3 JULY 1909, Page 24

THE SEIGNEUR DAKIMKEMPERT.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sfa,—A clue to the solution of the problem who the "Seigneur Dakimkempert" was (see Spectator, March 20th) may be found on p. 214 of the "Diary of Alexander Jaffrey, with Memoirs of the Quakers, of whom he was one of the earliest members, &c.," by John Barclay (Aberdeen, 1856), where it is stated that Alexander Forbes of Achinhamper was imprisoned for becoming a Quaker, in 1666. He may have been akin to the Seigneur.—