A NEW LETTER FROM ABERDEEN IN SCOTLAND, Sent to a Person of Quality.  
WHEREIN Is a more full Account of the Proceed of the JEWS, Than hath been hitherto Published.  
By R. R.  
LONDON, Printed by A. Maxwell, in the year, 1665.   

A LETTER FROM ABERDEEN, October 26. 1665.  
SIR,  
THat our former and friendly Correspondence may not die, though of a long time I have not heard from you, yet hoping this will find you living, and in good health, give me leave to acquaint you of what I know concerning the proceed of the Israe, in this juncture of time, wherein scarce any thing else is either talked of, or look after, in 〈◊〉 of them. The whole World we see is out of order, nothing to be expected but Wars and Intestine Broils, and whether the Lord will be pleased in the midst of these Combustions to ●●ll in his Ancient People, and magnify his Name in them, he only knoweth. On the 13 instant, by the foulness of the weather and storms, put into this place a Ship, from whence she came we cannot tell, but our Professor of the Tongues and Languages having notice thereof, went down unto them, but could not understand them; he supposes they spoke broken Hebrew, and by a Letter they had in High-Dutch, they found them bound for Amsterstam, and to have correspondence with their Brethren (the Jews) there; Which Letter further relates, That there is Sixteen hundred thousand of them together in Arabia, and that there came into Europe Sixty Thousand more; as likewise, that they have had Encounters with the Turks, and slain great numbers of them; none are able to stand against them; They give Liberty of Conscience to all, except the Turks, endeavouring the utter Ruihe and Extirpation of them: As for their Ship, the Sails thereof are white branched Satin, and all their Ropes are Silk of the same colour; and in the 〈◊〉 was this Inscription in fair Red Characters, THESE ARE OF THE TEN TRIBES OF ISRAEL, which was to discover them to be Jews: Their Food on board was on●▪ Rice and Honey; As for their Habit (or Clothing) it is of black and blue. It seems they have sent to all remarkable places in the World to their Brethren, to give them notice of their proceed, to the end they may come unto, and join with them: I suppose you have not been ignorant of the Letters from several parts, the noise of them being communicated to most parts of Christendom. Thus have I given you an acconnt of the Jews, assuring you, that there's not a tittle in it but what is truth, being all: at the present that this place affords, And, hoping to hear from you so soon as possible, I remain  
Your Friend and Servant.   

A Letter from Antwerp, Octob. 〈◊〉 1665.  
SIR,  
SInce the last I received from you, I have had occasion to speak with one that is well informed of the proceed of the Israelites; he tells me, That they appear in great numbers in several places: The first mentioned appears in Arabia, they are said to possess themselves in Meka; but at the first, the Jews that lived amongst the Turks would not acknowledge them to be their Brethren, but said they were a fort of Arabs, that lived in the Mountainous parts of Arabia the Happy; but now they say they are Israelites, and sent by the ten Tribes to be their forerunners. Another Company are said to move from the East and North East Country of Asia. The third and great Company in the Desert Goth of Morocco, which is as I conceive, not far from Cape de Ver, but more within the Land; they consist of 8000 Companies, the least of them contain 100 men, and some of them 1000 A Jew that lives in these parts came unto 〈◊〉 in Barbary in▪ August last, and taking the Book of the Law into his hand, did swear by it, That he came lately from them, and had spoken with them, and saw them in that number aforementioned, and that they are armed with Swords, Spears and Bows, and no fire-Arms are found amongst them: This Jew did not understand the Language ordinarily spoken by them, but many of them spoke Hebrew, in which he discoursed with them; their Leader is said to be a holy man, understandeth all languages, and worketh Miracles.  
This is by a Jew living in Saly, to his Brother in Holland, and upon that Report which he received from the  person who had been with them, and is credited with his brethren; he saith, they put all to the sword except Jews, they rest upon the Sabbath day, and no fire is seen in their Camp; their women and children stay somewhere behind them, and follow at a distance, none are seen with them, they dig in a Mountain in the Desert for a Trumpet, and say, that when they find it, all Nations will be gathered to them upon the sound thereof.  
In dispute with my Informer, I raised many objections concerning the places from whence they came, as also the manner of their coming, viz. Being in a spirit of Judaisme, in great power, led by a holy man, doing great miracles, and all things answering the description of the Messiah, they may expect that it would be a testimony than the Christians and other people and Nations should be gathered in to the Jews, and not the Jews into Christ.  
To the first he said, Those in Arabia are of the same company with them that appear south of Morocco, and all of them seem to lie hid in the Inland Country of Africa, extending themselves over the vast Tract of Land comprehenping all between the two Tropics, almost as far as the Cape of Good Hope.  
He thinketh them to be the white people of whom the Inhabitants of Guiny▪ use to speak, who will not mix themselves with their neighbours. nor have any other commerce with them; they in the night bring Merchandises to set places, and in exchange to have salt and other necessries as they want, but will be seen by none; such as went from them, are one half of their way to Meka; he thinketh they possessed the Arabians Country, and went out of Africa into America, by the straight of the entry into the Red. Sea▪ but whether by Boat or Miracle, he knows not; those in the Ghost seemed to have lived in the North part of Asia, towards the straight of Amion, from▪ whence Manasses Ben. Israel ●ame▪ though many of them past into America; also he saith, that they having suffered great afflictions for the sins of their fathers, are now come out from Idolatry, to live according to the purity and perfection of the Law, and shall from thence be raised to the knowledge of Christ; he understandeth this of a Nation to be born in a day, and their Conversion to be their birth: He thinketh, that the Law being true and good, and given them by God, it is suitable to his proceed amongst men, to give a testimony of his presence with those who have not heard of a Christ, neither are of the posterity of those that flew him, but of the ten Tribes formerly carried into Captivity, and that they are thereby prepared to receive the Gospel; he further saith, That all the Churches called by the Name of Christians, are full of vanity, and that they must be purified to whom Christ will teach his truth, and from them shall run a stream over flowing the whole world, whereby the Powers of the world shall be over thrown, and the right of Christ in and with his Saints shall then begin to be established; He pitches much upon 1666. and confidently believes, That all the Prophecies of the Old and New Testament Centres in it, it being the time that shall give beginning to that holy and Spiritual Kingdom. I have spoken largely of this, believing you will be willing to hear what is related, and upon what grounds.  
There are more Letters from Legorn to confirm the former News, and they say more, That the Turks were in a City near Meka, called Metai, from whence came 12000 Turks, who marched up against the Israelites, of which there was slain 8000 of them, their own swords and Muskets turning against themselves: by the next we shall hear more. From Legorn we are in expectation of very good news.  
FINIS.