In 1688, the Sephardic poet and historian Daniel Levi de Barrios (1635-1701) gave in verse one of the earliest known surveys of English Jewry:

Now, in six English cities, are known six sacred lights of Israel: three in Nevis, London, Jamaica; the fourth and h in two parts of Barbados; [and] the sixth is veri ed in Madras Patân.2