a day of settlement, presents the account to Hugo himself. Hugo
already owed him another One hundred of his own; and so here it
has become Two hundred! Hugo, in a fine frenzy, threatens to
depose the Sacristan, to do this and do that; but, in the mean
while, How to quiet your insatiable Jew? Hugo, for this couple
of hundreds, grants the Jew his bond for Four hundred payable at
the end of four years. At the end of four years there is, of
course, still no money; and the Jew now gets a bond for Eight
hundred and eighty pounds, to be paid by installments, Four-score
pounds every year. Here was a way of doing business!

Neither yet is this insatiable Jew satisfied or settled with: he
had papers against us of 'small debts fourteen years old;' his
modest claim amounts finally to 'Twelve hundred pounds besides
interest;'--and one hopes he never got satisfied in this world;
one almost hopes he was one of those beleaguered Jews who hanged
themselves in York Castle shortly afterwards, and had his usances
and quittances and horseleech papers summarily set fire to! For
approximate justice will strive to accomplish itself; if not in
one way, then in another. Jews, and also Christians and
Heathens, who accumulate in this manner, though furnished with
never so many parchments, do, at times, 'get their grinder-teeth
successively pulled out of their head, each day a new grinder,
till they consent to disgorge again. A sad fact,--worth
reflecting on.


Jocelin, we see, is not without secularity: Our _Dominus Abbas_
was intent enough on the divine offices; but then his Account-
Books--?--One of the things that strike us most, throughout, in