Juif errant
In England the Wandering Jew makes an appearance in one of the secondary plots in Matthew Lewis's Gothic novel "The Monk" (1796). The Wandering Jew is depicted as an exorcist whose origin remains unclear. The Wandering Jew also plays a role in "St. Leon" (1799) by William Godwin. The Wandering Jew also appears in two English broadside ballads of the 17th and 18th centuries, "The Wandering Jew", and "The Wandering Jew's Chronicle". The former recounts the biblical story of the Wandering Jew's encounter with Christ, while the latter tells, from the point of view of the titular character, the succession of English monarchs from William the Conqueror through either King Charles II (in the 17th-century text) or King George II and Queen Caroline (in the 18th-century version).