. Jewish antiquities: . eturn-ing period, proclaims a jubilee, in which hegrants a plenary indulgence to all finners, atleaft to as many as vifit the churches of and St. Paul at Rome. The jubilee wasfirft eftablifhed by pope Boniface VIII. and was only to return every hundredthyear; but the firit celebration brought fuchftores of wealth to Rome, that Clement the period to fifty years; afterwardsUrban VI. appointed the jubilee to be heldevery thirty-five years ; and Sextus IV. broughtit down to twenty-five *. One of our kings, Edward III. caufed hisbirth-day, when
. Jewish antiquities: . eturn-ing period, proclaims a jubilee, in which hegrants a plenary indulgence to all finners, atleaft to as many as vifit the churches of and St. Paul at Rome. The jubilee wasfirft eftablifhed by pope Boniface VIII. and was only to return every hundredthyear; but the firit celebration brought fuchftores of wealth to Rome, that Clement the period to fifty years; afterwardsUrban VI. appointed the jubilee to be heldevery thirty-five years ; and Sextus IV. broughtit down to twenty-five *. One of our kings, Edward III. caufed hisbirth-day, when he was fifty years of age, butneither before nor after, to be obferved in themanner of a jubilee ; this he did by releafingprifoners, pardoning all offences, treafon itfelfnot excepted, and granting many priviledges tothe people f. * See on this fubjeft, Dieteric. Antiq. Biblics, ex 4. p. 220, & feq. edit. Giffas & Francof. 1671. f Polydor. Virgil. Hiltor. Anglican, lib. xix. p. 49$.,Lugdun, Bat. CHAP. ( S°4 ) XL The Feafts of Furim and of De-dication. BESIDES the facred feftivals, alreadyconfidered, no other were appointed by thelaw of Mofes. However, the Jews, in proceisof time, added feveral others; two of whichare to be the fubject of this chapter, namely*the feaft of purim, of the occafion and inftitu-£ion of which we have an accounr in the bookof Either (a); and the feaft of dedication^mentioned by the evangelift John(£). Theywere both of them annual feftivals, and ob-ferved in commemoration of national merciesand deliverances. The former, the feaft of purim, was infti-tuted by Mordecai to commemorate the deli-verance of the Jews from Hamans confpiracy,of which we have an account in the book ofEither. Many fuppofe, that in this he hada fpecial direction from God, delivered by fomeprophet, perhaps Haggai, or Malachi. But iffo, it is ftrange that the fanclion of divine au-thority (a) Efth. ix. 20,—ult. (i>) John x. 22. CXI. The feaft of puri
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