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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B03712	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 (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.	Hughes, William, of Gray's Inn. aut	1656 (1656)	Wing H3321; Thomason E.863[3]; Interim Tract Supplement Guide 482.b.3[8]; ESTC R12585	34,661	56

was Hugh was honorably buried in the Cathedral and he ever after accounted a Martyr About two years after hapned a thing in Teuxbury Hollinsh Mat. Paris which perhaps might as well be omitted as spoken of It chanced there that a Jew fell into a Jakes on Saturday which being their Sabboth he would not that day be drawn out for breaking of it The Earl of Glocester hearing this news forbids him to be taken out the next on Sunday for that neither he said should the Christian Sabboth be broken by him whereupon the poor man lying there till Munday miserably died Of this story I have read these verses rimed according to the Poetry of that age Christian Tende manus Solomon ut te de stercore tollam Jew Sabatta sancta colo de stercore surgere nolo Christian Sabatta nostra quidem Solomon celebrabis ibidem In the year 1262. and of this Henry the 3. the 47. Holinsh Stows survey a Jew little remembring into what a tickle condition their deserts had brought them wounds a Christian within Colechurch in the Ward of Cheap He is pursued home to his house by the multitude and there slain with whose life yet they would not be satisfied But going on in their fury they break up and pillage the houses of that Nation and kill divers so full were the Londoners of prejudice and spight against them that upon all occasions they could not bu● discover it But not onely against their persons do they rage The publike toleration of their Religion was also a great offence to them running therefore to their Synagogue at the west side of Olaves Jury where they for the most part lived they utterly destroy it The ground being afterwards by the King given away became the seat of Friers next of a Nobleman then of a Merchant and since that of the Windmil Tavern Sir Reb Cottor But now ere long the sparks of discontent and grudges betwixt the King Barons were quite blown up into a flame His lavishments and neglect in administration of Justice had subjected him to their plots and combinations and betwixt both parties sprung a more then civil War The Barons had gotten the hearts of the Citizens who easily drawn with the promises of freedom and reformation of abuses took their part but the Jews loving neither in reality clave to the King sufficiently knowing their own interest in this matter though at other times they could take no warning but by their abominable actions drew still upon themselves one plague at the heels of another But here they saw on whom they depended what it was that kept them here and what they might expect if the Barons should prove victorious Holinsh Ex Eulog Accordingly therefore in the year 1264. they that inhabite in London resolving to do what they may plot the destruction of Barons and Citizens altogether But nothing except desolation and misery attending them they are detected hereof almost all slain their houses ransack'd abundance of treasure being therein found scraped up together But within a while providence had decided the civil quarrel Holinsh giving the victory unto the King whereupon a Parliament was called and many turned out of their estates being proscribed by Law Divers of those disinherited Gentlemen being thus out-lawed and sore repining at their condition betake themselves to the Isle of Oxholm whither resorts a multitude of the baser sort who rob and rifle the places near adjoyning and act according to the custom of men carried by necessity and desperation Now Lincoln being not far distant is taken and sacked by them wherein not unmindeful of the publique enemy the Jews they run to their Synagogue which they burn together with their Law and many of them in it thinking it even sin if to their other robberies they should not add this of spoiling them who in that place had broken the bounds of all humanity and thereby deserved many deaths And now we come to the last passage we meet with during the long raign of this King Things seeming to be prettily settled yet clouds begin to gather again The Earl of Glocester is unsatisfied with affairs and the efore must up and make way for better fortune by his sword He comes up to London and gets possession of the City The Jews then their wives and children being sensible of the approaching of their ruine with the Popes Legat flock into the tower of which they have a part assigned them to defend But things being after a while composed they also for a while enjoy quietness and security Now began the English liberty from these incroachers to draw on amain for in the year 1272. King Edward the first had ascended the throne succeeding his father Their oppressions were now grown so in tollerable that longer they could not be endured the people of England being almost ready to quit their dwellings and leave them their habitations * Math. West Edv. rex ad Parlamentum Westmonasterii ●mnes Nobiles regni sui jusserat congregari in quo Statuta multa ad utilitatem regni fuerunt publicata inter quae Judaeis fuit interdicta effraenatalicentia usurandi Et ut poslent à Christianis discerni praecepit rex quod instar tabularum unius palmaelongitudinem sign a ferrent in exterinribus indumentis Therefore in the third of the King a Parliament is called and in it amongst other things their unreasonable usury is restrained by Law and for that they are accounted unworthy of any charitable thought they are ordered to wear plates in their clothes clear to be seen that every one might take notice who they were But that they cannot get one way they will have another the measure of their iniquities was not yet compleat and therefore they run on still to their own destruction Would any people under the cope of heaven having had so many warnings undergone so many troubles suffered such massacres yet go on as if to make amends and procure themselves safety was to heap guilt upon guilt and adde treachery to violence But in the year 1278. and the sixth of the King they wash Matth. Westm Paris clip and counterfeit his coyn as they had done before in the reign of Henry the second Being apprehended they likewise accuse the Christians as accessary At London nigh 300 are executed amongst whom there were three Christians many being also put to death in other places King Edward Holinshed according to the tenor of their hold here in England and their obnoxiousness to which their actions had reduced them counted all they had his own and for non-payment of what was demanded the whole generation scattered through the whole Land are shut up in one night where they enjoyed no day until they had fined at his pleasure The Commons now offered to the King the fifth part of their moveables to have them banished 〈◊〉 but this Prince having this opportunity his Predecessors wanted

also cleansing his Territories of the Jews Matth. Westm as so many locusts had before commanded whilst beyond the seas that the parts of Aquitain should likewise be swept of them Thus I have proceeded as an Historian keeping close to that way according as I am informed by our Writers And hereupon I am not ignorant that some there are and that not without reason who may deny their assent to what is said concerning their expulsion being induced to believe the contrary by greater authority then this report The Oracle of Law in his time pronouncing no Statute to have been made for their banishment Judge Cook in the second part of his Institutes upon the Statute De Judaismo affirms there was none but onely that which was for the taking avvay their Usury upon vvhich they left the Land as he conceives being so deprived of their Trade or way of life I have not arrived at that height of arrogance as to oppose so great a man especially in his own way but yet shall tender something to consideration as I am warranted by History whereby I hope I shall escape the hazard of being thought to break the bounds of modesty being found onely in that way in which at first I set forward Our Historians all with joynt consent affirm them to have been actually banished or expelled many of whose words I shall first set down and then see onely what they might seem further to hint unto us Matthew of Westminster Vide Bale●●m descript Aug. and approved * Augusti 31. Judaeorum exasperans multitud● quae per diversas urbes castra fortia habitabat per retroacta tempora confidenter jussa est cum uxoribus parvulis suis unà cū bonis suis mobilibus cedere circa festum ●mnium Sanctorum quod eis pro termino ponebatur quem sub poena suspendii transgredi non est ausa●quorum numerus erat ut credebatur 16511. Exierat antea tale edictum à laud●bili rege Anglorum in partibus Aquitaniae à quà omnes judaei pariter exulabant Author in his Flores Historiarum at the 1290. year of our Lord hath these words Aug. 31. Judaeo●um exasperans multitudo c. On the third day of August the exasperating multitude of Jews which in times past had lived confidently in divers Cities and strong Towns is commanded with their wives children and moveables to depart England about the Feast of All-Saints which is set as the utmost limit of their continuance which under pain of hanging they durst not pass the number of whom was thought to be 16511. Such a Decree had gone out before from the commendable King of England in the parts of Aquitain out of which in like maner the Jevvs vvere banished So he Thomas Walsingham in his Hypodigma Neustriae writes thus Rex Angliaereversus de Wasconia c. * Rex Angliae reversus de Wasconia Londoniis solemniter reeipitur à clero omni plebe Qui Judaeos omnes eodem ann● expellens de Anglia datis expensis in Gallias bona corum reliqua confiscavit The King of England being returned out of Gascoign is solemnly received by the Clergy and all the people at London who the same year expelling all the Jews out of England giving them to bear their charges over into France confiscated the rest of their goods and Polydor. Virgil in his seventeenth Book at the 1290. year of Christ delivers the matter thus Anno deinde qui c. * An●● deinde qui insecutus est Concilium L●nd●ni ad ●estmonasterium ha●●●ur in qu● imprimis agita●a est Ju●ae●um ejectio quo●um erat per omnem Angliam ingers multitudo qu● s●● oves ab i oe●●is segregarentur Itaque publico edicto jussum est ut intra ●●●cos dies omne● abirent cum bonis illi jussis concilii parent●s ili● 〈◊〉 dis●esserunt Then in the year which followed a Council was held at Westminster in which first of all is debated the ejection of the Jews of which there was throughout England a great multitude that so the sheep might be separated from the goats Therefore it is commanded by a publique Edict that within a few days all should depart with their goods they obeying the command of the Council went divers ways thus far Polydor who use●h the word Concilium for that we call Parliament it with other words being as a great * Sir R. Cotton Antiquary observes an usual term in ancient Authors for that thing Polych●onicon lib. 7. cap. 38. saith the Jews were put out of England and never came again Stow in his Annals writes that this year all the Jews were banished this Land for which the Commons gave a fifteenth In like manner writes Holinshead expresly that they were banished by act of Parliament and that a Fifteenth was granted to the King to have them expelled that all their goods not moveable were confiscate with their Tallies and Obligations all their other moveables of gold and silver the King licensed them to convey with them that they could never since obtain a priviledge to return and with these concurreth Speed who tels us that the King to purge England whither he was now returned from such corruptions and oppressions as under which it gro●ned and not neglecting therein his particular gain banished the Jews out of the realm confiscating all their goods leaving them nothing but money to bear their charges * Florilegus Dunstable Others might be brought who testifie the same thing neither is there any Historian that I know who denies it Now strange it is that all these should be misacquainted and mistaken that those of the near adjoyning times to their departure should so grosly erre and that those who lived in the same time should deliver to posterity so great a falshood For if any had reported their departure to have been voluntary it might have been found out by some of those who succeeded and had their gatherings from them Matthew of Westminster sets down the day the Act should be made for their expulsion mentions the time set as the utmost bound of their continuance and withall the penalty or punishment they were to suffer even hanging if found hereafter and that the King had made such adecree before for banishing them the parts of Aquitaine a strange thing that he should so grosly erre in so many circumstances Walsingham writes that the King returned home that he was met by the Clergy and all the people and that this year they were expelled Polydor * Illi jussis concilii parentes alii aliò discesserunt saith it was by Parliament by its publike Edict and that they obeying its commands departed hinting unto us the end that so the sheep might be separated from the Goats Polychyronicon saith they were put out of Stow that they were banished out of England Holinshead and Speed use the same term this last adding also the Kings design which