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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

to have Church-yards without the Cities wherein they inhabited in convenient places where they could purchase them wherein to bury their dead which he then granted to them It seems the Jews were then so odious to the whole Nation that they would not permit them to bury their very dead corps in any English soyl for fear of polluting it nor near any Christians bodies without the Kings special License King Richard the first being to be crowned King at London in the year of our Lord 1189. the chiefest of the Jews flocked together from all parts to his Coronation resolving to purchase the favour of the New King with most ample gifts and to get their former priviledges confirmed which they feared they should lose But they being suspected of Sorcery and Magick the King by a publick Proclamation prohibited all Jews from entring the Church while she was crowning or his Palace whiles he was therein feasting Notwithstanding some of the principal Jews secretly got into the Church and Palace who being discovered one after another were well beaten and thrust out of the Church and Court by the Kings Officers and Christians Upon which the common people then flocking in greatmultitudes to the Kings Coronation fell upon the Jews standing in great multitudes at the Pallace gate first beating them with their fists and then taking up clubs and stones slew some of them and left the others half dead whereupon one of them called Benedict of Yorke being so beaten and wounded that he despaired of life and extraordinarily terrified with the fear of death received Baptism from William Prior of St. Maries of Yorke and thereby escaped the peril of death and hands of the persecutors In the mean while there was a great rumor spred throughout the City of London upon this occasion That the King desired and had commanded that all the Jews should be banished and destroyed Whereupon an infinite number of People as well out of the City as most Counties of England then coming to the Coronation inflamed with the desire of booty betaking themselves to their arms fell pell-mell upon the Jews and slew and pillaged them both in the streets and in their houses and those who defended themselves for a time in such strong houses which they could not enter were there soon after burnt and consumed together with their houses by the furious multitude who put fire to their houses and burnt down most of them Synagogae dat● dedec●ri and likewise defaced their Synagogues as Radulphus de Diceto records The King being informed hereof whiles he was feasting with his Nobles thereupon sent Ranulphus de Glanvd then chief Justice of the Realm a potent and prudent man together with other great Noblemen to perswade and restrain these bold people But all in vain for in so great a multitude none would hear their voices nor reverence their persons but rather murmuring against them exhorted them speedily to return whereupon they advisedly declining their unbridled rage the fury of these Plunderers ceased not till the next day Ac licet immensit as tantae rabiei si dissimulata est inulta transiret primordia regiae majestatis denigraret plurimum propter re●●um tamen infinitam multitudinem dissimulari oportuit quod vindicari non potuit writes Henry de Knyghton Yet the very next day the King sending his Officers throughout the City commanded some of the said malefactors to be apprehended and brought before him of which three were hanged by the judgement of his Court one because he had stollen the goods of a certain Christian and two because they had made a fire in the City whereby the houses of Christians were burned After which the King sent for the man who of a Jew was made a Christian and demanded of him in the presence of those who had seen him baptized Whether he were made a Christian Who answered That he was not but that he permitted the Christians to do to him what they would that he might escape death Then the King demanded of the Archbishop in the presence of many Archbishops and Bishops VVhat was to be done concerning him Who answering very indiscreetly said If he will not be a man or servant of God let him be a man or servant of the Devil And so he returned to the Judaical Law In the mean time the King sent his Writs throughout all the Counties of England prohibiting That none should doe any harm to the Jews but that they should enjoy his peace But before that Edict was ●ublis●e the Jews which were in the Towne of D●nstaple to preserve their lives from the peoples fury being con●erted to the Christian Faith were baptized b●●roathing their Wi●es after the manner of Christians which was likewise done through many Cities of England And although the King by his Proclamation had decreed Peace to the Jews yet notwithstan●ing the fury against the Jews kindled at London not verily out of a zeal of Faith but of Gain vehemently raged in other places of the Land For a certain Jew at Lynne happening to be made a Christian thereupon the Jews persecuting him as a prevaricator of the Law taking an opportunity assaulted him with arms as he passed through the city whereupon he took sanctuary in the Church yet notwithstanding he raging Jews would not rest quiet ●or this but with a continued fury presently began to assault the said Church with great violence presently hereupon there arose a great clamor and the Christians assistance was desired with loud out-cries This clamor and fame incensed the Christian people and young men who were strangers of which a great number at that time resorted thither by reason of traffick who running to the Church armed valiantly assaulted the proud Jews who being unable to resist the assault of the Christians presently betook themselves to flight After which the Christians assaulting and taking their houses spoyled and then burnt them with fire Hereupon the young-men who were strangers laden with prey departed with it speedily to their ships lest they should be questioned and perchance inforced to restore their booty by the Kings Officers But the inhabitants of the place when they were questioned for this by the Kings Officers translated this fact to the strangers who were then departed from thence although themselves were not altogether innocent taking up arms against the Jews upon the out-cry but yet doing nothing against the Jews for fear of the Kings displeasure Not long after in Lent there arose a new storm against the Jews at Stanford for there being solemn Fairs there 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 Jerusalem 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

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

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 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 enraged 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 Jerusalem 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 thē to extream poverty joyning with them some holy soldiers brake up th● Houses of the chief Jews equall to the Kings Palace sle● their families spoiled their goods and burnt their ho●●s in the night and then retired themselves to their h●mes in the dark After which the promiscuous multitud● making an assault upon the Jews slew them without di●●●●ction 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 endeavours to effect it who when they had assaulted the Castle day and night the Jews offered a great summe 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 Jew skilfull 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 men as women 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 an 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 burnning all the Jews houses together spoyled 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 Jews 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 Knighton De Eventibus Angliae l. 2. c. 13. gives this censure of these slaughters and 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 John 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 therupon After which through the dreams of old women falacious signs the simple people atributing to him the merits of a martyr honoured his Sepulchre with solemn vigils and gifts This was derided by wife men yet it was acceptable to the Clerks there living by reason of the gains Which the Bishop hearing of presently un-saincted 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 VVestminster saith That there were no less than a thousand five hundred of the Jews destroyed at that time in York alone beside those slaughtered in other places so that this year which the Jews took to be their Jubile was to them a year of confusion Neither was this plague of theirs undeserved for every year commonly their custom was to get some Christian mans child from the Parents and on Good-Friday to crucifie him in despite of our

called his Jew This Jew Abraham therefore gave the King 700 marks that he might be freed from perpetual imprisonment to which he was adjudged the Earl assisting him therein The King thereupon at the same time sent the Justices of the Jews throughout all England to search out all their mony both in Debts and Possessions and with them a certain most wicked mercilesse Jew that he might wickedly falsly accuse all the rest against the truth who verily reprehended the Christians pitying and weeping over the affliction of the Jews and called the Kings Bayliffs luke-warm and effeminate and gnashing with his teeth over every Jew affirmed with many great Oathes that they could give twice as much more to the King then what they had given although he most wickedly lyed against his own head This Jew that he might more effectually hurt the rest revealed all their secrets daily to the Kings Christian Exactors In the mean time the King ceased not to scrape mony together from all hands but principally from the Jews so that from one Jew alone born and living in Yorke called Aaron because he was convicted of falsifying a Charter as was reported he extorted 14000 marks and 10000 marks of gold for the Queens use for a little times respite that he might not languish in prison All which sums being paid it was found that this Aaron had paid to the K. since his return from forraign parts 30000 marks of silver and two hundred marks of gold to the Queen as the said Aaron upon the attestation of his honor and faith averred to Matthew Paris who records it Yet notwithstanding although the Jews might be pittied yet were they pittied by no man seeing they were corrupters and counterfeiters of the Kings mony and of charters and manifestly and frequently proved condemned and reprobated as such Philip Lunel Clerk called to the service of the King and addicted to the custody of the Jews Anno 1251. was grievously accused before the King his adversaries affirming that when he and Nicholas of St Albans Clerk were sent towards the Northern parts to tax and squeeze the Jews he privily received most precious Vessels from a certain Jew that he might spare him in his Tallage to the King and that he likewise took secret gifts from others that he might spare them and that he opprest these Jews notwithstanding to the dammage of the King and the violation of his Faith Whereupon the King being very angry commanded Philip himself to be unworthily handled untill he should satisfy him for this great transgression Philip hereupon a crafty and circumspect man humbly craved advice and assistance from the Lord John Mansell the Kings Prime Counsellor concerning his great tribulation because he had promoted him to the Kings service who effectually procured that he recovered the Kings favor giving him a great summ of mony for it a thousand marks as was reported Yet notwithstanding he was removed from his Office and not a little disgraced It seems the Kings Officers could fleece the Jews in that age by secret Bribes and Gifts as well as himself by intollerable Exactions King Henry the III. to satisfie the Popes desire in taking a Voyage to the Holy Land Anno 1252. extorted from the Jews whatsoever those miserable wretches might seem to have not only by scraping or excoriating but even by unbowelling them Being also an Hydropical thirster after gold he so greedily sucked talents or Bullion or Jewels as well from Christians as Jews that a new Crassus might seem to be raised from the dead And th●s very year Robert de la Ho to whom the King had committed the custody of the Jews and of the Seal which belonged to their Exchequer was grievously accused before the King being charged with this crime That he had oppressed the innocent Son of a certain Knight by a certain false Charter confirmed with the Seal of which the said Robert Justice of the Jews was the bearer and keeper Whereupon he was basely apprehended and committed to a close Prison and defamed with the like scandal wherewith Philip Lunel but the year just before had been intangled in the-snares of the perfidious Jews who was then their Justice At last by the great labour of his friends the malice of the Jews is detected but the innocency of the said Robert then set free scarce declared Whereupon being put from his Offices he openly paid 4 marks of gold at least for his fine This very year 1252. there came out of the holy Land a Mandate from the King of France that all the Jews should be expelled out of the Realm of France and condemned to perpetual exile with this clause of moderation added thereto But he who desires to remain let him be an artificer or handicrafts-man and apply himself to mechanical artifices For it was scornfully objectd to the said King by the Saracens That we d●d little love or reverence our Lord Jesus Christ who tolerate the murderers of him to live among us In the year of Christ 1253. Novemb. 10. the Obligatory Charter wherewith the Abbot and Covent of St. Alban were held bound for the debt of Richard de Oxaie Knight was taken out of the hand of Elias the London Jew and freed out of the chest and it was proclaimed in the School of the Jews at London where it seems they had then a School that the foresaid Abbot and Covent should be quit from all this debt against them from the beginning of the world till then as the Statute obtained by them protesteth The Jews in Northampton about the year of our Lord 1253. had among themselves prepared wild-fire to burn the City of London for the which divers of them were taken and burned in the time of Lent in the City of Northampton Anno 1254. King Henry after Easter so cruelly raged against the most miserable people of the Jews that they loathed even to live And when they were called together Earl Richard exacted of them for the use of the King who was in great want no small summe of mony under pain of a most loathsom prison and a most ignominious death Elias therefore of London High Priest of the Jews taking counsel with his Companions answered for them all who had frequently paid very great summs of mony whether they would or would not O noble Lords we see undoubtedly that our Lord the King purposeth to destroy us from under heaven We intreat for Gods sake that he would give us license safe conduct of departing out of his kingdom that we may seek and find a mansion in some other place under some Prince who bears some bowels of mercy and some stability of truth and faithfulness And we will depart never to return again leaving here our housholdstuff and houses behind us How can he love or spare us miserable Jews who destroyes his own natural English He hath people yea his own Merchants I say not Usurers who

undermine our Religion Church and State and sow the seeds of Heresie Blasphemy Popery Superstition Schisms and Divisions amongst us they having formerly sent over some of late years amongst us under the notion and vizard of converted Jews as Ramsey the Scot and Eleazer and Joseph Ben-Isaiah all Jesuitical wicked cheating Impostors the two last whereof have cheated the honest people of the Nation of many thousand pounds being notorious Villains one of them formerly a Trooper and Plunderer in Prince Ruperts army as he confessed to his Hostesse at Dursly in Glocestershire in his drink where he would have ravished the Maid-servant of the house locking the door upon her whiles she was warming his bed in the night and upon her crying out for help fled away presently in the night to avoid apprehension And yet wanders about cheating the people in other places instead of being brought to Tyburne for his Villanies And if they abuse and cheat us thus already much more will they doe it upon and after the Jewes admission 9. To pretermit their banishment out of Rome by the Emperor Claudius recorded Acts 18. 2. and that as Ecclesiastical Historians report for their cheating and tumults there raised I shall only in brief relate how they have from time to time been banished expelled many Christian Cities Countries Kingdoms and their Synagogues burnt and destroyed especially for their Infidelity and other forementioned Misdemeanors Crimes Villanies About the year of Chri●● 430. at the instigation of St. Cyril Bishop of Alexandri● and the Christians there they were expelled and banished that famous City where they had long inhabited for their insolencies seditious conspiracies against the Christians About the year of Christ 615. they were banished out of Jerusulem it self by Heraclius the Emperour as Zonaras Tom. 3. in his life Paulus Diaconus rerum Rom. l. 18. Cent. Magd. 7. c. 14. storie About Anno 616. King Sisebutus banished them all out of Spaine unlesse they would turn Christians which the most of them refusing to doe departed thereupon into France as the marginal Authors unanimously attest About the year 618. they were all banished out of France by King Dagobert unlesse they would renounce their Judaism and turn Christians upon the command and instigation of Her a●lius the Emperour as Regino Chron. l. 1. Cent. Magdeb. 7. c. 14. relate King Wamba about the year 710. banished them out of the Province of Narbon as Rodericus Toletanus de Rebus Hisp. l. 3. c. 11. informs us The Emperor Phocas about the year 60● banished them out of the City of Antioch for the tumults they had there raised against the Christians and Government About the year 1196. they were banished out of the City of Mentz and near the same time out of the City of Triers and the Bishoprick thereof by Bishop Everhard Philip Augustus King of France banished them all out of France by several Edicts Anno 1152 1162. 1182. for these reasons because they had divers times crucified children of Christians in Paris and elswhere in contempt of Christ and his Passion entertained Christian men servants and maid servants in their houses who did likewise play the Jews with them contrary to the Decrees of God and the Church above measure oppressed impoverished by their Usuries the Citizens Knights Gentry and Country people both in the Cities Suburbs and Villages of France and detained some of them prisoners in their houses like captives binding them by an Oath not to depart out of them most vilely profaned the sacred Vessels pawned to them by church-men in cases of necessity causing their little children ordinarily to drink wine and eat sops out of them in contempt of the Sacrament and casting the silver Vessels Crosses and guilded Books of the Gospel pawned to them into Jakes in a sack that the Christians might not find them and because the Saracens upbraided the Christians for entertaining them amongst them being the professed Enemies of Christ Upon these grounds as also because their wealth and Number were so increased that they had almost gotten half the City of Paris into their hands King Philip caused them to be all apprehended through France in one day as they were in their Synagogues then spoiled them of all their rich gold and silver garments confiscated all their Lands Houses Possessions and banished them the Realm notwithstanding the intercessions of many Bishops and Nobles bribed with their gold and gifts on their behalf and the proffers of great summes of money to him by the Jews wherewith he would not be mollified After which he caused their Synagogues to be prophaned and then consecrated and converted to Churches that so where Christ was first blasphemed after the manner of the Jews he might in the same places be praised both by the Clergy and people as Vincentius records at large After this creeping into that Realm again by money and Bribes they were again banished out of France and their goods confiscated by King Philip the Fair in the year 1293. as some or 1307. as others compute it and driven into Germany In the year 1349. at the earnest importunity of the people they were all banished out of Alsatia and the Imperial Cities by the agreement of the Bishops and Nobles and most of them burnt and destroyed as they had been formerly in those parts by Earl Emicho An. 1102. who then banished them thence Ludovicus Duke of Bavaria about the year 1450 banished all the Iews out of his Territories as Aeneas Picolom●neus in his Europ● staius sub Frederico l. 3. c. 32. p. 79. assures us In the years 1474. 1482. and 1492. they were all banished out of Spain by King Ferdinand surnamed the Catholique from whence they were transported and received into Portugal they paying to K. Iohn 2. 8. Duckets for every poll of them at first for their admission which much augmented his Eschequer though it diminished his piety and honour Not long after Anno 1497. they were driven and banished out of Portugal by King Emanuel And in the year 1539. they were banished out of Naples and Sicily by Charles the 5th To which I might adde the destruction burning and utter extirpation of the Jews by the Rubeaquenses Anno 1309. and 1338. Munst Cosm l. 3. p. 547. out of Worms and Spires An. 1092. Munsteri Cosm l. 3. p. 580. Out of Prague by VVratislaus for hating and slaying the Christians Geor. Bartholdus Pontanus Bohemiae Piae l. 2. p. 20. Out of Berne An. 1287. Munsteri Cosm l. 3. p. 582. Having therefore been thus frequently banished by Christian Kings Princes from time to time at the earnest sollicitation of their godly Christian Ministers Bishops People and by our King and Parliament too out of England so long since never to return again what shadow colour of Piety Policy Prudence Justice Law Reason there can be for any person or persons whatsoever to re-admit them except the

Argument of dishonest private filthy under-hand Bribes or Lucre by which they usually scrue themselves into those places whence they have been exiled transcends my shallow capacity to comprehend especially at this season when we are so over-stored with English that some think of sending and planting Colonies in another world whither these Gold-thirsty Jews may do well to transplant themselves if they be weary of their former habitations 9. The forecited Christian Authors Historians old and new much applaud and magnifie those Christian Emperors Kings Magistrates States who have most opposed restrained suppressed by severest Laws Edicts the Jewish Synagogues Ceremonies Superstitions Rites Abuses and banished these Antichristian Blasphemers and Enemies of Christ Jesus out of their Kingdoms and Territories especially for their Infidelity and censured those who favoured them And Matthaeus Flacius Illericus Johannis Wigandus Andreas Corvinus Thomas Holthuter 4 famous learned Protestant Historians and Divines in their laborious learned Ecclesiastical Centuries as they every where do the like So in their 12. Cent. cap. 7. col 1078 1079. they passe this sharp censure against the Decrees of Pope Alexander the 3. and Clement the 3. prohibiting the Jews to build any new Synagogues where were none before yet tolerating thē only to repair old ones where they were fallen down or defaced to use their rites in But withall forbidding all Christians under pain of Excommunication communion with them for fear of being seduced to their Superstitions c. Denique ut EXTREMAM Romanorum Paparum IMPUDENTIAM ET STUPENDAM IMPIETATEM VIDEAS non pigebit eorum Decreta PRO BLASPHEMA IN DEUM GENTE JUD AEORUM LATA adscribere And Peter Herlin in his Microcosme p. 569 570. writing That the Iews having been put to divers fines and ransoms they are at last even quite thrust out of Europe also They were banished out of England by Edward the 1. Anno 1290. Out of France Spain Portugal Naples and Sicily by the Kings forecited subjoyns by way of Censure Yet are they found in great numbers in the Romish part of Germany and Poland in most Cities of Italy especially Rome where there are not lesse than 15000. or 20000. of them and also in the Popes Country of Avignion The reason why they are permitted to live thus under our Holy Fathers nose is forsooth AN EXPECTATION OF THEIR CONVERSION WHICH IS A MERE PRETENCE THE REASON BEING INDEED THE BENEFIT HENCE ARISING TO HIS HOLINESSE COFFERS But the hopes of their conversion is small and the means less c. And therfore we cannot now readmit them in to England upon the self-same Papal pretence and Ground of Gain without incurring the like Censures from Protestants and Papists too and bringing intollerable Scandal Diss●onor Reproach on our Nation and Religion in these times of pretended highest Reformation they being the professed Enemies of our Lord Jesus Christ who will not not have him to rule over them Luk. 19 27. and so odious to the very Turks them selves for cru●fying Christ that they oft use to say in detestation of a thing I would I might die a Jew Neither will they permit a Jew to turn Turk unless he be first baptized 11 Many of the wisest Heathen Law-givers Polititians States have especially prohibited the introduction and habitation of foraigners amongst them Hence Lycurgus the famous Legislator and the Spartans by his Law and advice expelled all foraigners out of their City and Country lest by insinuating themselves amongst them they should teach their Citizens some ill introduce foraign manners and an ill disordered kind of life upon which ground they all prohibited their Citizens to travell into foraign Countries Upon these grounds the Thebans and also Apotloniatae in imitation of the Spartans banished all foraigners out of their City as Aelian Variae Historiae l. 13. c. 16. Alexander ab Alexandro l. 4. c. 10. record Plato the Philosopher Dialogo 12. de Legumlatione though he permits forainers by way of study trade travel and embassie to come into his City and Republike under certain Laws R●ules yet he totally secludes them from inhabiting therein or to trade without strict Laws to prevent their danger Solet enim civitatum in commerc●is permixtio varios mores civitatibus ammiscere dum externi externiis vicissim novationes inducum quae res civitatibus per rectas leges benè institutis MAXIMUM DETRIMENTUM AFFERT Arist. observes Thatthe bringing in of forainers is a principal cause of seditions quarels Qui inquilinas aut advenas 〈…〉 nt in vitatem Hi ferè Omnes aut certè plurimi SEDITIONIBUS CONFLICTANTUR Dr. Jo. Case gives the reason of it Nam ut nihil citius corpus humanum inficit quàm pestilentium vaporum malis humoribus copulatio ita NIHIL VELOCIUS CORRUMPIT CIVITATEM QUAM PEREGRINORUM HOMINUM ADMISSIO in qua contagio venenum latet And hereupon he raiseth this question from Aristotles Text Utrum periculosa sit in Rempublicam peregrinorum admissio And thus resolves it It is perillous to take Snakes into the Bosom and Forraigners into the Commonwealth for as they being refreshed with heat doe bite and sting So these being enfranchised destroy the Republike To prove this by arguments we may consider that every Nation hath its proper manners and ceremonies which they bring along with them do not change with the climat when they come into another Country VVherefore there is great danger lest by receiving strangers the ancient manners Laws should be changed into new and forain Now what sooner begets sedition then alteration of Laws and Customs as we may see even in sundry Scripture examples which he remembers not and of the Jews especially Acts 14. 2. to 7. 16. c. 16. 19. to 25. c. 18. 5 6 7 17 18 19. c. 17 12. to 18 c. 19. 24. to 41. c. 21 27 to 40. c. 22. 22. c. c. 23. 24. 25. VVhat therefore is more perillous than the admission of Foraigners into our Commonwealth Moreover wherefore hath Nature instructed like to associate together with like if it should draw men of strange and different manners into a Republike Nature will not that sheep should be associated with wolves neither wills Prudence that Natives should be coupled with forraigners For Philosophy perswades this that contraries cannot dwell in the same place but strangers for the most part are enemies to the Citizens with whom they converse Adde to this that as Locusts are to the corn so are foraigners to the Republike for as they do wast and consume the grain of corn so these devour the fruit of the Commonwealth for although they are branches of the same plant yet they suck not wholesom juyce but poyson from the root wherewith at length the whole plant being infected perisheth This he proves by several examples out of Aristotle himself as by the Trezenii Zanclei Sybarites Bysantii Antissiaei Apolloniatae Chii Syracusani Aniohipoli●e who by

with pious solicitude of such who were afraid of the Christian Faiths miscarriage And from this combate the Jews only brought away nothing besides confusion although they would many times boast that they were overcome not by argument but by a faction Antoninus relating the story in the same words addes only this That the Jews comming to this King on a certain Solemnity and offering him gifts after their removal from Rhoan to London he thereupon animated them to a conflict against the Christians swearing by St. Lukes face that if they overcame them he would revolt to their Sect as if he spake it in good earnest with whom the Magdeburge Centuries accord By which we may observe That the Jews were no sooner transported and setled in Rhoan and London but they presently began to grow very insolent against the Christians 1. Endeavouring to pervert some of them by monies to Judaism 2ly Attempting to corrupt the King himself by gifts to side with them against the Bishops and Clergy and to become one of their Sect. 3ly By entring into open Disputations with the Bishops and Clergy against the Christian Faith to the great fear of the Professors and hazard of the Christian Religion 4ly By boasting frequently when they were overcome That it was only by power and faction not truth or disputation And will not this be their very practise now if re-admitted to the hazard of our Christian Religion and seduction of many simple unstable souls in this unsetled apostatizing age when not only the ignorant People but many great Professors turn Atheists Hereticks Seekers Apostates Blasphemers Ranters Quakers Antiscripturists and what not but real Christians This History of William Rufus causing a disputation between the Christians and the Jews is related by Raphael Holinshed in his Chronicle Vol. 3. p. 27. who likewise records of him That he being at Rhoan on a time there came to him diverse Jews who inhabited that City complaining to him that divers of that Nation had renounced their Jewish Religion and were become Christians wherefore they besought him that for a certain summe of money which they offered to give it might please him to constrain them to abjure Christianity and turn to the Jewish Law again He was content to satisfie their desires and so receiving the money called them before him and what with threats and putting them otherwise in fear he compelled divers of them to forsake Christ and to turn to their old errors Hereupon the Father of one Stephen a Jew converted to the Christian Faith being sore troubled for that his Son was turned a Christian and hearing what the King had done in such like matters presented to him 60 Marks of Silver conditionally That he should enforce his Son to return to his Jewish Religion whereupon the young man was brought before the King unto whom he said Sirra thy Father here complaineth that without his license thou art become a Christian If this be true I command thee to return again to the Religion of thy Nation without any more adoe To whom the Young man answered Your Grace as I guess doth but jest Wherewith the King being moved said VVhat thou dounghil knave should I jest with thee Get thee hence quickly and fulfill my commandement or by St. Lukes face I shall cause thine eyes to be plucked out of thine head The Young man nothing abashed thereat with a constant voice answered Truly I will not do it but know for certain that if you were a good Christian you would never have uttered any such words for it is the part of a Christian to reduce them again to Christ which are departed from him and not to separate them from him which are joyned to him by Faith The King herewith confounded commanded the Jew to avant and get him out of his sight But his Father perceiving that the King could not perswade his Son to forsake the Christian Faith required to have his money again To whom the King said He had done so much as he promised to doe that was to perswade him so far as he might At length when he would have had the King to have dealt further in the matter the King to stop his mouth tendred back to him the one half of his money and received the other to himself All which increased the suspition men had of his Infidelity By this History we may perceive what a prevailing Engin the Jews money is both to scrue them into Christian Kingdoms though the most bitter inveterate professed Enemies of Christ himself Christians and Christianity and how their money can induce even Christian Princes to perpetrate most unchristian and antichristian actions and enforce by threats and violence even converted Christian Jews to renounce their Christianity and apostatise to their former Jewish Errors which they had quite renounced And do not they still work even by the self-same Money-Engin preferred by too many Christians even before Christ himself and Christianity In the year of our Lord 1145. during the reign of King Stephen the Jews grew so presumptuous in England that they crucified a child called VVilliam in the City of Norwich in derision of Christian Religion as Matthew VVestminster Flores Historiarum Ann. 1145. p. 39. Chronicon Johannis Bromton Col. 1048. Hygden in his Polychronicon Antoninus Centuriae Magdeburgenses Cent. 12. c. 14. Mr. John Fox in his Acts and Monuments 1640. Vol. 1. p. 302. Richard Grafton in his Chronicle p. 46. Raphael Holinshed in his Chronicle Vol. 3. p. 56. and others joyntly attest Not long after this Anno 1160. the 6. year of Henry the II. they cracifyed another child at Gloucester in contempt of Christ and his Passion as John Bromtons Chronicon col 1050. Henry de Knyghton de Eventibus Angliae l. 2. col 2394 Polychronicon Fox Acts and Monuments Vol. 1. p. 302. Grafton in his Chronicle p. 46. and others record And in the same Kings reign Anno 1181. upon the same account the Jews on the Feast of Easter martyred and crucified another child at St. Edmonds-bury called Robert who was honourably interred soon after in the Church of St. Edmunds and grew famous by miracles there wrought as Gervasius Dorobernensis in his Chronica col 1458. relates What punishments were then inflicted on them for these Murders and Insolencies I find not recorded perchance they purchased their Peace with monies For I read That in the year 1168. King Henry the 2. wanting monies banished the wealthiest of the Jews out of England and fined the rest of them in 5000 Marks most likely for these their Misdemeanors The Jews though there were a great multitude of them in England in every quarter of the Realm had only one Church-yard alotted them and that at London in which they were enforced to bury all-their dead corps wheresoever they died which being a great trouble and annoyance to them thereupon in the year 1178. they petitioned King Henry the 2. being at Stanstede for a License

custody of the Jews and with loud clamours declared that his Sonne whom he thought to have been lost was wickedly kept up in the chamber of a certain Jew Which great premeditated wickednesse coming to the knowledge of the Bishop William Rele a prudent and circumspect man and of other great men lest through the slothfulnesse of the Christians so great an injury of Christ should be passed by unpunished all the Jews of the City were apprehended and when as they would have defended themselves by Regal authority the Bishop said These things belong to the Church and are not to be determined in the Kings Court seeing the Question to be discussed is concerning Circumcision and the breach of faith Whereupon 4 of the Jews being convicted of the aforesaid wickednesse were first dragged about at the tails of Horses and at last hanged on the Gallows lamentably breathing forth the reliques of life The very next year the Jews in Forraign parts especially in Germany believing that the Tartars were of their own Nation entred into a secret League with them to destroy the Christians and subdue the whole world to themselves to which end they provided many Hogsheads filled with arms to be transported to the Tartars pretending to the Christian Princes that they were Vessels filled only with poysoned Wines wherewith they intended to poyson and destroy the Tartars who would drink no wines but such as were made by the Jews But this their Treachery being detected by the Customers in Germany who found these pretended Vessels of Wine to be fraught with arms for the Tartars wherewith to destroy the Christians thereupon the Jews were delivered to Tormentors to be perpetually imprisoned or slain with their own swords as Matthew Paris more at large relates Anno 1241. p. 564. King Henry Anno 1243. exacted a great ransom from the most miserable Jews both in gold and silver so that besides what he exacted from others he extorted from one Jew Aaron of Yorke 4 marks of gold and 4000 marks of silver the King himself receiving the gold with his own hand from every Jew man or woman being made of a King a new receiver of Custome but the silver was received by others for the King Anno 1244. in August the corps of a little male child was found buried in the City of London in whose thighs and arms and under his paps there was a regular inscription in Hebrew Letters To which spectacle when as many resorted admiring at it and not knowing how to read the letters knowing that the Letters were Hebrew they called thither converted Jews who inhabited the House which the King had founded in London that they as they loved their life or members for the honour love and fear of their Lord the King without figment of falshood might declare that writing For the Kings Bayliffs and Conservators of the Peace were present They likewise believed neither without cause that the Jews had either crucified that little child in obloquy and contumely of Christ which was related frequently to have happened or had afflicted him with sundry torments to crucify him and when he had given up the ghost they had now cast him there as unworthy the Crosse Moreover there appeared in his body blew marks and rents of rodds and manifest signs and footsteps of some other torment And when as those Converts were brought to read those things that were inscribed and studied that they might perfectly read them they found the Letters deformed and now not legible being many ways disordered and tossed up and down by reason of the extension and contraction of the skin and flesh But they found the name of the Father and Mother of the little child suppressing their surnames and that the child was sold to the Jews but to whom or to what end they could not find In the mean time certain of the London Jews took a secret and sudden flight never to return again who by this very thing rendered themselves suspected And some assirmed that the Lord had wrought miracles for the child And because it was found that the Jews at other times had perpetrated such wickednesse and the holy bodies crucified had been solemnly received in the Church and likewise to have shined brightly with miracles although the prints of the 5 wounds appeared not in the hands and feet and side of the said corps yet the Canons of St. Paul took it violently away and solemnly buried it in their Church not far from the great Altar The same year 1244. The Barons in Parliament ordered That there should be one Justice at the least appointed for the Jews by the nomination of the Parliament In the year of our Lord 1250. King Henry the 3d. burning with a covetous desire commanded mony to be extorted from the Jews without all mercy so as they might seem to be altogether and irrecoverably impoverished exacting what monies soever they had in their chests Notwithstanding although they were miserable yet they were pittied by none because they were often proved and convicted to have been counterfeiters as well of monies as of seals And to passe by the monies of others we shall only mention one that their malice may the more appear to many There was a certain rich Jew having his abode and house at Berkamstede and Wallingford Abraham in name not in faith who was very dear to Earl Richard who had a very beautifull wife and faithfull to him named Flora. This Jew that he might accumulate more disgrace to Christ caused the Image of the Virgin Many decently carved and painted as the manner is holding her Sonne in her bosom This Image the Jew placed in his house of Office and which is a great shame and ignomy to expresse blaspheming the Image it self as if it had been the very Virgin her self threw his most filthy and not to be named excrements upon her days and nights and commanded his wife to do the like Which when his wife saw after some days she grieved at it by reason of the Sex and passing by secretly wiped off the filth from the face of the Image most filthily defiled Which when the Jew her husband had fully found out he therefore privily and impiously strangled the woman her self though his wife But when these wicked deeds were discovered and made apparent and proved by his conviction although other causes of death were not wanting he was thrust into the most loathsom Castle of the Tower of London Whence to get his freedom he most certainly promised That he would prove all the Jews of England to have been most wicked Traitors And when as he was greatly accused almost by all the Jews of England and they endeavoured to put him to dea●h Earl Richard interceded for him Whereupon the Jews grievously accusing him both of the clipping of money and other wickednesses offred Earl Richard a thousand marks if he would not protect him which notwithstanding the Earl refused because he was

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