Terrors of the Night, &c._--Having
lately picked up a volume of old tracts, I am anxious to learn how far I
may congratulate myself on having met with a prize. Among the contents
are--

1. "The Rauen's Almanacke," for the year 1609, purporting to be by T.
Deckers. Is this the same person with Thomas Dekker the dramatist?

2. Nashe's "Terrors of the Night" (wanting eight leaves at the
beginning.) Of this, Beloe (the only authority within my reach) says,
that only one copy is known to exist; can his statement be correct?

3. A religious tract, which seems only remarkable for its bad printing,
obscure wording, and almost invariably using the third person singular
of the verb, whatever be the nominative. It begins--

"To all you who profess the name of our Lord Jesus in words, and
makes mention of his words, &c."....

And the first division ends--

"This have I written in love to all your soules, who am one who
did drinke of the