¹ “... the curious will be rather surprised to learn that the Abbe [Henri] Grégoire (1750‒1831) and others have been under a mistake in asserting that Peyreyra’s _Rappel des Juifs_ was printed during his life-time, upwards of 120 years: for this singular book, as it appears from the learned Jesuit, his friend, he could never obtain a license; but the fair copy, which he deposited in a public library, only appeared in print in Paris, after it became the pleasure of the head of the French government to assemble a Jewish _Sanhedrin_ in May, 1806, for reasons that are obvious....” (_Gentleman’s Magazine_, vol. lxxxii., November, 1812, _p._ 432.) ² _p._ 373: ADVIS AV LECTEVR. _Ce petit Traittè n’est qu’vn Essay et un Extraict d’un plus grand Desseing que i’ay conceu; intitulé_ SYNOPSIS DOCTRINÆ CHRISTIANÆ AD VSVM IVDÆORVM ET GENTIVM. ³ “Ie fonde cette Cõiecture sur ce que cette grãde Deliurance des Iuifs fut traittée & concluë dãs la ville Royale de Susan: Svsan, qui signifie Le Lys. Ville Royale de Susun qui est donc mesme chose que la ville Royale du Lys: and mesme chose ville Royale de France.” This appeal recalls another of a similar kind addressed in 1672 by Baron G. W. _von_ Leibnitz (1646‒1716) during his sojourn in Paris (1672‒1676) to Louis XIV. (1638‒1715) about the conquest of Egypt. “Epistola ad regem Franciæ de expeditione Egyptiaca.” This interesting appeal, which contains also some references to _Jerusalem_ and Syria, was discovered in Hanover during the first occupation by the French and transmitted to the First Consul Bonaparte, who wrote from Namur on the 4th August, 1803: “Mortier m’envoie à l’instant même un manuscrit, en latin, de Leibnitz, adressé à Louis XIV., pour lui proposer la conquête de l’Egypte. Cet ouvrage est très-curieux.” M. de Hoffmann published this document in a pamphlet which appeared in French in 1840: “Mémoire de Leibnitz à Louis XIV. sur la conquête de l’Egypte.” ⁴ Swedish Ambassador in Paris, 1635‒1645. ⁵ William Laud, Bishop of London (1628‒1633), presented Gerard John Vossius to a canonry in Canterbury Cathedral in 1629. His son, Dionysius Vossius (1612‒1633), translated the _Conciliador_ (Pentateuch), Francofurti 1632 [I. S.] of Manasseh Ben Israel into Latin. Francofurti, 1633 [I. S.] and Amsterdami, 1633 [I. S.].