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Jews in search of their new prophet (Sabbatai Zevi)... Jews celebrate a victory... The Great Plague...
Jews in search of their new prophet (Sabbatai Zevi)... Jews celebrate a victory... The Great Plague...
Item # 699495
March 08, 1665
THE LONDON GAZETTE, England, March 8, 1665 (1666 in today's calendar) The back page has a report from Vienna noting in part: "The Jews in this city have made a publick jubilee, with great expressions of joy, upon the news they have brought them, of the success of their brethren in Asia against the Turk, which continues to be confirmed from several parts, though with some difference of circumstances." Note: This is in reference to (Sabbatai Zevi (Shabbetai Tsvi) whom later became known as the (as an) false Messiah.
The front page has a report noting: "We are informed from Leghorn that in the ship Tripolina, commanded by Dominico Francesco, there were embarked 60 Jews bound for Alexandria, many of them learned persons; in particular a Doctor of the Law, with all his family in search of their new Prophet."
The bottom of the back page gives the total number who died from the Plague the previous week, very much a problem in London at the time & which would be mitigated some by the Great London Fire in 1666. It reads: "The weekly Bill runs thus. In all 238. Plague 28. Increased in all, 1. Decreased of the Plague 14."
Complete as a single sheet newspaper, 7 1/4 by 11 1/4 inches, great condition.
Category: The 1600's and 1700's
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