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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

and a Christian and as the condition so the operation is changed As Mathew Paris Ironically writes of him A certain Jew in the year 1260 fell into a Privy at Teuk●sbury but because it was then the Sabbath he would not suffer himself to be pulled out except on the following Lords day for the reverence of his Sabbath Wherefore Richard Clare Earl of Glocester commanded him in reverence of the Lords Day to be kept there till Munday at which time he was found dead of the stink or hunger The Barons of England Ann. 1262. robbed and slew the Jews in all places There were slain of them in London to the number of 700. the rest were spoyled and their Synagogues defaced The original occasion of which massacre was because one Jew had wounded a Christian man in London within Cole-church and would have enforced him to have paid more than two pence for the Usury of 20 s. for one week In the year 1264. in the Passion week the Jews that inhabited the City of London being detected of Treason which they had devised against the Barons and Citizens were slain almost all the whole number of them and great riches found in their houses which were taken and carried away by those that ransacked the same houses The disinherited Barons and Gentlemen in the Isle of Oxholme in the year 1266 took and sacked the City of Lincoln spoyled the Iews and slew many of them entred their Synagogue and burnt the Book of their Law In the 7th year of King Edward the 1. Ann. Dom. 1278. as some or 1279. as others compute it the King held a Parliament at London which was chiefly called for the reformation of his coyn which was then sore clipped by reason whereof it was much diminished and impaired In the time of this Parliament in the moneth of November all the Jews throughout England as Matthew VVestminster or many of the Jews in London and other parts of the Realm were apprehended in one day and imprisoned in London for clipping of money and in December following divers Enquests were charged in London to enquire of the said Jews and all others who had so blemished and clipped the Kings Coyn By which Enquests the Jews of the City with the Gold-smiths that kept exchanges of silver were indicted Andshortly after Candelmas the Mayor and Justices of the Land sat at London where before them was cast 297 persons for clipping of the which 3 only were Englishmen and all the other were Jews born either within this Realm or elsewhere but most of them English Jews who were all of them at sundry places and times put to execution in London who impeached the chief men of London and very many Christians who consented to their wickednesses After which a very great multitude of Jews were hanged in other Cities of England for the same offence Anno 1279. The Jews of Northampton crucified a Christian boy but did not throroughly kill him upon Good-Friday for the which fact many of the Jews at London after Easter were drawn at Horses tails and hanged In the year of our Lord 1282. John Peckham Arch-bishop of Canterbury sent an expresse precept and command to the Bishop of London to suppresse and destroy all the Synagogues of the Jews within his Diocesse On May 2. Anno 1287. All the Jews of England were apprehended by the Kings precept for what cause was not known who ransomed themselves for 12000l of silver They had then a Synagogue at Canterbury Fabian writes that the Jews of England were sessed at great sums of mony perchance the cause of their seisure which they paid unto the King But of other Authors it is said That the Commons of England then granted to the King the fifth part of their moveables for to have the Iews banished out of the land For which cause the said Jews for to put the Commons from their purposes gave of their free wills great sums of money to the King which saying appeareth to be true for that the said Jews were exiled within few years after with whom Grafton and Holinshed accord A strong evidence of the potency of Jewish money over-powring the whole Commons of England in Parliament and this their Liberal subsidy for their banishment at that season About this year as I conceive the Statutes of Edward the first Intituled de Judeismo were made and published Printed in rench in Tottles Magna Charta Anno 1556. part 2. f. 58 59. which being not printed amongst our Statutes at large in the English Tongue I shall here insert and translate 1. For that the King hath seen that many mischiefs disherisons of honest men of this land have happened by the Usuries which the Jews have made therein in times past and that many sins have therein risen from thence Albeit he and his Ancestors have had great profit from the Jews both now and in times past Notwithstanding this for the honour of God and for the common benefit of the People the King doth ordain and establish that no Jew hereafter shall take ought for usury upon lands rents nor upon other things and that no Usury shall run from the Feast of St. Edward last past and before but that the Covenants before made shall be held save only that the Usuries themselves shall cease Provided that all those who are indebted to Jews upon pawns moveable shall discharge them between this and Easter at furthest and if not let them be forfeited And if any Jew shall take usury against this establishment The King neither by himself nor any of his Officers will not intermeddle to cause him to recover his debt or use but will punish him at his pleasure for the Trespasse and shall do right to the Christian to recover his gage 2. And it is provided that the distresses for the debt of Jews shall not hereafter be so grievous that the moity of Lands and Chattels to the Christians shall not remain for their sustenance And that no distresse shall be made for the debt of a Jew upon the heir to the Debtor named in the Charter of the Jew nor upon other which holds the Land which was the Debtors before the debt shall be dereigned and acknowledged in Court And if the Sheriff or other Bayliffs by commandment of the King ought to make seisin to a Jew to one or more for their debt of chattels or of lands to the value of the debt the chattels shall be praised by the Oath of honest men the chattels shall be delivered to the Jew or Jewesse or to their Attorney to the value of the debt And if the chattels be not sufficient the lands shall be extended by the same Oath before that the seisin shall be delivered to the Jew or Jewesse every one according to the value and so that they may after know certainly the Debt is discharged that the Christian afterwards may then have his lands saving to the

called his Jew This Jew Abraham therefore gave the King 700 marks that he might be freed from perpetual imprisonment to which he was adjudged the Earl assisting him therein The King thereupon at the same time sent the Justices of the Jews throughout all England to search out all their mony both in Debts and Possessions and with them a certain most wicked mercilesse Jew that he might wickedly falsly accuse all the rest against the truth who verily reprehended the Christians pitying and weeping over the affliction of the Jews and called the Kings Bayliffs luke-warm and effeminate and gnashing with his teeth over every Jew affirmed with many great Oathes that they could give twice as much more to the King then what they had given although he most wickedly lyed against his own head This Jew that he might more effectually hurt the rest revealed all their secrets daily to the Kings Christian Exactors In the mean time the King ceased not to scrape mony together from all hands but principally from the Jews so that from one Jew alone born and living in Yorke called Aaron because he was convicted of falsifying a Charter as was reported he extorted 14000 marks and 10000 marks of gold for the Queens use for a little times respite that he might not languish in prison All which sums being paid it was found that this Aaron had paid to the K. since his return from forraign parts 30000 marks of silver and two hundred marks of gold to the Queen as the said Aaron upon the attestation of his honor and faith averred to Matthew Paris who records it Yet notwithstanding although the Jews might be pittied yet were they pittied by no man seeing they were corrupters and counterfeiters of the Kings mony and of charters and manifestly and frequently proved condemned and reprobated as such Philip Lunel Clerk called to the service of the King and addicted to the custody of the Jews Anno 1251. was grievously accused before the King his adversaries affirming that when he and Nicholas of St Albans Clerk were sent towards the Northern parts to tax and squeeze the Jews he privily received most precious Vessels from a certain Jew that he might spare him in his Tallage to the King and that he likewise took secret gifts from others that he might spare them and that he opprest these Jews notwithstanding to the dammage of the King and the violation of his Faith Whereupon the King being very angry commanded Philip himself to be unworthily handled untill he should satisfy him for this great transgression Philip hereupon a crafty and circumspect man humbly craved advice and assistance from the Lord John Mansell the Kings Prime Counsellor concerning his great tribulation because he had promoted him to the Kings service who effectually procured that he recovered the Kings favor giving him a great summ of mony for it a thousand marks as was reported Yet notwithstanding he was removed from his Office and not a little disgraced It seems the Kings Officers could fleece the Jews in that age by secret Bribes and Gifts as well as himself by intollerable Exactions King Henry the III. to satisfie the Popes desire in taking a Voyage to the Holy Land Anno 1252. extorted from the Jews whatsoever those miserable wretches might seem to have not only by scraping or excoriating but even by unbowelling them Being also an Hydropical thirster after gold he so greedily sucked talents or Bullion or Jewels as well from Christians as Jews that a new Crassus might seem to be raised from the dead And th●s very year Robert de la Ho to whom the King had committed the custody of the Jews and of the Seal which belonged to their Exchequer was grievously accused before the King being charged with this crime That he had oppressed the innocent Son of a certain Knight by a certain false Charter confirmed with the Seal of which the said Robert Justice of the Jews was the bearer and keeper Whereupon he was basely apprehended and committed to a close Prison and defamed with the like scandal wherewith Philip Lunel but the year just before had been intangled in the-snares of the perfidious Jews who was then their Justice At last by the great labour of his friends the malice of the Jews is detected but the innocency of the said Robert then set free scarce declared Whereupon being put from his Offices he openly paid 4 marks of gold at least for his fine This very year 1252. there came out of the holy Land a Mandate from the King of France that all the Jews should be expelled out of the Realm of France and condemned to perpetual exile with this clause of moderation added thereto But he who desires to remain let him be an artificer or handicrafts-man and apply himself to mechanical artifices For it was scornfully objectd to the said King by the Saracens That we d●d little love or reverence our Lord Jesus Christ who tolerate the murderers of him to live among us In the year of Christ 1253. Novemb. 10. the Obligatory Charter wherewith the Abbot and Covent of St. Alban were held bound for the debt of Richard de Oxaie Knight was taken out of the hand of Elias the London Jew and freed out of the chest and it was proclaimed in the School of the Jews at London where it seems they had then a School that the foresaid Abbot and Covent should be quit from all this debt against them from the beginning of the world till then as the Statute obtained by them protesteth The Jews in Northampton about the year of our Lord 1253. had among themselves prepared wild-fire to burn the City of London for the which divers of them were taken and burned in the time of Lent in the City of Northampton Anno 1254. King Henry after Easter so cruelly raged against the most miserable people of the Jews that they loathed even to live And when they were called together Earl Richard exacted of them for the use of the King who was in great want no small summe of mony under pain of a most loathsom prison and a most ignominious death Elias therefore of London High Priest of the Jews taking counsel with his Companions answered for them all who had frequently paid very great summs of mony whether they would or would not O noble Lords we see undoubtedly that our Lord the King purposeth to destroy us from under heaven We intreat for Gods sake that he would give us license safe conduct of departing out of his kingdom that we may seek and find a mansion in some other place under some Prince who bears some bowels of mercy and some stability of truth and faithfulness And we will depart never to return again leaving here our housholdstuff and houses behind us How can he love or spare us miserable Jews who destroyes his own natural English He hath people yea his own Merchants I say not Usurers who

so many dayes with milk he might living suffer many sorts of torments When the K. returned from the Northern parts of England and was certified of the premisses he reprehended Sir John that he had promised life and members to so flagitious a person which he could not give for that blasphemer and homicide was worthy the punishment of many sorts of death And when as unavoydable Judgement was ready to be executed upon this Offender he said My death is now approaching neither can my Lord John preserve me who am ready to perish I now relate the truth to you all Almost all the Jews of England consented to the death of this child whereof the Jews are accused and almost out of every city in England wherein the Jews inhabit certain chosen persons were called together to the immolation of that child as to a Paschal Sacrifice And when as he had spoken these things together with other dotages being tied to an horses tail and drawn to the Gallows he was presented to the aereal Cacodaemons in body and soul and 91 other Jews partakers of this wickednesse being carried in Carts to London were there committed to prison Who if so be they were casually bewailed by any Christians yet they were deplored by the Caursini the Popes Italian Usurers their corrivals with dry eys Afterwards by the Inquisition of the Kings Justices it was discovered found That the Iews of England by Common Councel had slain the innocent Child punished for many days and crucified But after this the Mother of the said child constantly prosecuting her appeal before the King against them for that iniquity and such a death God the Lord of Revenges rendred them a condigne retribution according to their merits for on St. Clements day 88. of the richest and greatest Jews of the City of London were drawn and hanged up in the air upon new Gibbets especially prepared for that purpose and more than 23 others were reserved in the Tower of London to the like judgement I have transcribed this History at large out of Matthew Paris who flourished at that time because our other Historians doe but briefly touch it and because it undeniably manifests the transcendent impiety blasphemy malice persecution and obloquy of the Jews against our Saviour Jesus Christ and Christians and their constant usual practise of crucifying Children almost every year in contempt and reproach of our crucified Saviour by common consent which Mr. Nye conceived might be easily wiped off as false and not fully proved or charged on them by our Historians which this ensuing passage concerning these Jews will further ratify Certain infamous Jews being 71 in number adjudged to death by the Oath of 25 Knights for the miserable death of the Child crucified at Lincoln being reserved in the Prisons of London to be hanged Anno 1256 the year after their condemnation sent secret Messengers as their enemies affirm to the Friers Minors that they might intercede for them that they might be delivered from death and prison being notwithstanding worthy of the most shamefull death Whereupon they as the world reports if the world in such a case be to be credited by the mediation of money freed them by their prayers and intercession both from the prison and from the death which they had deserved led thereto with a spirit of piety as I think is piously to be believed Because so long as any man is in life and in this world he hath free will may be saved and there is hope of him But yet for the Devil or the manifestly damned we are not to hope nor pray because there is no hope of them for death and a definitive sentence at once irrevobly intangle them Neither could this answer excuse the Minors for although they were not guilty yet the scandal did defame them The common people now hath withdrawn their hands that they do not benefit them with their alms as heretofore and the Londoners devotion is grown cold towards the Minorites For procuring these condemned Jews life and liberty whose money it seemeth could even corrupt these very self-denying Popish Saints who had renounced the world in habit but not in heart All the Prelates of England in the year 1257. drew up certain Articles in writing concerning their liberties which they intended to present to the King and Nobles to be ratified by them in Parliament in due season wherein they complain Artic. 32 33. That when as the Jews are convicted before the Ecclesiastical Judges for delinquency against an Ecclesiastical person or for Ecclesiastical things or for sacriledge or for laying violent hands upon a Clerk or for adultery with a Christian woman the conusans of the cause is hindered by the Kings prohibition because it alleageth that they have their proper Judge the Sheriff of the place and their proper delegated Judges who may and ought to have conusance of these things And yet if they be convented by a Clergy-man or Lay-man before them for such things upon the denial thereof by the person alone the simple assertion of another Jew and of one Christian without the administring of any Oath they purge themselves the proof of the prosecutor being utterly rejected Item If Communion be denied to them by the Church because they bear not their Table or signe or because they retain Christian Nurses against the precepts of the Church or if they be excommunicated for some other excesses the Bayliffs or Officers of the King communicating with them command on the behalf of our Lord the King himself that they be not avoided by any and cause them to be admitted and received to Communion Against which Grievances in derogation of Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction the Bishops then thus provided And because in like manner the office of the Prelates is hindred when as it happens a Jew offending against Ecclesiastical things and persons shall be convented for these things before them and for other things which apperta●n to the Ecclesiastical Court of meer right We provide that the Jew notwithstanding shall be compelled to answerin these cases by the interdict ofcommerce contracts and communion of the faithfull likewise the inhibiters hinderers and distrainers shall incurre the punishments of interdiction and excommunication l In the year of Christ 1259. On the Feast of Christs Nativity a certain creature Elias a Jew of London whose Sirname was Bishop fearing danger and manifest damnation to himself fled to the laver of defence and salvation and was new-born in the Spirit for being cleansed with wholesom Baptism two others also accompanying him he was delivered out of the lot of the Devil and saved from the revenge of the most wicked crime heretofore committed by him For it was said that in his house that poysonous drink was made which had proved mortal and perillous to many Nobles of England poysoned therewith by the Jews which even he himself as was reported well confessed But then he was a Devil but now throughly changed

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