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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

had pardoned and the Bond to be taken out of the Chest by this Writ Rex Justic ad custod Iudeorum assign Cum nullus Iudeus debeat plac de Cirograf in Archa Iudeorum inventa et catal Abr. de Berchanster quae capta fuerunt in manum nostram ex toto credebamus ad opus nostrum retinere quorū residuū ad petitionem R. Com. Cornub. eidem remissimus licet alias dederimus vobis in mandatis quod inquiraretis per sacr legal hominum qualem summam pecuniae Galfr. Mansell de dicto Abr. recepit et dict G. de usuris forte solum quietum remaneret Volumus tamen cum dictus Iudeus residuum catallorum suorum recuperaverit quod dict G. distringi faciatis ad plenam solutionem totius residui dicto Iudeo faciend secundum formam Cyrogr. sui Et ideo vobis mandamus quod sic fieri et irro●ulari fac Ita quod dictus Iudeus totam summam in parte sua Cyrogr. contentam cum debito integre possit recuperare Et licet Cyrogr. alias per preceptum nostrum ab Archa sit extract hoc facere non omittatis T. apud Harding 25. die August The Jews in that age could not without the Kings special license remove themselves or goods from one City to another and acquainting the Justices assigned for the Jews of his royal pleasure therein and were enforced to give security for one another to pay their Taxes to the King as this record of 36 H. 3. will evidence Rex concessit Iacobo filio Boneufaunt Judeo quod libere recedat a Villa Gloucestriae et moram facere in civitate London Et quia idem Judeus fecit regi securitatem per Iacobum le Eveske Iudeorum de tallagio suo ad quod tallietur ad festum sancti Martini regi reddendo Mandatum est Vicecom Glouc. quod ad ipsum aut ad familiam suam aut catalla sua manum non apponat sed ipsum cum omnibus praedictis a Vil●a Gloucestriae libere recedere permittat Te●te Rege apud Woodstoke 19 die Augusti per ipsum regem Et mandatum est Ius●iciariis ad cus●odiam Judeorum assignatis quod ipsum inter Iudeos regis in ci●itate praedicta manere permittant Te●●e ut ●upra Mandatum est ei●dem quod faciant habere Iacobo le Eveske Iudeo residentiam in Scaccario Judeorum in servicio regis et quod ad ipsum per●inet secundum legem Scaccarii regis sicut et predecessores ●ui c●erici regis ibidem habere consueverunt Teste ut supra per R. Waker The Iews could not then reside nor enjoy any office in the Iews Exchequer without the Kings special grant and license Neither could they sue for any debt especially upon an Obligation out of their common Chest without the Kings expresse license and grant Witnesse the president in the selfsame Roll and others forecited King Henry in the 36 of his reign granted by Patent to Aaron of York Elye le Eveske de London and Solomon le Eveske that for 4 years next ensuing they should not be taxed above set summes a year there mentioned to be paid half yearly by them into the Exchequer and that their set sums should be allowed in the original taxes assessed upon the commonalty of the Jews and be ab●ted proportionably as their tax was abated Yea he granted this exemption to Aaron his Wife children not to be distrained and imprisoned for their debts or taxes ●o long as he had goods to satisfie them and to sue for goods and debts though out of the chest Rex omnibus salutem Sciatis quod concessimus Aaron de Ebor. Iudeo nostro quod neci●se nec uxor ejus nec eorum pueri dist●ingantur per corpora sua nec imprisonentur quamdiu catal a sua sufficiant ad districtionem faciend pro debitis nostris In cujus c. duratur per bieunium T.R. apud VVestm 15 die Marcii Et mand●t est Iustic ad custodiam Iudaeorum assign quod sic fieri et irrotulari faciant T. ut supra per Regem Rex omnibus c. Sciatis quod concessimus Aaron de Ebor. Iudeo nostro quod possit placitare coram Iustic nostris ad cust Iud. assign pro catallis et debitis suis recuperandis et ea petere sine occasione usque ad summam 400 lib. sine recept●one Usurae licet catalla illa et debita fuerunt extra Archam C●rogr In cujus c. T. ut supra The like License to sue for Debts and Chattels out of the Chest to ●uch a summe sine receptione Usurae I ●inde granted this year to Copin a London Jew to other Jews the same year with a writ to deliver a Jew out of prison committed upon a false complaint and this pardon of two Jews wives for flying to avoid imprisonment for their husbands taxes Rex pardonavit Floriae uxori Elye Blundi et Pigonae uxori Aaron Blundi Wayn●tiam quam meis Justiciariis promulgarunt pro fuga quam fecerunt pro Tallio super praedict Elye et Aaron assesso et mandat est praedict Justic quod praedict Floria et Pygona propter hoc non occasionentur T. R. apud Windsore 12 die Feb. Per ipsum Regem There was likewise this year a precept to the Iustices to give a Jews wife her full and reasonable dower of her husbands chattels Mandatum est Iusticiariis ad custod c. quod si Rosa quae suit uxor Leonis Epi Iudei Ebor. nondum plenè habuit Dotem suam de catallis quae fuerunt ejusdem Leonis tunc eidem Iudeae plenam et rationabilem dotem suam habere faciant secundum legem et consuetudinem Judaismi Regis T. R. Per ipsum Regem This year the King assigned certain Jews of London to tax the rest of the Jews upon a common tax then imposed on them in this manner Rex assignavit Eliam Epis et Aaron fil Abrah Iudeos London ad assidend Tallagium super Communitate Iudeorum nostrorum London ita videlicet quod communitas illa eligat ipsis tercium idoneum ad Tallagium illud una cum dictis Eli Aaron assidend Et mandat est Constabul Turris London quod ipsum tercium sic electum eis faciat associari firmiter in●ungendo eis quod taliter ipsi provideant de Tallagio illo assidendo quod Rex illud terminis Statutis habeat et quod pro defectu eorum non oporteat regi graviter se capere ad Talliatores praedictos Teste per Philip Luvel It seems this tax then assessed amounted to 3500 marks by this ensuing record that year Rex Iustic ad custod Jud c. Sciatis quod Manuel Blund Judeus obtulit nobis dimid marc auri ut de Tallagio 3 mill marc et 500 marc talliaretur secundum catalla sua sicut ceteri Iudei de Communitate London talliantur

which agrees with that in Holinshed he being thrust out and meeting his Father standing before the door expecting the event being animated against him said O Son of death and fewel of eternal perdition is not thine own damnation sufficient for thee unless thou also cast me headlong into it together with thee But God forbid that I to whom Christ is now revealed should ever acknowledge thee henceforth for a Father because the devil is thy father I have omitted in this second enlarged Edition of my Demurrer no passage to my knowledge in any of our Historians relating to our former English Iews reciting them all in a Chronological Order in the Historians own words quoted in the Margin only I finde sundry Records concerning them which I shall supply by a subsequent Appendix by themselves to gratifie those who bought the first Edition whom their insertion into this might have injur'd Herein I have only briefly touched not handled the great Question of the general calling conversion of the Iewish Nation to the Faith of Christ towards the end of the world for which I cannot finde any satisfactory grounds in Scripture That Text of Levit. 26.41 to 46. on which some build their general call having these two clauses in it that seem strongly to oppose or make it very dubious v. 41. IF THEN their uncircumcised heart be humbled and that they accept of the punishment of their iniquity c. v. 46. I will not cast them away neither will I abhor them to DESTROY THEM UTTERLY And that other Text of Rom. 11. whereon others most rely having this conditional passage express clauses against it v. 23. And they also IF they abide not still in unbelief shall be grafted in for God is able he saith not resolved to graffe them in again And v. 3 to 8. I have reserved to my self 7000 men c. Even so then at this present time there is a Remnant according to the election of grace c. But the Election hath obtained it and the rest were hardned or blinded Which compared with Rom. 9.27 29. Isaiah also saith concerning Israel Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the Sea yet a REMNANT of them only shall be saved Except the Lord of Hosts had left unto us A SEED A VERY SMALL REMNANT so Isaiah calls it we had been as Sodom c. will necessarily evince that Rom. 11.26 And so all Israel shall be saved c. on which they ground this general call must be intended onely of all this small elect remnant of the Israel of God and seed of Abraham according to the faith not flesh Rom. 4 11 12 13 14 15 16. Gal. 3.7 8 9 14 16. Ga. 6.16 of all such who are Jews inwardly and have the Circumcision of the heart Rom 2.28 29. not of the whole Jewish Nation whose servants I fear we●e as few under the Gospel as the Gentiles Converts and Proselytes under the Law And those who will strain that Text further must necessarily aver not only an Universal Calling but likewise Salvation and taking away the ungodliness and sins of the whole Nation then by Christ of which that Text only speaks not only contrary to these forecited Scriptures and Gods dealing with all other Churches Nations but to Jer. 3.14 I will take you one of a City and two of a Tribe and I will bring you to Sion Mat. 21.16 Many are called but few chosen few saved Mat. 7.14 Luke 13.23 Therefore for any to call in the Jews among us upon this surmise of their general approaching Conversion is a strange Solecism both in State-Policy and Christianity especially in this age wherein that Speech of Waltramus Bishop of Naumburge is most truely verified Diabolus videns Idola derelicta per nimium credentium populum sedes suas ac templa deserta excog●itavit novam fraudem ut sub ipso Christiani nominis titulo fallat incautos haeresesque invenit schismata quibus subverteret fidem corrumperet veritatem Exinde divisa est Ecclesia divisa sunt Ecclesiae Sacerdotia atque omnia scandalorum orta sunt genera Exinde crevit grave diuturrum bellum non solum civile bellum sed plusquam civile bellum factae sunt absque divino pariter humano respectu vastationes Ecclesiarum caedes hominum Exinde etiam corruptae sunt divinae pariter humanae leges sine quibus non subsistit vel Dei Ecclesia vel Imperii Respublica ex inde violata est fides publica Catholica exinde etiam illa crevit injustitia ut pro veritate falsa testimonia pro fide Catholica abundent perjuria ut post quam Leges bello silvere coactae impleaturiam ista Domini sententia per Osee Prophetam Non est veritas non est misericordia non scientia Dei in terra maledictum mendacium homicidium furtum adulterium inundaverunt sanguis sanguinem tetigit Ipse Diabolus videtur nunc de carcere suo solutus esse Hinc publicae civium contra Cives congressiones aliis pro pastoribus legitimis aliis vero contra pastores dimicantes as he and Gerhobus Richerspergensis writ of Pope Hildebrands dayes If any man chance to censure me as overharsh or earnest in my expressions against the Jews I hope that speech of their royal Prophet a man after Gods own heart Ps 139.20 21 22. Do not I hate them O Lord that hate thee and am I not grieved with those that rise up against thee I hate them with a perfect hatred I count them mine enemies for they speak against thee wickedly depart from me therefore ye bloody men will apologize for me especially seeing their Proposals are Not only to be admitted and received into our Commonwealth under the protection and safeguard of our Governours AS THE NATIVES THEMSELVES and that all the Heads and Generals of Arms may take an Oath to defend them upon all occasions that they may be permitted to traffick freely in all sorts of Merchandize as others but to be judged by their Judges in differences between themselves according to the Mosaick Law And to be allowed PUBLICK SYNAGOGUES not onely in ENGLAND but also IN ALL OTHER PLACES under our power and TO OBSERVE IN ALL THINGS THEIR RELIGION AS THEY OUGHT That in case there have been any Laws against their Jewish Nation they may IN THE FIRST PLACE and BEFORE ALL THINGS BE REVOKED A clear evidence of an intended design in them only to set up their Synagogues of Satan Judaism Jewish Ceremonies in the highest degree amongst us as lawful in direct opposition and subversion of our only Lord Saviour Redeemer Mediator Jesus Christ his Person Offices Kingdom Gospel and Christianity it self without any thoughts of turning Christians themselves As Manasseh Ben Israel his printed Addresses most fully discovers In which case

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

manners they crucified him and pierced him with a spear to the heart And when the child had given up the ghost they took down his body from the cross and took the bowels out of his corps for what end is unknown but it was said it was to exercise Magical arts The mother of the child diligently sought for her absent son for some days and it was told her by neighbors that the last time they saw her child whom she sought he was playing with the children of the Jews of his age and entred into the house of a certain Jew Whereupon the woman suddenly entred that house and saw the body of the child cast into a certain pit And having warily called the Bayliffs of the City together the body was found and drawn forth and there was made a wonderful spectacle among the people But the woman mother of the child complaining and crying out provoked all the Citizens there assembled together to tears and sighs There was then present at the place Iohn de Lexinton a circumspect and discreet man and moreover elegantly learned who said We have sometime heard that the Jews have not feared to attempt such things in reproach of Jesus Christ our crucified Lord. And one Jew being apprehended to wit he into whose house the child entred playing and therefore more suspected than the rest he saith unto him O wretch knowest thou not that speedy destruction abides thee All the gold of England will not suffice for thy deliverance or red●mption Notwithstanding I will tell thee although unworthy by what means thou maist preserve thy life and members that thou maist not be dismembred I will save both to thee if thou dost not fear to discover to me whatsoever things are done in this case without falshood Whereupon this Jew whose name was Copin believing he had thus found out a way of escape answered saying Sir Iohn if thou makest thy words good by thy deeds I will reveal wonderfull things to thee and the industry of Sir Iohn animating and exciting him therto the Jew said Those things are true which the Christians say The Jews almost every year crucify one child to the injury and contumely of Jesus but it is not found out every year for they do this secretly and in hidden and most secret places But this child whom they call Hugo our Iews have most unmercifully crucified and when he was dead and they desired to hide him being dead he could not be buried in the earth nor hid For the corps of the innocent was reputed unprofitable for Divination for he was unbowelled for that end And when in the morning it was thought to be buried the earth brought it forth and vomited it out and the body sometimes appeared inhuman whereupon the Iews abhorred it At last it was cast headlong into a deep pit neither as yet could it be kept secret For the importunate mother diligently searching all things at last shewed to the Bailiffs the body she had found But Sir Iohn notwithstanding this kept the Iew bound in chains When these things were known to the Canons of the Church of Lincoln they requested the body to be given to them which was granted And when it had been sufficently viewed by an infinite company of people it was honourably buried in the Church of Lincoln as the corps of a most precious martyr The Jews kept the child alive for 10 dayes that being fed for 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 premises he reprehended Sir Iohn 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 Iews of England consented to the death of this child whereof the Iews are accused and almost out of every City in England wherein the Iews 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 wickedness 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 eyes Afterwards by the Inquisition of the Kings Iustices it was discovered and found That the Iews of England by Common counsel 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 Gibbers 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 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 L●ncoln being reserved in the Prisons of London to be hanged Anno 1256 the year after their condemnation sent secret Messengers to the Friers Minors as their enemies affirm 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

the only God with them and us how christian-like let themselves determine 3ly God himself who saith Behold I have smitten mine hand at thy dishonest gain which thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbour by oppression other unlawfull means will certainly smite his hand at this gain by the Iews re-admission And therefore let us give that resolute answer to the Iewish Agents if they proffer to purchase an indenization amongst us by their gold as St. Peter once did to Simon Magus in another case Thy money perish with thee Thou hast neither part nor lot in this businesse for thy heart is not upright with God 4ly None ever gain'd by the Iews introduction or continuance in any Christian State but the King and some of his bribed Officers and that by oppressing squeezing fleecing taxing excoriating eviscerating crucifying pillaging plundering the poor Iews in such an unchristian inhuman illegal unrighteous manner against the express commands of God as made both Christians and Christianity most detestable to them brought a secret curse of God upon all those unrighteous gaines as also upon their very persons and Government witnesse King Iohn and Henry the 3d. and encouraged them to oppresse fleece and pillage their Native Subjects by illegal Taxes and Projects and to use them rather like Iews than Christians enforcing them thereby to take up arms against them for their Laws Liberties and Properties just defence as those Kings reigns and others sufficiently evidence 5ly The introduction of the Iews into England and other Nations never advanced the publike wealth of the Natives and Republike but much impaired it by their Vsuries and Deceits clipping and falsifying monies ingrossing all sorts of commodities into their hands usurping the Natives trades and becomming such intolerrable grievances to them that they were never quiet till they were banished as their greatest Annoyance and purchased their Exiles even with publick Subsidies granted to their Kings to be quit of them as the premises abundantly evidence 6ly The Trade of this Nation flourished more after their banishment hence then ever it did before and their introduction now will but supplant undoe our English Merchants and other Natives to enrich them and some few other Grandees who shall share with them in their spoils and unrighteous gains as they utterly supplanted impoverished ruined the City of Norlingen in Germany where they intruded themselves in great numbers by the Emperours priviledges whereupon the Citizens Anno Dom. 1290. being reduced to extreem poverty by them rose up in arms and slew a geeat number of them without destinction of age or sex for with the Citizens were put to so great fines by the Emperour Rodolfus and so oppressed by the Nobility and others obliged to the Jews by morgages and moneys lent them though the Jews instigation that the natives were inforced to leave both their Studies Trades aend the City it self reduced thereby to extreem penury for above 59 years space as Sebastian Mu●ster at large records which together with the premises sufficiently disproves Meuasseth Ben Israels Suggestion of the profit the Natives of England may receive by their readmission 7ly The taking off all long continued uncessant new illegal Taxes Excises Imposts imposed without common consent in Parliament on the Nation ingrossing anticipating most of the current Monies of the Land which are the nerves and wheels of Trade eating up all the Merchants Peoples gains and labors and overclogging all or most Commodities imported or exported The disbanding of all unnecessary mercenary Forces and Garri●ons who have devoured most of the publike and private wealth of our three Kingdoms and extraordinarily impoverished them only to enrich and advance themselves and setting up the old unmercinary Trained Bands and Legal Militia of the Realm in their steads The encouraging of Merchants to bring in gold and silver Bullion to set the Mint on work which hath lain for the most part idle near 15 years the suppressing of the superfluous making wearing use of gold and silver lace wyre gilding which consume many thousand pounds of current coyne every year The inhibiting of the excessive use of that late intoxicating smoke of Tobacco causing such a prodigal expence of money time and hindring more necessary usefull staple merchandizes and plantations The regulating of the gross abuses of Letters of Mart now little better than commissioned open pyracies occasioning the ruine of Trade and Merchandize by way of Reprisal The ordering according to Law Iustice Conscience that all prizes taken from any foraign Enemy or other who pillage or damage the English by the States Ships and men of War set out by the Merchants Customs Tonnage Poundage Imposts and therewith maintained for their defence shall be equally distributed to our English Merchants that are damnified or undone by them towards the reparation of their losses who maintain them to enable and encourage them in their trading especially when much impoverished or undone by their losses and not at all converted or rather perverted to the use of that some stile the Admiralty State or Mariners who take them at whose cost they are not maintained The binding of all Captains of all States men of war to make good all the English Merchants and their Allies losses susteined by their default or negligence The resuming of all the late alienated ancient Lands rents revenues of the Crown got into private hands which ought to defray the constant expence of the Government now extorted for the most part by arbitrary new devices out of the exhausted peoples purses The speedy preventing of the late unparalleld wasts in all places of English Timber fit for shipping of which there is like to be such scarcity ere long as will both destroy our Navy shipping Trade All these and every of them will far more advance the Trade and Traffique of the Nation and the publike wealth and give all the people far better content and satisfaction ten thousand fold then this New distastefull pernicious project of bringing in the Iews against which I shall only discharge this ancient Canon of the 4th Council of Toledo in Spain under their most religious King Sysenandus in the year of our Lord 681. which thus batters all ecclesiastical and temporal promoters of this allegation for filthy Lucres sake with this direfull thunderbolt recited and confirmed in consil Meldenses c. 58. Surius Tom. 3. p. 465. So great is certain mens lucre of money that some coveting after it according to the Apostles saying have erred from the faith For many hitherto of the Priests Laity receiving gifts from the Iews foster their perfidiousnesse or infidelity by their patronage who not undeservedly are known to be of the body of Antichrist because they act against Christ Therefore whatsoever Bishop or Clergy man or secular person shall from henceforth give his suffrage to them against the Christian faith Either For reward or favour being as prophane sacrilegious