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A91275	A short demurrer to the Jewes long discontinued remitter into England. Comprising an exact chronological relation of their first admission into, their ill deportment, misdemeanors, condition, sufferings, oppressions, slaughters, plunders, by popular insurrections, and regal exactions in; and their total, final banishment by judgment and edict of Parliament, out of England, never to return again: collected out of the best historians. With a brief collection of such English laws, Scriptures, as seem strongly to plead, and conclude against their readmission into England, especially at this season, and against the general calling of the Jewish nation. With an answer to the chief allegations for their introduction. / By William Prynne Esq; a bencher of Lincolnes-Inne.; Short demurrer to the Jewes long discontinued remitter into England. Part 1.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1656 (1656)	Wing P4078; Thomason E483_1; ESTC R203287	90,701	118

and a Christian and as the condition so the operation is changed As Mathew Paris Ironically writes of him A certain Jew in the year 1260 fell into a Privy at Teuk●sbury but because it was then the Sabbath he would not suffer himself to be pulled out except on the following Lords day for the reverence of his Sabbath Wherefore Richard Clare Earl of Glocester commanded him in reverence of the Lords Day to be kept there till Munday at which time he was found dead of the stink or hunger The Barons of England Ann. 1262. robbed and slew the Jews in all places There were slain of them in London to the number of 700. the rest were spoyled and their Synagogues defaced The original occasion of which massacre was because one Jew had wounded a Christian man in London within Cole-church and would have enforced him to have paid more than two pence for the Usury of 20 s. for one week In the year 1264. in the Passion week the Jews that inhabited the City of London being detected of Treason which they had devised against the Barons and Citizens were slain almost all the whole number of them and great riches found in their houses which were taken and carried away by those that ransacked the same houses The disinherited Barons and Gentlemen in the Isle of Oxholme in the year 1266 took and sacked the City of Lincoln spoyled the Iews and slew many of them entred their Synagogue and burnt the Book of their Law In the 7th year of King Edward the 1. Ann. Dom. 1278. as some or 1279. as others compute it the King held a Parliament at London which was chiefly called for the reformation of his coyn which was then sore clipped by reason whereof it was much diminished and impaired In the time of this Parliament in the moneth of November all the Jews throughout England as Matthew VVestminster or many of the Jews in London and other parts of the Realm were apprehended in one day and imprisoned in London for clipping of money and in December following divers Enquests were charged in London to enquire of the said Jews and all others who had so blemished and clipped the Kings Coyn By which Enquests the Jews of the City with the Gold-smiths that kept exchanges of silver were indicted Andshortly after Candelmas the Mayor and Justices of the Land sat at London where before them was cast 297 persons for clipping of the which 3 only were Englishmen and all the other were Jews born either within this Realm or elsewhere but most of them English Jews who were all of them at sundry places and times put to execution in London who impeached the chief men of London and very many Christians who consented to their wickednesses After which a very great multitude of Jews were hanged in other Cities of England for the same offence Anno 1279. The Jews of Northampton crucified a Christian boy but did not throroughly kill him upon Good-Friday for the which fact many of the Jews at London after Easter were drawn at Horses tails and hanged In the year of our Lord 1282. John Peckham Arch-bishop of Canterbury sent an expresse precept and command to the Bishop of London to suppresse and destroy all the Synagogues of the Jews within his Diocesse On May 2. Anno 1287. All the Jews of England were apprehended by the Kings precept for what cause was not known who ransomed themselves for 12000l of silver They had then a Synagogue at Canterbury Fabian writes that the Jews of England were sessed at great sums of mony perchance the cause of their seisure which they paid unto the King But of other Authors it is said That the Commons of England then granted to the King the fifth part of their moveables for to have the Iews banished out of the land For which cause the said Jews for to put the Commons from their purposes gave of their free wills great sums of money to the King which saying appeareth to be true for that the said Jews were exiled within few years after with whom Grafton and Holinshed accord A strong evidence of the potency of Jewish money over-powring the whole Commons of England in Parliament and this their Liberal subsidy for their banishment at that season About this year as I conceive the Statutes of Edward the first Intituled de Judeismo were made and published Printed in rench in Tottles Magna Charta Anno 1556. part 2. f. 58 59. which being not printed amongst our Statutes at large in the English Tongue I shall here insert and translate 1. For that the King hath seen that many mischiefs disherisons of honest men of this land have happened by the Usuries which the Jews have made therein in times past and that many sins have therein risen from thence Albeit he and his Ancestors have had great profit from the Jews both now and in times past Notwithstanding this for the honour of God and for the common benefit of the People the King doth ordain and establish that no Jew hereafter shall take ought for usury upon lands rents nor upon other things and that no Usury shall run from the Feast of St. Edward last past and before but that the Covenants before made shall be held save only that the Usuries themselves shall cease Provided that all those who are indebted to Jews upon pawns moveable shall discharge them between this and Easter at furthest and if not let them be forfeited And if any Jew shall take usury against this establishment The King neither by himself nor any of his Officers will not intermeddle to cause him to recover his debt or use but will punish him at his pleasure for the Trespasse and shall do right to the Christian to recover his gage 2. And it is provided that the distresses for the debt of Jews shall not hereafter be so grievous that the moity of Lands and Chattels to the Christians shall not remain for their sustenance And that no distresse shall be made for the debt of a Jew upon the heir to the Debtor named in the Charter of the Jew nor upon other which holds the Land which was the Debtors before the debt shall be dereigned and acknowledged in Court And if the Sheriff or other Bayliffs by commandment of the King ought to make seisin to a Jew to one or more for their debt of chattels or of lands to the value of the debt the chattels shall be praised by the Oath of honest men the chattels shall be delivered to the Jew or Jewesse or to their Attorney to the value of the debt And if the chattels be not sufficient the lands shall be extended by the same Oath before that the seisin shall be delivered to the Jew or Jewesse every one according to the value and so that they may after know certainly the Debt is discharged that the Christian afterwards may then have his lands saving to the

shall close up all with the memorable apposite History and words of that famous ancient Bishop of Millain St. Ambrose z The Eastern Christians out of Christian zeal burnt down a Synagogue of the Iews in the Castle of Callinico by their Bishops instigation and command for which the Emperour Theod●sius being much incensed against them by the Jews and their Instruments commanded his Lieutenant of the East to punish the people and the Bishop to re-edify the Synagogue for the Iews at his own costs Of which St. Ambrose being informed and unable to go to the Emperour writ an Epistle to him wherein he most boldly pleads the cause both of the Bishop and people proving by evident arguments The burning of this Synagogue of impiety to be just and that the Emperour should sin both against his own and his Kingdoms safety if he should do any thing severely against the Bishop or 〈…〉 ople for it Adding that he himself was prepared ra 〈…〉 to suffer death in this cause than that he should by 〈…〉 dissimulation make the Emperour a Prevaricator who 〈…〉 commanded such an unjust thing against the Church 〈…〉 er which the Emperour coming to Millain St. Amb. 〈…〉 aring that the Iews had built a Synagogue in the Market 〈…〉 Constantinople he publikely preached against it justified the peoples burning of the other Synagogue in his Sermon before the Emperor and people wherein amongst other passages he used this Speech to the Emperor himself in ●he person of Christ O Theodosius I have made thee of an obscure private person an Emperor committing my flock unto thee I have adorned thy formerly squalid head with a Crown I have delivered the forces of thine Enemie unto thee I have reduced thine Enemy under thy power I have made thee triumph without labour and dost thou make mine Enemies to triumph over me and offer contumely unto me by preferring those whom I have rejected before those by whom I am worshipped by offering violence unto them and suffering a Synagogue to be built in the midst of that City wherein I am worshipped and my Crosse adored by those who have been my Murderers When St. Ambrose came forth of the Pulpit the Emperor saying to him O Bishop you have this day preached against us He thereunto replyed He had not spoken against him but for him To which the Emperor subjoyning O Bishop will you have the people in a well governed Commonwealth to have license rashly and impudently to do what they please St. Ambrose thereto rejoyned Neither is this verily to be granted That the Iews should have Synagogues in the midst of a Christian City and offend the ears of the Godly with blasphemous Prayers Nor oughtest thou to Decrée this most holy Emperor Whereupon the Emperor being quite silenced and convinced of his error forthwith gave his faith and promise to St. Ambrose to reverse his former decree for re-building the Iews Synagogue before he went to the Altar to receive the Sacrament at his hands I wish this my Demurrer may produce the like effects Gal. 5. 2 3 4. Behold I Paul say unto you that if ye be circumcised Christ shall profit you nothing For I testifie again to every man that is circumcised that he is a debtor to do the whole Law Christ is become of no effect unto you whosoever of you are justified by the Law ye are fallen from Grace 1 Joh 4. 3. Every Spirit that confesseth not that Iesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God and THIS IS THE SPIRIT OF ANTICHRIST wherof ye have heard that it should come and even now already is in the world FINIS a 1 Pet. 4. b See the Declaration of 21 Nov. 1655. c A Collection of Ordinances p. 599 623. d Act 2. 23. 36. c. 3. 14. 15. 1 shell 2. 14 15 16. Mat. 26. 27. e H●b 6. 6 1 John 4. 3. f Spelmanni Concil p. 43 44 See here p. 51 g Annal. pars posterior p. 604. h Spelmanni Cancil p. 623. i Malmesbury de gest is Regum Angl. l. 2. c. 1. p. 75. Chronicon Johannis Bromcol 956. 957. Spelmanni concil p. 625. k Ingulphi Hist p. 914. l Ad Eadmerum Not● p. 172 to 195. m Historiae noverum l. 2. p. 46 47. m P. 64. 65. 89 90. n Rev. 3. 4. o De uni●ate Ecclesiae Francofurti 1600. p. 108 109 116 See Jacobus usierius De E●c●●siaurm Christian Successione Statu c. 5. p. 108 109 119. p De Investigatione Antichristi Syntagma p. 41. r Rev. 2. 9. c. 3. 9. s Num. 25. 15 Gal. 4. 18. Jude 3. 4. a Deut. 7. 6. c. 14. c. 26. 19. b Acts 2. 22. 1 Thess 2. 15 16. c Mat. 27. 25. d 1 Thess 2. 15 16. e Ro. Hoved. Annal. pars posterior p. 604. Spelmanici Concil 623. Lombard A●chaiori f De Gestis Regum l. 4. p. 122. g Chronica●●ars 2. Tit. 16. c. 5. f. 167. h Centur. xi ● 14. col 687. i Gervasius Dorobern Chro. col 1403. k Chronicon Johann Bromton col 1129. Polydor Virgil l. 13. Holinsheds Chronicle Vol. 3 p. 101. Graftons Chro p. 79. Cent. Magdeburg 12 c. 15. col 1759. l Guliel Nubrigens Hist l. 4. c. 1. 7●8 c. Matthew west Matth. Paris Rog. Hoveden Hygden Fabian Holinshed Grafton Slow Speed Fox Daniel in the life of Rich. 1. Chronicon Johannis Bromton col 1152 1160. 1171. Radulphus de Di●eto Ymagines historia●ū 647. 651. Henricus de Knyghton de Eventibus Angliae l. 2. ● 13. col 2401. m Annalium pars posterior p. 745. Chron. Johan Bromton col 1258. Holinshed Vol. 3. p. 155. n Mat. West A● 1210. Mat. Paris Hist Angliae Londini 1640 p. 229. Holinshed Vol. 3. p. 174. John Stow p. 168. Daniel p. 115. o Mat. Paris Hist Ang. p. 314 315. Antiq Eccles Brit. p. 152. Bracton l. 3. c. 9. p Mat. Paris hist Ang. p. 365 Mat. Westminster p. 128. Holinshed p. 221. q Jo. Stows Chronicle p. 182. r Mat. Paris Hist Angl. p. 393. Stow p. 183. Speed p. 519. * Near the Rolls ſ Mat. Paris Hist Angl. p. 409. Mat. Westm p. 136. Holinshed Vol. 3. p. 219. Stow p. 183. Fox Acts Mon. Vol. 1. p. 423. Speed p. 521. Polychronicon l. 7. c. 35. Fabian part 7. p. 46. Grafton p. 122. Mat. Park An●iq ● Eccl. Bri. p. 178 t Mat. Paris p. 532. u Mat. Paris p. 605. x Mat. Paris p. 644. y Mat. Paris p. 641. z Mat. Paris p. 778 779. 785. Speed p. 529. a Mat. Paris p. 827. b Mat. Paris p. 831. 856. c Mat. Paris Hist Angl. p. 861 862. Fox Acts and Mon. Vol. 1. p. 423. Nota. d Mat. Paris p. 873 874. e Fox ' Acts Mon. Vol. 1. p. 423. ex Eulogio f Mat. Paris p. 887. Nota. g Mat. Paris p. 902. Mat. West p. 270. Holinshed Vol. 3. p. 252. h Mat. Paris p. 912. Fabian part 7 p. 58. Fox Acts Mon.

newly delivered their Opinions there was no Law against it To which I answered That the Jews were in the yeer 1290. all banished out of England by Judgement and Edict of the King and Parliament as a great Grievance never to return again for which the Commons gave the King the fifteenth part of their Moveables and therefore being thus banished by Parliament they could not by the Laws of England be brought in again without a special Act of Parliament which I would make good for Law He replied I wish it might not be done otherwise that this business had been formerly moved in the Bishops time rather than now To which I subjoyned That it was now a very ill time to bring in the Jews when the people were so dangerously and generally bent to Apostacy and all sorts of Novelties and Errors in Religion and would sooner turn Jews than the Jews Christians He answered He thought it was true and was sorry he could not discourse longer with me the Committee about the Jews being sate and staying for him as he feared Whereupon as he was turning in towards White-Hall-Gate I told him The Jews had been formerly great Clippers and Forgers of Mony and had crucified three or four Children in England at least which were principal causes of their banishment To which he replied That the crucifying of Children was not fully charged on them by our Historians and would easily be wiped off Whereto I answered He was much mistaken and so we parted As I kept on my way in Lincolnes-Inne Fields passing by seven or eight maimed Soldiers on Stilts who begged of me I heard them say aloud one to another We must now all turn Jews and there will be nothing left for the poor And not far from them another company of poor people just at Lincolnes-Inne back Gate cried aloud to each other They are all turned Devils already and now we must all turn Jews Which unexpected concurrent Providences and Speeches made such an impression on my Spirit that before I could take my rest that night I perused most of the passages in our English Histories concerning the Jews carriage in England with some of their misdemeanors in other parts to refresh my memory and satisfie my judgement making some Collections out of them which after I enlarged and digested into this ensuing Demurrer with as much speed as the sharpness of the season would permit and was induced to publish it knowing no particular discourse of this Subject extant for the general information satisfaction of others and honour of my blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ the righteous whom the Jews with malicious hearts and wicked hands crucified in person heretofore and their posterity by their blasphemies despiteful actions against Christ his Kingdom Offices Gospel crucifie afresh every day trampling under foot the Son of God putting him to open shame offering despite to the Spirit of Grace counting the blood of the Covenant an unholy thing And in all their publick and private Devotions praying constantly for the sodain universal total final subversion extirpation perishing of Christs Kingdom Gospel and all his Christian Members which they plot and continually expect such is their implacable transcendent malice I have deduced their introduction into England only from William surnamed the Conqueror because I finde not the least mention of them in any of our British or Saxon Histories Councils Synods Canons which doubtlesse would have mentioned them and made some strict Laws or Canons against their Iewish as well as against Pagan Superstitions had they exercised them here as they would have done as well as in Spain other places had they resided here That any of them were here in the time of our famous Emperor Constantine is but a dream of such who because they finde an Epistle of Constantines in the Council of Nice to all the Churches of Christ in Sir Hen. Spelmans Collections of the Decrees Canons and Constitutions of the British World wherein is mention made of the Churches of Britain in that age as well as in Rome France and other parts keeping the Passeover in a different manner from the wicked blinded Iews would thence infer there were then Jews resident in Britain of which there is not one syllable in that Epistle nor in any Classick Author Forrain or Domestick I yet ever saw or heard of That they were setled in our Island in the Saxons time is collected onely from that Law inferted by Hoveden and Spelman amongst Edward the Confessors here cited p. ● But there being no mention of the Jews in any of our Saxon Kings Raigns Councils Decrees Laws before the Confessor out of which all his Laws were wholly extracted and this Law of the Jews being not to be found in the true Original Copy of the Confessors and Conquerors Laws of Abbot Ingulphus who flourished in that age was present at their confirmation and then brought them to Croyland Abby published by Mr. Iohn Selden nor yet in Bromton I cannot but reject it as counterfeit and esteem it rather a Declaration of the Jews Condition in England in Hovedens time inserted by him as well as some other things of pu●ier date amongst these Laws rather than any Law of or in the Confessors days wherein I can finde no evidence of any Jews residence here but only this interpolation and forged Law which Mr. Selden wholly omittes in his Collection of his Laws The History of King William Rufus his compelling the Iews of Rhoan that were turned Christians to renounce their Christianity and turn Iews again ACCEPTO PRETIO APOSTASIAE upon the complaint and mony given him by the Infidel Jews there with the Dialogue between Him and Stephen the Jew cited out of Holinshed here p. 5 6. I finde originally recorded of him by Eadmerus living in his raign who though very bitter and injurious to him by reason of the great Contests between him Anselme whose Favourite Follower and Companion in adversity Eadmerus was yet he relates it not as a certain Truth but as a Report of others of that Country who had another Opinion of Rufus Quam de Christianis Christianos Lex Christiana docet habere quae tamen sicut illa accepimus simpliciter ponam non astruens vera an secus extiterint an non Onely he addes this passage to the story of Stephen which Holinshed omits That St. Stephen appearing to him as he was travelling on the way he demanding of him who he was Answered That he was long since of a Jew made a Christian and was Stephen the first Martyr but for this cause I have now come down from Heaven to Earth that thou casting away thy Iewish Superstition mightest be made a Christian and being baptized in Christ mightest be called by my name Whereupon he became a Christian and was baptized That immediately after the conference between the King and Stephen which agrees with that in Holinshed he

so many dayes with milk he might living suffer many sorts of torments When the K. returned from the Northern parts of England and was certified of the premisses he reprehended Sir John that he had promised life and members to so flagitious a person which he could not give for that blasphemer and homicide was worthy the punishment of many sorts of death And when as unavoydable Judgement was ready to be executed upon this Offender he said My death is now approaching neither can my Lord John preserve me who am ready to perish I now relate the truth to you all Almost all the Jews of England consented to the death of this child whereof the Jews are accused and almost out of every city in England wherein the Jews inhabit certain chosen persons were called together to the immolation of that child as to a Paschal Sacrifice And when as he had spoken these things together with other dotages being tied to an horses tail and drawn to the Gallows he was presented to the aereal Cacodaemons in body and soul and 91 other Jews partakers of this wickednesse being carried in Carts to London were there committed to prison Who if so be they were casually bewailed by any Christians yet they were deplored by the Caursini the Popes Italian Usurers their corrivals with dry eys Afterwards by the Inquisition of the Kings Justices it was discovered found That the Iews of England by Common Councel had slain the innocent Child punished for many days and crucified But after this the Mother of the said child constantly prosecuting her appeal before the King against them for that iniquity and such a death God the Lord of Revenges rendred them a condigne retribution according to their merits for on St. Clements day 88. of the richest and greatest Jews of the City of London were drawn and hanged up in the air upon new Gibbets especially prepared for that purpose and more than 23 others were reserved in the Tower of London to the like judgement I have transcribed this History at large out of Matthew Paris who flourished at that time because our other Historians doe but briefly touch it and because it undeniably manifests the transcendent impiety blasphemy malice persecution and obloquy of the Jews against our Saviour Jesus Christ and Christians and their constant usual practise of crucifying Children almost every year in contempt and reproach of our crucified Saviour by common consent which Mr. Nye conceived might be easily wiped off as false and not fully proved or charged on them by our Historians which this ensuing passage concerning these Jews will further ratify Certain infamous Jews being 71 in number adjudged to death by the Oath of 25 Knights for the miserable death of the Child crucified at Lincoln being reserved in the Prisons of London to be hanged Anno 1256 the year after their condemnation sent secret Messengers as their enemies affirm to the Friers Minors that they might intercede for them that they might be delivered from death and prison being notwithstanding worthy of the most shamefull death Whereupon they as the world reports if the world in such a case be to be credited by the mediation of money freed them by their prayers and intercession both from the prison and from the death which they had deserved led thereto with a spirit of piety as I think is piously to be believed Because so long as any man is in life and in this world he hath free will may be saved and there is hope of him But yet for the Devil or the manifestly damned we are not to hope nor pray because there is no hope of them for death and a definitive sentence at once irrevobly intangle them Neither could this answer excuse the Minors for although they were not guilty yet the scandal did defame them The common people now hath withdrawn their hands that they do not benefit them with their alms as heretofore and the Londoners devotion is grown cold towards the Minorites For procuring these condemned Jews life and liberty whose money it seemeth could even corrupt these very self-denying Popish Saints who had renounced the world in habit but not in heart All the Prelates of England in the year 1257. drew up certain Articles in writing concerning their liberties which they intended to present to the King and Nobles to be ratified by them in Parliament in due season wherein they complain Artic. 32 33. That when as the Jews are convicted before the Ecclesiastical Judges for delinquency against an Ecclesiastical person or for Ecclesiastical things or for sacriledge or for laying violent hands upon a Clerk or for adultery with a Christian woman the conusans of the cause is hindered by the Kings prohibition because it alleageth that they have their proper Judge the Sheriff of the place and their proper delegated Judges who may and ought to have conusance of these things And yet if they be convented by a Clergy-man or Lay-man before them for such things upon the denial thereof by the person alone the simple assertion of another Jew and of one Christian without the administring of any Oath they purge themselves the proof of the prosecutor being utterly rejected Item If Communion be denied to them by the Church because they bear not their Table or signe or because they retain Christian Nurses against the precepts of the Church or if they be excommunicated for some other excesses the Bayliffs or Officers of the King communicating with them command on the behalf of our Lord the King himself that they be not avoided by any and cause them to be admitted and received to Communion Against which Grievances in derogation of Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction the Bishops then thus provided And because in like manner the office of the Prelates is hindred when as it happens a Jew offending against Ecclesiastical things and persons shall be convented for these things before them and for other things which apperta●n to the Ecclesiastical Court of meer right We provide that the Jew notwithstanding shall be compelled to answerin these cases by the interdict ofcommerce contracts and communion of the faithfull likewise the inhibiters hinderers and distrainers shall incurre the punishments of interdiction and excommunication l In the year of Christ 1259. On the Feast of Christs Nativity a certain creature Elias a Jew of London whose Sirname was Bishop fearing danger and manifest damnation to himself fled to the laver of defence and salvation and was new-born in the Spirit for being cleansed with wholesom Baptism two others also accompanying him he was delivered out of the lot of the Devil and saved from the revenge of the most wicked crime heretofore committed by him For it was said that in his house that poysonous drink was made which had proved mortal and perillous to many Nobles of England poysoned therewith by the Jews which even he himself as was reported well confessed But then he was a Devil but now throughly changed

the cause that they banished themselves into other Countries where they might live by their usury So that by his opinion they were not then banished by the King or Parliament but only voluntarily banished themselves upon the making of this Statutes aginst their Usury But under the favour of this deceased reverend Judge whose memory I generally reverence this opinion of his is a meer mistake For 1. This Statute of Judaisme was made some years before their banishment hence as I formerly hinted and the last clause thereof for renting houses to continue for 15 years manifests not in 18E 1. 2ly No Record nor Historian mentions that they voluntarily banished themselves upon the making of this Law neither can their voluntary departure hence upon this occafion be stiled a Banishment 3ly The forecited Historians record that they gave but few years before a vast sum of money to prevent their banishment then urged in Parliament by the Commons with the profer of the 5 part of their goods to the King for their banishment and therefore it is very improbable they would at the same time volunntarily banish themselves 4ly All the last cited Historians of these latter times unanimously record and theywere judicially really banished both by the King and Parliament principally for their infidelity and other fore-alloaged reasons commanded under pain of hanging to depart out of it by a set day for the effecting and hastning whereof the Commons gave the King a sifteenth Therefore not banished by of themselves alone Who are more to be credited than this Judges singular opinion 5ly His own subsequent words and Records in direct terms contradict this opinion of his no lesse than 5 times which I wonder he observed not I shall recite them at large to undeceive his over-credulous Readers of the long Robe who take his words and works for Oracles though in many things very full of grosse mistakes contradicted by by his own Records he cites specially in his Chapter of Parliament and Admiralty And for that writes he they were odious both to God and Man that they might passe out of the Realm in safety they made Petition to the King that a certain day might he prefixed to them to depart the Realm it was prefixed by the King and Parliament against their wills to the end that they might have the Kings writ to his Sheriffs for their safe conduct and that no injury molestation damage or grievance be offered to them in the mean time One of which Writs we will transcribe Rex Vic G. Cum Judaeis Regni nostri universis CERTUM TEMPUS PRAEFIXERIMUS therefore prefixed by the King himself without their Petition ● regno illo transfretandi Nolentes quod ipsi per ministros nostros aut alios quoscunque aliter quam sieri consnevit indebite pertrectentur Tibi praecipimus quod per totam Ballivam tuam publice proclamari firmiter inhiberi facias ne quis eis intra terminum predictum injuriam molestiam damnum inferat seu gravamen Et cum contingat ipsos cum catallis suis quae eis concessimus versus partes London causa transfretationis suae dirigere gressus suos salvum securum conductum eis habere facias sumptibus eorum Proviso quod Judaei praedicti ante recessum suum Vadia Christianorum quae penes se habent illis quorum fuerint si ea acquietare voluerint restituant ut tenentur Teste Rege apud Westminst 18. die Julii Anno 18 E. 1. This Statute De Judaismo was made at the Parl. post festum Hilarii Anno 18 E. 1. At which Parliament the King had a 15 granted to him PRO EXPULSIONE JUDAEORUM Therfore by his own confession they were banished by the King and Parlament against their wils and a Fifteenth given for it as the former Historians note And this writ was granted in July following in pursute therefore of their Judgement of banishment not upon their petition the King beginning his reign Novemb. 16 For the Parliament knew a strange conceit of a Judge that by banishing of Usury Did they banish it onely not the Jews the Jews would not remain And thus this Noble King by this means BANISHED FOR EVER THESE INFIDEL USURIOUS JEWS Ergo their persons as well as Usury only the number of which Jews THUS BANISHED was fifteen thousand and threescore VVe will here adde a Parliament Record de Priore de Bridlington thus Et quod praedictus Prior cogno cit quid praedicta pecunia praed Judaeo debebatur viz. 300l nec ei solvebatur ANTE EXILIUM JUDAEORUM therefore by this Parliamentary record but 3 years after they were judicially banished by Parliament not voluntarily of themselves no banishment in Law Et quicquid remansit reorum debitis aut catallis in regno POST EORUM EXILIUM again repeated Domino Regi fuit Consideratum est quod Dominus Rex recuperec pecuniam praedictam dictum est eidem Priori quod non exeat Villaean equam Domino Regi de praedicta pecunia satisfaciat Et respondeat Johannes Archiepiscopus Eborum quia praecepit dicto Priori solvere Valetto suo praedictam pecuniam in deceptionem Regis contra Sacramentum fidelitatem suam Domino Regi datam Idem in alio Rot. An. 22 E. 1. rot 5. Therefore by these 3 records resolutions cited by himself the Jews were all banished by sentence of Parliament in such sort as our Historians record and not in his New sence alone amounting but to a Recesse By all these concurrent Testimonies it is apparent against Sir Edward Cooks groundlesse conceit 1. That all the Jews were then banished out of England never to return again at the special instance and request of the Commons in two several Parliaments as an intollerable grievance and oppression under which they then groaned 2. That the principle grounds of this their perpetual banishment were their infidelity Usury forgeries of Charters clipping and falsifying of monies by which they prejudiced the King and kingdom and much oppressed and impoverished the pople 3. That this their banishment was so acceptable to all the people who oft-times pressed it in Parliament that they gave the King a Fift and Fifteenth part of their moveables to speed and execute it 4. That this their banishment was by the unanimous desire Iudgement Edict and Decree both of the King and his Parliament and not by the King alone and this Banishment total of them all and likewise final Never to return into England Which Edict and Decree not now extant in our Parliament Rolls many of which are lost nor printed Statutes yet it is mentioned by all these Authorities From whence I shall inferre and conclude That as by the fundamental Laws of England No Freeman and Natives of England can be justly banished or exiled out of it but by special judgement of Parliament or by Act of Parliament as is evident by Magna Charta c. 29. The banishment of Sir Thomas

receiving strangers into their Cities and Countries were all much infested and some of them quite supplanted and ejected by them the rest enforced to expel them by force of arms Then he subjoyneth That the strangers admitted among Gods own people proved briars and thorns unto them and Solomon himself by many strange women fell into idolatry concluding thus The Spaniards in my judgement did not unjustly BANISH THE SEDITIOUS JEWES OUT OF THEIR COASTS propius non accedo sed Christum oro ne peregrinarum turbâ immanis turbo in civitate fiat As these Grecians in ancient times prohibited the introduction of strangers amongst them for the forementioned reasons so likewise did some of the wisest Romans Pennus in ancient times and Papius after him as Cicero relates Peregrinos Vrhibus prohibent eosque exterminant which although he thus censures as a cruelty usu verò urbis prohibere peregrinos sanè inhumanum est Yet he intends it only of excluding strangers from all trading and commerce not from cohabitation as Denizens from which he holds it just to debarre them there being a special Law then in force for that purpose which he thus expresseth Nam esse pro cive qui civis non sit RECTUM EST NON LICERE QUAM LEGEM TULERUNT SAPIENTISSIMI CONSULES Crassus Scaevola Hence Claudius the Emperour benished the Jews out of Rome Acts 18. 2 and Suetonius in his life And the mischief of admitting forraigners is largely argued in Cornelius Tacitus who were after his time banished out of Room as Coelius Rhodiginus relates out of Ammianus Marcelinus So the Carthaginians Scithians Scythotauri Jamphasanti Seres Indians and Aegyptians in some places The Aethenians also exluded forraigners company and conversation Ne cives longo usu dissimiles mores imbuerent in alienas leges ritusque transirent as Alex. ab Alexandro Gen. Dierum l. 4. c. 10. and Boêmus de Mor. Gentium record And we read of the Tartars and most politick Inhabitants of China at this day that they will admit no strangers into their Countries so much as to travel or traffick for fear of discerning their secrets and corrupting their maners and those few they admit by special licence to enter into their Country they will by no means suffer to return thence nor permit Merchants and Marriners there trading to walk abroad publikely in their Cities and Countries nor to lodge on land but only in their ships which practises of theirs being if not grounded on yet at least warranted by Gods own forcited Precepts to the Israelites and being warranted by the Jews own practise who had no dealings with the Samaritans John 4. 9. and the Samaritans reciprocal carriage towards the Iews whom they would neither lodge nor entertain Lu. 9. 51 52 53. Why we should not upon this account seclude those alien Jews so different from us both in manners customs Laws Religion and obeying not the Laws of our Saviour Christ Jesus it being not for the Kings or the Kingdoms profit to suffer them as Haman Esther 3. 8. once said of them in another case I referre it to all wise Statesmen to resolve since it may be truly said of such unwelcom guests Turpius ejicitur quâm non admittitur hospes Neither will this contradict that Gospel precept Heb. 13. 2. Be not forgetfull to entertain strangers or Deutr. 10. 18. 19. c. 23. 7 Mat. 25. 35 43. which extend only to Christian hospitality liberality and pity towards exiles travellers and other private distressed strangers coming in to lodge or sojourn with us for a short season in our houses or Country and standing in need of our releif as is clear by the Texts themselves compared with Rom. 12. 13. 1 Pet. 4. 9. 3. Iohn 5. but especially to such who are of the houshold of faith not Jews or Infidels Gal. 6. 10. Not to the reception of any whole foraign Nation or Colony into our Island to cohabit perpetually with us the only point in question which the Scripture noe where commands nor in ends but disallows in the forecited Texts and Neh. 9. 2. c. 13. 30. And these Scripture expressions Pro. 5. 10. Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth Isay 1. 7. your land strangers devour in your presence and it is desolate as overthrown by strangers Lam. 5. 2. Our inheritance is turned unto strangers our Houses to aliens Hosea 7. 9. Strangers have devoured his strength and he knoweth it not sufficiently manifest both the illegallity folly and sad consequences of our receiving Jews and other strangers in such a nature of which our Ancestors had sufficient experience in the Jewes themselves enforcing them for ever to exile them hence These general Reasons against the Jews readmission premised which I hope will satisfie most men I shall conclude with some particular Reasons drawn from late published Declarations of our Grandees which I conceive will best satisfie them of any other and for this end I hope without any just offence or Scandalum Magnatum I shall crave leave to presse them home in this common cause for the defence of the Glory honor Scepter Gospel Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ the only Potentate the Prince of the Kings of the Earth the King of Kings and Lord of Lords the head of all Principality and power and God over all blessed for ever before whose feet all other subordinate Kings and Potentates whatsoever ought to prostrate not only their persons but Crowns and most peremptory Royal Wills and Edicts too for whose pleasure honor and glory alone all things and powers likewise both are and were created in whose cause we must be most bold and zealous not fearing the faces of any Mortals My 1. Reason shall be drawn from the very words of the Declaration of 21 Novemb. 1655. inviting the people of this Commonwealth to a day of solemn Fasting and Hum liation on the 6. of December last a day of trouble and of rebuke of blasphemy provocation in respect of the violence acted on it that time seven years when the children were come to the birth and there was no strength to bring forth but only to obstruct and pull out the Members to prevent our peace and settlement The principal cause whereof they Declare to be The abominable Blasphemies vented and spreading of late through the Apostacy of and the abuse of Liberty by many professing Religion And to joyn with them in solemn and earnest supplications to the throne of Grace That the Lord will disappoint the designs of those that labour to lift themselves up against the interest of Christ and his people That he will rebuke the foresaid Evils and give his people to know the things that belong to their Peace that so we may with one heart and shoulder serve the Lord both theirs and ours The Jews of all other Nations in the world are the greatest venters spreaders of abominable Blasphemies against our Saviour