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A56206	A short demurrer to the Jewes long discontinued barred 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 and records. With a brief collection of such English laws, Scriptures, reasons 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 P4079; ESTC R205682	263,888	373

the Iews who desired to turn Christians should remain for 8 moneths space amongst the Catechimeni for trial of the sincerity of their conversion before they were baptized upon this ground because they frequently returned to their infidelity vomit again Judaei qui eorum perfidia FREQUENTER ad vomitum reddit Which Alexander Alensis summa Theolog pars 2. qu. 161. approves 7ly If any private Iews out of meer conscience or sincere desires of being converted to the Christian faith shall upon that account alone desire admission into England to be instructed by our English Divines I suppose no English Christians will oppose but further their desires herein and contribute both their prayers and best endeavors for their conversion and if ther be cause admit them also into our Churches Communion upon real testimonies of the truth of conversion in and work of grace upon them which is as much as they can desire at our hands But to admit whole multitudes and Colonies of infidel Iews at once into our Nation who neither desire nor pretend conversion to Christianity but the quite contrary together with the free use of their Iewish Synagogues Rites Ceremonies which they strongly insist upon to establish their Judaism make way for their long expected Messia his comming increase their wealth and traffique and enable them to recover their ancient Country and Kingdome again the only things they now aim at as Menasseh Ben Israels printed addresses proclaims to all the World is such an Impious Unchristian Antichristia● dangerous president glossed over only with a possibility of their future conversion as no sincere English Christians can approve of nor the Iews themselves desire For as the Iews by Gods own Laws and their own Iewish Rabbies precepts neither might nor yet would permit any Heathen Gentiles heretofore to dwell among them nor to set up any Altars Images Idols Groves or exercise any Idolatrous worship amongst them or to blaspheme reproach their God or Religion under pain of death if they transgressed therein There being the self same Law of God in these things both to Gentiles Iews And like as they afterwards would not permit the Apostles and Christians in Ierusalem or any other Cities for to preach the Gospel and exercise the Christian Religion freely but raised up present tumults against and persecuted and cast them out thence as 1 Thes 2.14 15 17. the whole History of the Acts and premises abundantly testifie So by the very self same justice and equity they can neither now demand nor expect that we or any Christian Realm or State should tollerate or connive at much lesse openly countenance and protect them in the publick or private exercise of their Iudaisme or Iewish Rites and Blaspemies against our crucified Saviour and his Gospel All then that English Christians can do for them is to desire and pray for the conversion of all Gods elect amongst them in his due time by such means as he shall think meetest and to instruct them in the faith by learned Ministers sent to them if they desire it but not to admit them and perchance many disguised Iesuits Papists and Friars with them promiscuously into our Nation to undermine our Church and Religion and undo many thousand Souls it being our duty as to give no just offence to the Iew so neither to the Gentiles nor to the Church of God whom their admission amongst us especially upon Manasseth Ben-Israels motives and addresses tending nothing at all to Piety or their converversion but worldly gains and obstinate perseverance in their Jewish Antichristian Rites and Superstitions will most justly offend Lastly those Popes Popish Princes who have hertofore admitted any Iews to cohabit amongst them have done it under these several cautions and limitations prescribed to them by their Laws Councils Canons Decrees Divines and Canonists 1. That they should build no new Synagogues nor repair any old o●es qu●te demolished 2. Th●t where there were old Synagogues formerly used by them standing they should only repair but not enlarge or build them higher than before nor extraordinarily adorn them 3. That they should not stir out of their doors on good Friday nor open their doors windows shops or do any servile work on the Lords days or other solemn Christian Festivals 4. That they shall utter no blasphemous words speeches against God Christ Christians or Christian Religion nor manifest their open contempt of them by gestures or actions under pain of pecuniary corporal and capital punishments according to the quality of the offence Yea King Eringius Leges Wisigothorum l. 2. Tit. 3. c. 3.4.7 and 12. Council of Toledo c. 9. prohibited the Jews the use of circumcision the observation of their Jewish Passeovers Sabbaths differences of meats and other Jewish Rites under pain of whipping confiscation of goods losse of Noses Genitals Banishment 5. That they shall be admitted to no degress of learning honour dignity office or preferment whatsoever in state or Church because it is most absurd and unjust that any blasphemer of Christ should exercise any power or authority over Christians in any Christian State 6. That * they should neither eat nor drink nor have any dayly familiarity or communion with Christians nor entertain any Christian man or woman in or out of their houses either as a Servant or Nurse to their Children or otherwise nor yet administer physick to any Christian in his sicknesse lest any simple Christians should be seduced by them to Judaisme by these means 7. That all Iews both males and females should always wear a specicial badge or sign in all places upon their outward Garments or heads whereby they might be distinguished from C●ristians and known by all men to be Iews to avoid commixtion and communion between them and Christians which otherwise would happen 8. That they should be disabled to bear witnesse or give in any legal testimony against Christians or to purchase any advowson or Ecclesiastical preferment or to bequeath any legacy to the Nation or Corporation of the Iews or to exercise usury amongst them 9. That they should be subject both to the Ecclesiastical Temporal Courts and Iudges for all offences properly punishable by them which they should commit 10. That they should pay all predial and personal Tithes to the Christian Ministers where they lived 11. That though they should not be compelled to be baptized or turn Christians against their will yet they should at certain times be all constrained to come to the Sermons of such Christian Priests and Ministers as were appointed to instruct them in the Christian faith and to preach unto them to convert them 12. That their Servants and Children being Iews when once baptized and turned Christians should no more cohabit with nor be under their power 13. That upon their conversion to Christianity all their goods and mony gotten by usury and cheating should be distributed to pious uses and the rest only retained for their

in the Jews amongst us for the Lawyers had 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 sudden 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 〈◊〉 ●ere 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 inserted by Hoveden and Spelman amongst Edward the Confessors here cited p. 3. 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 punier 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 omits 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 APOSTASLE 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

held in Lent the young men and Souldiers who had taken upon them the sign of the Crosse and were then ready to go to Ierusalem with the King assembling together there out of divers counties disdaining that the Jews being the enemies of the crosse of Christ possessed such great store of goods and wealth when as they had not sufficient to defray the necessary expences of so great a journey and imagining that they should do God good service if they assaulted these his enemies boldly rushed upon them no man opposing himself against so great attempts whereupon divers of the Jews were slain and the rest being received into the castle hardly escaped with their lives their goods being all plundered and the plunderers departing freely away with their booty none of them being so much as questioned or punished by the Kings discipline The citizens of Lincoln hearing what was done to the Jews of Stanford taking occasion and being animated by the examples of others were willing to do something against them and being assembled together against the Jews inhabiting together with them became inraged against them But these Jews being made more wary by the slaughters and damages of others some few of them suffering harm and damages the rest fled timely with their monies into the Royal Fort and there secured themselves In all other places wheresoever the Jews were found they were pillaged and slain by the hands of the Pilgrims who hastning through England towards Ierusalem decreed to rise up first against the Jews before they invaded the Saracens Hereupon all the Jews who were found in their own houses at Norwich were slain on the 8 of February some few of them only escaping to the Castle At the same time the Nobles and Gentry of Yorkeshire nothing fearing the Kings Proclamation the wicked Jews having by Usury reduced them to extreme poverty joyning with them some holy foldiers brake up the Houses of the chief Jews equal to the Kings Palace slew their families spoild their Goods burnt their houses in the night then retired themselves to their homes in the dark After which the promiscuous multitude making an assault upon the Jews slew them without distinction of sex or age except some few who would give up their names to Christ in baptism to save their lives On the 18 day of April being Palm-Sunday the rest of the Jews in the City of Yorke being 500 men and women besides their children fearing the violence of the Christians shut up themselves within the castle of Yorke by the will and consent of the Guardian thereof and of the Sheriff who being thus received into the castle for their defence by the Guardian and Sheriff would not afterwards deliver it up unto them again Whereupon the Sheriff and keeper of the castle being much offended with them assembled the souldiers of the county and men of the city that they might free the castle from those Jews exhorting them to do their utmost endeavors to effect it who when they had assaulted the castle day and night the Jews offered a great summ of money to save their lives but all in vain the people being so incensed against them that they would not accept it whereupon a certain Iew skillfull in their Law stood up and said Men of Israel hearken to my counsel It is better for us to die for our Law then to fall into the hands of the enemies of our Law and our very Law commands the same thing Upon which all the Jews as well women as men consented to his counsel and every Father of a family going with a sharp razor first of all cut the throats of his own wife and children and then of his family casting the dead corps of those whom they had thus sacrificed to Devils over the castle walls upon the Christian people After which burning their rich cloathes and casting their golden Vessels and Jewels into Privies that the Christians might not be inriched by them these murderers shutting up themselves and the rest they had killed in the Kings house set it on fire and so burnt both themselves and it After which the Citizens of Yorke and the souldiers of the county burning all the Jews houses together spoiled their goods seized their possessions to themselves and burn'd all the charters of their debts The King being informed hereof and much incensed both for the contempt of his Royal proclamation and Authority and dammage to his Exchequer to which all the Goods and Debts of the Iews being Usurers belonged commanded his Chancellor to inflict due punishment upon the authors of this Sedition Whereupon after Easter the Bishop of Ely the Kings Chancellor gathering a great Army together came to Yorke to apprehend those as malefactors who had destroyed the Jews of the city And understanding that this was done by the command of the Sheriff and Governour of the castle he put them both from their Offices and took sureties from the Citizens of the City for to keep the Peace of the King and kingdom and to stand to the Law in the Kings court concerning the death of the Jews and commanded the Souldiers of the County who were at the destruction of the Jews to be apprehended but the chief of them flying into Scotland escaped not one of them all being put to death for this great Massacre and Riot Henry de Knyghton De Eventibus Angliae l. 2. c. 13. gives this censure of these slaughters popular tumults against the Jews The Zeal of the Christians conspired against the Jews in England but in truth not sincerely that is for the cause of faith but either out of emulation and envy because of their felicity or out of gaping after their goods The Justice truly of God not at all approving such things but decently ordering them that by this means he might punish the insolency of a perfidious Nation He likewise addes that one Iohn a most bold Christian flying from Stanford with many spoyls of the Jews to Northampton was there secretly slain by his Host to get his money and thrown without the city in the night the murderer flying thereupon After which through the dreams of old women and fallacious signs the simple people attributing to him the merits of a martyr honoured his Sepulchre with solemn vigils and gifts This was derided by wise men yet it was acceptable to the Clerks there living by reason of the gains Which the Bishop hearing of presently unsaincted him and prophaned the Monuments of this false martyr continued by the study of simple and covetous persons I wish no such plunderers as this might be saincted and adored in our age as too many of them are even before their deaths who will be un-saincted after them as well as this bold plunderer of the Jews Mr. Fox in his Acts and Monuments Vol. 1. p. 305. relating the story of the massacres of the Jews this year out of the Chronicle of Westminster saith That there were no less than

proper use and livelyhood 14 That if any of them after their baptisme apostatized and turned Iewes again or fell into Heresie they should be proceeded against and burned executed as Apostates and Hereticks 15. That no Christians should communicate with them in any kind except in buying and selling nor cohabit with serve them as a Nurse or Servant under pain of excommunication Yet notwithstanding all these restrictions and cautions we read of few Iews really converted by them and that the Iews have perverted and seduced sundry Christians to Iudaisme and made them professed Iews perswaded other Christians to observe Mosaical ceremonies besides Baptism whereby they made a confused Chaos of Religion yea they corrupted Michael Balbus the Emperor so far that he commanded Christians to fast on their Sabbath and made him as it were a sink of Sects as Zonaras and others record And Frederic Isabella banished them out of Spain upon this ground that they induced many of the Nobles in Andaluzia to become Jews as Manasseh Ben-Israel himself acknowledged p. 15.25 Yea Sedechias the Iewish Physician poysoned the Emperor Charles the Bald his body as well as others in that age and after poysoned other Christians souls What mischiefs then they may doe to mens bodies in England by poysoning of them as they did the English Barons heretofore and Dr. Lopez a Iew bribed by the Spaniard would have poysoned Queen Elizabeth of late whom he professed he loved as well as he did Iesus Christ himself and what desperate venom they may infuse into their souls by their Iewish Doctrines Synagogues and Antichristian Ceremonies if admitted without such or upon these restrictions or any other let all prudent Christians resolve Since Pope Innocent the 3. himself and Cardinal Hostiensis with other Popish Canonists who have tolerated them give us this account of their requital for it in positive terms Iudaei ingrati pro gratia reddunt contumeliam pro familiaritate contemptum impendentes nobis illam retributionem quam juxta vulgare proverbium MVS IN PERA SERPENS IN GREMIO IGNIS IN SINV suis consueverunt Hospitibus exhihere Nam sunt quidam quod nefandum est dicere Nutrices Christianas habentes non permittunt lactare filios cum corpus Christi sumpserunt nisi prius per triduum lac effuderint in latrinam quasi intelligunt quod corpus Christi incorporetur ad secessum descendat alia inaudita committunt detest●bilia quae a fidelibus sunt minime toleranda ne si haec n●gligunt quae inducunt confusionem fidei INDIGNATIONEM DIVINAM INCVRRANT As therefore Oldradus de Ponte Abbbot Panormitan Antonius Corsetus and other Popish Canonists conclude positively That Christians and Christian Kings may lawfully expel and banish all Iews and Infidels out of their Realms though peaceable for their Infidelity and other just causes So may all English Protestants likewise upon the premised reasons conclude we may as justly as lawfully now keep them from re-entring into England notwithstanding the pretence of their conversion to the Faith which I hope I have satisfactorily answered The 2. Allegation for bringing in the Iews is meerly politick That it will bring in much present and future gain and mony to the State and advance trading This is the Argument Menassah Ben-Israel most insists on p. 1. to 11.3 How profitable the Iews are adding That profit is a most powerfull motive and which all the world prefers before all other things And therefore writes he we shall handle that point first Though he handles it so that every eye may see he aims more at his own Nations profit benefit advance than ours I answer 1. That if this argument overpoysed not the scales that of conscience the hopes of their conversion would be lighter than the dust of the ballance and sticke with no man their mony being the only engin which hath opened the gate and passage for them into any Christian Kingdoms at first and made new entrance for them when they have been expelled as Concilium Toletanum 4. c. 57. and others inform us This opened their first passage into England Spain Portugal and Philip Augustus who banished them out of France An. 1182. Postea verò quum propter bella inopia laboraret pecuniae accepta grandi à Iudaeis pecunia redditum eis concessit domicilium Parisiis as Munster and others inform us And this kept them so long in England heretofore till their very banishment A sign we love their money better than their souls or our own 2ly This argument for their readmission is but wordly carnal sensual the very same with that of Hamer to the Shechemites when he would perswade them to be circumcised and turn Iews Gen. 23.25 shall not their cattle and their substance and every beast of theirs be ours only let us consent unto them and they will dwell with us An argument only fit for such whom the Apostle characterizeth Phil. 3.18 19. For many walk of whom I have told you often and now tell you weeping that they are the enemies of the Crosse of Christ whose end is destruction whose God is their belly and whose glory is in their shame who mind earthly things Or for such Princes or Governours as God of old complained thus of Her Princes in the midst thereof are like Wolves ravening the prey and to shed blood and TO DESTROY SOULS TO GET DISHONEST GAIN It proceeds from such whose eyes and hearts are not but for their Covetousnes who all seek their own not the things that are Iesus Christs And if the root of it be covetousnesse which is Idolatry which Christ commands all to take heed and beware of and is not so much as to be named much lesse practised amongst Christians whose conversation ought to be without covetousnesse and they to rest contented with those things they have Because They that will be rich fall into temptations and a snare and into many foolish and noysom lusts which drown men in perdition and destruction For the Love of mony is the root of all evill which whiles some coveted after they have been sedu●ed or erred from the faith as thousands of late years have been and pierced themselvs through with many sorrows Therfore 't is not so much as once to be named or insisted on amongst us unlesse we will renounce our Christianity make great gain our only godlinesse instead of making Godlinesse with contentment our great gain betray and sell our Saviour Christ again to the Iews like Iudas for thirty peeces of silver without repenting and making restitution of it to the Iews as he did and most blasphemously transferre our very Saviours most blessed Deity and stamp his most sweet and highest Title GOD WITH US upon a contemptible piece of white and yellow shining clay as some have lately done on all our New State coyn as if it were