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

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

ANGLO-JVDAEVS OR THE HISTORY OF THE JEWS Whilst here in ENGLAND Relating their Manners Carriage and Usage from their Admission By William the Conqueror to their BANISHMENT Occasioned by a Book Written to His Highness the Lord Protector with a Declaration to the Commonwealth of England for their Re-admission By Rabbi Menasses Ben Israel To which is also subjoyned a particular Answer by W.H. Augustin de Civitat Dei Lib. 22. Cap. 8. Quisquis adhuc prodigia ut credat requirit magnum est ipse prodigium qui mundo credente non credit London Printed by T.N. for Thomas Heath in Russel-street near the Piazza's in Covent-Garden 1656. To His Highness the Lord Protector Of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions thereunto belonging May it please your Highness I Had a while ago an opportunity to meet with a Book come abroad in print written to your Highness with a Declaration to the Commonwealth of England by Rabbi Menasses ben Israel Looking upon it I easily discovered the scope thereof but ●ade way to upon false grounds and reasons as I conceived altogether dissonant to experience and truth This perswasion was wrought by reason of my having had sometimes occasion to read such Authors as hold out unto us the beha●ior of the Jews whilst here formerly residing which seemed to be such as the English Nation believed other things of them then Profitableness and Faithfulness having bought their experience at a very dear rate Upon a meer serious review and consideration this opinion could not but be confirmed whereby the Rabbi appears either to be utterly ignorant of our Histories though a learned man or else wittingly pass by and deny that which they clearly and faithfully enough make out unto us And upon a religious consideration are his motives and arguments the more impertinent especially at this time when we stand least in need of their Religion to come amongst us too many having already taken up if not their opinions yet such as border near upon their hold Your Highness hath not been so easie to be allured by his great pretences as he might hope and others idly and upon false and presumptuous grounds unworthily surmise taking care lest their reduction might prove dangerous to Religion or the wealth and interest of the people But to detain your Highness no longer with needless words what is here written in answer to him and debated calmly which is all I can speak in behalf of this Treatise I humbly lay at your Highness feet being ever Your Highness's most humble and devoted Servant W. H. Anglo-Juda●us Or the History of the Jews whilst here in England THe Jews being a people favoured especially by God and chosen by him above all others on whom to shew his grace and in them on all mankinde have yet in all ages shewn abundance of ingratitude for which several ways and times they have been scourged No sooner were they freed from the Egyptian bondage Exod. 16. Numb 20. but presently forgetting the mercies received and the miseries lately suffered they murmure against their deliverer and being settled in the Land of Promise easily forgetting how they came thither change their God and worship those Idols which were not able to deliver the former Inhabitants from their Invasion 1 Sam. 8. 1 2 Kings Then quarrelling against the dispensations of God they desire the Government of Kings under whom whilst they lived partly by their own depraved blindness partly by their Princes carnal Policies they were still drawn in their Religion and Manners after the customs of the Heathen to whom after some few hundreds of years they were left to be subjected and inthralled And though after the Babylonish captivity they were not found guilty of so gross Idolatry as formerly yet are long they fell off from the purity of Religion and the inwards of it Sadducism Pharisaism to that Corruption and Formality which made way for that mist of Error which overspreading their mindes and possessing their spirits kept out that light which in the fulness of time clearly shone amongst them Many have been the ways many the instruments by which God hath plagued their disobedience The carkasses of the rebellious ones fell in the wildernesse the Nations were part preserved to be as thorns in their eyes and goads in their sides And after the death of Solomon Israel began to be against himself and did not only struggle with Esau after some 130. years from the rooting out of the ten Tribes by Salmanasser 1 2 Kings after many inroads made by the Babylonians Egyptians and Syrians Judah is also carried away into Captivity the City destroyed the Temple burnt and nothing left of the face of a Common-wealth Neither did afflictions from Forreign invasions and captivities cease after their reduction though they were not clean removed from their Land For what multitudes were enthralled in their ancient house of bondage One hundred and twenty thousand being reported to have been set at liberty by Ptolomy Philadelphus at such time as erecting his renowned Library at Alexandria he sent for the Law of God and 72. Josephus Antiq lib. 12. Interpreters to translate it How did Ptolomy Philopator or Physcon prophane the Temple and gathering many thousands of them together intended by subjecting them to the teeth of Elephants to feed his cruel and malitious humor And what they endured from the Syrian and Asian Kingdoms especially under Antiochus Epiphanes that vile person the book of Maccabees with other Histories sufficiently declare besides what tumults broils seditions and slaughters arose through the ambitious transactions of themselves for the Priesthood and royal dignity And the Scepter was departed from Judah when Shiloh came falling out amongst themselves they were subjected to a Forreign power called in to help Josephus Great Pompey had reduced that Kingdom to Roman obedience aliens were placed over them Matth. 1 Herod the great was harassing them with his Tyrannies and Oppressions when Christ came who by the special Providence of God escaped his hands whilest they rejected the Government of Christ they were still under the Roman Tyrannie maintained partly by Herods off-spring partly by others sent from Rome crucifying the Lord of Life rejecting the Gospel of Salvation they were spued up by their own land into all Countreys despised by all and hated by most The destruction of Jerusalem foretold by Christ some fourty years before whose blood they had charged upon themselves and posterity came to pass in the days of Vespasian the Emperor by Titus his Son Josephus lib. 7. de bello Judaico who being for the especial sweetness of disposition the love and delight of mankinde was yet their overthrow but that occasioned by their own stubborness Great was the concourse of people at that time out of respect to the season their Superstition disarming themselves put a strong weapon into the hands of the enemy that City came the second

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