Letter 0672

Jones recounts his trip and the weather. He describes Holy Week celebrations and public confessions. He relates recent misconduct in the streets between Protestants and Papists, writing that there have been 30 or 40 of deaths. Jones discusses his impressions of Cadiz as a whole. Jezreel Jones was a traveler and diplomat known for his Arabic skills. He was elected clerk to the Royal Society in 1698 and chosen as British envoy to Morocco in 1704 (Elizabeth Baigent, Jones, Jezreel (d. 1731), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/15022, accessed 3 July 2013]).