¹ Rembrandt’s etchings for the Piedra Gloriosa, by [Dr.] I[srael] A[brahams] [M.A.], with facsimiles, Jewish Chronicle, 13 July, 1906, _pp._ 39‒40: The second series of illustrations for the Piedra Gloriosa of Manasseh Ben Israel, by Israel Solomons, _ibid._, July 27, _p._ 31. Vossius was created D.C.L. at Oxford in 1670, and installed to a prebend in the royal chapel at Windsor in 1673, which was presented to him by Charles II. (1630‒1685), and died at Windsor 21 Feb., 1688. He had accumulated the finest private library in the world, including 762 manuscripts. It was sold at Leyden in 1710 for thirty-six thousand florins. A large number of original letters of Vossius are preserved at the Bodleian Library, Oxford. XVI. “DOOMES-DAY” Doomes-Day: | Or, | The great Day of the Lord’s Iudgement, | proved by Scripture; and two other Prophecies, | the one pointing at the yeare 1640. the other at this | present yeare 1647. to be even now neer at hand. With | The gathering together of the Jews in great Bodies | under _Josias Catzius_ (in _Illyria_, _Bithinia_, and _Cappadocia_) | for the conquering of the Holy Land. | ... London, | Printed for W. Ley. 1647 (_4to._ 1 _l._ + 6 _pp._) [I. S.] (_p._ 2) “... even those people the Jewes, according to certaine and credible information, are at this time [* Under _Josias Catzius_, and according to Letters from beyond the Seas, they are numerous, and shew themselves in great bodies in Illyria, Bethinia and Cappadocia.] assembling themselves together into one body from out of all countreys, whereinto they have been driven with a resolution to regaine the holy land once more out of the hand of the _Ottaman_:”¹ ¹ _Notes and Queries_, 10. S. IV., _pp._ 10 & 77, JOSIAS CATZIUS. XVII. “RESTAURATION OF _ALL_ ISRAEL _AND_ JUDAH” _A Paper, shewing that the great Conversion and Restauration of all_ Israel _and_ Judah _will be fulfilled at Christs second comming; and that the_ New Jerusalem, _called_ Jehovah Shamma, _described by_ Ezekiel, chap. 40. _to the end of the Book, is most probably then to be set up, and is referred to the same time_, &c., May 1. 1674. (_4to._ 8 _ll._) [I. S.] XVIII. “APOLOGY FOR THE HONORABLE NATION OF THE JEWS――APOLOGIA POR LA NOBLE NACION DE LOS IVDIOS――VERANTWOORDINGE VOOR DE EDELE VOLCKEN DER JOODEN,” BY EDWARD NICHOLAS An | Apology | For The | Honorable Nation | Of The | Jews, | And all the Sons of | Israel. Written by _Edward Nicholas_, Gent. | ... _London_, Printed by _John Field_, 1648. | (_4to._ 15 _pp._)¹ [I. S.]