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A51733	Anglo-Judæus, or, The history of the Jews, whilst here in England relating their manners, carriage, and usage, from their admission by William the Conqueror, to their banishment : occasioned by a book, written to His Highness, the Lord Protector ... by Rabbi Menasses Ben Israel : to which is also subjoyned a particular answer / by W.H.	W. H.	1656 (1656)	Wing M373; ESTC R12585	34,739	58

makes his own markets takes most that is offered and so the Jews emptying their purses purchase their continuance a little longer But vengeance pressed them at their very heels they acting such an horrid murther this year beyond the seas as is scarce to be thought and if not theirs harder to be believed Doubtless the prejudice and antipathy betwixt the English Nation and them now was such as would not admit of any reconciliation and thereupon might divers inconveniences proceed but especially the disagreement of their Religion joyned with great perverseness of disposition plunged them into devillish and unheard of wickedness This year they were generally imprisoned here in England and as we may say as guilty in approbation at least of what their Countreymen practised in other parts who at Munchen in Bavere stabbed a childe throughout his whole body with needles taking his blood in a bason to use it Aventin Boiorum annal l. 7. p 442. as the suspition was then in sacrifice for stanching that issue of blood wherewith this people Christians know why is continually pestered These butchers were detected by the drover an old Hag taken in the very manner while she was stealing a second for the same purpose The bodie of the former being found out by her directions the fresh print of infinite wounds filled with gore imploring vengeance as it were with so many watered and blubbred eyes so enrage the multitude that they could not expect the Judges sentence but fall immediately upon these Jews notwithstanding the Princes servants and their chief Magistrates earnest endeavors to appease the tumult conveying as many Jews as they could into their Synagogue which the people burning with fury set on fire and with it burned 180. Jews But this by way of digression falling out in this year Now to return again to England The several Kings making their markets out of the Jews store-houses at all occasions the score was to be discharged at the subjects cost Not content to let them rob the Countrey by their unmerciful dealings they must also upon their wicked desires give them securitie against justice it self for a little gain It hapned that in the 15. year of this King 1288. he being then in Gascoin a certain Knight sued a Jew for the unjust detaining of a mortgaged Manor The Jew shifts off the business and for his discharge produces a protection King Henry had granted him that he should never be convented before any Magistrate but himself alone Thom ●a●sing Upon this the Knight goes over to the King desiring justice against his adversary avoiding the equity of Law by such an unreasonable priviledge The King answers it would not stand with reverence due to the memory of his Father to make void that he had granted in this matter but he would indulge him also this priviledge that so he might be even with his adversary that what injury he or any other Christian should offer to that man they should not be bound to appear before any but himself alone as long as the Jew should stand upon his Charter The Knight returns home with this answer and his honest adversary being acquainted with his success was glad to come to what accommodation Law would offer no longer insisting upon his former grant This peoples honesty in this particular is very conspicuous This man hath an intention to be wicked and must have a priviledge for it But counting of Christians worse then of Turks and Infidels because more directly opposing them in their way of superstition what they might get any way they counted it their own and honestly enough fear of punishment no conscience bridling their malice But such like throws of their dishonesty were but still signs of their ensuing death and of that delivery the Land was about to make of them it being radicated in the nature of things to unite their spirits and double their diligence against that which is shortly likely to work their ruine Their iniquity being now fully ripe their time is also already accomplished Thom Walsing in Edv. ● King Edward is returned out of Gascoign and being honorably received of the Clergie and Nobilitie holds a Parliament at Westminster such as was likely to bring nothing but calamity to the Jews for whose expulsion so much had been before this time offered The people in Parliament are said to be resolved rather to undo themselves once then be always undoing their Religion safety of their Children and the Kingdoms honor and profit which by the imbasing and clipping of its coyn had gone to wrack call upon them and a fifteenth is offered to the King to have them expelled Vide Holinsh in Edw. 1. It seems they did not now overbid for the fifteenth was accep●ed and an Act made August 31 1290. Matth. Westm and the 18 of the King that upon pain of hanging they their waves and children Walsingham Holinsh alii should before the Feast of All-Saints next ensuing depart the Land Some say they had onely money given them to bear their charges over into France Others say that all goods not moveable with their Tallies and Obligations being confiscate all other moveables as gold and silver they were licensed to carry over The number of them when they departed was about 16511. many more then at their first coming an increasing misery to the Land where ere they come By vertue of this injunction and in obedience to it Holinsh they prepare for their removal Divers of the richest hire a great ship and therein having put much treasure are carried down the Thames towards the mouth of the River beyond Quinborough where the Master wickedly conspiring with the Mariners to rob them of their riches they are advised to go down out of the ship with him and walk upon the sands to take the air Having so done and it being now flowing water and the sands beginning to be covered the Master is drawn up by a cord on ship-board but they are then left exposed to be swallowed up of the waves Crying out for help they are inhumanely bid to call upon Moses for deliverance and perish miserably by the floods This greediness of gain in the Master and Mariners was justly rewarded he with others being arraigned and condemned by the Justices Itinerants and accordingly executed for so vile a fact though little pity was had for the generality of them that perished Sir Ed Co●k being looked upon onely as pursued by the hand of divine justice Now gone they are and the English peoples disquiet with them and never since could they procure licence to return King Henry the third founded an house for those of them that should be converted in his 17 year Cambden Stows Survey which afterwards in the 50 of Edward the third was again dissolved and appointed to the keeping of the Rolls in which service it continues to this day King Edward the first also cleansing his Territories of the

them and Nobility of Extraction all which he attributes to the Jewish Nation Profit indeed is the thing that all Kingdoms and States much look after and with good reason for money is the comfort of peace and the sinews of war but such profit is onely desirable as is joyned with glory to God honor to the Magistrate and Countrey and the safety and prosperity of the subject Upon which grounds if I should grant him the application of profitableness to themselves ye● should I think it over-dear to be purchased with such essects as might accompany it God ought to be the beginning and the end and Religion the way of his Worship is principally to be regarded Now toleration of that which is contrary to it or a receiving of them which would endanger it which would not onely be a suffering of Superstition to be practised by oothers but be also an occasion to the Natives of this miscarriage is scarce to be warranted however there where as yet it is not admitted There be certain times and seasons which make that at one time dangerous which might at another be admitted with more security The truth is apt to have not onely fickleness weakness accompanying it but also great differences and dissentions although incorruptible in it self and many though not agreeing in all things yet may be contained within the verge of its necessaries and fundamentals Where the greatest power of Religion is there the Devil is the busiest sowing Tares amongst the Wheat and mixing the corn with his cockle This we must confess is the condition of our Countrey at present and I fear the Jews too well consider it By so much the more therefore as they may desire to come in doubtless in this respect the State hath as great to deny them Honor and Credit is the second thing by which a State ought to rule and according to which order and bound its profit It was a saying of that renowned Lord Burleigh 〈…〉 Lord Treasurer of England when about his Charge in the Revenue that nothing was sit for a Prince that was not also joyned with honor and that he did not like that the Treasury should fill like the Spleen when the whole body was worse for it Now what honor it would be to admit them who were once ●expelled before of whose worth * Judge Cook himself faith th●● Act De 〈…〉 made ●●●●onally to expell them and that the ●●●tee●th granted was pro ●xp●ls●●ne Judae●rum faithfulness and profitableness we have once experienced in our Ancestors I cannot determine But this second rule depends especially upon that which precedes and of this which follows I acknowledge that whilst they were here before much profit redounded to the Kings of England from them but in what way hath been declared not from their merchandizing upon which our adversary principally insists Our countrey is not so convenient for that way as others may be and if they should be here admitted again spread once more throughout the land thousands there would be which could not have opportunity to exercise that way through the inconveniences of their habitations They exercise themselves in that way of life which most suits with their profit and the commodiousness of the place wherein they live Usury was most practised by them here and is still in Italy and other parts where they have not such opportunity of trading But grant that the trade is now enlarged through the discovery of the ●ast Indies by sea and of America as it is enlarged so also more of our inhabitants follow that course then formerly being sufficient to satisfie for that business So that if the Jews be admitted to trade again our Merchants must needs be justled by them and what would redound to the State in Custom and Excise the Land being already sufficiently furnished would not compensate the damage of the subject If many should be suffered to trade this could not be avoided and if not then needs must they betake themselves their number encreasing to some other course of life which might prove no less dangerous they being * Perfida gen● agens quod solet 〈◊〉 in pera c. Crantzius Saxon. lib. 11. cap. 7. noted to be as sucking Leaches where ere they come in some way or other But if they should trade with other Countreys rather in way of Sale and Exportation less profit would the State receive from them He magnifies the skill his Countreymen have in all kinds of merchandize and that is occasioned as he confesses by the opportunity they have being every where dispersed to serve one another And would not this turn to their own advantage more then to the benefit of their entertainers Might they not hereby ingross the Trade wholly to themselves and serving one another cheat the Natives in their Traffick And what would the English be better for their trafficking with their Countreymens money who live in Spain for larger their banks vvould be more they vvould engross the trading And if the King of Spain savv it profitable for him he vvould so far dispense in the Inquisition as to give them no occasion of removing from or keeping this treasure out of his Dominions And vvhat though they have not a Countrey to repair to as other strangers and thereby as he alledges are not likely to take avvay their riches Can they not transport it as they do he tells us in Spain They shortly also expect vve see their Messias to come and restore them to the Countrey of their Ancestors and being aliens they vvould little love the Countrey and so do little for it tending by their good vvills to any great advantage If they be so well received and live so happily all over as he instanceth for illustration of this branch or profit vvhy then are they not content to keep them vvhere they are already It must needs be their ovvn good or ours vvhich they so much desire or for that they must have a Synagogue here also not vvilling but that every place should be blessed with their Religion This he intimates expresly that they might have leave here also to serve God Is it the soil or the air they desire their Religion should be seated in why not as well serve God where they are There 's something more then this in the business But by whom is it they are thus received and entertained he confesses the people hate them generally and must this be for nothing In a fixed and established State where factions do not bandy such as they are generally where they live scarce is any grievously hated but there is some notable cause for it And if the King of Denmark hath invited them into his Dominions or the Duke of Savoy or of Modina it is for some respect or other Perhaps they may be admitted for the same ends our Kings formerly so long retained them viz. for their own gain though much to the Subjects discommodity and