 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).In Britain a ballad with the title "The Wandering Jew" was included in Thomas Percy's "Reliques" published in 1765.In 1797 the operetta "The Wandering Jew, or Love's Masquerade" by Andrew Franklin was performed in London.