r;
While we, inquiring phantoms of a day,
Inconstant as the shadows we survey!
With them along Time's rapid current pass,
And haste to mingle with the parent mass;
But thou, Eternal Lord of life divine!
In youth immortal shalt for ever shine!
No change shall darken thy exalted name,
From everlasting ages still the same!"

Dunton, the eccentric bookseller of William III.'s reign, resided in the
Poultry in the year 1688. "The humour of rambling," he says in his
autobiography, "was now pretty well off with me, and my thoughts began
to fix rather upon business. The shop I took, with the sign of the Black
Raven, stood opposite to the Poultry Counter, where I traded ten years,
as all other men must expect, with a variety of successes and
disappointments. My shop was opened just upon the Revolution, and, as I
remember, the same day the Prince of Orange came to London."

FOOTNOTES:

[8] "The sum," said Johnson, "was collected by sixpences, at a time when
to me sixpence was a serious consideration."

CHAPTER XXXVII.

OLD JEWRY.

The Old Jewry--Early Settlements of Jews in London and Oxford--Bad
Times for the Israelites--Jews' Alms--A King in Debt--Rachel weeping
for her Children--Jewish Converts--Wholesale Expulsion of the Chosen
People from England--The Rich House of a Rich Citizen--The London
Institution, formerly in the Old Jewry--Porsoniana--Nonconformists
in the Old Jewry--Samuel Chandler, Richard Price, and James
Foster--The Grocers' Company--Their Sufferings under the
Commonwealth--Almost Bankrupt--Again they Flourish--The Grocers'
Hall Garden--Fairfax and the Grocers--A Rich and Generous Grocer--A
Warlike Grocer--Walbrook--Bucklersbury.

The Old Jewry was the Ghetto of mediaeval London. The Rev. Moses
Margoliouth, in his interesting "History of the Jews in Great Britain,"
has clearly shown that Jews resided in England during the Saxon times,
by an edict published by Elgbright, Archbishop of York, A.D. 470,
forbidding Christians to attend the Jewish feasts. It appears the Jews
sometimes left lands to the abbeys; and in the laws of Edward the
Confessor we find them especially mentioned as under the king's guard
and protection.

The Conqueror invited over many Jews from Rouen, who settled themselves
chiefly in London, Stamford, and Oxford. In London the Jews had two
colonies--one in Old Jewry, near King Offa's old palace; and one in