c Some hereticks refuse triall by scripture 239 Orthodox do not so ib. Hereticks likely to balk scripture when it will not bestead them 244 Worms in the Hoast how or whence they breed Doctors opinions 329 m. Hoast see Adoration Hâ—â—d see Monk Hosius's Coalier 242 Hypocrites their curiosity 435 Hypocrisie 507 Hypocrisie see posterity I IAnnes and Iambres magicians 38 Jealousies their original in the people against their Teachers 393 Ieremies Lamentation a prophecy as well as at Elegy 90 Ierusalems destruction by the Romans a Map of the day of judgement 92 93 Iesuites medley 250 King Iohn cruel to the Iews 122 c Iris Thaumantis filia 54 See Rainbow Jews favoured by their Conquerors beyond all po litick observation 62 63 68 Jews strange thriving under their Conquerors testified by Heathens 68 69 Jews strange powerfulness in winning Gentiles to Iudaisme ib. Jews wronged by Tacitus and why 70 71 72 Jews thriving in captivity to be attributed to their Law 73 Jews more favoured by God then any other Nation 73 to 75 Jews a mightier Nation then any other 74 75 Jews strange continuance in the midst of miseries ib. Jews had better security of their prosperity then any others 75 Their increase and decay not measurable by human policie 76 77 Jews why said by Diogenes Laertius to be descended from the Magi. 77 Jews and their Religion despised by Heathens on false grounds 78 to 82 All heathen objections against the Iews prevented by Iewish Writers 78 c. Iews calamities and prosperities with their causes foretold in Scriptures ib. Their enemies untill Christ was rejected how punished by God 75 Their enemies after Christ was rejected how favoured by God 83 Iews destruction the cause of Gods exalting Vespasian 83 to 86 Iews a Nation set apart to exemplifie Gods justice and mercy 91 Iews blind madnesse in Cyrene and Cyprus according to Deut. 28. 28. 111 Iews continuance in misery according to Deut. 28. 59. 111 Iews mighty desolation under Adrian 112 Iews prohibited to come within the view of Jewry Deut. 28. 62. ib. Iews why not mentioned from Adrians time till Romes captivity 113 Iews misery in Spain and France 114 115 Iewry a Marl-pit for Gods vineyard 115 Iews bereaved of their children according to deut 28. 32. 115 Iews calamities in Hungary 116 Iews calamities in Germany 117 Iews why not utterly destroyed ib. Iews meannesse in the Eastern parts 118 119 Jews rejection of Samuel a type of their rejection of Christ 118 Iews punished according to Deut. 28. ad 33. 120 Iews miseries in all times and places according to Deut. 28. 33 ib. Iews calamities in England 120 to 123 Iews bruitish stupidity 121 Iews massacre in Linne on a small occasion 121 Iews madnesse and self murder in York 122 Iews may not come on Horseback nor in Constantinople but upon Termes 117 Iews grievous oppressions under King Iohn Henry 3. and Edward 1. 122 123 Aaron the Iew paid Henry 3. a Ransome of 30200 marks 123 Iews banishment out of England purchased by Parliament 123 The Iew of Bristow paid 10000 marks after he had lost 7. teeth 123 Iews for murthering a Christian childe are massacred at Munchin 129 Iews poison Fountains and offer indignities to the B. Eucharist 124 to 126 Iews for so doing are much afflicted in France and Germany ib. Iews cannot be saved from the peoples rage by King and Governours 125 Iews banished out of Spain and Portugal 126 Iews bereaved of their children again 127 Iewes urged to serve such gods as their fathers knew not 128 Iews miseries according to Deut. 28. 65 ad 67. 129 Iews become a Proverb and by-word to all Nations 130 Iews banished by the father bought and brought in of the son Banished by Pius Quintus recalled by Sixtus Quintus 129 Iews scattered from the one end of the world to the other 131 Iews infidelity a strong argument for Christians faith 132 Iews stubbornness an argument that they are Abrahams posterity 132 Iews the cause of their own misery 133 134 Iews thirst of crucifying Christian children proves their forefathers crucifying of Christ 133 Iews make their fathers sins their own 133 Iews cariage and temper the Lees of their forefathers excellency 134. Iews present depression proves their former exaltation 134 Iews blindness a light to the Gentiles 136 Iews desolation the most effectuall proof of Christian saith 137 Iews misery a type of unbeleevers eternal misery 137 From the history of these Iews general and useful Collections 129 to 139 Iews conveâ—sion as likely to be sudden as at all 138 Best method to convert the Iews 251 Church of the Iews see Infallibility Sanâ—drim Christian Ishmaelits the same with Saracens and Hagarens 103 to 107 Iews and Ishmaelites continuall signes to the Nations 1â—3 Ishmaels description by Moses a prophesie of his posterity 105 Ishmaelits why called by themselves Saracens 109 Ishmaelites or Saracâ—ns how like Ishmael 106 107 Ishmaelites a mighty Nation 108 109 Image worship the effects of it in Monks 128 Indulgences caused a breach in the Church 270 S. Iohn in some points above S. Paul S Peter 3â—â— Infallibility He that is taken or takes upon him to have absolute Infallibility is made and makes himself God 198 199 Infallibility granted is no such means to end controversies as is pretended 243 248 Infall a means to harden a Mahumetan 250 Infallibility as dangerous to the soul as Empericks practise to the body 257 The differences amongst Ancients an Argument against any one mans infallib 268 Popes Infallibility pretends to decision of Controversies brought to him not to praediction or prevention of them ere they arise to censure the opinion not punish the Author 274 Popes challenge of infall cause of Dissensions 277 Infallibility is not de facto a means to end Controversies 279 298 Nor would infallib end them aright if all granted it 280 Imperfections in the Popes Infallibleship 284 Infallibility wherein it consists 287 289 Churches or scriptures infallibility which first to be beleeved or are both together to be beleeved 289 c. Infallibility of the Iewish priests depended upon their continencie 378 Infallibility of the King defensible by scripture as probably as that of the priest 387 Some Iews brag that Iudah's scepter still flourish in Media 339. Iews Church erred fundamentally in Christs time ergo not infallible at any time 400 Infallib more necessary under the Law 3â—8 Disadvantage to Rome not to hold the synagogue Infallible 399. Iews after Moses death made not Churches infallibility the Rule of faith but experiments answerable to Gods word 411 What does infal perform to the Believer what to the object beleeved 481 Pope infall in canonizing Saints sayes Valent. 496 Jesuites doctrine of Popes infallib dangerous to states and the worst of errors 499 505 Infallibility a device to cover practises not justifiable by Romish Clerks 506 Infallibility the doctrine of it inverts the whole frame of Religion 5â—â— K POwer of the Keyes 395. see
Pannoniam processit lique omnes â—…â—ogo religâ—â— nis nosâ—â—â—â—iâ—â—â—re conantur Philosophiam nostram recipere recusantes Compilant bonis omnibus â—… agunt domibus climinant atque contrucidant Duodecim tum millia Judaeorum in nostra regine â—… in Annales relatum est * Per id tempus Judaei in Gallia German a reâ—um suarum sedem ac domicilium non pauci habebant Petrus Cluniacensis literas ad Ludovicum scripsit quae extant iis laudat consilium regis de bello pro Christianis adversus Arabes Persásque suscipiendo deinde exposita Judaeorum perfidia atque improbitate Auseratur air vel maxima ex parte imminuatur Judaicarum divitiarum maleparta pinguedo Christianuâ— exercitus qui ut Saracenos expugner pecuniis vel terris propriis Christi domini sui amore non parcit Judaeorum thesauris tam pessimè acquisitis non parcat reservetur eis vita auferatur pecunia Serviant populis Christianis etiam ipsis invitis divitiae Judaeorum Crudelior in eos Rodulphus Vilis Monachus fuit c. Papitius Massonus libro tertio in Ludovico septimo p. 244. †Why the Lord would not have the Jews utterly destroyed Nulli Jâ—… urbem habitant exclusi enim ab â—… aqâ—â—â—um atque â—â—ter illud So phiae â—…que in urbem iâ—e perâ—… idque nâ—goâ—â— commercii causa â—… quâ— cum magistris congâ—… discipulis inter quos prima 〈◊〉 Abdias Aaron â—… Eliakim gubernator â—… vestium sericâ—um quamâ—… sunt iâ—que ditissimi Nulli â—… Sâ—lomonem Aegytium Mâ—… cujus oâ—â—â—cio Judaei râ—câ—â—antur â—…â—olantur quam gravem sentiunt oâ—… enim invisi sunt Graecis Judâ—i omnes nullo bonorum ac malorum discrimine propter coriarios qui dum â—…â—mpuram aquam in plateas â—…â—â—â—undent ideóque omnes â—… pâ—â—â—untur atque in plateis vapuâ—anâ— coguntur violenter insâ—rvite Verum Judâ—i ipsi 〈◊〉 ut dixi sunt vitique boni ac misericordes â—… observatores qui captivitatis miseâ—… ammo Benjamin Tudelensis in Itiâ—… p. 31. The Fulfilling of Samuels Prophecy in the Jews living after our Saviours death â—… 8. 18. †Johâ— Baptista de 〈◊〉 â—… ‖ * Ex Naâ—â—ona proficiscitur lex in omnes nationes ubi sapientes sunt magni suspiciendi imprimis Calonymus Filius Theodori bonae memoriae ex semine David recta genealogia qui praedia fundos habet à principibus regio nis nullius hominis viâ— aut impetuâ— metuentia Benjamin Tu delens in Itiâ— p. 14. Est urbs eniâ— ipsa Theim magna srâ— quens Horâ— regio inter montes qui septe ntrionales dicuntur sedecim dierum itiâ— re protenditur urbibus magnis mâ— nitisâ—â—mis eâ— culta nulâ— lóque exterâ— gentis jugâ— subdita Un prodeuntes incolae finiâ— mas renâ— tiores etiaâ— gentes diriâ— unt omnes quotquot 〈◊〉 usque ad Aâ—… bes quiâ—… ipsis â—oedê° bent Iden p. 75. The persecu of the Jew France 〈◊〉 Philippus gustus * An. 〈◊〉 Kâ—… Oâ—… vici 〈◊〉 â—…pus apud Râ—… Christianis molestos esse primum debita omnibus remisit deinde fundos eorum res noc â—… Masson lib. 3. Annal. Franc. initio Phil. Aug. p. 250. * The Brutish Stupidity of the Jews Their Massac in Lin in No folk The Horrible Conspiracy of the Jews against their own souls in York †Yet were 〈◊〉 worth enquitie Whether such as have been transported out of Spain or other Countries of Europe were not sent into Egypt or what entertainment they find there They came out of Egypt without Ships for the Sea gave them passage Deut. 28. 68. The 〈◊〉 port of their persecutions about this time in Spain made them 〈◊〉 ‑ 〈◊〉 to redeem thâ—n peace Vide Matth. Paris * Vide orationem Pontificis JudaeoruÌ„ suorum calamitates deplorantis apud Mat. Paris Aaron the Jew paid Hen. 3. 30200 marks Hollingsh Anno 1250. p 242. The French King persecuted them at the same time aâ—… miserably aâ—… Matthew Paris intimates Of these Jeâ— Massacres in Germany a ter their B nishment out England or bout that tiâ—… †Avent Bâ—… or Annaliu lib. 7. p. 44 Aventinus lib. 7. Boior Annalium * Superest ultimus Philippi annus illo lepâ—osos Judâ—ósque in Gallia vexatos constat propter sulpicâ—â—nem veneâ—â— in poteos 〈◊〉 Auâ—â—â—â—◠〈…〉 nulla expectatâ— judicii formâ igni illos cremante Papirius Massonus l. 3. Fran. Annal. in Philippo Longo p. 3◠†Idem Ibidem ‖ Uno die Judaei â—ota Francia capti bonis eorum fisco addictis regni finibus excedere jussi â—… 〈◊〉 Masson lib. 3. Annalâ—â—m Francoruâ— p. 363. * Idem Papir in vita Ludovici Hutini p. 372. †Aventinus lib. septimo Annalium Boior ‖ The like plague befel them at Prage about the year 1389. for the like contumely offered by their children to the Hoast as they term it Incensis domibus fâ—…inae cum parvulis se sua sponte injecerunt incendio ne probris Christianorum expositae ad extremum necarentur Krantzius Wandalorum Hist l. 9. c. 23. a Vide H. Mutium Bertoldum Presbyt Constant ‖ Krantzius lib. 10. Wandal cap. 18. a Krantzius lib 〈◊〉 Saxon. cap. 〈◊〉 †Krantzius 〈◊〉 lib. 14. cap. 1â— The like facts and 〈◊〉 of the Jews at â—… are related to the same Krantzius 〈◊〉 8. Waâ—dâ—â— cap. 8. â—… Of these Jews estate in 〈◊〉 and Portugalâ—… â—… Emanuelis The Jews â—… Portugal 〈◊〉 their â—… ‖ The latentable Massacre of these Jews at Lisbon and the natural Consequence of Monkish devotion towards Christs Image therein represented Osorius lib. 4. de rebus gestis Emanuelis †Ingens eo die stupor adeo miseâ—â—iâ—… gentis sensus oppresserat ut ne lamentari quidem cladem illam deplorate miseriam suâ— possent Qui se ocâ—…bant quamvis filios aut patentes suos ad supplicium abripi viderent ne lugubri gemitu proderentur vocem emittere non 〈◊〉 Sic a eos meâ—… tus exanimaverat ut vivi non multum à mortuorâ— similitudine distarent Osorius de rebus gâ—â— Emanuelis lib. 4. Deut. 28. 36 64. Psal 58. 6. * Gens perfida agens quod solet mus in pera c. Crantz Libro Undecimo Saxon. cap. 7. †Abierunt hoc anno ex hac parte Judaei Pii 5. Pontificis max. jussu qui acerrimo diplomate exterminari illos ex ecclesiasticae ditionis Civitatibus mandaverat QuanquaÌ„ enim illos tolerabat Ecclesia miserata illorum vicem ut Christianis frequeÌ„ti illorum aspectu Christi Dei mors versaretur ob oculos Judaei Christianorum exemplis ac doctrina ad amplectendam Christianae fidei veritatem quam reliquias Israel iuxta divini vatis oraculum accepturas constat incitarentur i qua fi ablegarentur ad alienos longius multò abessent Tamen cum usuris gravibus exigendis latronibus furiâ—…que etiam rerum Ecclesiasticarum recipiendis magicis artibus ac lenociniis
Chace for this Fifteen hundred years 6 Thus are Gods Judgements executed upon this People according to the order and course of Moses his Sentence pronounced against them almost two thousand years before For after he had foretold that Paucity whereunto this last War had brought them Deut. 28. 62. he addes immediately vers 63. As the Lord hath rejoyced over you to do you good and to multiply you so he will rejoyce over you to destroy and bring you to naught and ye shall be rooted out of the land whither thou goest to possesse it and the Lord shall scatter thee amongst all people from the one end of the world to the other Such as were Captivate in this War were transplanted by Adrian into Spain his native Country where they had their Synagogues since his until Ferdinando and Isabels time Of their ill rest there and in other of these Western Nations foretold by Moses in the very next words we are now to treat but first to advertise the Reader That the state of these Jews from this time until the Expiration of the Roman Empire cannot easily be gathered from any Roman Writers who seldom vouchsafe the Jews or Christians any mention unless enforced thereunto by some such Famous War or Mutiny as fell out in Vespasians Trajans or Adrians time or by some other event redounding to the Romans glory whereas Jury after this time was not famous for any tumult till Romes Captivity the Jews wanted strength and Christians willing mindes to erect any Emperours praise by their Seditions So that whatsoever Calamity Either of Them suffered by the Romans was past over by Roman Writers as private wrongs not worthy of Registring in their Annals 7 No marvail then if they took no notice of our Saviour or his acts all tending to Peace and Loyalty For as Tacitus notes Judaea was most quiet in Tiberius time which was the best news the Romans cared to heaâ—… thence only Tacitus spleen to Christians it seems had made him inquisitive of their first Original whose Author he acknowledgeth to have been one Christ put to death by Pontius Pilate in the raign of Tiberius 8 The estate of these Jews in general between Adrians and Honorius time may be gathered out of the Reverend Fathers of the Primitive Church who usually stopt the Heathens or Blasphemous Athiests mouthes by proposing their condition then known unto all the world for such as our Saviour had foretold But these Reverend Fathers observations and such scattered testimonies of their estate and quality as can be gathered out of Roman Writers during that flourishing age of Fathers and continuance of the Roman Empire will come in more fitly in the Article of our Saviours Passion CAP. XXVIII Of the Jews estate after the Dissolution of the Roman Empire generally throughout Europe until their coming into England 1 AFter the dissolution of the Roman Empire they had some hopes of taking root under the shelter of Theodebert and Theodorick Kings of a great part of France and other Provinces then annexed to that Kingdom And whilest the Bishops of those Countries made merchandize of sacred Orders these Jews purchased Christians for their Bond-slaves until Gregory the Great by his Fatherly Admonitions and reproof wrought a Reformation of these two foul Enormities and open Scandals of Christianity Their number after was much increased throughout most parts in France by their suddain decrease in Spain caused by Sisebodus King of the Gothes and Lord of that Country who had urged them to profession of Christian Religion or perpetual exile from his Dominions Such as made choise of Banishment before Baptism fled in troops into France where in short time they and their Country-men there residing before had as hard entertainment under Dagobert though peaceably admitted at the first Some think the Fame and Honour which the Goth had purchased amongst Christians by his late Fact did enflame the Franck with a zealous desire of like glory others from more particular information of Ancient Writers as well French as Spanish refer the Original of both Persecutions unto Heraclius the Emperour who seeking his Fates in the Stars puls down Gods Judgments from heaven upon these Jews scattered from the East to West By this means he had learned whether by meer skill in Astrologie or otherwise is not now to be disputed That the wings of his Empire should be clipped by a Circumcised people This fore-knowledge howsoever gotten was not given him for his Good for his Fears came upon him whence he least suspected but for these Jews Mischief for he deeming Them the likeliest or the only men that could bring his Fates upon him inserts the former Persecution as a condition of peace then concluded between him and Sisebutu afterwards prevails with Dagobert for enforcing all the Jews throughout his Dominions either to renounce Circumcision France or their Lives And no doubt but he that could prevail thus far with these western Kings did also deal effectually with other Soveraignties of Europe nearer unto his Imperial Seat for disinabling of this Nation from effecting what he feared much more would he seek their Extirpation or Conversion throughout his own proper Dominions And so I find his persecution of the Jews recorded by such as wrote his life as one of the chief Memorables in his Raign which confirms their report though otherwise Authentick who refer the two former Persecutions under the Goth and Frank unto the occasions above mentioned 2 Shortly after the Progeny of such as had been enforced to Baptism by Sisebutus for their revolt from Christ and conspiracy against Egica his Anointed and his Kingdom were adjudged to perpetual Servitude throughout all the Provinces belonging to Spain prohibited the use of their rites and Ceremonies not permitted to inhabit together but as if the Lord had used the Land of Jury as a Marl-pit to fat the Soil of this Nation where his Vine was planted after he had lead forth the Jews thither in heaps he scatters their heaps over the whole sur-face of the Land All Parents not suffered to commerce with their children at all after the seventh year of their age committed by publick Decree to the Education of Christians appointed in riper years to be given in marriage unto their Sons and Daughters that so the succession of infidelity might be abolished But Christian Princes consultations prevail as little for their good as Pharaohs policy for their Fore-fathers harm they must multiply that Gods plagues may be multiplied upon them This last here mentioned in their estimation not the least though otherwise intended by the state of Spain was by the disposition of the divine providence brought to passe that another prophecy of Moses might be fulfilled Thy Sons and thy Daughters shall be given unto another people and thine eyes shall still look for them even till they fall out and there shall be no power in thy hand Deut. 28.
this Jew at his return to Paris then flourishing with all manner of Arts and Sciences found his Country-men marvellous great Students in Divinity and in much better state then might be expected to continue any long time 13 Lewes the seventh albeit instigated thereto as was said before had not shorn them so near upon his Expedition to the Holy Land but that they might bear Fleece again for his Son to pluck off Their Synagogues had remained still beautified and their private wealth either before his death much increased or in his time not much impaired But Almighty GOD who in Testimony of his rejoycing to do them good had raised up Cyrus to Balthazar 's Throne to release their Nation from that Captivity which Nabuchad-nezzar had brought upon them to give the world as perfect a proof of his Rejoycing over them to destroy them and bring them to nought Deut. 28. 63. did Advance Philippus Augustus son unto the former Lewes unto the Crown of France to defeat the Jews throughout that Kingdom in an instant of all their former hopes No sooner was he enthroned King but presently he giveth forth his Edict That their Synagogues should be spoiled of all Donatives and ornaments belonging to them and enformed of the grievances which Christians sustained by them granteth a general Release of all debts due unto them from Christians consiscating all their lands and immoveable goods This was done that Moses his prophecy might be fulfilled in part Deut. 28. 30 31 33. Thou shalt build an house and not dwell therein thou shalt plant a Vineyard but shalt not eat the fruit thereof Thine Ox shall be slain before thine eyes but thou shalt not eat thereof Thine Asse shall be violently taken away before thy face and shall not be restored unto thee Thy sheep shall be given unto thine enemies and no man shall rescue them for thee the fruit of thy I and and all thy labours shall a people which thou knowest not eat And thou shalt never but suffer wrong and violence alwayes CAP. XXIX Of the fulfilling other particular Prophecies of Moses in the Jews persecutions in England Germany France and Spain 1 THat they should not once or twice in this or that Age in some one or few Kingdoms only but alwayes in every place where they have come since their rooting out of their own Land suffer such wrong and violence must needs be thought to have proceeded rather from Divine Justice then mans Injustice which could not but have varied with the diversity of times places and the several dispositions of parties amongst whom in this their long Pilgrimage they have lived And yet this brief Enumeration following of their particular spoils and hard usages since Philippus Augustus time throughout the most civil and best governed States of Europe will abundantly confirm the truth of Moses general Induction in the place now cited Thou shall never but suffer wrong and violence alwayes To begin with their persecutions in this Land 2 Had Henry the eldest son of Henry the second who was present at the fore-named French Kings Coronation acquainted with these severe Edicts against the Jews lived to enjoy the Crown of England after his Father as he was entituled King with him the grievous wrongs and violence immediately after befalling these Jews throughout this Kingdom had been ascribed to this politick imitation of the French King his Brother at least men would have thought they had been done by his sufferance or connivence But God had taken him away and yet these Jews Intreaty continues much worse under Richard the first who never intended them like harm onely upon his Coronation day with his Raign begins their Wo which ends not till their final Extirpation hence not willing to be beholden unto them for their presents or as some think partly afraid lest admitted to his presence they might practise some Sorcery upon his body he gave command that no Jew should come either within the Church where he was Crowned â—or the Palace where he was to dine But they desirous to present him with some gift in hope to have their Charters and other Priviledges granted by other Kings confirmed by him presse in at the Palace gate amongst others making perhaps more hast but worse speed one of them receiving a blow for his forwardness by one of the Kings servants who might well justifie the fact by the Kings command to keep them out The people about the gate apprehend the matter so as if this Jew had been beat by the Kings commandment and so they thought might all the rest of that crew and hence fall upon them with such weapons as they could find as it was easie to find bats to beat these doggish Jews home to their kennels where they found but silly shelter For albeit their houses were strong yet the rage of the people was too great against them With the multitude the former rumour was enlarged that it was the Kings pleasure to have all the Jews destroyed And as the Axiom is Mens own desires are quickly believed So far more apt they were to apprehend this rumour as true then to examin whether it were true or no that the Lord chief Justice and other Officers sent from the King to appease the tumult were more likely to catch harm themselves then to free these Jews from present danger some of whose houses now flaming gave the people light to spoil and rifle others in the dark For so violently were they set to wrong them and eat their labours that they could not be satisfied from dinner time on the one day to two a clock on the other many of these Jews in the mean time being rosted or smothered with their goods other leaping out of the fire fell upon their enemies weapons Although the outrage was such as in a peaceable state might seem intolerable yet was the hainousness of the offence quite swallowed up by the multitude of the offenders But as the English escapt unpunished so the Jews were not amended by their correction Their Stubbornness as the Scripture tels me did first procure their Blindness and their Blindnesse becoming Hereditarie hath confirmed their Stubbornness to posterity 3 The former violence which they suffered would have been a sufficient Caveat to any people in the world besides to have carried themselves with more moderation in a strange land but not the flies so stupid and senselesse in discerning the causes of their smart as this people is Their perfidiousnesse and daily sucking of Christians bloud had made them most odious in this as in other Lands and though a number of them be Massacred to day for like attempts yet the rest are as ready again to morrow to seize upon every sore either to exhaust the reliques of life from such as are shrunk in their estate by cruel exactions and damned usurie or else to intrude themselves as wedges or instruments of divisions into every breach that shall appear
England under William Rufus whose conditions were such that whosoever would give enough might have whatsoever lay in his power to grant Their estate in England during other three Kings raign until Richard the first yields little matter of observation this people hate had not as yet broken out against them but was all this time in gathering and after their first planting here they were to have a time to bring forth fruit for others to eat a time to gather wealth for others to spend as Moses had foretold 8 Most miserable in the mean time was their estate throughout the Eastern Empire as one of their own Writers Benjamin Tudelensis who went on Pilgrimage to visit his Country-men wheresoever dispersed throughout the world complaineth of their general hard usage amongst the Graecians instancing in such as were seated about Constantinople within whose wals they might not come but upon occasion of publick commerce or business in which case they were allowed passage onely by Boat having their habitation as it were in an Island Amongst two thousand of this servile Congregation there residing not one permitted to come on horse-back save only Solomon the Emperours Physitian whose exaltation perhaps not fourteen handfuls above ground was held as a publik grace of the whole Nation the chief solace of that miserable and servile usage which all the rest without difference good or bad did sustain dayly beat and scourged in the open streets Yet must we believe this Relator That these Jews were wealthy good and merciful men observant of the Law such as could patiently endure this miserable captivity But Patience perforce according to the Proverb is no Patience If GOD had granted them ability or opportunity they had quickly shewed their Jewish minds by Jewish actions And why he keepeth them continually under unwilling to hear their cry though They cannot we Christians may easily perceive the cause For so his Prophet Samuel had fore-told And ye shall cry out at that day because of your King whom ye have chosen you and the Lord will not hear you at that day Which words as a learned convert Jew rightly observeth were not fulfilled in Samuels time whose opinions may be fortified by these reasons 9 Samuels authority over that people was not so strictly linked with GODS but that they might reject the one for their present Judge still retaining the other for their supream Lord and who can deny that the God of their Fathers did rule over them in Davids Solomons Jehoshaphats and Ezekiahs times Sin no doubt they did in abandoning Gods Priest and Prophet to follow the fashions of other Nations in submitting themselves unto a King And Samuel like a good Physitian forewarneth them of that incurable disease which this new-fangle and intemperate act did even then Prognosticate whose Fatal Crisis notwithstanding did not insue until they overgrown with desperate wilful and intemperate malice had rejected Hint with open mouth who was both Priest and Prophet and their lawful King whose kingdom was not of this world whose Soveraignty was so united with the divine Majesty that in casting him away they could not but cast off God that he should not reign over them 10 Again before that time God alwayes heard their cry and redeemed them from all Forrain Bondage and such as Samuel there describeth was neither general nor perpetual under their own Kings neither did the best of such use any nor the worst all or most part of the natural Israelites in such sort as he there threatneth yet all the miseries there threatned 1 Sam. 8. 11 12 13 14 15 16 17. have been since accomplished in full measure if I may so speak in length breadth and profundity First this Serviâ—â—â—y hath been extended over All the Nation without exception Secondly the continuance of it hath been exceeding long and perpetual without interruption and so must continue until they confesse their forefathers rebellion and acknowledge him for their King whom rejecting they rejected God for he that will not so honour the Son cannot Honour the Father as King Lastly those marks of servility set forth by Samuel have been so deeply imprinted in this generation rejected of GOD that his Prophecy compared with Modern Histories concerning them will seem but as Painted Wounded men in a cloth of Arrasse to the bleeding reliques of a scattered vanquished army For neither under any Caesar though they made choice of Caesar for their King nor under any other Kings or States have they lived as Free-denizons capable of publick Office or Honour the best of them are but as slaves prohibited to use the meanest of Christians so The most of them as Samuel fore-told are admitted in Common-wealths for manual services or other handy-crafts imployments Captains I think none of them have been unlesse perhaps in some desperate services many of them in greater Cities are suffered to follow Merchandize that they may serve the State as Spunges alwayes surer to be squeezed for the moysture they have sucked then to be nourished by it Sundry of them are curious Artificers and professe ingenious Trades like silly Silk-worms permitted to exercise their skill in precious stuff to fill Princes Coffers and find their Countries cloathing 11 The possession offields and Vineyards hath not been so usual amongst this people as their spoil amongst such as possessed any so this Jew relateth it as a special prerogative of Calonymus the son of Theodorus both in their life-times chief of the Synagogue in Narbona and lineally descended as he pretendeth from David that he might quietly possesse the fruits of his grounds The Princes it seemeth of that and like places did take other Jews fields and vineyards and best Olive trees and gave them unto their servants rather tything then taking the tenth of their seed and Vineyards for that usually was the Jews part the other nine as Samuel foretold 1 Sam. 8. 14 15 16. fell unto Princes Officers lot 12 But the greater these dispersed sons os Isaac Servility was the more it commendeth the fidelity of Gods word concerning the sons of Rechab who as this Author relateth live united in form of a Kingdom or Nation not subject to any forrain yoak rather able to offend their neighbours then likely to receive harms from them Their estate to this Authors dayes continued such as they themselves acknowledged unto Jeremy Onely experience it seemeth had taught them to build Cities for their better security against the incursion of forrainers which was not against their oath in case of necessity as appeareth from Jeremy 35. 9 10 11 12. Because in other points they have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab their Father and kept his precepts and done according to all that he had commanded them therefore Jonadab hath not wanted a man to stand before him until this day that is their estate hath continued such as their Father left them much better then the estate of Abrahams Sons by Sarah Though
amongst Christians or between them and others In which practize they have been continually crusht Finally their general carriage is so odious and preposterous that Albeit the CHRISTIAN Magistrates conspire together for their good they themselves will certainly provoke their own misery 4 The lamentable death of those Jews in London had purchased pitie and compassion towards the rest as the Kings Proclamation for their peace and securitie did witnesse but their Brethren of Lin can not abstain from offering that violence from which the King had priviledged them to one of their own linage for becoming a Christian attempting forcible entrance into the Church whither he had fled for Sanctuarie Unlesse they had thus riotously violated the Kings peace the Christians had not assembleâ—… together and the Inhabitants were afraid at all to meddle with them But 〈◊〉 God had provided that a great companie of Forraign Mariners should 〈◊〉 pair unto this mutinie who moved with indignitie of the attempt could not content themselves with the rescue of the Convert at the first perhaps onely intended but assault these mutinous Jews through fear repairing to their houses which the other first rifle then burn together with their owners departing unpunished with spoil 5 The end of the Kings Proclamation being once frustrate by this strange Accident though not purposely or directly violated by the inhabitants of this place his subjects elsewhere are willing enough to imitate the Fact without any occasion of like wrongs offered by the Jews only upon opportunitie of doing violence by the Kings absence and the present mustering of Souldiers for the Holy Land upon whom transported hence their partners in evil here at home remaining might post over the whole blame of the fact of part whereof no doubt his Souldiers had been guiltie The like massacres of these Jews ensued at Stamford at Lincolne and S. Edmundsbury shortly after but of all others most memorable and lamentable was that which in the same Lent befel them at York 6 The Jews there dwelling had heard by this time what had been done unto their brethren in London and Lin and see now the like or greater violence intended against themselves so that as Moses in the fore-cited place Deut. 28. 34. addeth They became mad for the sight of their wrong and violence which their eyes did see One of their learned Rabbines perswades four hundred of his companie besieged with him in a strong Tower by a furious multitude to prove themselves such as the world had long taken them and were now persecuted for right Cut-throats indeed rather then fall into their enemies hands himself confirming his doctrine by his example in cutting his wives throat first then his childrens and lastly by killing himself The residue of the four hundred which he had perswaded unto this unnatural and Jewish Act not only willing to imitate him herein would before their death have enforced many others that would not yield unto this Rabbines advice to a more violent death had they not conveyed themselves into a strong Turret within the main Tower which defended them from the flames that consumed their goods And yet these poor souls that had scaped their fellows violence were born to suffer thelike of their Christian Enemies to their shame who had promised them life upon condition they would yield themselves and become Christians which whether they meant in heart or no as they promised he that trieth the secrets of all hearts doth know Sure I am their professed Christian enemies did turn Jews in heart that treacherously killed them before any trial made of their sinceritie towards Christ 7 All these wrongs and violences were committed only by the people much against the Magistrates mindes but hereafter the supream Magistrates Kings themselves as if they had learned wit of their subjects took the Monopoly of wronging the Jews into their own hands To omit what Richard the first had done unto them their hard usage under King John Henry the third Edward the first makes me think that Moses in the last words of his often mentioned Prophecie Deut. 28. spake in his language that said Patria est ubicunque bene est so as England and every place in Europe wherein their condition of life hath been more hard and burdensome then their forefathers had been in Egypt may be said to be that Egypt whereunto the Lord had threatned to bring them again by ships King Johns exactions were so grievous that they had rather suffer then do what he commanded many of them being imprisoned and tortured before they would yield what he demanded What an intolerable thing was it for a private man in those times to pay ten thousand marks for refusal of which that poor Jew of Bristow was so pittifully used But with God it was just to punish him by his own greedinesse of gain for unlesse his money had been as dear to him as meat to such as make Their Belly Their God he would have let his Gold go before he had lost Seven Teeth oâ—…ne 8 King Henry the third first demands the third part of all their moveables for his supplies then punisht them grievously by the purse for a murther secretly committed by them and thirdly makes them buy their miserable peace by the third part of what was left Finally he brought them to such extream povertie that his brother to whom he let them out to farm could it seems make nothing of them and so they were freed from this brutish servitude as Moses in the fore-cited place had fore-told for want of a Buyer The King surely did not so much pitty them as he did himself and his posteritie who should have gotten nothing of them if the bargain with his brother had gone forward whereas his Successor Edward the first accounted their goods as his own for Non-payment of what he demanded the whole generation scattered throughout this Land were shut up in one night where they enjoyed no day until they had fined at the Kings pleasure who yet perhaps did recover but as much as he and his subjects were endamaged by two hundred and odde of their Country-men all condemned some eight years before for circumcising counterfeiting and washing his coyn This King albeit their wealth under him was much diminished had this advantage of his predecessours The English desirous to have them banished and they as willing to spite the English by their staying here were both forward to purchase their contrarie desires by large offers to the King until the English at last did out-vie them by a fifteenth which the Parliament granted for their utter avoidance of this Land so much welcomer was their room then companie 9 All their immoveable goods with their Obligations and Bils of debt were confiscated Thus as Moses saith they had builded houses but could not dwell therein Vineyards they had planted which they could not carry with them never to return hither again they nor their seed to