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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

reason is the more strengthened when we see that not onely the Iewish Nation dwelling in Holland and Italy traficq with their owne stocke but also with the richesse of many others of their owne Nation friends kinds-men and acquaintance which not withstanding live in Spaine and send unto them their moneys and goods which they hold in their hands and content themselves with a very small portion of their estate to the end they may be secure and free from danger that might happen unto them in case they should fall under they yoke of the Inquisition whence not onely their goods but oftentimes also their lives are endangered IV. The love that men ordinarily beare to their owne Country and the desire they have to end their lives where they had their begining is the cause that most strangers having gotten richesse where they are in a forain land are commonly taken in a desire to returne to their natif soil and there peaceably to enjoy their estate so that as they were a help to the places where they lived and negotiated while they remained there so when they depart from thence they carry all away and spoile them of their wealth transporting all into their owne native Country But with the Jewes the case is farre different for where the Iewes are once kindly receaved they make a firm resolution never to depart from thence seeing they have no proper place of their owne and so they are alwayes with their goods in the Cities where they live a perpetuall benefit to all payments Which reasons do clearly proove that it being the property of Citizens in populous and rich countries to seeke their rest and ease with buying lands and faire póssession of which they live many of them hating commerce aspire to Titles and Dignities that of all strangers in whose hands ordinarily Trafique is found there are none so profitable and beneficiall to the place where they trade and live as is the Nation of the Iewes And seeing amongst the people of Europe the chiefest richesses they possesse come from Spaine those neighbour Nations where the Iewes shall finde liberty to live according to their owne Iudaïcall Lawes they shall most easily draw that benefit to themselves by meanes of the industry of our Nation and their mutuall correspondance From hence if it please your Highnes it results that the Jewish Nation though scattered through the whole World are not therefore a despisable people but as a Plant worthy to be planted in the whole world received into populous Cities who ought to plant them in those places which are most secure from danger being trees of most savory fruit and profit to be alwayes most favoured with Lawes and Priviledges or Prerogatives secured and defended by Armes An Exemple of this we have in our times His Majesty the Illustrious King of Danemarck invited them with speciall Priviledges into Geluckstadt the Duke of Savoy into Nisa of Provence and the Duke of Modina in Retio allowing them such conditions and benefices the like never were presented unto them by any other Prince as appeareth by the copy of those Priviledges which I have in my hands But supposing it would be a matter of too large extention if I should make a relation of all the places under whose Princes the Iewes live I will onely speaké briefly of the two Tribes Iudah and Benjamin These in India in Cochin have 4 Synagogues one part of these Iewes being there of a white colour and three of a tawny these being most favoured by the King In the yeare 1640. dyed Samuel Castoel Gouvernour of the City and Agent for the King and David Castoel his sonne succeeded in his place In Persia there is a great number of Iewes and they live indifferent freely there are also amongst them that are in favour and great respect by the King and who live there very bravely Some years past there was Elhazar Huza the Viceroy and now there is David Ian if yet he be living In the year 1636. the Saltan Amarat tooke in Bagdad and puting all to the sword he commanded that they should not touch the Iewes nor their houses and besides that he freed them from one half of the tribut they were wont to pay to the Persian But the chiefest place where the Iewes live is the Turkish Empire where some of them live in great estate even in the Court of the Grand Turke at Constantinople by reason there is no Viceroy or Gouvernour or Bassa which hath not a Iew to manage his affaires and to take care for his estate Hence it cometh that in short time they grow up to be Lords of great revenus and they most frequently bend the minds of Great-ones to most weighty affaires in gouvernment The greatest Viceroy of whole Europe is the Bassa of Egypt this Bassa always takes to him by ordre of the Kingdome a lew with the title of Zaraf-Bassa Thresurer viz. of all the Revenus of that gouvernment who receaves purses full of money seals them and then sends them to the King This man in a short time grows very rich for that by his hands as being next to the Bassa the 24 Gouvernments of that Empire are sould and given and all other bussinesses menaged At present he that possesseth this place is called Sr. Abraham Alhula The number of the Iews living in this Kingdome of the Great Turke is very great and amounts to many Millions In Constantinople alone there are 48 Synagogues and in Salaminque 36 and more then fourescore thousand soules in these two Cities alone The first King gave them great priviledges which they enjoy untill this day for besides the liberty they have every-where of trading with open shops of bearing any Office and possessing of any goods both mooveable and immooveable he yet graunted them power to judge all Civill causes according to their own Lawes amongst themselves Moreover they are exempted from going to Warres and that souldiers should be quartered in their houses and that Iustice should take no place upon the death of any one that left no heir to his Estate In all which they are preferred before the naturall Turkes themselves For which cause they pay in some Cities to the King three Patacons and in others two and a half by the pole In this estate some of the Iewes have growne to great fortunes as Joseph Nasino unto whom Amatus Lusitanus dedicated his fifth and sixth Centuriae was by Sultan Solime made Duke of Maccia Earle of Andro Seignor of Millo and the seaven Islands And Iacob Ben-Iaes by Sultan Amurat was made Gouvernour of the Tiberiades so likewise others were exalted to very great and eminent Dignities as was that Selomo Rofe that was sent for Ambassador at Venice where he confirmed the last Peace with Amurat. In Germany there lives also a great multitude of Iews especially at Prague Vienna and Franckfurt very much favoured by the most mild and most gracious Emperours but despised of the people