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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

the cause that they banished themselves into other Countries where they might live by their usury So that by his opinion they were not then banished by the King or Parliament but only voluntarily banished themselves upon the making of this Statutes aginst their Usury But under the favour of this deceased reverend Judge whose memory I generally reverence this opinion of his is a meer mistake For 1. This Statute of Judaisme was made some years before their banishment hence as I formerly hinted and the last clause thereof for renting houses to continue for 15 years manifests not in 18E 1. 2ly No Record nor Historian mentions that they voluntarily banished themselves upon the making of this Law neither can their voluntary departure hence upon this occafion be stiled a Banishment 3ly The forecited Historians record that they gave but few years before a vast sum of money to prevent their banishment then urged in Parliament by the Commons with the profer of the 5 part of their goods to the King for their banishment and therefore it is very improbable they would at the same time volunntarily banish themselves 4ly All the last cited Historians of these latter times unanimously record and theywere judicially really banished both by the King and Parliament principally for their infidelity and other fore-alloaged reasons commanded under pain of hanging to depart out of it by a set day for the effecting and hastning whereof the Commons gave the King a sifteenth Therefore not banished by of themselves alone Who are more to be credited than this Judges singular opinion 5ly His own subsequent words and Records in direct terms contradict this opinion of his no lesse than 5 times which I wonder he observed not I shall recite them at large to undeceive his over-credulous Readers of the long Robe who take his words and works for Oracles though in many things very full of grosse mistakes contradicted by by his own Records he cites specially in his Chapter of Parliament and Admiralty And for that writes he they were odious both to God and Man that they might passe out of the Realm in safety they made Petition to the King that a certain day might he prefixed to them to depart the Realm it was prefixed by the King and Parliament against their wills to the end that they might have the Kings writ to his Sheriffs for their safe conduct and that no injury molestation damage or grievance be offered to them in the mean time One of which Writs we will transcribe Rex Vic G. Cum Judaeis Regni nostri universis CERTUM TEMPUS PRAEFIXERIMUS therefore prefixed by the King himself without their Petition ● regno illo transfretandi Nolentes quod ipsi per ministros nostros aut alios quoscunque aliter quam sieri consnevit indebite pertrectentur Tibi praecipimus quod per totam Ballivam tuam publice proclamari firmiter inhiberi facias ne quis eis intra terminum predictum injuriam molestiam damnum inferat seu gravamen Et cum contingat ipsos cum catallis suis quae eis concessimus versus partes London causa transfretationis suae dirigere gressus suos salvum securum conductum eis habere facias sumptibus eorum Proviso quod Judaei praedicti ante recessum suum Vadia Christianorum quae penes se habent illis quorum fuerint si ea acquietare voluerint restituant ut tenentur Teste Rege apud Westminst 18. die Julii Anno 18 E. 1. This Statute De Judaismo was made at the Parl. post festum Hilarii Anno 18 E. 1. At which Parliament the King had a 15 granted to him PRO EXPULSIONE JUDAEORUM Therfore by his own confession they were banished by the King and Parlament against their wils and a Fifteenth given for it as the former Historians note And this writ was granted in July following in pursute therefore of their Judgement of banishment not upon their petition the King beginning his reign Novemb. 16 For the Parliament knew a strange conceit of a Judge that by banishing of Usury Did they banish it onely not the Jews the Jews would not remain And thus this Noble King by this means BANISHED FOR EVER THESE INFIDEL USURIOUS JEWS Ergo their persons as well as Usury only the number of which Jews THUS BANISHED was fifteen thousand and threescore VVe will here adde a Parliament Record de Priore de Bridlington thus Et quod praedictus Prior cogno cit quid praedicta pecunia praed Judaeo debebatur viz. 300l nec ei solvebatur ANTE EXILIUM JUDAEORUM therefore by this Parliamentary record but 3 years after they were judicially banished by Parliament not voluntarily of themselves no banishment in Law Et quicquid remansit reorum debitis aut catallis in regno POST EORUM EXILIUM again repeated Domino Regi fuit Consideratum est quod Dominus Rex recuperec pecuniam praedictam dictum est eidem Priori quod non exeat Villaean equam Domino Regi de praedicta pecunia satisfaciat Et respondeat Johannes Archiepiscopus Eborum quia praecepit dicto Priori solvere Valetto suo praedictam pecuniam in deceptionem Regis contra Sacramentum fidelitatem suam Domino Regi datam Idem in alio Rot. An. 22 E. 1. rot 5. Therefore by these 3 records resolutions cited by himself the Jews were all banished by sentence of Parliament in such sort as our Historians record and not in his New sence alone amounting but to a Recesse By all these concurrent Testimonies it is apparent against Sir Edward Cooks groundlesse conceit 1. That all the Jews were then banished out of England never to return again at the special instance and request of the Commons in two several Parliaments as an intollerable grievance and oppression under which they then groaned 2. That the principle grounds of this their perpetual banishment were their infidelity Usury forgeries of Charters clipping and falsifying of monies by which they prejudiced the King and kingdom and much oppressed and impoverished the pople 3. That this their banishment was so acceptable to all the people who oft-times pressed it in Parliament that they gave the King a Fift and Fifteenth part of their moveables to speed and execute it 4. That this their banishment was by the unanimous desire Iudgement Edict and Decree both of the King and his Parliament and not by the King alone and this Banishment total of them all and likewise final Never to return into England Which Edict and Decree not now extant in our Parliament Rolls many of which are lost nor printed Statutes yet it is mentioned by all these Authorities From whence I shall inferre and conclude That as by the fundamental Laws of England No Freeman and Natives of England can be justly banished or exiled out of it but by special judgement of Parliament or by Act of Parliament as is evident by Magna Charta c. 29. The banishment of Sir Thomas

to have Church-yards without the Cities wherein they inhabited in convenient places where they could purchase them wherein to bury their dead which he then granted to them It seems the Jews were then so odious to the whole Nation that they would not permit them to bury their very dead corps in any English soyl for fear of polluting it nor near any Christians bodies without the Kings special License King Richard the first being to be crowned King at London in the year of our Lord 1189. the chiefest of the Jews flocked together from all parts to his Coronation resolving to purchase the favour of the New King with most ample gifts and to get their former priviledges confirmed which they feared they should lose But they being suspected of Sorcery and Magick the King by a publick Proclamation prohibited all Jews from entring the Church while she was crowning or his Palace whiles he was therein feasting Notwithstanding some of the principal Jews secretly got into the Church and Palace who being discovered one after another were well beaten and thrust out of the Church and Court by the Kings Officers and Christians Upon which the common people then flocking in greatmultitudes to the Kings Coronation fell upon the Jews standing in great multitudes at the Pallace gate first beating them with their fists and then taking up clubs and stones slew some of them and left the others half dead whereupon one of them called Benedict of Yorke being so beaten and wounded that he despaired of life and extraordinarily terrified with the fear of death received Baptism from William Prior of St. Maries of Yorke and thereby escaped the peril of death and hands of the persecutors In the mean while there was a great rumor spred throughout the City of London upon this occasion That the King desired and had commanded that all the Jews should be banished and destroyed Whereupon an infinite number of People as well out of the City as most Counties of England then coming to the Coronation inflamed with the desire of booty betaking themselves to their arms fell pell-mell upon the Jews and slew and pillaged them both in the streets and in their houses and those who defended themselves for a time in such strong houses which they could not enter were there soon after burnt and consumed together with their houses by the furious multitude who put fire to their houses and burnt down most of them Synagogae dat● dedec●ri and likewise defaced their Synagogues as Radulphus de Diceto records The King being informed hereof whiles he was feasting with his Nobles thereupon sent Ranulphus de Glanvd then chief Justice of the Realm a potent and prudent man together with other great Noblemen to perswade and restrain these bold people But all in vain for in so great a multitude none would hear their voices nor reverence their persons but rather murmuring against them exhorted them speedily to return whereupon they advisedly declining their unbridled rage the fury of these Plunderers ceased not till the next day Ac licet immensit as tantae rabiei si dissimulata est inulta transiret primordia regiae majestatis denigraret plurimum propter re●●um tamen infinitam multitudinem dissimulari oportuit quod vindicari non potuit writes Henry de Knyghton Yet the very next day the King sending his Officers throughout the City commanded some of the said malefactors to be apprehended and brought before him of which three were hanged by the judgement of his Court one because he had stollen the goods of a certain Christian and two because they had made a fire in the City whereby the houses of Christians were burned After which the King sent for the man who of a Jew was made a Christian and demanded of him in the presence of those who had seen him baptized Whether he were made a Christian Who answered That he was not but that he permitted the Christians to do to him what they would that he might escape death Then the King demanded of the Archbishop in the presence of many Archbishops and Bishops VVhat was to be done concerning him Who answering very indiscreetly said If he will not be a man or servant of God let him be a man or servant of the Devil And so he returned to the Judaical Law In the mean time the King sent his Writs throughout all the Counties of England prohibiting That none should doe any harm to the Jews but that they should enjoy his peace But before that Edict was ●ublis●e the Jews which were in the Towne of D●nstaple to preserve their lives from the peoples fury being con●erted to the Christian Faith were baptized b●●roathing their Wi●es after the manner of Christians which was likewise done through many Cities of England And although the King by his Proclamation had decreed Peace to the Jews yet notwithstan●ing the fury against the Jews kindled at London not verily out of a zeal of Faith but of Gain vehemently raged in other places of the Land For a certain Jew at Lynne happening to be made a Christian thereupon the Jews persecuting him as a prevaricator of the Law taking an opportunity assaulted him with arms as he passed through the city whereupon he took sanctuary in the Church yet notwithstanding he raging Jews would not rest quiet ●or this but with a continued fury presently began to assault the said Church with great violence presently hereupon there arose a great clamor and the Christians assistance was desired with loud out-cries This clamor and fame incensed the Christian people and young men who were strangers of which a great number at that time resorted thither by reason of traffick who running to the Church armed valiantly assaulted the proud Jews who being unable to resist the assault of the Christians presently betook themselves to flight After which the Christians assaulting and taking their houses spoyled and then burnt them with fire Hereupon the young-men who were strangers laden with prey departed with it speedily to their ships lest they should be questioned and perchance inforced to restore their booty by the Kings Officers But the inhabitants of the place when they were questioned for this by the Kings Officers translated this fact to the strangers who were then departed from thence although themselves were not altogether innocent taking up arms against the Jews upon the out-cry but yet doing nothing against the Jews for fear of the Kings displeasure Not long after in Lent there arose a new storm against the Jews at Stanford for there being solemn Fairs there held in Lent the young men and Souldiers who had taken upon them the sign of the Crosse and were then ready to go to Jerusalem with the King assembling together there out of divers Counties disdaining that the Jews being the enemies of the Crosse of Christ possessed such great store of goods and wealth when as they had not sufficient to defray the necessary expences of so great a journey and

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

necessarie subsistance now in their Native country and must neither teach nor preach Christ Jesus to any in publique or private though Gods word and their function condition enjoyn necessitate them to do both when as these admitted Jews may both teach and preach against him too in publique private Which restraints on these English Royalists on the one hand indulged liberty to the alien Jew Antichrists on the other if now put in execution I humbly referre it to the saddest considerations conscientious meditations of all in power to resolv themselvs how scandalous odious it will prove both to God and all good men how much it will resemble the proceedings not only of the malicious Jews themselves against the Apostles and Ministers of Christ recorded Acts 4. 1. to 24. c. 5. 24. to 32. 1 Thes 2. 14 15 16. of beheaded Canterbury against Mr. Workman of Glocester But likewise of that detestable Apostate Emperour Iulian who out of his desperate malice to Christ to undermine and extirpate Christian Religion without shedding the blood of Christians first shewed himself a most zealous Christian professor reducing the Orthodox Bishops Ministers christians whom the persecuting Arian Emperor Constantius had exiled restoring them to their confiscated Bishopricks to ingratiate himself with the people but not long after turning Apostat he took away all the Privileges honours revenues of the Clergy setled on them by Constantine with the Laws for their establishment shut up the Churches Schools of the Christians prohibiting them to teach in publike or private or set their children to School unless they would renounce their former Religion and turn Pagans impoverished oppressed the Christians with extraordinary doubled Taxes from which the Pagans were exempted and castmany of them into prison But on the contrary at the same time he shewed extraordinary favour and affection towards the Jews sent for the chiefest of them to his court where he discoursed with them writing a special Letter to them wherein he desired their prayers for him granted them free exercise of their Jewish ceremonies and sacrifices long discontinued encouraged and assisted them with monies out of his publike Treasury to re-edifie the Temple at Jerusalem to receive set up all their Jewish Sacrifices and customes there formerly used whereupon they began to build it till-miraculously interrupted therein● and all to vex and undermine the Christians By which indulged Liberty the Jews then grew so insolent against the Christians that they greivously persecuted divers of them destroyed and burnt down some of their Churches and threatned to persecute them worse than the Pagan Romans had done as the Marginall Historians record more at large The imitation of whose proceedings now in any degree in these particulars what harsh constructions and sad events they may produce I refer to all wise Christian States-men seriously to ponder for their own and our Religions honor and Security My 4. argument is this The Orders for securing the peace of the Nation which the Declaration relates to contrary to all the Statutes Acts Resolutions of our Parliaments and Law-books forecited upon another occasion authorize the Major Generals and Commissioners named in them To banish and send into Foraign parts and Plantations all persons of the royal party formerly in arms of no estate and living loosly and all persons whatsoever that shall appear by their words or actions to adhere to the party of the late King or his Son to be dangerous Enemies to the peace of the Commonwealth even without and before any Legal indictment tryal conviction of any particular crime for which a Sentence of Banishment is prescribed by our Laws or any Judgement or Act of Parliament inflicting this heavy Punishment upon them far worse to many than death it self Now I shall earnestly intreat in the name and fear of God all those whom it most concernes to consider in their own retired thoughts how unjust unrighteous unreasonable unchristian it will seem to all Free-born English men and conscientious Christians both at home and abroad and what great scandals it may bring both upon our Nation Government and Religion it self in this manner and on this old account alone to banish these Christian English freemen one of their Native Country both from their Wives Children Kinred and Gods own publike Ordinances and at the self-same time to call in foraign Infidel Jews greatest Enemies to Christ himself and Christians and in that respect more dangerous to the peace and welfare of the Nation than tho●e thus to be banished to supply their places even against an express old Judgement and Edict of the whole Kingdom in Parliament for their perpetual exile What a sad p●rnicious president it may prove in future ages upon every new revolution to banish all English freemen of a contrary party and call in Forraigners in their rooms Whether it will not revive that ancient complaint of Petrus Cluntacensis Lex nam vetusta sed verè diabolica ab ipsis Christianis Principibus processit c. Manet inultum scelus detestabile in Judaeo quod exilio vel horrenda morte suspendi● punitur in Christiano Pingrescit inde deliciis affluit Iudaeus unde laqueo suspenditur Christianus And whether upon consideration of this and the precedent reasons deduced from these Declarations and all the premises they ought not peremptorily to conclude against the Jews present and future re-admission into England most seriously to determine I shall close up all with an Answer to the two principal Allegations for their reception into our Realm 1. The main and only consciencious Argument for their introduction is this That it may be a very probable hopefull means of the general calling and conversion of the Iewish Nation to the Christian Faith which hath been so long prayed for and expected by Christians and seems now approaching which their seclusion from us may much obstruct Not to enter into any large debate of this conversion of the Iews wherein learned Orthodox Divines and Writers are much divided I say 1. That I could never yet be satisfied that there shall be such a general call and conversion of the whole or major part of the Nation of the Jews as some expect but only of an elect remnant of them The foreciced Texts with I say 30. 8 9 10 11. Now go write it before them in a Table and note it in a book that it may be for the time to come FOR EVER and EVER That this is a rebellious people children that will not hear the Law of the Lord which say to the Seers see not and to the Prophets prophesie not unto us right things c. cause the holy one of Israel to depart from before us Luk. 20. 16 17 18. Mat. 21. 41 42 43 44 45 John 1. 11. 12. Rom. 9. 27. 26. 33. c. 11. 2 5 7 8. contradicting such a general conversion of them that of

sundry late eminent Professors have caused many English Christians to turn Antiscripturists Seekers Atheists and like the Iews to repute Christ and Christianity meer Fables 7ly Most of the Iews who since their dispersion have been baptized and turned Christians in any age or place have done it either out of fear to save their lives or estates when endangered by popular tumults or judgments of death denounced against them for their Crimes or for fear of banishment or by coercion of penal Laws not cordial●y and sincerely they still playing the Jews in private upon every occasion and renouncing their baptism and christianity at last either before or at their deaths as our own forecited Historians the 4th Council of ●oledo cap. 58 59 62. 63. Leges Wesigothorum lib. 12. Tit. 2 3 Vincensius Beluacensis spec Hist. l. 29. c. 25. Rodericus Toletanus de rebus Hisp l. 2. c. 17. Aventinus Annal. Boiorum l. 5. p. 468. Abbas Uspergensis Chrou p. 227 228. and other authors at test Of which we have this late memorable History recorded by Munster in his Cosmography l. 2. c. 19. f. 72 73. There being no lesse than one hundred twenty four thousand Jews banished out of Spain Anno 1492. leaving all their gold jewels houses behind them and paying two duckets a pole to the King for their transportation into Portugal some of them there seemingly turned Christians and were baptized but yet secretly practised their Judaival rites being Christians only in shew but not in heart observing the Passeover and eating flesh with the Iewes Upon the discovery hereof there arose a great tumult of the people against them in Lisbon the people complaining thereof to the King Anno 1506. Whereupon the King commanded 16 of them to be imprisoned and at last dismissed them without other punishment Upon this the Citizens conspiring againg the King and Governour raised a commotion against these Iews and false Christians slaying all those false converted new Iews they could find throughout the City to the number of six hundred whom they likewise burnt which example spreading into the Country there were slain in the City and Country of these Iewish false converts to the number of 1630 which the King hearing of being then absent he was so incensed against the Iews that he imprisoned very many of them whereof some were burned others beheaded others hanged on Gibbets and all the rest spoiled of their goods then expelled and banished the Kingdom A sad judgement on them for their Hypocritical conversion and such converts mostly we are like to find them and none other 7ly If any private Iews out of meer conscience or sincere desires of being converted to the Christian faith shall upon that account alone desire admission into England to be instructed by our English Divines I suppose no English Christians will oppose but further their desires herein and contribute both their prayers and best endeavors for their conversion and if there be cause admit them into our Churches Communion upon real testimonies of the truth of conversion in and work of grace upon them which is as much as they can desire at our hands But to admit whole multitudes and Colonies of infidel Iews at once into our Nation who neither desire nor pretend conversion to Christianity together with the free use of their Iewish Synagogues Rites Ceremonies which they strongly insist upon is such an Impious Unchristian Antichtistian dangerous president glossed over only with a possibility of their future conversion as no sincere English Christians can approve of nor the Iews themselves desire For as the Iews by Gods own Laws and their own Iewish Rabbies precepts neither might nor yet would permit any Heathen Gentiles heretofore to set up any Altars Images Idols Groves or exercise any Idolatrous worship amongst them or to blaspheme reproach their God or Religion under pain of death if they transgressed therein There being the self sume Law of God in these things both to Gentiles Iews And like as they afterwards would not permit the Apostles and Christians in Ierusalem or any other Cities for to preach the Gospel and exercise the Christian Religion freely but raised up present tumults against and persecuted and cast them out as 1 Thes 2. 14 15 17 the whole History of the Acts and premises abundantly testifie So by the very self same justice and equity they can neither now demand nor expect that we or any Christian Realm or State should tollerate or connive at much lesse openly countenance and protect them in the publick or private exercise of their Iudaisme or Iewish Rit and Blaspemies against our crucified Saviour and his Gospel All then that English Christians can do for them is to desire and pray for the conversion of all Gods elect amongst them in his due time by such means as he shall think meetest and to instruct them in the faith by learned Ministers sent to them if they desire it but not to admit them and perchance many disguised Iesuits Papists and Friars with them promiscuously into our Nation to undermine our Church and Religion and undo many thousand Souls it being our duty as to give no just offence to the Iew so neither to the Gentiles nor to the Church of God whom their admission amongst us will offend Lastly those Popes and Popish Princes who have heretofore admitted any Iews to inhabit amongst them have done it under these several cautions and limitations prescribed to them by their Laws Councile Canons Decrees Divines and Canonist's 1. That they should build no new Synagogues nor repair any old ones quite demolished 2. That where there were old Synagogues formerly used by them they should only repair but not enlarge or build them higher than before nor extraordinarily ad●rn them 3. That they should not stir out of their doors on good Friday nor open their doors windows shops or do any servile work on the Lords days or other solemn Christian Festivals 4. That they shall utter no blasphemons words speeches against God Christ Christians or Christian Religion nor manifest their open contempt of them by gestures or actions under pain of peouniary corporal and capital punishments according to the quality of the offence 5. That they shall be admitted to no degrees of learning honour dignity office or preferment whatsoever in state or Church because it is most absurd and unjust that any blasphemer of Christ should exercise any power or authority over Christians in any Christian State 6. That they should neither eat nor drink nor have any dayly familiarity or communion with Christians nor entertain any Christian man or woman in or out of their houses either as a Servant Nu●se to th●ir Children or otherwise nor yet administer physick to any Christian in his sicknesse lest any simple Christians should be seduced by them to Judaisme by th●se means 7. That all Iews both males and females should always wear a specicial badge or sign in