The London Gazette, Numb. 34, Thursday, March 8th to Monday, March 12th, 1665.

(SABBATIANISM)

Tho. Newcomb

London

1665

With an account of the false Messiah Shabthai Tzvi.

Newspaper carrying a contemporary two paragraph dramatic account of the activities of “the Jewish Prophet Sabadai” and his followers; datelined Constantinople, Feb. 19th 1665. It reads: “We have no small apprehension of those frequent Intelligences we receive, all of them bigg with relations of great Tumults in Palestine; Sabadai, their pretended Prophet, growing every day more powerful; inasmuch, as we have reports, that he leads no less then a hundred thousand after him, and is very severe against all Turks killing all they meet with… [There are] great Insurrections of the Jews in those Parts.”