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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51736	To His Highnesse the Lord Protector of the Common-wealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland the humble addresses of Menasseh ben Israel, a divine, and doctor of physick, in behalfe of the Jewish nation.	Manasseh ben Israel, 1604-1657.	1641 (1641)	Wing M379; ESTC R224573	20,093	36

in token of his loyalty and the brasen Tables of our Ancestours amongst the Romans are evident witnesses enough of their fidelity shewed unto them In Spaine the Iewes of Burgos as the Cronicles do declare most generously shewed the very same fidelity in the times of Don Henrique who having killed his Brother the King Don Pedro de Cruël made himself Lord of all his Kingdoms and brought under his obedience all the Grandos and people of Spaine Onely the Iewes of Burgos denyed to obey him and fortified themselves within the City saying That God would never have it that they should deny obedience to their Naturall Lord Don Pedro or to his rightfull successours A constancy that the prudent King Don Henriques very much esteemed of saying that such Vassals as those were by Kings and great men worthy of much account seeing they held greater respect to the fidelity they ought to their King although conquered and dead than to the present fortune of the Conquerour And a while after receiving very honourable conditions they gave themselves over In Spaine also as you may see in Mariana many Iewes for the same fidelity were appointed Gouvernours of the Kingdome and Tutors of Noble-mens children jointly to others of the Nobility upon the death of their Parents The Chronicles of the Xarifes dedicated to King Philip the second King of Spaine alleagues for an exemple of great fidelity and vertue how the rising of the Xarifes against the Morines their killing and spoyling them of the Kingdome was such a great grief unto Samuel Alvalensi one of those banished out of Spaine and much favoured by the king of Fez descended from the house of the Morines that joyning himself with other Magistrats and subjects of the Morines arming some ships and going himself Captain over all he came suddenly with 400 men and fell by night upon the Army of the Xarifes that were more then 3000 men besieging Copta and without losing one man killed of them above 500 and caused them to raise the siege Many the like Exemples may be brought of times past but for our present and moderne times there is no Exemple so evident as in the besieging of Mantua for the Emperour in the year 1630 where the Iewes fought most valiantly and rescued it from the Natives As likewise in the Seignory of Brasil where the same thing was done for one of the same Nation a Dutchman having delivered the Cape unto the Portugals there was found in our Nation there not onely loyalty but also such discretion that had they taken their advise the busines had not so proceeded This may be seen more clearly yet in their being banished out of Castilla in the dayes of Ferdinand and Isabella Their number at that time was supposed to have bene half a million of men amongst whom were many of great valour and courage as Don Isaac Abarbanel a Counsellor of State doth relate and yet amongst so great a number there was not found any one man that undertooke to raise a party to free themselves from that most miserable banishment An evident signe of the proper and naturall resolution of this Nation and of their constant obedience to their Princes The same affection is confirmed by the inviolable custome of all the Iewes wheresoever they live for on every Sabbath or festivall Day they everywhere are used to pray for the safety of all Kings Princes and Common-wealths under whose jurisdiction they live of what profession-soever unto which duety they are bound by the Prophets and the Talmudists from the Law as by Ieremy chap. 29. vers 7. Seek the peace of the Citie unto which I have made you to wander and pray for her unto the Lord for in her Peace you shall enjoy peace He speaks of Babylon where the Jewes at that time were captives From the Talmud ord 4. tract 4. Abodazara pereq 1. Pray for the peace of the Kingdome for unles there were feare of the Kingdome men would swallow one the other alive c. From the continuall and never broken Custome of the Iewes wheresoever they are on the Sabbath-Day or other solemne Feasts at which time all the Iewes from all places come together to the Synagogue after the benediction of the Holy Law before the Minister of the Synagogue blesseth the people of the Iewes with a loud voice he blesseth the Prince of the Country under whom they live that all the Iewes may heare it and say Amen The words he useth are these as in the printed booke of the Iewes may be seen He that giveth salvation unto Kings and dominion unto Lords he that delivered his servant David from the sword of the Enemy he that made a way in the Sea and a path in the strang waters blesse and keep preserve and rescue exalt and magnify and lift up higher and higher our Lord. And then he names the Pope the Emperour King Duke or any other Prince under whom the Iewes live and add's The King of kings defend him in his mercy making him joyfull and free him from all dangers and distresse The King of kings for his goodnesse sake raise up and exalt his planetary starre and multiply his dayes over his Kingdom The King of kings for his mercies sake put into his heart and into the heart of his Counsellers and those that attend and administer to him that he may show mercy unto us and unto all the people of Israël In his dayes and in our dayes let Iudah be safe and Iraë dwell securely and let the Redeemer come to Iraë and so may it please God Amen These are the very formalities set downe word for word which the Iewes by the command of God received from the Talmud do use in their prayers for Princes under whose gouvernment they reside And therefore wise Princes are wont to banish from their Courts false rapports And most wise R. Simon Ben-Iochai in his excellent book called Zoar in Sarasa Pecudi relates that it is a Tradition receaved from Heaven that the Kings of the Nations of the world Princes Gouvernours that protect the Iewes in this world or do them any good that the same shall enjoy certain degrees of glory or eternall reward as on the other side they that do to the Nation of the Iewes any harme that they shall be punished with some particular eternall punishment As appeareth also out of Esa the last chapter Thus you see the Fidelity of the Iewes towards their Gouvernours clearly prooved Now that no man may thinke that their banishment out of Spaigne and Portugal proceeded from any suspition or faults of theirs I shall clearly rehearse the reason of so sudden a determination and what the thoughts of many Christian Princes have bene there-upon The busines was thus Ferdinand and Isabella Gouvernours of Castile having gained the Kingdome of Granada of which they tooke possession on the 5 of Ianuary they resolved to thrust out all the Iewes that lived in their Kingdomes and so on the