pear convincing, and they are by no means offered 

 as conclusive, the " victorious prince" must mean 

 William III., applied to whom, the epithet is of 

 doubtful propriety. At length, so late as 1696, 

 the Northern Memoirs were given to the public. 



During the interim it would seem, from his 

 publication entitled Rabbi Moses, that the author 

 had been in America, which was a general place 

 of refuge to the soldiers or followers of the Com- 

 monwealth, as soon as the Restoration rendered 

 England an unpleasant or dangerous abode for 

 them. The full title is, " A Philosophical Trea- 

 tise of the Original and Production of Things 

 Writ in America in a Time of Solitude. By R. 

 Franck, London, 1687." At the end of the 

 Northern Memoirs, the same work is advertised as 

 " Rabbi Moses, or a Philosophical, &c. to be Sold 

 by the Author at his House in Barbican." 



If the Northern Memoirs were published in the 

 year 1694, Richard Franck, the author, born, as 

 we have calculated, during the last years of King 

 James the First's reign, must have attained the 

 age of seventy and upwards ; so probably did not 

 survive the publication many years ; and these few 



