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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	john_n	king_n	lewis_n	3,557	5	11.1220	5	false

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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

the Sailers out of greediness of gain rob rifle and pillage and setting them on fire get them to their ships hoise up sails and away they go Thus God raises up even strangers who came thither to trade to scourge this crooked and rebellious people The next place which took the alarum was S. Edmundsbury in Suffolk on the 15 of March Holinsh and the 2 of the King when they being no less hated for their cruel oppression are set upon by the people plundred and slain Things were sooner composed here by the care of the Abbot and the residue of the Jews expelled the Town never to return thither again At Stamford and at Lin also at the same time were great stirs all places desiring nothing more then to be rid of these their guests But the greatest commotion was at York Mat. Paris alii when the hand of God severely punished their stubbornness and cruelty There March the 17. in the same year the people envying the happiness of those Towns who so used them set most violently upon them forcing them for safety to take their heels Hence four or five hundred fly to Towers to save themselves where being besieged and seeing little hopes to escape the danger one of their Rabbies makes an Oration to them exhorting them rather to kill one another then fall into their hands who opposed their Law He begins first cuts his wives throat whose name was Anna next his childrens then his friends and lastly his own the rest follow his example throwing their slain relations over upon their Christians heads Some in another Tower hearing what was become of these set the place and themselves on fire calling upon their companions hard by to do the like but these esteeming better of their lives then so offer to yield on condition that for turning Christians and being baptized they might have them spared This is agreed upon and concluded but they coming out were most perfidiously cruelly butchered malice and passion breaking the bounds of faith given After this massacre the people run to the Cathedral get all their Bonds and Obligations into their hands by which they had bound many a man unto them so unreasonably as if the Authors were not of credit which report it it were incredible But all these a fire being made in the midst of the Church they reduce to ashes Now the King was beyond the Seas on his way to Palestine Mat. Paris alii but receiving this news hears it with great indignation fretting that his orders being so little observed his authority should be so much infringed as also for that he had received upon his setting forwards great sums of money from the Jews wherefore he sends his commands to the Bishop of Ely to see these insurrections severely punished The Bishop according to these injunctions marches down to York with a great Army but mist his prey the chief Actors in the Tragedy being fled into Scotland upon the rumor of his coming The Magistrates and chief Citizens excused themselves as not accessary to the fact which was committed principally by the Souldiers who being crossed and gathered together were to pass over to the King and follow him on his expedition and other Countrey people which flocked thither from the Towns near adjoyning But the stout Bishop would not be satisfied with this put off but fleeced the Citizens the multitude being pardoned for that the Ring-leaders of the rout were fled away The Inhabitants of Lin excused themselves laying the matter upon the Sailers and had little said unto them In the sixth year of this Kings reign 1194. Rog Hoved. in Rich. 1. were Justices Itinerant sent throughout the Land in September Amongst other Instructions this is given them in charge to enquire diligently of murthers of Jews of the Jews Pledges Goods Lands and Writings Commissioners and places are appointed to inroll all their Debts Pledges Lands Rents and Possessions and great penal●ies appointed to the breakers of these orders according to that above-mentioned that they and all theirs are the Kings All this while these several Kings bore with them by reason of the profit which redounded to their coffers yet no great damage did they hitherto suffer But now their actions rendring them more and more obnoxious as well as their Religion and having hoarded up abundance of wealth to the undoing of the subject from henceforth they become a prey to the Prince as often as his necessities call upon him who knowing where to have supply forces them always by strong hand to disgorge themselves which provoking them for recruit to double their diligence the people come to pay for it at the last Now had King John succeeded his brother Matth. Westin a Prince sufficiently covetous and griping Being in want or at least pretending it in his eleventh year 1210 he commands all the Jews of both Sexes throughout his Kingdom to be apprehended imprisons them and inflicts great punishments upon them that they might empty themselves to fill his purse some he commands to have an eye pull'd out one at Bristol being more resolute then his fellows stands it out refusing to redeem his liberty at so great a rate as the King required Matth. Paris He to take a speedy and certain way with him as he thought commanded he should every day as long as he refused to submit K. John in the first of his raign granted them such a priviledge as can scarce be paralleld making one Jocob of London High-Priest that so they might acrifice which else could not be done J. ●cok have a tooth pull'd out of his head The poor man had but eight in all stood out seven days then having but one tooth left him to save that agrees to the Kings demand and pays the money By this time their iniquities were grown so high that they were counted a burden to the earth on which they trod no rising no stir but part of it must fall upon them In the Wars betwixt the King and Barons the City of London was taken by the Barons men who presently breaking in fall upon the Jews destroy them as the common plague Stows survey and rase their houses down to the ground of the stones of which Ludgate was afterwards partly repaired as appeared by an inscription in a stone when the gate was builded the last time King John after this leaves this life Speed and his Kingdom also to a childe in a sad condition Now was Lewis the Dolphin in England and the royal prerogative in the hands of the Barons yet by the honesty and prudence of the Earl of Pembrook all things were reduced to a quiet state condition the aliens expelled and peace setled The Jews during his non-age were little molested but in his 14. year 1230. they did sufficiently smart K. H 3. is for France and wanting money whither should he betake himself but to their purses he gets the third part of all

their 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 〈…〉 16. ●●at 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 disquiet He so orders the matter Baker 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 lib. 7. Wandal 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 ha●red not in the least degree Holinsh Ex Eulog and Fox Acts and Monum 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 fir● 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 Matth. Paris making a visit to his French Dominions 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 Matth. Paris Holinsh alii and tortures they again crucifie and murder 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 ho●s● wh●re 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 November 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