Selected quad for the lemma: city_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	house_n	king_n	lord_n	6,100	4	3.9503	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56206	A short demurrer to the Jewes long discontinued barred 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 and records. With a brief collection of such English laws, Scriptures, reasons 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 P4079; ESTC R205682	263,888	373

their goods moveables or immoveables 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 of 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 privilege nor any other they shall not 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 ten 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 abridged many of the Jews 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 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 owne advantage more than theirs Rot. Clause● E. 1. in the Tower rot 8. I find that one who was bound to Gamilel● a Jew and had lands afterwards acknowledged himself a Villain whereupon a writ then issued to inquire what lands he had at the time of the making of the bonds and to extend them JUXTA STATUTA JUDAISMI And claus 4 E. 1. rot 11. there is this recital made of this very Statute of Judaism Cum secundum Assisam ET STATUTUM JUDAISMI NOSTRI Judaei nostri in part● ne habere DEBEANT à Christianis creditoribus MEDIETATEM terrarum reddituum et Catallorum ipsorum quousque debita sua perciperent c. execution awarded in the case of a Jew according to the 2 clause of this Statute Therefore it is most certain it was not made in 18 E. 1. which was 14 years after these two records reciting it both by name and words but in 3 E. 1. the very next year before these records the end for which I here insert them In the 7th year of King Edward the 1. Anno 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 Westminster 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 And shortly 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 Hereupon in the Patent Rolls of 7 8 and 9 Edw. 1. in the Tower I find sundry grants of the Jews Houses and Lands in London Yorke and Northampton made by the King to several persons as escheated to him by those executed Jewish offenders Anno 1279. The Jews of Northampton crucified a Christian boy but did not thoroughly 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 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

a thousand five hundred of the Iews destroyed at that time in York alone beside those slaughtered in other places so that this year which the Iews took to be their Iubile 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 Iustices Itinerant through all the Counties of England who amongst other Articles were to enquire Concerning the slayers of the Iews who they were that slew them and concerning the pawns and chattels and lands and debts and charters of the Iews that were slain and who had them and how much any one owed to them and what morgages they had and who held them and how much they were worth and who took the issues of them and what they were and that all the Morgages and Debts of the Iews who were slain should be taken into the Kings hands and that those who were present at the slaying of the Iews and had not made a fine or end with our Lord the King or his Iustices should be apprehended and not delivered unless it were by the King our Lord or his Iustices The self-same year King Richard 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 Iews 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 Iew ever to recover the concealment Likewise 6 or 7 places shall be provided in which they shal make all their contracts and there shall be appointed two Lawyers that are Christians and two Lawyers who are Iews and two Legal Registers and before them and the Clerks of William of the Church of St. Maries and William of Chimilli shall their contracts be made Charters shall be made of their contracts by way of Indenture And one part of the Indenture shall remain with the Iew 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 Iews 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 Clerks 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 Iew 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 be made with nor payment made to the Iews nor any alteration made of the Charters but before the said persons or the greater part of them if all of them cannot be present And the aforesaid 2 Christians shall have one roll of the Debts or receits 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 Iew 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 Iohn who in the 1 and 2 years of his reign granted them large liberties and an high Priest for moneys in the year of our Lord 1210. commanded all the Jews of both sexes throughout Engl●nd to be apprehended and imprisoned and to be afflicted with most grievous torments that so they might satisfie the Kings pleasure with their money 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 until he should pay to the King ten thousand marks of silver And when at last for 7 days 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-flow provider for his profit gave him the aforesaid money that he might save the 8 tooth to himself the other 7 being pulled out who with much more wisdom and lesse pain might have done so before and have saved his 7 teeth having but 8 in all In the 17 year of King Iohn the 17 day of May the Barons coming to London brake into the houses of the Jews and searched their Coffers to stuff their own purses that had been long empty After which they applyed all diligence to repair the Gates and Walls of the City with the stones of the Jews broken houses In the year 1222. 7 H. 3. 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. in the 11 year of his reign Anno Dom. 1226. granted the lands and houses of Benomye Matton a Jew in London escheated to him by a murder committed by this Jew to Semain and others as appears by his Chatter of that year 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 moveable goods and that with all expedition The Jews in the year of our Lord 1231. builded a Synagogue

Jurnepin Et Officialis Archidiaconi venit coram Justiciariis cum magna secta Sacerdotum qui omnes dixerunt in verbo Dei quod praedictus puer ita circumcisus fuit sicut praedictum est et per praedictos Judaeos quod viderunt praedictum puerum recenter circumcisum habentem membrum suum grossum valdè inflatum et sanguinolentum Et Coronatores de Comitatu et Coronatores de Civitate Norwici 36 homines de villata de Norwic. Jurati venerunt troue inveniunt ut fuit circumcisus c. Et quod juxta ripam Norwic. il fuittroue fuit inventus ululans plorans per unum Maude de Berneham sa file que i luy emesiont a lovr meason ton esteaut les Iewes veigne dioit que il fuit Judaeum suum vocaverunt eum Jurnepin c. Et quando Judaei non potuerunt eum habere propter Christianos prohibuerunt eidem Matildae Ne daret ei carnem porcinam ad manducandum quia dixerunt ipsum esse Judaeum Ita quod per vim venerant Christiani abstulerunt puerum praedictum à manibus Iudaeorum Et Maude examyne confesse ceo tout c. Et omnes Iudaei sunt in prisona apud Norwich praeter illos qui fuerunt apud London quando haec Inquisitio facta fuit Et omnes Iuratores requisiti Qui interfuerunt ad Circumcisionem illam d●cunt Quod omnes praedicti Judaei fuerunt consentientes facto illo praeter Massi filius Saloni Haec autem omnia facta fuerunt in Curia Domini Regis apud Norwic Fratribus Praedicatoribus Fratribus Minoribus pluribus aliis tam Clericis quam Laicis praesentibus Et tout ceo fuit testify per Ric de Tresingfield Constable de Norwich auters Posteacoram Domino Rege Domino Cantuar. Majori parte Episcoporum Baronium Angliae quia casus iste nunquam prius accidit in Curia Domini Reg●s praeterea quia factum illud primò tangit Deum sanctam Ecclesiam eo quod Circumcisio Baptismus sunt pertinentia ad fidem et praeterea non est ibi talis felonia nec amissio membri nec Mahemium nec plaga mortalis vel alia felonia Laica quae possit hominem damnare sine Mandato Sanctae Ecclesiae Consideratum est quod istud in primò tractetur in sancta Ecclesia et per Ordinarium loci inquiratur rei veritas Et mandetur Domino Regi unum Marcum auri persic quod puer videatur coram Iusticiariis si circumcisus fuit vel non recipitur Et visus est puer et membrum ejus visum est pelle coopertum ante in Capite Et in tali statu liberatur patri suo ut eum habeat coram Iudicibus Ecclesiasticis ipsi Iudaei remaneant in Prisona So far this Record relates the proceedings in the Kings Court and Matthew Paris informs us what they afterwards did in the Bishops It seems the Citizens of Norwich upon this occasion fired the Iews Houses in the City for in Placita 18 H. 3. rot 27. in Dorso I find a complaint of the Citizens of Norwich against the Sheriff of Norfolk for certain injuries done unto them in entring their Liberties beating their Servants and ayding the Jews who justified that what he did was because the Citizens had fired the Iews houses Which business was debated before the King at Bromholne And because the Bayliffs of the Town made no Inquisition concerning these burnings and beatings of their Servants as belonged to their Office nor made any emendation thereof neither would the Commonalty of the City it self in defence of their Liberties permit the Sheriff of Norfolke to reform it it was adjudged that they should be in the Kings mercy as well for their Liberties as for the other things and after paid a fine of fifty marks The very next year the Jews in Forraign parts especially in Germany believing that the Tartars were of their own Nation entred into a secret League with them to destroy the Christians and subdue the whole world to themselves to which end they provided many Hogsheads filled with arms to be transported to the Tartars pretending to the Christian Princes that they were Vessels filled only with poysoned Wines wherewith they intended to poyson and destroy the Tartars who would drink no wines but such as were made by the Iews But this their treachery being detected by the Customers in Germany who found these pretended Vessels of wine to be fraught with arms for the Tartars wherewith to destroy the Christians thereupon the Iews were delivered to Tormentors to be perpetually imprisoned or slain with their owne swords as Matthew Paris more at large relates Anno 1241. p. 564. King Henry Anno 1243. exacted a great ransom from the most miserable Iews both in gold and silver so that besides what he exacted from others he extorted from one Iew Aaron of Yorke 4 marks of gold and 4000 marks of silver the King himself receiving the gold with his own hand from every Iew man or woman being made of a King a new receiver of Custom but the silver was received by others for the King Anno 1244. in August the corps of a little male child was found buried in the City of London in whose thighs and arms and under whose paps there was a regular inscription in Hebrew Letters To which spectacle when as many resorted admiring at it and not knowing how to read the letters knowing that the letters were Hebrew they called thither converted Iews who inhabited the House which the King had founded in London that they as they loved their life or members for the honour love and fear of their Lord the King without figment of falshood might declare that writing For the Kings Bayliffs and Conservators of the Peace were present They likewise believed neither without cause that the Iews had either crucified that little child in obloquy and contumely of Christ which was related frequently to have happened or had afflicted him with sundry torments to crucify him and when he had given up the ghost they had now cast him there as unworthy the Cross Moreover there appeared in his body blew marks and rents of rodds and manifest signs and foot-steps of some other torment And when as those Converts were brought to read those things that were inscribed and studied that they might perfectly read them they found the Letters deformed and now not legible being many ways disordered and tossed up and down by reason of the extension and contraction of the skin and flesh But they found the name of the Father and Mother of the little child suppressing their surnames and that the child was sold to the Iews but to whom or to what end they could not find In the mean time certain of the London Iews took a secret and sudden flight never to return again who by this very thing rendered themselves

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 Shroveride the 2 year of Edward the first wh●ch was about 7 years the Crown had four hundred and twenty thousand pounds fifteen shillings and four pence De exitibus judai●mi at which time the ounce of silver was 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 Iudaism 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 la●ge Privileges whereby the mischiefs rehearsed in this Act multiplyed But the lucre and gain which King John had and expected of the Infidel Iews 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 fidelibus suis omnibus Judaeis Anglis salutem Sciatis nos concessisse Jacobo Judaeo de Londoniis Presbytero Judaeorum Presbyteratum omnium Judaeorum totius Angliae Habendum tenendum quamdin vixerit liberè quietè honorificè integrè it a quod nemo ei super hoc molestiam aliquam aut gravamen inferre presumat Quare volumus firmiter praecipimus quod eidem Jacobo quoad vixerit Presbyteratum Judaeorum per totam Angliam garantetis manu-teneatis pacificè defendatis Et si quis et super eo forisfacere 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 pertin●nte ponatur in placitum nisi coram nobis aut coram capi●ali Justiciario nostro sicut Charta Regis Richardi sratris nostri testatur Teste S. Bathonien Episcopo c. Dat. per manus Huberti Cantuarientis Archiepiscopi Cancellarii nostri apud Rothomagum 12 die Julii Anno Regni nostri primo To which Charter Sir Edward Cook annexeth this marginal Note Th●s King had a most troublesom and dishonourable reign God raising against him for his just punishment two potent Enemies Pope Innocent the 3. and Philip K●ng 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 fea●full end He adds Our Noble King Edward 1. and his Father H. 3. before sought by d●vers Acts and Ordinances to use some means and moderation herein but in the end it was found That there was no mean in m●schief and as Seneca saith Res profecto Stulta est nequitiae modus And will it not be so now in their new limited re-admission 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 Iewish Vsury was forbidden This Law struck at the root of this pestilential weed for hereby usury it self was forbidden and thereupon the cruel Iews thirsting after rich gain to the number of 15060 departed out of this Realm into forraign parts where they might use their Jewish trade of usury and from that time that Nation never returned again into this Realm Some are of opinion and so it is said in some of our Histor●es That it was enacted by authority of Parliament that the usurious Iews should be banished out of the Realm ●●t the truth is that their usury was banished by t●●s Act of Pa●liament and that was the cause that they banished themselves i●to other Countries where they might l●ve 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 Statute against their Usury But under the favour of this deceased reverend Judge whose memory and judgement in Law I generally reverence this opinion of his is a meer mistake For 1. This Statute de Iudaismo was not made in the Parliament of 18 E. 1. as he confidently affirmeth without any ground or Authority at all but in the 3d year of his reign as I have formerly proved being full 15 years before the Jews banishment out of England the term the Statute de Iuda●smo allowed them to take Lands and Houses to farm but no longer If then they resided here full 15. years after the banishment of their Usury by this Statute it is most certaine it was not the ground of all their voluntary banishments in 18 E. 1. as he strangely fancieth but some particular Act for their general expulsion then made upon the Commons importunity else they would have voluntarily exiled themselves 15 years before upon the first publication of this Statute against their Usury in all probability rather than so long after its banishment of it in 3 2. This Stat. hath not one syllable of their banishment in it but expresly authorizeth them to take houses and lands to farm and continue here 15 years space but no longer Now had it been made in 18 E. 1. as Sir Edw. Cooke affirms the King and Parliament had been so far from banishing them that year as the premised Histories and Records he cites do joyntly attest they did that they had thereby authorized them to continue here 15 years longer even till 33 E. 1. Yea the Commons had been much overseen to give the K●ng a fifteen in the Parliament of 18 E. 1. for the present banishment of all the Iews out of England had they passed the Statute de Iudaismo at that very time which allows them 15 years space longer to take Houses and Lands to farm to extend the mo●ty of the Lands and Goods of their Creditors to be resident in the Kings Cities and Burroughs where their chests for Indentures were to grant them the Kings Peace and Protection both for their persons and estates and exempt them from suits in all Courts but the Kings and from all Taxes with other Subjects And that clause of this Statute prescribing them to wear a badge on their uttermost Garments after they were 7. years of age and to pay 3 d. the poll yearly to the King after they were 12 years old had been meerly ridiculous if

unconverted Jews are both Unbelievers Infidels Darkness Belialists and the very Synagogue of Satan as the Scripture resolves them Acts 14.1 Mar. 6.6 Rom. 11.20.23.32 Heb. 4.6.11 Iohn 1.5 Mat. 8.12 Rev. 2.9 1 Thess 2.14 15 16. Therefore we Christians ought not to be unequally yoaked or to have any fellowship communion agreement part or mixture with them much less to receive them into our land and bosoms from whence they were formerly spued out but to keep our selves separated from amongst them lest God reject us as he hath done them 4. 2 John 6.7 This is the commandement that ye have heard from the beginning that ye should walk in it For many deceivers are entred into the world Who confess not that Iesus Christ is come in the flesh This is a Deceiver and an Antichrist v. 10 11. Whosoever transgresseth and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ hath not God he that abideth in the doctrine of Christ he hath both the Father and the Sonne If there come any unto you and bring not this Doctrine receive him not into your house neither bid him God speed for he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds The Jews are these Deceivers and Antichrists who confess not but absolutely deny that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh they abide not in the Doctrin of Christ and if they come unto us they will not bring this Doctrine to us but the quite contrary Therefore we ought not to receive them into our Dominions or Houses nor bid or wish them Godspeed in returning to dwell amongst us And if any do the contrary they are and shall be partakers of their evil deeds 5. Tit. 1.10 11 13 14. For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers Especially they of the Circumcision whose mouthes must be stopped who subvert whole houses reaching things which they ought not for filthy lu●res sake Wherefore rebuke them sharply that they may be sound in the fa●th Not giving heed to Iewish Fables and commandements of Men that turn from the Truth I● the circumcised Jews were such unruly Decei●ers ●educers and subverters of whole hou●es even in the Apostles own dayes and their Jewish fables then did turn so many from the truth to prevent which their mouthes were then to be stopped With what colour of Christianity piety conscience can we call them in amongst us now in these times of fearful and almost universal Apostacy from the truth and give them leave to set up their Synagogues and open their blasphemous mouthes here in England even when many orthodox Ministers mouths are quite stopped up in publick privat without hearing to the great Joy both of Iesuits and Iews even whiles their re-admission amongst us is in agitation when less dangerous seducers are freely permitted to ramble abroad in all places and have subverted whole houses parishes and almost Cities and Counties too to Gods dishonour and the danger of the peoples souls 6. 1 Thess 2.14 15 16. For ye also have suffered l●ke things of your Countrymen even as they have of the Iews who both killed the Lord Iesus and their own Prophets and have persecuted or chased out us and they please not God and are contrary to all men Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved to fill up their sins alway For the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost This Gospel character of the Jews expressing their transcendent malice to the Lord Jesus their own Prophets the very Apostles themselves the Gentiles with their contrariety to God and all other men and Gods wrath upon them for it to the uttermost administer plenty of invincible arguments against our receiving them in again amongst us lest they bring along with them the extremity of Gods wrath upon the whole English Nation who have enough thereof already and are likely to feel more of it if they really imitate or play the Jews and silence cast out their own Prophets Ministers Countrymen in these and other particulars 7. Acts 18.5 6 7. Paul was pressed in Spirit and testified to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ And when they opposed themselves and blasphemed he shooke his rayment and said unto them your blood be upon your own heads I am clean from henceforth I will goe unto the Gentiles And he departed thence and entred into a certain mans house named Justus who worshipped God c. compared with Acts 13.44 to 52. The next Sabbath-day came almost the whole City together to hear the word of God but when the Jews saw the multitude they were filled with envy and spoke against those things that were spoken by Paul contradicting and blaspheming Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold and said it was necessary the word of God should first have been spoken unto you but because ye put it from you and judge your selves unworthy of everlasting life Loe we turn to the Gentiles For so hath the Lord commanded us c. And the word of the Lord was published throughout all the Region But the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women and the chief men of the City and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas and expelled them out of their coasts but they shook off the dust of their feet against them and came unto Iconium See the like Acts 17.5 to 16. c. 19.8 9 10. c. 28.25 to 31. This malitious carriage and persecution of the Jews even against the Apostles themselves their Doctrine and the Gentiles salvation and casting them maliciously out of their coasts with their Separation from them and turning themselves wholly to the Gentiles upon this account by Gods own command demonstrates what all Gods faithfull Ministers and we Christian Gentiles must expect from them now and that being formerly cast out of our Coasts by our Ancestors for their infidelity crucifying of Christ in his Members and such like misdemeanors and so being totally separated in cohabitation and communion from us we neither may nor ought now to resume them into our Land Bosoms or Communion again upon any pretences whatsoever The rather for that Martin Luther on Mich. 4.1.2 and Mr. Samuel Purchas in his Pilgrimage inform us That sooner than the Jews would endure that the Gentiles whom in their dayly prayers they curse and revile should have any part with them in their Messias and be accounted coheirs thereof they would cruc●fy ten Messiahs yea if it were ●ossible would do to death God himself with all the Angels and creatures else although they should therefore undergoe a thousand Hells 8. When God was bringing the Jews into the promised Land which he gave them to inherit he gave them these special commands Thou shalt driv● the Inhabitants of the land out before thee Thou shalt make no Covenant with them nor with their Gods they shall not dwell in thy land lest they make thee sin against me and it be a snare in the midst of thee Thou shalt make

manners they crucified him and pierced him with a spear to the heart And when the child had given up the ghost they took down his body from the cross 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 days and it was told her by neighbors 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 Bayliffs 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 and sighs There was then present at the place Iohn 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 O wretch knowest thou not that speedy destruction abides thee All the gold of England will not suffice for thy deliverance or red●mption 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 Iohn if thou makest thy words good by thy deeds I will reveal wonderfull things to thee and the industry of Sir Iohn animating and exciting him therto 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 Iews 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 vomited it out and the body sometimes appeared inhuman whereupon the Iews 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 Bailiffs the body she had found But Sir Iohn notwithstanding this kept the Iew 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 And when it had been sufficently viewed by an infinite company of people it was honourably buried in the Church of Lincoln as the corps of a most precious martyr The Jews kept the child alive for 10 dayes that being fed for 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 premises he reprehended Sir Iohn 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 Iews of England consented to the death of this child whereof the Iews are accused and almost out of every City in England wherein the Iews 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 wickedness 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 eyes Afterwards by the Inquisition of the Kings Iustices it was discovered and found That the Iews of England by Common counsel 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 Gibbers 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 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 L●ncoln being reserved in the Prisons of London to be hanged Anno 1256 the year after their condemnation sent secret Messengers to the Friers Minors as their enemies affirm 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 irrevocably 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 doe 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 Iews are convicted before the Ecclesiastical Iudges 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 Iudges 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 by the simple assertion of another Iew and of one Christian without the administring of an 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 sign or because they retain Christian Nurses against the Precepts of the Church or if they be excommunicated for some other excesses the Bailiffs 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 Iew offending against Ecclesiastical things and persons shall be convented for these things before them and for other things which appertain to their Ecclesiastical Court of meer right We provide that the Iew notwithstanding shall be compelled to aswer in these cases by the interdict of commerce contracts and Communion of the faithfull likewise the inhibiters hinderers and distrainers shall incurre the punishments of interdiction and excommunication 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 del●vered out of the lot of the Devil and saved from the revenge of the most wicked crime heretofore committed by h●m 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 and a Christian and as the condition so the operation is changed As Mathew Paris Ironically writes of them A certain Iew in the year 1260. fell into a Privy at Teuxsbury 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 de 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 Anno 1262. robbed and slew the Jews in all places There were slain of them in London to the number of 700. the rest were spoiled and their Synagogues defaced The original occasion of which massacre was because one Jew had wounded a Christian man in London in Cole-church and would have enforced him to have paid more then 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 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 dis-inherited Barons and Gentlemen in the Isle of Oxholm in the year 1266. took and sacked the City of Lincoln spoiled the Jews and slew many of them entred into their Synagogue and burnt the book of their Law with all their Charters and Obligations Anno 1275. the 3. of King Edward the 1. his reign the Statute De Iudaismo was made not in the 18 E. 1. as Sir Edward Cooke most grosly and confidently mistakes in his commentary thereon To clear which I desire the Reader to take notice that this Statute is not now extant on record all the Parliamentary Rolls before 5 E. 2. the first extant with sundry others since that time being utterly lost through the iniquity injury or carelesness of the times and some Pleas only in the Parliaments of King Edward the 1. extant in a Parchment Book in the Tower but no Acts nor Rolls of Parliament during his reign except such as are elsewhere extant on the backs of some clause Rolls or Patents or in the Red Book of the Exchequer as some few of them only are or in our Manuscript or printed Statutes This Statute de Iudaismo was first printed in French by Richard Totel in his Magna Charta Anno 1556. part 2. f 58 59. with this Title Statuta Ed. primi de Iudaismo with out mention of any year of his reign wherein it was made not extant in the Manuscript copies out of which he printed them and the first Statute of them is also printed in Iustice Rastall his Abridgement and Collection of Statutes Title Usury sect 2. without any date for which he renders this reason in his Elenchus Parliamentorum at the end of his Abridgement Tempus Ed. 1. Ceux Statutes auxi come semble fueront faits in temps E. 1. mais LA CERTAINTIE DES ANS JEO NE TROVE UNCORE for lack of skill in our Histories which too many Lawyers want He mentions 5. Statutes in his reign of this Nature whereof DE JUDAISMO De terris tenementis non amortisandis made in 3 E. 1. as Walsingham Hist Angl. p. 5. Ypodigma Neustriae p. 68. Holinshed Speed and others affirm and Henricus de Knyghton de Eventib. Angliae l. 3. c. 1. col 2462. and De

extirpated the Infidelity prevarications and superstitions of the Jews neither would he permit any one of them to live in his Realm who would not become a Christian For which this Council highly commended him rendered special thanks to God for it and withall enacted by the con●ent of the Nobles that every King of Spain in future times before he should be installed and crowned King should take an Oath That he would not suffer the Jews to violate the Christian Faith and that he would in no wise favour their infidelity through any kind of negligene or covetousnes nor give entranc to any thing tending to the precipices of infidelity prevarication c. About the year of Christ 615. they were banished out of Jerusalem it self by Heraclius the Emperour as Zonaras Tom. 3. in his life Paulus Diaconus rerum Rom. l. 18. Cent. Mag. 7. c. 4. storie near that age out of Arverna Bibl Patr. Tom. 6. part 2. p. 243. Venantii Fortun. l. 5. c. 5. 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 Heraclius the Emperour as Reg●no Chron. l. 1. Cert 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 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 the●e reasons Because they had divers times crucified children of Christians in Paris and elsewhere 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 yea to lay their excrements in them as Petrus Cluniancensis records in contempt of the Sacrament and casting the silver Vessels Crosses and guilded Books of the Gospel pawned to them into a 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 Vpon 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 in their behalf and the proffers of great sums 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 bannished 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 Impe●ial 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 Ludov●cus Duke of Bavaria about the year 1425. banished all the Jews out of his Territories as Aeneas Picolomineus in his Europae status sub Frederico l. 3. c. 32. p. 79. assures us and that for conspiring against the Christians c. Procul ejicienda Gens mpia finibus quae in contumeliam Christi in subversionem vergit Christianorum as Abraham Bzovius writes The Jews were banished out of the Kingdome of Cast●le by K. John the 2. about the year 1430. 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 King John the 2.8 Duckets for every poll of them at first for their admission which much augmented his Exchequer 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 Rubeaque●ses Anno 1309. and 1338. Munst Cosm l. 3. p. 547. Their banishment out of Germany Anno 1385. out of Misnia and Thuringia Anno 1410. out of Wormes and Spires Anno 1092. Munsteri Cosm l. 3. p. 582. Out of Prague by Wratislans for hating and slaying the christians Geor. Bartholdus Pontanus Bohemiae Piae l. 2. p. 20. Out of Berne Anno 1287. Munsteri Cosm l. 3. p. 582. Out of Trent Anno 1475. for crucifying a child And out of Rome it self Anno 1508. by Pope Pius quintus for their horrid extravagant usuries oppressions combining with Theeves and Robbers Forgeries and ungodly charmes in wooing of women to their lusts 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 argument of dishonest private filthy under-hand Bribes or Lucre by which they usually scrue themselves into those places whence they have been exiled transcends my shallow capacity to comprehend especially at this season when we are so over-stored with English that some think of sending and planting Colonies in another world whithet these Gold-thirsty