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A51733	Anglo-Judæus, or, The history of the Jews, whilst here in England relating their manners, carriage, and usage, from their admission by William the Conqueror, to their banishment : occasioned by a book, written to His Highness, the Lord Protector ... by Rabbi Menasses Ben Israel : to which is also subjoyned a particular answer / by W.H.	W. H.	1656 (1656)	Wing M373; ESTC R12585	34,739	58

and oppressions as under which it groaned and also to fill his own Coffers which was done pretty well partly by the confiscating of their goods which all or most mention as also by the Fifteenth granted him by the Commons to purchase their banishment which some aver We read that about the year 1286. the Commons before offered the King the fifth part of their moveables to expel them and it cannot but be likely they would also desire the same at this Parliament for though usury was the main thing under which they groaned yet there were other things they could not but be sensible enough of viz. Crucisying of children and their great spight to Christian profession with their late spoiling of the coyn And scarce could this other Act against their usury only give them hopes sufficient that thence they would be driven away for as we see before in the third of the King their usury was restrained and bounded and other ways of life they might take up and rather stay here with what they had already got then by departing to lose all as it seems they did though Judge Cook tels us that there was provision made that no subject should hurt or molest them acknowledging also that the forementioned fifteenth was given Pro expulsione ●●d●●●●●m and that too for their expulsion This reverend Lawyer tels us this act de Judaismo was made in the 18. year of the King but a little after the Feast of Hilary whence these perhaps impertinent thoughts have sometimes come in upon me that if there was no mistake of this year for the third of this King in which formerly we read their usury was restrained then perhaps this same act de Judaismo and the other for their banishment might be enacted in several Sessions of Parliament viz. this last the 31. of August after as Matthew of Westminster mentions and the record lost the act being omitted in the writings of Lawyers as deemed of no use And 〈◊〉 ●osing ●f the record I am easilyer induced to thin● 〈◊〉 ●●●sible because I am credibly informed that that 〈…〉 act for establishing the use of the Common-prayer Book was also missing heretofore and thereupon some non-conformists escaped that which else had light upon them And this I desire to tender as an excuse for my keeping close to History in which has lyen the work of this relation nothing desirous to impose upon the belief of any or hereby to contradict so worthy an Author Thus admitted by William the Conqueror about the year 1070. they were expelled in the year 1290. being here some 220. years longer by five or six then their Ancestors were in Egypt during which time we may easily see the English Nation was as in bondage And by this History impartially though truly related may that Book sufficiently be answered by occasion of which this was written the profit which redounded by them to this Nation their saithfulness also being sufficiently discovered upon which grounds the Rabbi raises his short discourse But because it may more clearly appear and the Case may be more fully debated we shall descend to his particulars and scan them fully The Author though perhaps learned enough in other histories yet seems either utterly to be ignorant of ours or else wittingly to decline that which he knew would injure his cause sufficiently In his Epistle to his Highness the Lord Protector he desires that all Laws may be taken away which stand in force against this innocent people made in times and during the government of Kings But if he please to turn his eye upon what hath been written he may easily see that it was not innocency but the clear contrary that drew out these Laws against them and for that he and his Country-men think this easier to be procured since the Kingly Government is taken away he may know that it was by the Kings alone they were kept here so long The people would gladly have been rid of them an hundred years before they were and desired their expulsion above all things Nay they offered a fifth part of their moveables to have them expelled but King Edward only sucking sweet from them and intending to make his Markets out of this contention upon their offering more gave them leave to buy their continuance for a little longer And in the War betwixt Henry the third and his Barons as is above declared they stood for him conspired the ruine of them and the Citizens of London and that more for their own ends then out of any faithfulness to him In his Declaration to the Commonwealth of England he acquaints us with the motives of his coming over the first is to obtain free exercise of his Religion for his Countreymen Here indeed it was anciently granted but what good came of it It s the desire of this people to be fishing in troubled waters they may have hopes in this juncture of time to catch proselytes what his own design may be I shall not question if we should trust him upon his word it might be unsafe to deal so well with all his followers Their Ancestors compassed sea land to make a proselyte and he confesses this to have been the cause of their expulsion formerly out of Spain but let us descend unto his second In this I cannot but wonder at the Rabbi It s believed that the time of their redemption is near saith he and that they must first be scattered throughout the world What then therefore if this be true they must first have a Seat also in England Why they had a Seat here once before for the space of above 200. years and must they needs come again or else their dispersion as to this place cannot be accomplished The third motive upon which he came over was for the benefit of our Nation which he so much desires that which truly if sincere we cannot but applaud it being a thing not usual for us to be so loved by that people We cannot but thank him for his affection but must a little question his grounds by and by when coming to his Book we shall descend with him to particulars His fourth motive is no less to be approved of His particular respect to this Commonwealth is a motive to his sollicitation for the readmission of his Country-men He might easilier if he so much love us have leave given him to continue but we cannot but suppose he can scarce promise the like affection in all his brethren and if he should it s sooner said then believed And whereas he commends hospitality and kindeness to strangers so much to our consideration our Nation was never unkind or churlish but the Jews too much familiarity with it heretofore has put them out of the influence of hospitality Now to come to the Book it self Three things he proposes to his Highness the Lord Protector as making a people well-beloved or desirable amongst all Nations viz. Profit accruing from them Faithfulnessin

movables Hollinsh and away he goes What people in the world would not have laid these things to heart and striven by the amendment of their lives to have hindred succeeding plagues but wretched is that people which commits iniquity by a Law and whose very principles of Religion prompts them to horrid and unlawful actions They count it no sin but rather the contrary even to commit murder so they can but thereby scoff at and deride the Christian profession Some five years after the Kings going into France keeping his Christmass at Westminster seven Jews are brought before him by one Tolie Matth. Westm and grievously accused They had gotten a childe at Norwich and had circumcised him calling him Jeremiah 〈◊〉 Virg. 〈◊〉 16. Mat. Paris kept him a year together intending to crucifie him at Easter when they should meet together for that purpose The thing was confessed by them and they thereupon cast into prison abiding there the Kings pleasure Now begun this Prince to be sore pinched with want Coming to the Crown so extream young Sir Rob. Cotton he wanted that experience which others might attain who having not so much of their will at first by discipline with years might gather experience His Minions cost him dear he flew to that height in lavishments that at last he was constrained to break up house and betake himself to the Monks to take his Commons This could not but turn to the Jews cost and dis●●●●● He so orders the matter 〈◊〉 that one Abraham found to be a delinquent redeems himself with 7000. marks and Aaron protests the King hath since his last being in France taken from him at times 30000. marks besides 200. of gold given to the Queen In the year 1239. they are grievously fined again paying the fifth part of all their movables They had committed a murder secretly and the King takes hence occasion to empty their purses imploying Geofrey Templar Mat Paris one of his Minions in the Collection About this time also they are reported to have done over that at Norwich again which they did some 4. years before circumcising another childe whom they called Jurnin who is also destined by them to the Cross But the just God turned the mischief upon their own heads the childe being in time discovered whilest his father heard him crying in the Jews house William de Raele the Bishop with other of the Nobility being inraged for the fact apprehend all that live in the Town The Jews pretending the Kings protection the Bishop answers It belongs not to the King but to the Church to Judge this matter of Circumcision wherefore four of them being drawn at horses tails to the place of execution Krantzius 〈…〉 receive their reward At Prague also they are said this year to have crucified a Christian And that which shewed their faithfulness sufficiently and procured them hatred not in the least degree Holin●s h. 〈…〉 and Fox Acts and Wo●●n was that in the year 1253. at Northampton they combined together and that for the destruction of that City which first harboured them preparing to set even the City of London on fire This could not but enrage much yet having entred such courses as rendred them more then odious they are resolved to go on though to their own destruction But what they intended to do to the City they suffer themselves for many of them being taken in the same Town where they hatcht their design are themselves reduced to ashes in the time of Lent And this year also were they expelled out of France Matth. Westm by command of King Philip who then warred in their ancient Countrey Matth. Paris The Saracens there expostulating with him for his violence offered to themselves who never injured Christ upbraid him with the fostering them in his realm who were his murderers The cause was religion and he thought all things reflecting upon it were to be removed to stop therefore the Saracens mouths this people must quit their habitations King Henry was now about this time beyond the Seas making a visit to his French Dominions Matth. Paris and there wanting money sends over his brother Richard to procure it The Nobility for the most part plainly deny to help him with any but as for the Jews they are a sure refuge they are fleeced at all hands and they might thank their purses that here they lived Not long after returning home and having spent an incredible sum of money in his journey and thereby contracted a great debt being put off by his Barons he betakes himself again to his never failing treasury he squeezes the Jews again and yet having pressed out almost both blood and moisture turns them over unto his brother He pittying their condition little molests them but upon pawns supplies the King with a great sum of money But what shall we say to a people that is given up to a reprobate minde and commits iniquity with greediness whom neither fear of God of the Laws love unto mankinde nor the dictates of humanity can bridle and restrain whose blindness is such whose stubborness is so great that no experience can remedy no affliction can lessen They are not yet satisfied with Christian blood they will rather venture all then not vent their malice against Christian profession They have another annual Tragedy to act and Lincoln for this year must be the Stage There in that City in the year 1255. they get a child into their hands of eighteen years of age whom after many cruel whippings scourgings and tortures they again crucifie and murder Marth Paris Hollinsh alii In derision of Christ a Pilate is made before whom he is brought accused and condemned suffering their malice in the same manner as our Savior had done before they imitating as near as they can their ancestors in this their horrid and abominable act Being dead the childe is thrown into a well near the house where this butchery was committed The poor woman missing her son and inquiring after him finds he was seen playing last before that door with the Jews children and hence upon suspition the well is searched and the body found The man of the house being apprehended and examined by John Lexinton upon promise of pardon confesses the murder acknowledges it to be their custom every year to crucifie a child but very secretly and therefore not easie to be discovered The King would not suffer the man to live but presently commands his execution when coming to die he accuses most of the Jews in England as accessory to the Fact it being their custom upon notice given most of them to meet upon such a wicked occasion In Sovember an hundred two were carried up to the King being ●hen at Westminster thence were commanded to the Tower of these afterwards 18. were hanged the rest remain'd long time in prison The body of the child whose name was Hugh was honorably

time to desolation being consumed with fire together with its ornament the Temple some few pillars only left to posterity to testifie the stateliness of what had been Of the remnant of this people ●dem ibid. few were left behinde in their own Countrey eleven hundred thousand perished in the Siege and ninety seven thousand were taken Captives they being scattered abroad in divers Countreys yet especially abounded in Egypt Cyrene and Cyprus where after some fifty years continuance they begin to commit outrages in an unheard of manner Dion lib. ● 8. here 200000. there 250000 are butchered by them they eat their flesh besmear themselves with their blood wear their skins saw them asunder cast them to beasts make them kill one another The Emperor Trajan wondering and scarce believing such horrid treachery prosecutes them as so many Monsters and enemies of mankinde an infinite number are offered up as a parentation Yet still they cannot rest Dion lib. 69. In his Successor Adrians days they must up again and try their fortune That Prince had built a new City where their Jerusalem stood and called it after himself Aelia setting up a Sow over the gates thereof in opposition to them giving free liberty to all Nations for the exercise of their Religion such injuries offered to their Superstition as they cannot digest whilst he remains amongst them they murmure being gone break out into open rebellion joyn battel with one of the most expert Captains in his time Julius Severus which brings a bloody victory to the adversary and a fearful slaughter to themselves Those that remained Joan. Va●aeus Chron. Hisp Anno 137. Adrian transports into Spain his own Countrey and thence or from elsewhere we have nothing considerable of them until the decay of the Roman Empire Papirius Nissenus lib. 1. At last it comes to that pass that Christians selling Church-livings for money the Jews buy Christians for their slaves which being taken notice of by Gregory the great and Heraclius the Emperor proving their enemy the Kings of France and Spain are stirred up by him to their conversion or extirpation Ammonis lib 4. Hist Hisp Under Theodebert and Theodorick Kings of France they enjoyed the most serene times but Dagobert joyns with Sesebodus of Spain to their undoing Yea so odious afterwards became they to Christians Petrus Cluniacensis that some perswading Christian Princes to the recovery of the Holy Land out of the hands of their brethren the Saracens their goods are presently pointed at as most fit to pay the Souldiers wages Rodulphus vilis Papirius Messonus in Lud. 7. yea some flew so high to pronounce the only way to obtain their ancient Countrey from the Infidels was to take away their lives here as fighting more against the Cause by their superstition and cruelties which being suffered made God displeased then the other by their swords and military Engines A stop was given to this heady and rash sentence by the interposition of St. Bernard and others But as if such mischief nothing concerned them some of them seated about Orleance in the year one thousand Papirius Messonus ex Glabo sent an Ambassage to the Prince of Babylon stirring him up against the Christians The Ambassador suspected and examined the truth is discovered they are thence run upon and destroyed as Monsters of men by the People Not long after they arrive here in this Island Stow Holinsh Baker say they were first of al admitted by him if there were any before here in the Land they were but very sew about the year 1070. first of all admitted by William the Conqueror being brought from Roan by him Their good welcom in other parts was no cause of their defire to see this Country He had made room enough for them by that havock he had made of the English Nation little good will bare he to it and this was never taken by it as a sign of his contrary disposition He and all his Successors intended to use them to their own advantage dealing with them as spunges suffered them to suck up the English treasure which they then squeeze out into their own Coffers For in his fourth yeer Roger de Heveden 〈◊〉 Hen. 2. Wil●elmus rex 4. anno regni sui c. holding a Council of his Barons he summons up 12. out of each County commands them to shew their Laws and Customs and agree upon that which afterwards was held authentick Here it is provided that the Jews setled in the Kingdom as the title runs should be under the Kings protection that they should not subject themselves to any other without his leave it is declared that they and all theirs are the Kings and if any should detain any of their goods he might challenge it as his own Being here thus brought in and settled they lose no time by their great extortion they fill their purses for the treasury and the English treasure up prejudice and heart-burnings against them both which will be shewed in the sequel of our story when mixing the blood of innocents with their sacrifices they made so great impression on the Englishmens hearts as scarce ever will be worn out with the strength of time and then never could be satisfied but with their expulsion Indeed in the days of K. William the second little of transaction occurs in reference to them but what was caused by his own means That Kings Scepticism in Religion Baker Will. 〈◊〉 in Will 2. or rather profaneness did but increase the fury of their Superstition Being at Roan in Normandy he takes upon him for a reward to reduce one who was turned Christian to his former ways again but being not able to perform his promise and put to a stand by his young adversary he bids him be gone out of his presence but keeps half of the money to himself And here at London he makes a disputation be held betwixt the Christians and them The Bishops assemble the King is present promises to pass into the Jews cause if clearly conquerors They are said to have carried away nothing but confusion but this came of it that afterwards they became more confident stiffly affirming themselves not to have been overpowerd with reason but faction The insolency of their carriage in this business wrought grudges in Christians which Will. Malm. joyned with the natural enmity to them as Jews might have done more if the joy conceived for the Kings stability and their own victory had not something allayed the matter and as yet scarce knowing one another there wanted experience of the Jews conditions which time produced when growing secure through peace and plenty they easily betrayed themselves Throughout the reign of Henry the first we hear nothing of them As yet they were not so fully setled coming over removing from place to place providing themselves ways of livelyhood and were so active as though they were not many at the