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A91275	A short demurrer to the Jewes long discontinued remitter into England. Comprising an exact chronological relation of their first admission into, their ill deportment, misdemeanors, condition, sufferings, oppressions, slaughters, plunders, by popular insurrections, and regal exactions in; and their total, final banishment by judgment and edict of Parliament, out of England, never to return again: collected out of the best historians. With a brief collection of such English laws, Scriptures, as seem strongly to plead, and conclude against their readmission into England, especially at this season, and against the general calling of the Jewish nation. With an answer to the chief allegations for their introduction. / By William Prynne Esq; a bencher of Lincolnes-Inne.; Short demurrer to the Jewes long discontinued remitter into England. Part 1.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1656 (1656)	Wing P4078; Thomason E483_1; ESTC R203287	90,701	118

undermine our Religion Church and State and sow the seeds of Heresie Blasphemy Popery Superstition Schisms and Divisions amongst us they having formerly sent over some of late years amongst us under the notion and vizard of converted Jews as Ramsey the Scot and Eleazer and Joseph Ben-Isaiah all Jesuitical wicked cheating Impostors the two last whereof have cheated the honest people of the Nation of many thousand pounds being notorious Villains one of them formerly a Trooper and Plunderer in Prince Ruperts army as he confessed to his Hostesse at Dursly in Glocestershire in his drink where he would have ravished the Maid-servant of the house locking the door upon her whiles she was warming his bed in the night and upon her crying out for help fled away presently in the night to avoid apprehension And yet wanders about cheating the people in other places instead of being brought to Tyburne for his Villanies And if they abuse and cheat us thus already much more will they doe it upon and after the Jewes admission 9. To pretermit their banishment out of Rome by the Emperor Claudius recorded Acts 18. 2. and that as Ecclesiastical Historians report for their cheating and tumults there raised I shall only in brief relate how they have from time to time been banished expelled many Christian Cities Countries Kingdoms and their Synagogues burnt and destroyed especially for their Infidelity and other forementioned Misdemeanors Crimes Villanies About the year of Chri●● 430. at the instigation of St. Cyril Bishop of Alexandri● and the Christians there they were expelled and banished that famous City where they had long inhabited for their insolencies seditious conspiracies against the Christians About the year of Christ 615. they were banished out of Jerusulem it self by Heraclius the Emperour as Zonaras Tom. 3. in his life Paulus Diaconus rerum Rom. l. 18. Cent. Magd. 7. c. 14. storie About Anno 616. King Sisebutus banished them all out of Spaine unlesse they would turn Christians which the most of them refusing to doe departed thereupon into France as the marginal Authors unanimously attest About the year 618. they were all banished out of France by King Dagobert unlesse they would renounce their Judaism and turn Christians upon the command and instigation of Her a●lius the Emperour as Regino Chron. l. 1. Cent. Magdeb. 7. c. 14. relate King Wamba about the year 710. banished them out of the Province of Narbon as Rodericus Toletanus de Rebus Hisp. l. 3. c. 11. informs us The Emperor Phocas about the year 60● banished them out of the City of Antioch for the tumults they had there raised against the Christians and Government About the year 1196. they were banished out of the City of Mentz and near the same time out of the City of Triers and the Bishoprick thereof by Bishop Everhard Philip Augustus King of France banished them all out of France by several Edicts Anno 1152 1162. 1182. for these reasons because they had divers times crucified children of Christians in Paris and elswhere in contempt of Christ and his Passion entertained Christian men servants and maid servants in their houses who did likewise play the Jews with them contrary to the Decrees of God and the Church above measure oppressed impoverished by their Usuries the Citizens Knights Gentry and Country people both in the Cities Suburbs and Villages of France and detained some of them prisoners in their houses like captives binding them by an Oath not to depart out of them most vilely profaned the sacred Vessels pawned to them by church-men in cases of necessity causing their little children ordinarily to drink wine and eat sops out of them in contempt of the Sacrament and casting the silver Vessels Crosses and guilded Books of the Gospel pawned to them into Jakes in a sack that the Christians might not find them and because the Saracens upbraided the Christians for entertaining them amongst them being the professed Enemies of Christ Upon these grounds as also because their wealth and Number were so increased that they had almost gotten half the City of Paris into their hands King Philip caused them to be all apprehended through France in one day as they were in their Synagogues then spoiled them of all their rich gold and silver garments confiscated all their Lands Houses Possessions and banished them the Realm notwithstanding the intercessions of many Bishops and Nobles bribed with their gold and gifts on their behalf and the proffers of great summes of money to him by the Jews wherewith he would not be mollified After which he caused their Synagogues to be prophaned and then consecrated and converted to Churches that so where Christ was first blasphemed after the manner of the Jews he might in the same places be praised both by the Clergy and people as Vincentius records at large After this creeping into that Realm again by money and Bribes they were again banished out of France and their goods confiscated by King Philip the Fair in the year 1293. as some or 1307. as others compute it and driven into Germany In the year 1349. at the earnest importunity of the people they were all banished out of Alsatia and the Imperial Cities by the agreement of the Bishops and Nobles and most of them burnt and destroyed as they had been formerly in those parts by Earl Emicho An. 1102. who then banished them thence Ludovicus Duke of Bavaria about the year 1450 banished all the Iews out of his Territories as Aeneas Picolom●neus in his Europ● staius sub Frederico l. 3. c. 32. p. 79. assures us In the years 1474. 1482. and 1492. they were all banished out of Spain by King Ferdinand surnamed the Catholique from whence they were transported and received into Portugal they paying to K. Iohn 2. 8. Duckets for every poll of them at first for their admission which much augmented his Eschequer though it diminished his piety and honour Not long after Anno 1497. they were driven and banished out of Portugal by King Emanuel And in the year 1539. they were banished out of Naples and Sicily by Charles the 5th To which I might adde the destruction burning and utter extirpation of the Jews by the Rubeaquenses Anno 1309. and 1338. Munst Cosm l. 3. p. 547. out of Worms and Spires An. 1092. Munsteri Cosm l. 3. p. 580. Out of Prague by VVratislaus for hating and slaying the Christians Geor. Bartholdus Pontanus Bohemiae Piae l. 2. p. 20. Out of Berne An. 1287. Munsteri Cosm l. 3. p. 582. Having therefore been thus frequently banished by Christian Kings Princes from time to time at the earnest sollicitation of their godly Christian Ministers Bishops People and by our King and Parliament too out of England so long since never to return again what shadow colour of Piety Policy Prudence Justice Law Reason there can be for any person or persons whatsoever to re-admit them except the

imagining that they should do God good service if they assaulted these his enemies boldly rushed upon them no man opposing himself against so great attempts whereupon divers of the Jews were slain the rest being received into the Castle hardly escaped with their lives their goods being all plundered and the plunderers departing freely away with their booty none of them being so much as questioned or punished by the Kings discipline The Citizens of Lincoln hearing what was done to the Jews of Stanford taking occasion and being animated by the examples of others were willing to do something against them and being assembled together against the Jews inhabiting together with them became enraged against them But these Jews being made more wary by the slaughters and damages of others some few of them suffering harm and damages the rest fled timely with their monies into the Royal Fort and there secured themselves In all other places wheresoever the Jews were found they were pillaged and slain by the hands of the Pilgrims who hastning through England towards Jerusalem decreed to rise up first against the Jews before they invaded the Saracens Hereupon all the Jews who were found in their own houses at Norwich were slain on the 8. of February some few of them only escaping to the Castle At the same time The Nobles and Gentry of Yorkeshire nothing fearing the Kings Proclamation the wicked Jews having by Usury reduced thē to extream poverty joyning with them some holy soldiers brake up th● Houses of the chief Jews equall to the Kings Palace sle● their families spoiled their goods and burnt their ho●●s in the night and then retired themselves to their h●mes in the dark After which the promiscuous multitud● making an assault upon the Jews slew them without di●●●●ction of sex or age except some few who would give up their names to Christ in baptism to save their lives On the 18 day of April being Palm-Sunday the rest of the Jews in the City of Yorke being 500 men and women besides their children fearing the violence of the Christians shut up themselves within the Castle of Yorke by the will and consent of the Guardian thereof and of the Sheriff who being thus received into the Castle for their defence by the Guardian and Sheriff would not afterwards deliver it up unto them again Whereupon the Sheriff and keeper of the Castle being much offended with them assembled the Souldiers of the County and men of the City that they might free the Castle from those Jews exhorting them to do their utmost endeavours to effect it who when they had assaulted the Castle day and night the Jews offered a great summe of money to save their lives but all in vain the people being so incensed against them that they would not accept it whereupon a certain Jew skilfull in their Law stood up and said Men of Israel hearken to my counsel It is better for us to die for our Law then to fall into the hands of the enemies of our Law and our very Law commands the same thing Upon which all the Jews as well men as women consented to his counsel and every Father of a Family going with a sharp razor first of all cut the throats of his own wife and children and then of his family casting the dead corps of those whom they had thus sacrificed to Devils over the Castle walls upon the Christian people After which burning their rich cloathes an casting their golden Vessels and Jewels into Privies that the Christians might not be inriched by them these murderers shutting up themselves and the rest they had killed in the Kings house set it on fire and so burnt both themselves and it After which the Citizens of Yorke and the Souldiers of the County burnning all the Jews houses together spoyled their goods seized their possessions to themselves and burn'd all the charters of their debts The King being informed hereof and much incensed both for the contempt of his Royal Proclamation and Authority and dammage to his Exchequer to which all the Goods and Debts of the Jews being Usurers belonged commanded his Chancellor to inflict due punishment upon the authors of this Sedition Whereupon after Easter the Bishop of Ely the Kings Chancellor gathering a great Army together came to Yorke to apprehend those as malefactors who had destroyed the Jews of the City And understanding that this was done by the command of the Sheriff and Governour of the castle he put them both from their Offices and took sureties from the Citizens of the City for to keep the Peace of the King and Kingdom and to stand to the Law in the Kings court concerning the death of the Jews and commanded the Souldiers of the County who were at the destruction of the Jews to be apprehended but the chief of them flying into Scotland escaped not one of them all being put to death for this great massacre and Riot Henry de Knighton De Eventibus Angliae l. 2. c. 13. gives this censure of these slaughters and popular tumults against the Jews The Zeal of the Christians conspired against the Jews in England but in truth not sincerely that is for the cause of faith but either out of emulation and envy because of their felicity or out of gaping after their goods The Justice truly of God not at all approving such things but decently ordering them that by this means he might punish the insolency of a perfidious Nation He likewise addes That one John a most bold Christian flying from Stanford with many spoyls of the Jews to Northampton was there secretly slain by his Host to get his money and thrown without the city in the night the murderer flying therupon After which through the dreams of old women falacious signs the simple people atributing to him the merits of a martyr honoured his Sepulchre with solemn vigils and gifts This was derided by wife men yet it was acceptable to the Clerks there living by reason of the gains Which the Bishop hearing of presently un-saincted him and prophaned the Monuments of this false martyr continued by the study of simple and covetous persons I wish no such plunderers as this might be saincted and adored in our age as too many of them are even before their deaths who will be un-saincted after them as well as this bold plunderer of the Jews Mr. Fox in his Acts and Monuments Vol. 1. p. 305. relating the story of the massacres of the Jews this year out of the Chronicle of VVestminster saith That there were no less than a thousand five hundred of the Jews destroyed at that time in York alone beside those slaughtered in other places so that this year which the Jews took to be their Jubile was to them a year of confusion Neither was this plague of theirs undeserved for every year commonly their custom was to get some Christian mans child from the Parents and on Good-Friday to crucifie him in despite of our

Religion King Richard the first after his return out of the Holy Land in the year 1194. appointed Justices Laws and Orders for preventing the frauds and regulating the contracts of the Jews both between themselves and between Christians and them thus recorded at large by Roger de Hoveden and briefly touched only by some others All the Debts Pawns Morgages Lands Houses Rents and Possessions of the Jews shall be registred The Jew who shall conceal any of these shall forfeit to the King his body and the concealment and likewise all his possessions and chattels neither shall it be lawfull to the Jew ever to recover the concealment Likewise 6 or 7 places shall be provided in which they shall make all their contracts and there shall be appointed two Lawyers that are Christians and two Lawyers who are Jews and two egal Registers and before them and the Clorks of William of the Church of St. Maries and William of Chimilli shall their Contracts be made and Charters shall be made of their contracts by way of Indenture And one part of the Indenture shall remain with the Jew sealed with his seal to whom the money is lent and the other part shall remain in the common chest wherein there shall be 3 locks and keys whereof the 2 Christians shall keep one key and the 2 Jews another and the Clerks of William of St. Maries Church and William of Chimilli shall keep the third And moreover there shall be three seals to it and those who keep the seals shall put the seals thereto Moreover the Clorks of the said William and William shall keep a roll of the transcripts of all the Charters and as the Charters shall be altered so let the roll be likewise For every Charter there shall be 3 pence paid one moity thereof by the Jew and the other moity by him to whom the money is lent whereof the 2 writers shall have 2 pence and the keeper of the roll the third And from henceforth no contract shall he made with nor payment made to the Jews nor any alteration made of the Charters but before the said persons or the greater part of thē if all of them cannot be present And the aforesaid 2 Christians shall have one roll of the Debts or receites of the payments which from henceforth are to be made to the Jews and the 2 Jews one and the keeper of the roll one Moreover every Jew shall swear upon his Roll that all his debts and pawns and rents and all his goods and possessions he shall cause to be enrolled and that he shall conceal nothing as is aforesaid And if he shall know that any one shall conceal any thing he shall secretly reveal it to the Iustices sent unto them and that they shall detect and shew unto them all Falsifiers or forgers of Charters and clippers of moneys where or when they shall know them and likewise all false charters By these strict politick Laws the King and his Officers knew the particular wealth monies goods debts and real and personal Estates of every Jew and in whose hands they were and so could seize and command them at their pleasure upon any real or pretended misdemeanors or complaints against them King John in the year of our Lord 1210. commanded all the Jews of both sexes throughout England to be apprehended and imprisoned and to be afflicted with most grievous torments that so they might satisfie the Kings pleasure with their mony Some of them being grievously tortured gave all things which they had and promised more that they might by this means escape so many kinds of torments Amongst whom one Jew at Bristol punished with various torments when as he would neither redeem himself nor submit to any fine the King commanded his tormentors that they should every day pull out one of his grinding teeth untill he should pay to the King Ten thousand marks of silver And when at last for 7 dayes space they had pulled out 7 of his teeth with intollerable torment and now on the 8 day the Tormentors had begun the like work again this Jew an over-slow provider for his profit gave them the aforesaid money that he might save the 8 tooth to himself the other 7 being pulled out who with much more wisdom and less pain might have done so before and have saved his 7 teeth having but 8 in all In the year 1222. in a Council at Canterbury under Archbishop Stephen a certain Apostate Jew made of a Christian a Deacon and afterwards apostatizing was there judicially punisht whom Falco presently apprehending caused to be hanged as Matthew Paris writes but Bracton and others record that he was burned to ashes King Henry the 3 Anno 1230. wanting moneys constrained the Jews whether they would or would not to give him the third part of all their movable goods and that with all expedition The Jews in the year of our Lord 1231. builded a Synagogue very curiously but the Christians obtained of the King that it should be dedicated to our blessed Lady and was since by the same King Henry granted to the Brethren of St. Anthony of Vienna and called St. Anthonies Hospitall In the year of our Lord 1233. King Henry the 3. at his proper costs built in London not farr from the old Temple a decent House and Church sufficient for a Covent with other convenient edifices thereto belonging called The house of the Converts To which house the converted Jews flying leaving the blindnesse of Judaism under a certain honest rule of living might have a certain habitation a safe refuge and a sufficient livelihood during their whole liues without servile labour and the gain of Usury Whereupon it came to passe that in a short time there was gathered together to that place a great number of Converts who were there baptized and instructed in the Christian Faith and lived laudably being governed by a skillfull Rector specially appointed for that purpose King Henry in the year 1235. keeping his Court and the Nativity at VVestminster with many of his Bishops and Nobles there were brought before him upon the complaint of John Toly 7 Jews who had circumcised a certain child in Norwich whom they had stollen away from his parents and kept for a years space from the sight of Christians intending to crucifie him on the feast of Easter But being convicted for this fact they confessed the truth of the thing in the Kings presence and so being at the Kings pleasure both for their life and members were detained in prison for this fact and some of them drawn and hanged In the year of our Lord 1240. the Jews circumcised a Christian child at Norwich and being circumcised they called him Jurninus but reserved him to be crucified in contumely of Jesus Christ crucified But the Father of the child from whom the Jews had stollen him diligently seeking after his Sonne at the last found him shut up in the

by usurious contracts heap up infinite heaps of money Let the King rely upon them and gape after their emoluments Verily they have supplanted impoverisht us Which the K. howsoever dissembles to know exacting fro us those things we cannot give him although he would pull out our eyes or cut our throats when he had first pulled off our skins And speaking this with sighs and tears hindring his speech he held his peace falling almost into an extasie ready to die Which when it came to the knowledge of the Magistrates they permitted them not to depart out of the Realm saying Whether will ye flee O wretches Behold the King of France hateth and persecuteth you and hath condemned you to perpetual exile shunning Charibdis you desire to be drowned in Scylla And so the small little substance which was left to them for their mean sustentation was violently extorted from them King Henry the 3d. An. 1255. exacted with great earnestnesse from the Jews although very frequently impoverished 8000 marks to be speedily paid unto him under pain of hanging But they seeing nothing else hanging over them but destruction with confusion answered all unanimously Sir King we see that thou sparest neither Christians nor Jews but studiest with crafty fetches to impoverish all men we have no hope of respiration left us the Usurers of the Pope have supplanted us permit us to depart out of thy kingdom with safe conduct and we will seek for our selves such a mansion as we can be it what it will Which when the King had heard he cryed out with a querulous voice saying It is no marvel if I covet money it is an horrible thing to imagin the debts wherein I am held bound By the head of God they amount to the sum of two hundred thousand marks if I should say of three I should not exceed the bounds of truth I am deceived on every side I am a maimed and abridged King yea now but an halfed King For having made a certain estimate of the expences of my rents the sum of the annual rent of Edward my Sonne amounts to above 15000 marks There is therefore a necessity for me to live of the mony gotten from what place soever from whomsoever and by what means soever Therefore being made another Titus or Vespasian he sold the Jews for some years to Earl Richard his brother that those whom the King had excoriated he might eviscerate Yet the Eatl spared them considering their abbreviated power and ignominious poverty The same year about the Feast of Peter and Paul the Jews of Lincoln stole a child called Hugo being 8 years old and when as they had nourished him in a certain most secret chamber with milk and other childish aliments they sent almost to all the Cities of England wherein the Jews lived that in contempt and reproach of Jesus Christ they should be present at their sacrifice at Lincoln for they had as they said a certain child hid to be crucified Whereupon many assembled at Lincoln And comming together they appointed one Lincoln Jew for the Judge as it were for Pilate By whose judgement by the consent of all the child is afflicted with sundry torments He is whipped even unto bloud and lividnesse crowned with thorns wearied with spittings and shriekings and moreover he is pricked by them all with ponyards made to drink gall derided with reproaches and blasphemies and frequently called by them with grinding teeth Jesus the false Prophet And after rhey had derided him in divers manners they crucified him and peirced him with a spear to the heart And when the child had given up the ghost they took down his body from the crosse and took the bowels out of his corps for what end is unknown but it was said it was to exercise Magical arts The mother of the child diligently sought for her absent son for some dayes and it was told her by neighbours that the last time they saw her child whom she sought he was playing with the children of the Jews of his age and entred into the house of a certain Jew Whereupon the woman suddenly entred that house and saw the body of the child cast into a certain pit And having warily called the Baylifs of the City together the body was found and drawn forth and there was made a wonderful spectacle among the people But the woman mother of the child complaining and crying out provoked all the Citizens there assembled together to tears sighs There was then present at the place John de Lexinton a circumspect and discreet man and moreover elegantly learned who said We have sometime heard that the Jews have not feared to attempt such things in reproach of Jesus Christ our crucified Lord. And one Jew being apprehended to wit he into whose house the child entred playing and therefore more suspected than the rest he saith unto him Owretch knowest thou not that speedy destruction abides thee All the gold of England will not suffice for thy deliverance or redemption Notwithstanding I will tell thee although unworthy by what means thou maist preserve thy life and members that thou maist not be dismembred I will save both to thee if thou dost not fear to discover to me whatsoever things are done in this case without falshood Whereupon this Jew whose name was Copin believing he had thus found out a way of escape answered saying Sir John if thou makest thy words good by thy deeds I will reveal wonderful things to thee and the industry of Sir John animating and exciting him thereto the Jew said Those things are true which the Christians say The Jews almost every year crucify one child to the injury and contumely of Jesus but it is not found out every year for they do this secretly and in hidden and most secret places But this child whom they call Hugo our Jews have most unmercifully crucified and when he was dead and they desired to hide him being dead he could not be buried in the earth nor hid For the corps of the innocent was reputed unprofitable for Divination for he was unbowelled for that end And when in the morning it was thought to be buried the earth brought it forth and vomitted it out and the body sometimes appeared inhuman whereupon the Jews abhorred it At last it was cast headlong into a deep pit neither as yet could it be kept secret For the importunate mother diligently searching all things at last shewed to the Baylifs the body she had found But Sir John notwithstanding this kept the Jew bound in chains When these things were known to the Canons of the Church of Lincoln they requested the body to be given to them which was granted them And when it had been sufficiently viewed by an infinite company of people it was honourably buryed in the Church of Lincoln as the corps of a most precious Martyr The Jews kept the child alive for 10 days that being fed for

Christian for ever the moity of his lands and of his chattels for his sustenance as afore is said and the chiefhouse 3. And if any thing stollen at this hour shall be found in the possession of a Jew and any will sue let the Jew have his summons if he may have it and if not he shall answer so that he shall never be privileged for it otherwise than a Christian 4. And that all the Jews shall be residents in the Cities and in the Burroughs which are the Kings own where the Chest for the Jews Indenture is wont to be And that every Jew after he is past 7. years of age shall carry a sign or badge in his chief garment that is to say in form of two Talles of yellow taffety of the length of six fingers and breadth of 3. fingers or handfulls And that every one after he is past 12 years shall pay 3 d. the poll every year to the King which shall be paid at Easter and this shall be intended as well of women as of men 5. And that no Jew shall have power to infeoff another Jew nor Christian of their houses rents or tenements which they have now purchased not to alien them in any manner nor to make an acquittance to any Christian of his debt without the special license of the King untill the King hath otherwise ordained 6. And because holy Church wills and suffers that they should live and be protected the King takes them into his Protection and gives them his peace and wills that they shall live and shall be guarded and defended by his Sheriffs and his other Bayliffs and by his Leiges and commands that none shall doe them harm injury nor force in their bodies nor in their goods moveables or unmoveables And that they shall not be impleaded sued nor challenged in any Court but in the Kings Court wheresoever they are 7. And that none of them shall be obedient respondent nor render rent but to the King and his Bayliffs in his name if it be not of their houses which they now hold rendering rent saving the right of holy Church 8. And the King grants them that they shall live in their lawfull merchandizes and by their labour and that they shall converse with the Christians for lawfull merchandizing in selling and in buying But yet that by this priviledge nor any other shall they be levant rising or couchant lying down amongst them And the King will not that by reason of their merchandize that they should be in lots nor scots nor Tallage with those of the Cities or Burroughs where they remain seeing they are tailable to the King as his own Vassals and to none other 9. Moreover the King grants them that they may buy houses and curtelages in the Cities or Burroughs where they reside so as they hold them in chief of the King saving to the Lords the Services due and accustomed 10. And that they may take Lands to farm for term of six years or under without taking homages or fealties or such manner of service of a Christian and without having advowson of holy Church for to support their life in the world if they know not how to merchandize or be unable to labour And this power for to take Lands to farm shall not endure to them but 15 years from this time forth to come By these Laws this politick King to please his English Christian Subjects who desired and sollicited the Jews banishment in Parliament abridged many of their former priviledges and put many new restraints upon them And yet on the other hand to gratifie the Jews who gave him more monies than the English to reside here still he takes them all into his special protection prohibits all violence to their persons or estates and grants them some petty priviledges for the present which seemed to content them and made for his own advantage more than theirs K. Edward the 1. the next year 1288. being in Gascoigne a certain English Knight decreed to convent a Jew for the undue detention of a certain Mannor morgaged to him before the Judges but the crafty Jew refused to answer pretending a Charter of King Henry heretofore which was granted to him that he should not be drawn into judgement before any Judge except only before the person of the King The Knight being troubled at this went into Gascoigne that he might obtain some remedy hereupon from the King Whom when the King had heard he answered It is not seemly for children to make void the deeds of their parents to whom by Gods Law they are commanded to give reverence wherefore I have decreed not to make void the deed of my Father but I grant to thee and to the rest of my Realm by the like Law lest a Jew might seem better than a Christian that for any injury whatsoever done to the Iew so long as he shall enjoy his Charter you shall not be convented before any Iudge except my self The Knight returning with this priviledge the Jew considering that danger and peril hung over his head voluntarily renounced his Charter evacuating the condition of his priviledge and wishing that both parties might be subject to the Common Law The year following Anno 1289. King Edward taking upon him the character of the Crosse at Blankeford in Gascoigne presently banished all the Jews out of Gascoigne and all other his Lands which he possessed in the Realm of France AS ENEMIES OF THE CROSSE From whence returning into England Anno 1290 he was joyfully received at London both by the Clergy and all the people and the same year exiling the Jews likewise out of England giving them expences into France he confiscated all the rest of their goods Upon what grounds by what Authority for what time in what manner with what desire of and content to all the whole Commons and Realm of England the Jews were then banished thence these ensuing Historians will at large relate in their own words which I shall transcribe for the better information and satisfaction of all sorts of men whether Christians or Jews Matthew Westminster flourishing at that time gives this relation of it About the s●●days namely the 31 of August the exasperating multitude of Jews which dwelt confidently in times past through divers Cities and strong Forts JUSSA EST was commanded with their wives and children together with their moveable goods to depart out of England about the Feast of All Saints which was assigned to them for the term WHICH THEY DARED NOT TO TRANSGRESSE UNDER PAIN OF HANGING whose number was supposed to be 16511. Such A DECREE had issued out before from the landable King of England in the parts of Aquitain from whence all the Jews were likewise banished Thomas Walsinghaem living near that age thus records it The King returning out of Gascoigne to London was solemnly received by the Clergy and all the people who the same year banishing all the

John Stow in his Annals p. 204. writes thus of it King Edward banished all the Jews out of England giving them to bear their charges till they were out of the Realm The number of the Jews then expelled was fifteen thousand and sixty persons whose houses being sold the King received an infinite mass of money Iohn Speed in his History of Great Britain p. 545. thus varieth the expression of it King Edward Anno 1290. to purge England from such corruptions and oppressions as under which it groaned not neglecting therein his particular gain banished the Iews out of the Realm confiscating all their goods leauing them nothing but mony to bear their charges they by their cruel Vsuries HAVING EATEN HIS PEOPLE TO THE BONES To passe by Heylms Microcosm p. 570. Henry Isaacsons Chronology Ann. 1290. with others who mention this their final banishment out of England I shall conclude with the words of Samuel Daniel his History p. 160. Of NO LESSE GRIEVANCE than corrupt Judges then fined displaced banished this King eased his people by the banishment of the Jews for which the kingdom willingly granted him a Fifteenth HAVING BEFORE in Anno Regis 9. OFFERED A FIFTH PART OF THEIR GOODS TO HAVE THEM EXPELLED But then the Iews gave more and so stayed till this time which brought him a great benefit by confiscation of their immoveables with their Tallies and Obligations which amounted to an infinite value But now hath he made his last commodity of this miserable people which having never been under other cover but the will of the Prince had continually served the turn in all the necessary occasions of his Predecessors but especially of his Father and himself Sir Edward Cook in his 2d Institutes p. 506 507 508 in his Commentary upon Statutum de Judaismo forecited seems to contradict these forecited Historians touching their Banishment whose words I shall at large rehearse and refute to in this particular This Statute was made writes he in the Parliament of 18 Edw. 1. That the mischiefs before this Statute against Jewish Usury were these 1. The evils and disherisons of the good men of the land 2. That many of the sins and offences of the Realm had risen and been committed by reason thereof to the great dishonour of Almighty God And are not these two sufficient grounds to keep them out now as well as to restrain and banish them then The difficulty adds he was how to apply a remedy considering what great yearly revenue the King had by the Usury of the Jews and how necessary it was that the King should be supplyed with Treasure What benefit the Crown had before the making of this Act appeareth by former records as take one for many From the 17 of December in the 50 year of H. 3 until the Tuesday in Shrovetide the 2d year of Edward the first which was about 7. years the Crown had four hundred and twenty thousand pounds fifteen shillings and four pence De exitibus Judaismi at which time the ounce of silver was but 20 d. and now it is more than treble so much So as the recital of the Preamble is true That he and his Ancestors had received great profit from Judaism i Many provisions were made both by this King and others Some time they were banished but their cruel usury continued and soon after they returned and for respect of lucre and gain King John in the second year of his reign granted unto them large Liberties and Priviledges whereby the mischiefs rehearsed in this Act multiplyed But the lucre and gain which King John had and expected of the Infidel Jews made him IMPIE JUDAISARE for to the end they should exercise the Laws of their Sacrifices which they could not do without a Priesthood the King by his Charter granted them to have one c. Which for the great rarity thereof and for that we find it not either in our Books or Histories I will rehearse in haec verba Rex omnibus sidelibus suis omnibus Judaeis Anglis salutem Sciatis nos concessisse Jacobo Judaeo de Londoniis Presbytero Judaeorum Presbyteratum omnium Judaeorum totius Angliae Habendum tenendum quam in vixerit liberè quietè honorificè integrè it à quod nemo ●i super hoc molestiam aliquam aut gravamen inferre praesumat Quare volumus firmiter praecipimus quod eidem Jacobo quoad vixerit Presbyteratum Judaeorum per totam Angliam garantitis manu-teneatis pacificè defendatis Et si quis eum super eo sorisfacere praesumpserit id ei sine dilatione salva nobis emenda nostra de forisfactura nostra emendare faciatis tanquam Dominico Judaeo nostro quem specialiter in servicio nostro retinuimus Prohibemus etiam ne de aliquo ad se pertinente ponatur in placitum nisi coram nobis aut coram capitali Justiciario nostro sicut Charta Regis Richardi fratris nostri restatur Teste S. Bathoniens Episcopo c. Dat per manus Huberti Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi Cancellarii nostri apud Rothomagum 21 die Julii Anno Regni nostri primo To which Charter Sir Edward Cook annexeth this marginal Note This King had a most troublesom and dishonourable rrign God raising against him FOR HIS JUST PUNISHMENT two potent Enemies Pope Innocent the 3 and Philip King of France And besides which was the worst he lost the heart and love of his Baronage and Subjects and at the last had a fearfull end He adds l Our Noble King Edward 1 and his Father H. 3 before him sought by divers Acts and Ordinances to use some means and moderation herein but in the end it was found That there was no mean in mischief and as Seneca saith Res profecto Stulta est nequitiae modus And will it not be so now in their new limited readmission if consented too And therefore King Ed. 1. as this act saith for the honour of God and for the common profit of his people without all respect in respect of these of the filling of his own Coffers did ordain That no Jew from thenceforth should make any bargain or contract for usury nor upon any former contract should take any usury from the Feast of St. Edward then last past So in effect all Jewish Usury was forbidden This Law struck at the root of this pestilent weed for hereby Usury it self was forbidden and thereupon the cruel Jews thirsting after rich gain to the number of 15060 departed out of this Realm into foraign parts where they might use their Jewish trade of Usury from that time that Nation never returned again into this Realm Some are of opinion and so it is said in some of our Histories That it was enacted by authority of Parliament that the usurious Iews should be banished out of rhe Realm But the truth is that their usury was banished by this Act of Parliament and that was

like chaff before the wind without any fixed habitation according to the ancient comminations and curses long since denounced against and now fully executed upon them Deutr. 28. 63 64 65 c. Levit. 26. 33. 36 37 38 39. Deutr. 4. 27. c. 32. 26. 1 Kings 14 15. Neh. 1. 8. Ps 106. 27. Jer. 9. 16. 17. 24. c. 18. 17 c. 49. 32 36. Ezech. 5. 2. to 13. c. 12 14. 15 c. 20 23. c. 22. 15. Daniel 12. 7. Zach 1. 21. Ezech. 11. 16 17. c. 6. 8. c. 17. 21. which scattering is principally intended only amongst Heathen Nations where they should be totally deprived of all Gods Ordinances and means of salvation where they shall serve other Gods which neither they nor their Fathers have known even wood and stone as these texts expresly resolve and import Therfore to receive them into and settle them in our Christian Kingdom and Island whereunto they have no title nor colour of inheritance which God hath appointed to the English alone for their portion and therefore these Aliens may not invade or intrude themselves into it without the whole Nations general consent is in some sense to crosse these sacred Texts and neither convenient for us to grant nor for them to request being already over-stored with Native Englishmen 6. Since the Jews crucifixion of our Saviour Jesus Christ himself and their extirpation and dissipation for it they have oft-times in sundry places ages in high contempt and despite of his person and passion maliciously acted it over and over again in representation not only by piercing his Images with swords and spears and in stabbing piercing boyling burning braying in a mortar and otherwise despiting the consecrated Sacramental bread representing his crucified body as the Historians in the Margin at large relate and likewise by crucifying a Ram at Easter as they did at Syracusa in the year 1113 but likewise by crucifying sundry Christian children on Good Friday o● near Easter on a Crosse in a most barbarous manner in derision of our Saviors death and passion To pretermit those 7. or 8. forecited instances in England alone I shall instance in some forreign ones recorded by Historians About the year of our Lord 430. the Jews in their publike Enterludes and Dances held on their Sabboth openly crucisied a Christian child in contempt and derision of Christs death and passion at Inmestar in Syria first nailing him to a tree and lifting him up on high then deriding and laughing at him after that like mad men scourging him as long as any breath remained in his body whereupon there arose great contention between them and the Christians and by the Emperors command the Jews who had done this in jest were punished in earnest Anno 1172. they crucified in like manner another Christian Child at Bloyes in France And near the same time the Jews at Bray in France crowned a Christian man whom they accused for a Malefactor with thornes then led him publickly about the Town scourged him with many stripes and at last crucified him in contempt of Christ Not long after the Jews at Paris in France in like manner crucified a Christian child called Richard sundry others yearly Anno 1236. the Jews at the Monastery of Fulda killed many Christian Children in a Mill piercing them with ponyards and squeezing out their blood to mix and knead it with their vnleavened bread in their Passeover as was generally reported which being discovered many of them were burnt to death for it the rest grievously persecuted At Prague in Bohemia the Jews on Good-Friday in the year 1283. shutting their gates crucified a Christian man having first of all done unto him in contempt what ever they had learned was done to Christ by their Ancestors which when the people had discovered running to their arms they raged cruelly against and slew many of these impious Murtherers The Jews Anno 1286 stole away cruelly tormented pricked with ponyards drew the blood impiously crucified a Christian Child called VVernerus not far from the Rhene in Germany barbarously murthering him after sundry torments Anno 1287. they tormented and crucified another Christian Child at Bern called Rodolphus for which they were massacred and cruelly handled by the furious vulgar The Jews at Trent on Good-Friday in the year 1475. tortured whipped pierced crucified to dearh a Christian child about 13 years old called Simeon in contempt of Christs passion and Christians kneding their Paschal unleavened bread with his blood which History is as large related by the Marginal Historians And to instance in no more particulars Vincentius Beluacensis Speculum Hist. l. 29. c. 25. Gaguinus l. 6. de Francis Centur. Magd. 12. and 13. c. 14 record That the Jews in Paris did every year steal some Christian child or other brought up in the Kings Court carrying him to a secret house or vault did on Good-Friday or Easter-day in contempt and derision of Christ and Christian Religion crucify him on a Crosse as Christ was crucified and that they had been frequently appprehended per severing in this wickednesse for which upon Detection they were usually murthered stoned burned destroyed hanged by the furious multitudes violence or executed imprisoned banished by Christian Kings and Magistrates yet such was their mal●ce to Christ that they would st●ll persevere there●n and act it over again upon every opportunity How can or dare we then receive into our Christian Island such barbarous bloody obstinate murderers and inveterate incorrigible malicious enemies to and deriders despisers of our blessed Saviours death and passion formerly cast out by our Ancestors amongst other things for their bloody impieties and unchristian blasphemies of this nature unlesse we first renounce both our Christianity and Humanity at once and become as bad as the very worst of Jews 7. The Jews ever since their dispersion in all ages places to their power have been more bitter enemies to the Christians than the worst of Pagans bending all their studies forces wits endeavours to hinder oppugne blaspheme extirstate the Christian Religion and all professors of it out of the world stirred up many bloody persecutions against them upon all advantages confederating both with Julian the Apostate the Pagan Persians the Tartars Sarazens Turks to murder and delete them having a great hand in raising the 4th persecution and murdering stoning to death burning destroying even those of their own Nation yea poysoning their own VVives Children for imbracing Christianity Moreover they have raised up many seditions rebellions against Christian Princes poysoned destroyed some of them and their Nobles yea raised occasioned many great popular Tumults Commotions Seditions against them in all ages places as well as formerly here in England as you may read at large in Socrates Scholasticus Eccl. Hist l. 7. c. 13. Zonaras Tom. 3 Paulus Diaconus l. 16 17 18. Nicepkorus Eccles Hist l. 14 c. 14. l.

and the Gospel the greatest Apostates from God and abusers of Liberty of any professing Religion The greatest designers plotters and lifters up of themselves against the interest of Christ and his people as the Premises undeniably evidence And their introduction amongst us at this season when the generality of the people and professors of Religion likewise are so bent to Apostacy and all kind of Errors of Novelties in Religion will no ways allay but most certainly increase the venting and spreading of abominable Blasphemies amongst us multiply the Apostacies of and abuse of liberty by the professors of Religion and make thousands in probability turn Apostate Jews instead of converting any of the Jews to Christianity It will not disappoint but most of all advance the designes of those that labour to lift up themselves against the interest of Jesus Christ and his people this being as some justly fear the Jews very end and plot in pressing now to be received amongst us to seduce us unto Judaism to which many are now inclined and to deny our Saviour Christ in words as too many have denied him in their works and some in their opinions of late years It will not rebuke but foment the foresaid Evils obstruct Gods people both from knowing and pursuing the things that concern their peace and instead of enabling them with one heart and shoulder to serve the Lord divide them into more Sects and Schisms than formerly and set up Judaism to affront Christianity with open face as 2 Pet. 2. 1. Jude 3. 4. c. Tit. 1. 10. 11. 1 Joh. 4. 3. resolve so multiply the late Rebukes and Judgements of God upon the Nation Therfore their re-admission into England after such a Solemn Declaration and Day of Humiliation as this and some others formerly prescribed observed through the Nation for the late monstrous growth and spreading of Errors and Blasphemies amongst us if resolved and effected will be reputed by God and Men A most palpable violation yea contradiction of this Declaration and Humilation a most hypocritical Atheistical mocking of God himself to his face a most prophane abuse and perversion of this Solemn Fast and Humiliation a frustration of all the prayers hopes of most religious people thereon who observed it for far other prescribed ends and an high Provocation of Gods severest wrath against the perverters of it to this very end to introduce the long-since banished Jews the debate whereof was proposed immediately before and began the very next day after it My 2. Reason shall be deduced from the Declaration of the 24 Novemb. 1655. in order to the securing of the peace of the Commonwealth Declaring it necessary to use all good means to secure the Peace of the Nation and prevent future troubles within the same The bringing in of the Jews at this season when the people are so generally divided discontented and declare for ought I can learn their highest unanimous dislike and derestation of it is the most probable means to disturb the peace of the Nation and to engender future new troubles Tumults within it the generality of the people in England and in other Countries having in former ages frequently risen up in armes against them massacred burnt and destroyed them notwithstanding their Kings and Magistrates Proclamations and Edicts to the contrary And the Jews themselves in all ages having been principle firebrands of sedition both in their own Land and all places where they have been dispersed as the Texts and Authors in the 3. and 7. premised reasons with the foregoing Relations out of our English Historians attest Therefore their re-admission into England especially in this unquiet season must needs be diametrically contrary to the scope of this Declaration and neither in policy nor prudence to be resolved on but utterly rejected My 3d. reason shall be grounded on this clause of that Declaration That no person who hath or shall be sequestred or ejected for Delinquency or being in actual arms for the late King against the then Parliament or for Charls Stuart his Son c. out of any Benefice School or Colledge shall from and after the 1. day of December be kept as a Chaplain or School-master in any sequestred persons house Nor after the 1. day of January keep any School publike or private Nor preach in any publike place or private meeting of any other persons than those of his own family Nor shall administer Baptism or the Lords Supper or Marry c. upon pain that every person so offending in any of the premisses shal be proceeded against as by Orders therin mentioned is provided prescribing 3 months imprisonment for the 1. 6 months for the 2d and banishment for the 3d Offence as I am informed If native freeborn Englishmen formerly ejected out of any Benefice Colledge or School only for their old delinquency in adhering to the lare King and Prince though according to their Oaths duties and dictate of their consciences after some years publike liberty to preach Articles of Agreement confirmed by the Army and both Houses and that which some call An Act of Oblivion and future indempnity though orthodox in Doctrine unblameable in conversation and eminent in learning without any particular impeachment hearing conviction of any new Delinquency or misdemeanors whatsoever must not have so much liberty as to keep any School or preach Gods Word in publike or private or to be entertained in formerly sequestred Englishmens houses under the foresaid penalties at this season only in Order to the Nations peace Then much lesse ought Jews meer aliens who always have been and still are professed Enemies in arms against the Person Kingdom Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ which the late Parliament by their solemn Protestation Vow and Covenant engaged by all good means to defend and advance to be entertained by any English Christians or publikely or privately to teach preach spread propagate their Jewish Doctrines Errors and abolished Ceremonies in our Island but to be banished for ever from amongst us if any of them should publikely or privately artempt to creep in amongst us Else not only all sequestred Delinquents but the whole English Nation and world too will cry out and say x the faithfull loyal Chaplains Servants followers Friends of the late K. and Pr. though English Nativs Freemen ye our felow brethren Members in Christ are more execrable to more injuriously unchristianly uncharitably dealt with by their Fellow English Christians in present power only for their loyalty and conscientious adhering to their late temporal King and Prince than the very alien Jews who both denied rejected crucified the Lord Jesus Christ their own temporal Soveraign who was born King of the Iews and had this very title inscribed on his Crosse and their our only spiritual King and Saviour whose Honour Power Kingdom Gospel we a vowedly profess to advance that they enjoy lesse Christian or civil liberty for themselves their wives and families