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and bodily welfare of a settlement of Jews living in 
St. Ebbe’s parish, a very poor part of Oxford. When 
several families were once burnt out of house and home, 
she greatly befriended them. One man she set up as a 
pedlar ; and for many years he travelled about the country 
with a mahogany box strapped at his back. Twenty 
years after he had thus commenced business, the family 
were chiefly living at Islip, during the illness of the Dean. 
The pedlar was a regular caller at the Rectory, where he 
would display his wares—silver thimbles, trinkets, and 
brooches tastefully arranged in trays on pink wadding— 
and generally sold some silver thimbles, which were bought 
as gifts to the girls who were the best darners and menders 
in the village school. These poor Jews, soon after the fire 
had destroyed all their goods, came to Mrs. Buckland to 
borrow a glass goblet, which was required for a wedding 
that was about to take place. Mrs. Buckland, who lent 
them a handsome cut glass one, was invited to the wedding. 
She took with her one of her children, a little fellow of 
five or six. In the middle of the ceremony a glass was 
smashed ; the child called out at the top of his voice, 
greatly to his mother’s consternation, “ Oh, Mamma, 
there’s your best glass broken ! ” It is needless to say 
that a substitute had been provided to be smashed, and 
that the lent goblet was returned safely. Regularly as 
the Feast of the Passover came round, half a dozen of the 
large thin wafer-biscuits, about twelve inches across,—the 
“ Passover Bread,”—were sent as a present to Mrs. Buck- 
land, in token of respect and gratitude from the Jewish 
community. 
