The history and survey of London : from its foundation to the present time . the Con»reo-a-tion by his Executors. And on the latter of thelaid Days, the Elders meet to receive Petitionsfor admitting the Neceflitous into Penfion, and torelieve fuch as are not allowed a Competency fortheir Support. The Meads of this Account I received fromone of the principal Managers and chief Eldersof the Synagogue, 1737. The Management of the German Jews, bothin R to their Synagogues and Poor, is fo mi- ferably bad, that none were capable of giving atolerable Account thereof, tho applied to in myBehalf,
The history and survey of London : from its foundation to the present time . the Con»reo-a-tion by his Executors. And on the latter of thelaid Days, the Elders meet to receive Petitionsfor admitting the Neceflitous into Penfion, and torelieve fuch as are not allowed a Competency fortheir Support. The Meads of this Account I received fromone of the principal Managers and chief Eldersof the Synagogue, 1737. The Management of the German Jews, bothin R to their Synagogues and Poor, is fo mi- ferably bad, that none were capable of giving atolerable Account thereof, tho applied to in myBehalf, by one of the moft Eminent of their Bre-thren. However, I was told by fome of thofeprincipally concerned, that the Poor ftands themin above a thoufand Pounds per Annum. By the above fpecified Accounts of Meeting-houfes, both Domeftick and Foreign, the SumTotal annually expended by the fame for the Sup-port of their Poor appears to amount to theSum of thirty-one thoufand two hundred andforty Pounds. BOOK IV. Containing Ecclefiaflical, aiid Military CHAP. I. An Account of the Civil Government, hy Port-reves, Bailiffs and Mayors j with a Lift ofthe latter. WHAT Manner of Government London had,immediately after its Foundation by theRomans, is unknown; becaufe of the great Uncer- 1 See Book I. Chap- taintyofits antient State,ter I. Page 1 i. However, as Bifliop Stillingfleet is of Opinion,that London originally was a mixed Colony, which,by the great Confluence of People, was in theTime of Tacitus become a noble Emporium; wemay infer, that London then had a Civil, as wellas a Military Government; which muft havecontinued till the Declenfion of the Roman Powerin Britain. The Romans having abandoned this Ifland, theSaxons, arriving foon after, poflefied themfelves ofthis City ; but what Sort of Government they ex-ercifed therein, before its Reduction by the Danes,is alfo unknown. And tho London, in the Year851, was brought under the Danijh Yoke, yet it Saxonudo
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