interesting remains in this town. In plan, the building is nearly square, measuring in round numbers about fifty feet either way. The ground floor is vaulted and divided into three alleys, by ranges of three arches of stone, springing from either round or square pillars, having Norman capital bases. The arch ribs of the western alley are semi-circular, in the others they are early-pointed. The western division differs from the others, too, in being of greater width; the space between pillar and pillar being about sixteen feet, while in the others it is less than eleven feet. These differences in form and size, coupled with the fact that the western range has been in comparatively modern times dissevered from the others and made to form part of the adjoining inn, have led some to suppose that they must have originally belonged to distinct though conjoined tenements; but this notion was satisfactorily set aside a few years since by the discovery of the original staircase to the upper floor, in the first arch between the western and middle alleys, with its perfect well, lighted by two small apertures, one pointed and the other square, and having a doorway into each alley. On the west side the vaulting was, within the memory of persons still living, eight feet deeper than at present, and the descent was by a small staircase from the present staircase.* It appears originally to have had no windows on the ground floor.

"It is certain that in all early deeds relative to the transfer of tenements once held by the Jews, those tenements are usually described as built of stone. It was not till the thirteenth century that the Israelites were subjected to that long continued system of oppression and exaction which terminated in their expulsion from the country by Edward I. in the year 1290. That expulsion was accomplished in a manner so sudden and violent that the memory of it was likely to be strongly impressed on the popular mind, and indeed to remain so impressed in any place where substantial monuments of their former residences still survived. This house is mentioned in the will of Andreus Scarbot, 1474, as the 'ten. Auquet Regis. vocat-Moyse Hall.' It was the residence in 1514 of Richard Kyng, a benefactor to the town.

“The Guildhall feoffees bought the hall about 1614, and converted it into a workhouse and house of correction. In 1721 it was a hospital or workhouse for thirty boys and girls, who were clothed in blue faced with yellow; but on the consolidation of the two parishes for the government of the poor, in 1740, the hospital was removed to the workhouse. building is now used as a police station. In 1858 it was repaired from designs by G. G. Scott, Esq., principally by subscription."-Hudson Turner's Domestic Architecture of the Middle Ages, quoted in the Jewish Chronicle.

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*This would seem to show that the synagogue was constructed below the level of ordinary houses, similarly to the "Altneuschul" of Prague, to which the worshippers descend by a small flight of steps. This ancient practice was adhered to in accordance with Psalm cxxx. 1: "Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Lord."

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Record of Christian Effort for the Salvation of Israel.

"For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth."-Is. Ixii. 1.

"Ye that make mention of the Lord, keep not silence, and give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth."-Is. lxii. 6, 7. "Publish ye, praise ye, and say, O Lord, save thy people, the remnant of Israel."-Jer. xxxi. 7.

THE BRITISH SOCIETY'S

Christian Home and Orphanage for Jews,

LEYTON, ESSEX,

SUPERINTENDENT, DR. KOPPEL.

Fourteen Jewish inmates are now enjoying the benefits of the above Institution. Some of them are decided believers in Jesus, and others are inquiring whether He is the Christ. A portion of every day is set apart for the study of the Scriptures and general instruction, and the rest is devoted to industrial occupations.

CONTRIBUTIONS of money, clothes, and books, will be most thankfully received at the Rooms of the British Society, 96, Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, London. Post Office orders, cheques, &c., should be made payable to JOHN GILL, Secretary of the Society.

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CONTRIBUTIONS RECEIVED from FEBRUARY 17th, to

Hill, Miss, Col. by, 0 60 Horbury Chapel

o Rochdale, Coll.

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Record of Christian Effort for the Salvation of Israel.

"For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth.”—Is. Ixii. 1.

"Ye that make mention of the Lord, keep not silence, and give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth."-Is. lxii. 6, 7. "Publish ye, praise ye, and say, O Lord, save thy people, the remnant of Israel."-Jer. xxxi. 7.

THE BRITISH SOCIETY'S

Christian Home and Orphanage for Jews,

Fourteen Jewish inmates are now enjoying the benefits of the above Institution. Some of them are decided believers in Jesus, and others are inquiring whether He is the Christ. A portion of every day is set apart for the study of the Scriptures and general instruction, and the rest is devoted to industrial occupations.

CONTRIBUTIONS of money, clothes, and books, will be most thankfully received at the Rooms of the British Society, 96, Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, London. Post Office orders, cheques, &c., should be made payable to JOHN GILL, Secretary of the Society.

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