“But notwithstanding his stay & expense in procuring several seales, he never gott one penny of the said 200£ but at length with his heart ever broken with griefe on losing heer his only sonne and his presious time with all his hopes in this iland he got away with so much breath as lasted, till he came to Midleburg & then he dyed. Leaving a poore desolate widow (with other relations) who solemnly professed she had not money enough to lay him in the sepulchres of his fathers, but for the charity of some that lent or gave them money. It pleased allso your Highess late father to receive one or 2 of the same poore widowes letters to your petitioner (whom they both trusted in that business) & with his owne hands to commit them to the especiall care of Mr. secretary Thurloe who hath also divers times minded the same, but your Highness exchequer is so charged that there is little hope of obteining it there. “May it please your Highnesse in compassion to the said poore widow & relations of a man so eminent & famous in his owne & meny other nations & for the honour of Christian religion with many other reasons, to order the said 200£ out of the contingencies for the councell or some other treasure where it may be speedily had and without fees allso if it may be according to former orders. “And your petitioner shall desire to pray.” [Illustration] PEREGRINANDO QVÆRIMVS. MENASSEH BEN ISRAEL THEOLOGVS ET PHILOSOPHVS HEBRÆVS. _ÆTATIS SVA ANNO XXXVIII_ _ANNO MDCXLII_ Salom _Doctrina hic volúit volúitg Modestia pingi. An poterit vúltús charta referre dúos? Hos orúlos, hæc ora vide. Conucuit útrinque. Illa fúos vúltús dixit, & illa fúos._ _D.I._ THE HOPE OF ISRAEL Written By _MENASSEH BEN ISRAEL_, An Hebrew Divine, and Philosopher. Newly extant, and Printed at _Amsterdam_, and Dedicated by the Author, to the High Court, the Parliament of _England_, and to the Councell of State, The second Edition corrected and amended. Whereunto are added, _In this second Edition, some Discourses upon the point of the Conversion of the_ JEWES. _By_ MOSES WALL. LONDON _P_rinted by _R. I._ for _Livewell Chapman_ at the Crowne in _P_opes-Head Alley, 1652. [Illustration]