_Jews under the Commonwealth_ (Vol. i., pp. 401. 474.; vol ii., p.
25.).--There is a confirmation of the story of the Jews being in treaty
for St. Paul's and the Oxford Library in a passage in Carte's _Letters_,
i. 276, April 2, 1649:--
"They are about demolishing and selling cathedral churches. I
hear Norwich is designed already, and that the Jews proffer
600,000l. for Paul's and Oxford Library, and may have them for
200,000l. more."