_p._ 9: “... Sir! _Your most affectionate and faithful servant_ ... John Dury. _Cassell_, in haste, Januarie 8 1656.”¹ ¹ John Dury and the English Jewry. By the Rev. S. Levy, M.A. (Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England, vol. iv. 1899‒1901.... London.... 1903.... _pp._ 76‒82.) XXXIII. “LIFE AND DEATH OF HENRY JESSEY” THE | Life and Death | of | Mr. Henry Jessey, | Late Preacher of the Gospel of | Christ in _London_; | Who, having finished his Testimony, was | Translated the _4th_ day of _September_, 1663. | Written for the benefit of all, especially such as | were acquainted with his godly conversation, | and Pertakers of his unwearied Labours in | the Lord. | With an Elegy upon the Death of Mr. | William Bridg. | ... _Anno Domini_ 1671. | (8º. 4 _ll._ + 108 _pp._) [B. M.] The author is unknown, but page 97 bears the initials “E. W.” _p._ 67: “Towards the Jews his Charity was famous beyond President and many ways exprest,...” _p._ 69: “3. His Charity was most eminently shewn to them in the great Collections, which through his importunity was made for the poor _Jews_ at _Jerusalem_, who were reduced to extream poverty and misery; having lost, by reason of the _Swedish_ Navies Wars, 15000000 of Rix Dollers; which their brethren of _Hungary_, _Poland_, _Lithuania_, and Prussia, were wont to send them yearly, for the maintenance of learned _Rabbies_ and Students, and for the relief of antient Widows and decripid men, and other necessitous people, with which the _Holy-Land_ doth abound; who (as we said) by cutting off their subsistance were brought (in 1657) into great extremity, not only of Famine and nakednesse (that of 700 Widows, 400 were famished out-right) but also by the imprisonment and scourgings of their Elders and Rabbyes, by their cruell Creditors, being the principal men of the Land to whom the _Jews_ were indebted 20000 Rialls of Eight, which if the Ryall be 4_s._ 8_d._ a piece, it is 4666_l._ 13_s._ 4_d._ for the liberty of dwelling there, etc. which they extorted with great rigor and exaction, resolving to sell them all for slaves, in case payment was not speedily made.” _p._ 70: “This befel the onely then _Germane Jews_ at _Jerusalem_, for the Congregation of _Portugal Jews_ were relieved by the Alms of their Rich Brethren in _Portugal_.”