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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

was to purge the Land from such corruptions and oppressions as under which it groaned and also to fill his own Coffers which was done pretty well partly by the confiscating of their goods which all or most mention as also by the Fifteenth granted him by the Commons to purchase their banishment which some aver We read that about the year 1286. the Commons before offered the King the fifth part of their moveables to expel them and it cannot but be likely they would also desire the same at this Parliament for though usury was the main thing under which they groaned yet there were other things they could not but be sensible enough of viz. Crucifying of children and their great spight to Christian profession with their late spoiling of the coyn And scarce could this other Act against their usury only give them hopes sufficient that thence they would be driven away for as we see before in the third of the King their usury was restrained and bounded and other ways of life they might take up and rather stay here with what they had already got then by departing to lose all as it seems they did though Judge Cook tels us that there was provision made that no subject should hurt or molest them acknowledging also that the forementioned fifteenth was given Pro expulsione Judaeorum and that too for their expulsion This reverend Lawyer tels us this act de Judaismo was made in the 18. year of the King but a little after the Feast of Hilary whence these perhaps imper●inent thoughts have sometimes come in upon me that if there was no mistake of this year for the third of this King in which formerly we read their usury was restrained then perhaps this same act de Judaismo and the other for their banishment might be enacted in several Sessions of Parliament viz. this last the 31. of August after as Matthew of Westminster mentions and the record lost the act being omitted in the writings of Lawyers as deemed of no use And for losing of the record I am easilyer induced to think it possible because I am credibly informed that that of the act for establishing the use of the Common-prayer Book was also missing heretofore and thereupon some non-conformists escaped that which else had light upon them And this I desire to tender as an excuse for my keeping close to History in which has lyen the work of this relation nothing desirous to impose upon the belief of any or hereby to contradict so worthy an Author Thus admitted by William the Conqueror about the year 1070. they were expelled in the year 1290. being here some 220. years longer by five or six then their Ancestors were in Egypt during which time we may easily see the English Nation was as in bondage And by this History impartially though truly related may that Book sufficiently be answered by occasion of which this was written the profit which redounded by them to this Nation their saithfulness also being sufficiently discovered upon which grounds the Rabbi raises his short discourse But because it may more clearly appear and the Case may be more fully debated we shall descend to his particulars and scan them fully The Author though perhaps learned enough in other histories yet seems either utterly to be ignorant of ours or else wittingly to decline that which he knew would injure his cause sufficiently In his Epistle to his Highness the Lord Protector he desires that all Laws may be taken away which stand in force against this innocent people made in times and during the government of Kings But if he please to turn his eye upon what hath been written he may easily see that it was not innocency but the clear contrary that drew out these Laws against them and for that he and his Country-men think this easier to be procured since the Kingly Government is taken away he may know that it was by the Kings alone they were kept here so long The people would gladly have been rid of them an hundred years before they were and desired their expulsion above all things Nay they offered a fifth part of their moveables to have them expelled but King Edward only sucking sweet from them and intending to make his Markets out of this contention upon their offering more gave them leave to buy their continuance for a little longer And in the War betwixt Henry the third and his Barons as is above declared they stood for him conspired the ruine of them and the Citizens of London and that more for their own ends then out of any faithfulness to him In his Declaration to the Commonwealth of England he acquaints us with the motives of his coming over the first is to obtain free exercise of his Religion for his Countreymen Here indeed it was anciently granted but what good came of it It s the desire of this people to be fishing in troubled waters they may have hopes in this juncture of time to catch proselytes what his own design may be I shall not question if we should trust him upon his word it might be unsafe to deal so well with all his followers Their Ancestors compassed sea land to make a proselyte and he confesses this to have been the cause of their expulsion formerly out of Spain but let us descend unto his second In this I cannot but wonder at the Rabbi It s believed that the time of their redemption is near saith he and that they must first be scattered throughout the world What then therefore if this be true they must first have a Seat also in England Why they had a Seat here once before for the space of above 200. years and must they needs come again or else their dispersion as to this place cannot be accomplished The third motive upon which he came over was for the benefit of our Nation which he so much desires that which truly if sincere we cannot but applaud it being a thing not usual for us to be so loved by that people We cannot but thank him for his affection but must a little question his grounds by and by when coming to his Book we shall descend with him to particulars His fourth motive is no less to be approved of His particular respect to this Commonwealth is a motive to his sollicitation for the readmission of his Country-men He might easilier if he so much love us have leave given him to continue but we cannot but suppose he can scarce promise the like affection in all his brethren and if he should it s sooner said then believed And whereas he commends hospitality and kindeness to strangers so much to our consideration our Nation was never unkind or churlish but the Jews too much familiarity with it heretofore has put them out of the influence of hospitality Now to come to the Book it self Three things he proposes to his Highness the Lord Protector as making a people well-beloved or desirable amongst

for their own gain though much to the Subjects discommodity and trouble And if they chiefly abound in the Turks Dominions it s no wonder All the world knows the slavery of his Subjects he counting all their goods his own and they made for him not himself for them its no wonder if he care not how they be used how pillaged how oppressed If he imploys the Jews so much in gathering his money he knows them to be fit instruments for his purpose He knows how to press and squeeze out of them what they have before sucked up All his Subjects leave him their heir at their death no child having any of his fathers estate but what he bestows upon him There they cannot but be especially kept from risings and insurrections under that Government which having so many Officers subordinate to one another and the Countrey distributed to their charge all Insurrections except great indeed may be quickly dashed The Author goes not about to reckon up how many Bassa's Beglerbegs or Sansacks there are of his Nation they are exempted he saith from going to war and there 's very good reason for it For their Religion the Turks account of them worse then of Christians not suffering one of them to turn Turk till he first be baptized And when the Grand Signior dyes what pillaging of them as well as Christians uses there to be After this he reckons what numbers of Jews there are in Germany Poland Italy Barbary the Low-countreys and how many are preferred to places of great Trust and Influence still always acknowledging how they are despised of the multitude If they were profitable to these Countreys the contrary whereof is seen for the most part by the grudges of the subject he would scarce from thence necessarily make it follow that their reduction must also be convement for this Nation If they have such experience of them as this Land hath had if gone I believe they would scarce recal them The Emperor of Germany and King of Poland have tolerated that which put to the voyce of the people for whose good they are and ought to reign would soon be removed and in Poland and those places so odious they are that as once here in England they are distinguished in their habits to be known from the Natives being noted also for that practice of Usury of which our adversary would clear them The Pope with other Princes of Italy sucks not little profit from their oppressing of the people he fares well by their extortion and therefore willingly suffers them especially since the Reformation of Religion out of emulation against the Prorestants whom he hates worse then them or the Turks themselves as the Jew loves Turks above Christians The Republique of Venice and so that of the Low-Countreys tolerates them and they may have particular reason for it Their Government is such that those who are Merchants are also Senators and few but they are found in both these ways who are any thing considerable and therefore what they may hinder them in Trade it is supplyed in customs and other duties equally redounding to the profit of all whereas our Merchants being fewer in number if the State should be something benefited by their Trade and others thereby be something eased they alone would seel the weight of the burthen But neither in the Low-Countreys are they so exceedingly fond of their company though scarce can they with conveniency as things now stand turn them oft divers of their families being matched to them covetousness procuring that which might be abhorred by Religion So are they likewise in Portugal intermartied the people being generally weary of their guests Reason of State makes the Dutch-men tolerate all Religions but the Popish From whence shall it not presently be concluded that all their neighbors should do the like And now I come to his second thing which he proposes as a motive to receive them and that is their Faithfalness and Honesty I think I might well spare my pams to answer this any further then by what hath been already shewed How faithful they have been to this English Nation ●et any impartial Reader Judge They who shall out of scorn and hatred of our Profestion crucisie children lay violent hands on tender infants and that by common practice they who shall clip counterfeit and mangle our coyn shall rise up and butcher 200000 with unheard of 〈◊〉 send ●●●●ssages to Pagans to stir them up against the common name of Christianity wishing with Caligula it had but one head poyson fountains and the like shall we count them faithful They took part indeed with our Henry the third against his Barons but it is no uncharitableness to judge it done more for their own ends then any faithfulness to the then Magistrate If they have done sometime that which is good in it self yet they have done it with such malicious minds that God hath given them but the reward of wickedness So in the year 1421. they furnished the poor Christians of Bohemia with money and munition against their Antichristian Persecutors Krantzius l. 11 Saxon. cap. 7. and therefore were quite banished out of Bavere quite bereft of all their money and coyn And lastly banished all the Dominions belonging to Frederick Duke of that Province Indignities offer'd to Religion in such an horrid way as by the vile butchery of poor innocents upon a cross can no way come in upon the account of faithfulness and yet this they have ordinarily practised in other parts as well before as since their expulsion If they may finde an opportunity what their will may be we may gather from that their carriage during the troubles betwixt the Emperor and Pope when hoping Christian Religion would have dyed in those wars seeing the state of Christendom deeply indangered in these civil broils Krantzius Wandal Hist l. 9. cap 23. Vide Baron in Annal. ad ann 28. 1320. 13.48 they according to their Jewish policy seek to thrust it over head and ears in blood poysoning the fountains throughout Germany offering like violence to the Sacraments as they had used to do before And we may further see their faithfulness and carriage what it hath been since their expulsion to go no further then to the days of Queen Elizabeth In the year 1568. and the ninth of her reign they were expell'd by Pius Quintus the then Pope Hieron Rub. lib. 11. Histor Ravenna and that even for their horrid and extravagant Usuries and Oppressions for their combining with Thieves and Robbers for Sorceries or Magical Charms in winning women to their own and others lusts And are we not satisfied with that horrid and abominable Treason of Lopez by whom we have warning enough never to meddle with them more as a people always working mischief to this Nation This Miscreant taken in by the Queen to be her Houshold Physitian conspires with her Spanish Enemies for money to work her destruction and