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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

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no Covenant with them nor shew mercy to them Neither shalt thou make marriages with them Thy Daughter thou shalt not give unto his Son nor his Daughter shalt thou take unto thy Son for they will turn away thy Sons from following me that they may serve other Gods so will the anger of the Lord be kindled against thee and destroy thee suddenly If ye doe in any wise go back and cleave unto the remnant of these Nations and go in unto them and they to you know for a certain that the Lord will no more drive out any of these Nations before you but they shall be snares and traps unto you and scourges in your sides and thorns in your eyes until you perish from the good Land which the Lord your God giveth you But thus ye shall deal with them ye shall destroy their Altars and break down their Images and cut down their groves c. for thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God Now the not driving out of these Nations by the Israelites from amongst them according to the●e command o● God is charged 〈◊〉 special sin upon them by God ent●ce● them to Idolatry and brought his severe wrath upon them ●udges 1.27 to 36. c. 2.2 3 12 13 19 20 21 22 2● and is thus expressed by the Psalmist Psal 106.14 to 43. They did not destroy the N●tions concern●ng ●●●m t●● L●●d commanded them but were mingled amongst the heathen and learned their works and they served their ●●ol● which were a snare unto them yea they sacrificed their Sons and Daughters unto Devils and shed innocent blood even the blood of their Sons and Daughters whom they sacr●ficed unto the Idols of Canaan and their Land was defiled with b●ood Therefore was the wrath of the Lord kindled against his peo●le insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance and he gave them into the hands of the Heathen and they that hated them were Lords over them their enemies also oppressed them they were brought unto subjection under their hands The morality ground and equity of which precepts as they justifie our Ancestors expulsion of the Jews out of England with their adulterous worship Ceremonies Synagogues heretofore So I conceive they strongly oblige all English Christians especially after our late solemn League and Covenant to seclude and keep them out from re-entring coming in mingling and dwelling among us now for fear they draw the self-same sad effects and bring down the same or like heavy judgements of God upon us as these Scriptures threatned and God himself inflicted on the Israelites for transgressing them In brief the Parables of the Vineyard and Husbandmen the King going into foraign parts and Marriage-Supper Mat. 21.33 to 46. c. 22.2 to 11. c. 23.21 to the end Mar. 12.1 c. Luk. 19.12 to 28. c. 20.9 c. particularly applyed to the Jews and notably setting out their desperate malice against our Saviours person Kingdom Government Ordinances Ministers Gospel and his rejection of them for it Together with Rom. 16 17 18.31.32 1 Cor. 5.4 c. Phil. 3.2.3 Mat. 7. 15. c. 16.7.11.12.17 Col. 2.8 2 Pet. 3.17 c. 2.1 c. 7 8.20 21 22. 2 Tim. 3.1 to 10. c. 2.16 17 Titus 3.10.11 Rev. 2.9.14 Heb. 6.4 to 9. c. 16.26 to 32. Ph. 4.2 3. Gal. 4.29.30 will all furnish us with sundry arguments against their re-admission amongst us as likewise Prov. 9.27.28 Amos 3.3 Psal 101.3 4 5 6 7 8. Psal 119.104 Psal 139.21 22. Numb 8.13 Numb 16.26 27. Psal 6.8 Psal 119.115 Psal 139.16 which every good Christian may peruse at leasure and apply as he sees cause 3. For Reasons against their re-admission into England they are divers Theological Political and mixt of bo●h 1. God himself by his Prophets Son Apostles before their rejection while they were his special peculiar chosen people treasure above all other Nations of the world most frequently complains of them and the generality of the Nation That they were a most rebellious disobedient gainsaying stiff-necked impenitent incorrigible adulterous whorish impudent froward shamelesse perverse treacherous revolting back-sliding idolatrous wicked sinfall stubborn untoward hard-hearted hypocritical foolish sottish brutish stupid ungratefull Covenant breaking Nation House People a seed of evil doers a generation of Vipers doing evil greedily with both hands according to all the Nations that were round about them as bad nay worse than Sodom or Gomorrha casting all Gods Laws Ordinances behind their backs trampling ●em under their feet rejecting forsaking despising God himself provoking him continually to his face grieving him to the heart forgetting him days without number alwayes erring in their hearts and disobeying his voice and the like And dare can we then harbour such a Nation as this and bring them in amongst us now they are worse in all these resects than ever 2. God himselfe hath denounced against and inflicted upon the Iewes greater severer Woes Iudgments Calamities Dispersions Devastations Captivities Desolations Curses Plagues of all kinds for their sins rebellions impenitencies and to on their Nation Kingdom Countrie Cities than to or on any other Nations Kingdoms People and that more frequently than against any other Swearing against them in his wrath that they should never enter into his rest Psal 95.11 Hebr. 3.10 11 18. stiling them the generation of his wrath Jer. 7.29 and averting of them that wrath is come upon them to the utermost 1 Thess 2.15.16 And can or shall we then receive such a Nation as this into our bosoms now without entertaining and pulling upon us that wrath and these curses of God which are denounced against and do now pursue and accompany them in all places 3. The Jews were alwaies heretofore a very murmuring mutinous discontented rebellious seditious people for the most part not only against God but their lawfull Governors Kings Priests Prophets oft tumul●uously rebelling against disobeying revolting from deposing murdering their Kings and Sovera●gns and contemning disobeying slaying killing stoning the Prophets Messengers whom God sent unto them Whence God himself gives us this black Character of them 2 Chron. 36.15 16. And the Lord God of their Fathers sent unto them by his Messengers rising up betimes and sending c. But they mocked the Messengers of God and despised his words and misused his Prophets until the wrath of the Lord rose against his people till there was no remidy c. And our Saviour Christ a worse Lu. 13.33 34. It is impossible or cannot be that a Prophet perish out of Jerusalem Mat. 23.27 O Jerusalem Jerusalem thou that killest the prophets and stonest those that are sent unto thee Which St. Stephen thus seconds Acts 7.51.52 Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears ye do alwaies resist the holy Ghost as your fathers did so do ye W●●ch of the Prophets have not your Fathers persecuted and they have slain them which have shewed them before of the coming of the Just One of whom ye have been now the betrayers

In the year 1349. There being a great plague and mortality in Germany the Jews were generally accused for the chief Authors or increasers thereof by poysoning all the Wells and Fountains to destroy all the Christians and corrupting likewise some baptized Jews and other Christians with money and charms so far that they could willingly have destroyed and slain all their fellow Christians which some of them confessed upon their examinations Hereupon the Common people in great rage and fury against their Magistrates and Bishops wills and commands who neither could nor durst withstand their violence fell upon all the Jews in Bern Friburgh A●gentine Wormes Oppenheim Francfort Mentz Spires and other places slew and brained many of them burned other of them hanged up many others upon Gibbets pillaging burning breaking and pulling down their Houses the Jews themselves in many of these places burning both themselves wives children goods to avoid the enraged peoples fury very few of them escaping who were baptized to preserve their lives The Inhabitants of Spire fearing the air would be infected with the stink of the slaughtered Jews dead corps lying in the streets although most of them were burnt put them into empty Caskes and threw them into the Rhine All such who protected any of the Jews for money as some did were so murmured against and hated by the people that they were in great danger of their lives which some of them lost as Albertus Argentinensis records at large Which sad calamity came upon them by Gods just judgement many of them being found guilty of all sorts of wickednesses poysonings the murder of many Children forging of Letters counterfeiting and corrupting of moneys thefts deceipts and other villanies whereby they offended the Divine Majesty To these I might add many other such tumults uproars occasioned by and massacres burnings and destructions of them for their villanies in France Spain Germany and other parts recorded in Hermannus Schedel Chron. f. 243 248 258 271 272. and Genebrardi Chronog p. 461 627 660 618 688 824 830. Abraham Bzou●us Annal. Eccl. Tom. 15. Anno 1239. n. 9. Anno 1391. n. 8. Anno 1464. n. 44. An. 1491 n. 6.7 Cromerus de Rebus Polonor l. 25. with those forementonioned in England and that of Norlingen An. 1290. where many of them were slain by the Citizens whom they had undone and ruined And can we then in point of Christian piety or prudence now bring in such a generation of men as these amongst us especially in these unsetled unquiet discontented times to kindle new flames of discontent and tumults amongst the people 8. The conversation of the Jews is so dangerous to Christians that the 4 Council of Toledo can 59.61 62 made this Decree The Conversations and Companies of evil men do oftentimes corrupt even the good how much more then those who are prone to vices Let therefore the Jews who are converted to the Christian faith have no further Communion henceforth with those who still continue in their old Jewish rites lest peradventure they should be perverted by their Society Therefore we decree that the Sons and Daughters of those Jews which are baptised that they be not again involved in the errors of their Parents shall be seperated from their company and placed with Christian men and women fearing God where they may be well instructed and grow in faith and Christian manners and that the Jews believing Wives shall be divorced and separated from their Husbands unless upon admonition they turn Christians The ●●●e was decreed by the Council of Basil Sess 20. and ●nacted by the Wisogothes Laws lib. 12. Tit. 2.3 Yea Pope Alex. the 3. Decretal l. 6. c. 7. prohibited all Christians under pain of Excommunication to cohabit with the Jews or keep company with them because their manners and Christians accord in nothing and they by reason of the●r continual conversation and daily familiarity might easily incline the minds of simple people to their superstition and infide●ity And should not those men who pretend them●elves far greater Zealots than the Goths Spaniards or Pope and the Popish Canonists who decree the like upon the s●me reason upon these very grounds much more oppose prohibi●e their re-admission into England in this giddy Apostatizing age lest their Company and Society should easily seduce the unstable people to their Judaism and Infidelity to Christs dishono●r their own damnation and the infamy of our Church and Government The rather because if extraordinary care be not taken herein under pretext of Jews we shall have many hundreds of Je●uites who derive both their Name and pedigree from the Jews e●en from Iesui and his family of the Iesuits Num. 16.44 as some of them affirm in prin● though others from other grounds of Popish Priests and Friers come over freely into England from Portugal Spaine Rome Italy Poland and oth●r places under the title habit and disguise of Jews of purpose to undermine our Religion Church and State and sow the seeds of Heresie Blasphemy Popery Super●tition Schisms and Divisions amongst us they having formerly sent over some of late years amongst us under the notion and vizard of converted Jews as Ramsey the Scot and Eleazer and Joseph Ben-Isaiah all Jesuitical wicked cheating Impostors the two last whereof have cheated the honest people of the Nation of many thousand pounds being notorious Villains one of them formerly a Trooper and Plunderer in Prince Ruperts army as he confessed to his Hostesse at Dursly in Glocestersh●re in his ●rink where he would have ravished the Maid-servant of the house locking the door upon her whi●es she was warming his bed in the night and upon her crying out for help fled away presently in the night to avoid apprehension And yet wanders about cheating the p●ople in other places instead of being brought to Tybu●ne for his Villanies And if they abuse and cheat us thus already much more will they doe it upon and after the Jewes admission 9. To pretermit their banishment out of Rome by the Emperor Claudius recorded Acts 18.2 and that as Ecclesiastical Historians report for their cheating and tumults there raised I shall only in brief relate how they have from time to time been banished expelled many Christians Citi●s Countries Kingdoms and their Synagogues burnt and destroyed especially for their Infidelity and other forementioned Mildemeanors Crimes Vi●lanies About the year of Christ 430. at the instigation of St. Cy●il Bishop of Alexandria and the Christians there they were expelled and banished that famous City where they had long inhabited for their insolenc●es seditious conspiracies against the Christians The Emperor Phocas about the year 605. banished them out of the City of Antioch for the tumults they had there raised against the Christians and Government The 6 Council of Toledo Anno 686. c. 3. informs us That King Chinrilla by the inspiration of the most high God inflamed with the ardor of Faith utterly

the Iews who desired to turn Christians should remain for 8 moneths space amongst the Catechimeni for trial of the sincerity of their conversion before they were baptized upon this ground because they frequently returned to their infidelity vomit again Judaei qui eorum perfidia FREQUENTER ad vomitum reddit Which Alexander Alensis summa Theolog pars 2. qu. 161. approves 7ly If any private Iews out of meer conscience or sincere desires of being converted to the Christian faith shall upon that account alone desire admission into England to be instructed by our English Divines I suppose no English Christians will oppose but further their desires herein and contribute both their prayers and best endeavors for their conversion and if ther be cause admit them also into our Churches Communion upon real testimonies of the truth of conversion in and work of grace upon them which is as much as they can desire at our hands But to admit whole multitudes and Colonies of infidel Iews at once into our Nation who neither desire nor pretend conversion to Christianity but the quite contrary together with the free use of their Iewish Synagogues Rites Ceremonies which they strongly insist upon to establish their Judaism make way for their long expected Messia his comming increase their wealth and traffique and enable them to recover their ancient Country and Kingdome again the only things they now aim at as Menasseh Ben Israels printed addresses proclaims to all the World is such an Impious Unchristian Antichristia● dangerous president glossed over only with a possibility of their future conversion as no sincere English Christians can approve of nor the Iews themselves desire For as the Iews by Gods own Laws and their own Iewish Rabbies precepts neither might nor yet would permit any Heathen Gentiles heretofore to dwell among them nor to set up any Altars Images Idols Groves or exercise any Idolatrous worship amongst them or to blaspheme reproach their God or Religion under pain of death if they transgressed therein There being the self same Law of God in these things both to Gentiles Iews And like as they afterwards would not permit the Apostles and Christians in Ierusalem or any other Cities for to preach the Gospel and exercise the Christian Religion freely but raised up present tumults against and persecuted and cast them out thence as 1 Thes 2.14 15 17. the whole History of the Acts and premises abundantly testifie So by the very self same justice and equity they can neither now demand nor expect that we or any Christian Realm or State should tollerate or connive at much lesse openly countenance and protect them in the publick or private exercise of their Iudaisme or Iewish Rites and Blaspemies against our crucified Saviour and his Gospel All then that English Christians can do for them is to desire and pray for the conversion of all Gods elect amongst them in his due time by such means as he shall think meetest and to instruct them in the faith by learned Ministers sent to them if they desire it but not to admit them and perchance many disguised Iesuits Papists and Friars with them promiscuously into our Nation to undermine our Church and Religion and undo many thousand Souls it being our duty as to give no just offence to the Iew so neither to the Gentiles nor to the Church of God whom their admission amongst us especially upon Manasseth Ben-Israels motives and addresses tending nothing at all to Piety or their converversion but worldly gains and obstinate perseverance in their Jewish Antichristian Rites and Superstitions will most justly offend Lastly those Popes Popish Princes who have hertofore admitted any Iews to cohabit amongst them have done it under these several cautions and limitations prescribed to them by their Laws Councils Canons Decrees Divines and Canonists 1. That they should build no new Synagogues nor repair any old o●es qu●te demolished 2. Th●t where there were old Synagogues formerly used by them standing they should only repair but not enlarge or build them higher than before nor extraordinarily adorn them 3. That they should not stir out of their doors on good Friday nor open their doors windows shops or do any servile work on the Lords days or other solemn Christian Festivals 4. That they shall utter no blasphemous words speeches against God Christ Christians or Christian Religion nor manifest their open contempt of them by gestures or actions under pain of pecuniary corporal and capital punishments according to the quality of the offence Yea King Eringius Leges Wisigothorum l. 2. Tit. 3. c. 3.4.7 and 12. Council of Toledo c. 9. prohibited the Jews the use of circumcision the observation of their Jewish Passeovers Sabbaths differences of meats and other Jewish Rites under pain of whipping confiscation of goods losse of Noses Genitals Banishment 5. That they shall be admitted to no degress of learning honour dignity office or preferment whatsoever in state or Church because it is most absurd and unjust that any blasphemer of Christ should exercise any power or authority over Christians in any Christian State 6. That * they should neither eat nor drink nor have any dayly familiarity or communion with Christians nor entertain any Christian man or woman in or out of their houses either as a Servant or Nurse to their Children or otherwise nor yet administer physick to any Christian in his sicknesse lest any simple Christians should be seduced by them to Judaisme by these means 7. That all Iews both males and females should always wear a specicial badge or sign in all places upon their outward Garments or heads whereby they might be distinguished from C●ristians and known by all men to be Iews to avoid commixtion and communion between them and Christians which otherwise would happen 8. That they should be disabled to bear witnesse or give in any legal testimony against Christians or to purchase any advowson or Ecclesiastical preferment or to bequeath any legacy to the Nation or Corporation of the Iews or to exercise usury amongst them 9. That they should be subject both to the Ecclesiastical Temporal Courts and Iudges for all offences properly punishable by them which they should commit 10. That they should pay all predial and personal Tithes to the Christian Ministers where they lived 11. That though they should not be compelled to be baptized or turn Christians against their will yet they should at certain times be all constrained to come to the Sermons of such Christian Priests and Ministers as were appointed to instruct them in the Christian faith and to preach unto them to convert them 12. That their Servants and Children being Iews when once baptized and turned Christians should no more cohabit with nor be under their power 13. That upon their conversion to Christianity all their goods and mony gotten by usury and cheating should be distributed to pious uses and the rest only retained for their

injury molestation grievance to be done to them by any in their passage beyond the Seas for which he had given them safe conduct but to grant them their wives and children a safe and speedy passage within the time prefixed them at the Jews own costs paying reasonable rates for their freights and passage without immoderate exactions especially on the poorer sort of them lest their passage should be hindred by such immoderate and unreasonable exactions I shall transcribe these Writs and Letters at large out of the Records themselves as most pertinent to my intended Theame beginning with those to Sheriffs Rex Vic Gloucestrie c Cum Iudaeis Regni nostri universis certum tempus praefixerimus a Regno illo Transfretandi Nolentes quod ipsi per Ministros nostros aut alios quoscunque aliter quam fieri consuevit indebite pertrectentur Tibi praecipimus quod per totam Ballivam tuam publice proclamari et firmiter inhiberi facias ne quis eis intra terminum praedictum injuriam molestiam dampnum inferat seu gravamen Et cum contingat ipsos cum catallis suis quae eis concessimus versus partes London causa Transfretrationis suae dirigere gressus suos salvum securum conductum eis habere facias sumptibus eorum Proviso quod Iudaei praedicti ante recessum suum vadia Christia●o●um quae penes se habent illis quorum fuerint si ea acquietare voluerint restituant ut tenentur Teste Rege apud Westm 18 die Iulii Anno 18. E. 1. Consimites Literae diriguntur Vicecomitibus Essex Ebor. Northampt. Lincoln Teste ut supra Item Vicecomitibus Hereford Suthampt. The form of the Letters for protection and safe conduct to particular Jews and their Families which the richer sort of Jews purchased at dear rates was this Rex Majori et Ballivis Eborum salutem Quia certum diem praefixerimus Iudaeis nostris Angliae regnum nostrum exeundi et se ad partes alias transferendi Vobis mandamus quod Bonamico Judaeo Eborum uxori pueris vel familiae suae in personis aut rebus interim nullam moles●iam inferatis set ipsos quantum in vobis est manuteneatis protegatis et defendatis Et cum idem Bonamicus cum uxore pueris et familia sua post Terminum Proclamationis factae de vadiis Christianorum acquietandis ad partes maritimas causa transfretandi divertere se voluerint sibi et suis salvum conductum cum ab eo fueritis requisiti suis sumptibus habere faciatis ne eis super bonis quae secum deferre contingerit periculum emineat pro defectu conductus hujusmodi faciendi T. Rege apud Lang. 26 die Julii Et sunt Patentes By this Patent it appears First that the Jewes had a certain day prefixed them by the King to depart out of the Realm of England into Foreign parts of which they all had general and particular notice 2ly That the wealthier Jews thereupon to preserve their own persons wives children families from corporal violence and their goods from plunder purchased particular Letters of Protection and safeconduct from the King to Mayors and other Officers 3ly That the King published a general Proclamation upon the Edict of their banishment that all the pawns of Christians to them should be redeemed and discharged before their departure or left behind them when they departed hence The next day after this private Letter of Protection and Safeconduct on the 27 of July the King sent these Letters to the Bailiffs Barons and Seamen of the Cinque ports for the Jews safe conduct passage and transportation out of England within the term which he had prefixed to all and every of them being general for all the Jews Rex omnibus Baliivis Baronibus et Nautis Quinque portuum suorum salutem Cum certum terminum omnibus et singulis Iudaeis Regni nostri praefixerimus idem Regnum exeundi Nolentes quod ipsi in rebus seu personis interim aliqualiter injurientur Vobis mandamus quod eisdem Iudaeis cum ipsos ad Portus praedictos cum uxoribus pueris Catallis suis venire contingerit ad transfretand critical conversion and such converts mostly we are like to find them and none other Whereupon the 2 Council of Nice Canon 3. decreed That no Iews should be admitted suddenly into the Christian Church nor baptized unlesse they publikely certified that they were converted out of a pure sincere faith with all their heart and utterly renounced their judaical rites And the Council of ●gatha Can. 34. decreed That the Iews who desired to turn Christians should remain for 8 moneths space amongst the Catechimeni for trial of the sincerity of their conversion before they were baptized upon this ground because they frequently returned to their infidelity vomit again Judaei qui eorum per fidia FREQUENTER ad vomitum reddit Which Alexander Alensis summa Theolog pars 2. qu. 161. approves 7ly If any private Iews out of meer conscience or sincere desires of being converted to the Christian faith shall upon that account alone desire admission into England to be instructed by our English Divines I suppose no English Christians will oppose but further their desires herein and contribute both their prayers and best endeavors for their conversion and if ther be cause admit them also into our Churches Communion upon real testimonies of the truth of conversion in and work of grace upon them which is as much as they can desire at our hands But to admit whole multitudes and Colonies of infidel Iews at once into our Nation who neither desire nor pretend conversion to Christianity but the quite contrary together with the free use of their Iewish Synagogues Rites Ceremonies which they strongly in-sist upon to establish their Judaism make way for their long expected Messia his comming increase their wealth and traffique and enable them to recover their ancient Country and Kingdome again the only things they now aim at as Menasseh Ben Israels printed addresses proclaims to all the World is such an Impious Unchristian Antichristia● dangerous president glossed over only with a possibility of their future conversion as no sincere English Christians can approve of nor the Iews themselves desire For as the Iews by Gods own Laws and their own Iewish Rabbies precepts neither might nor yet would permit any Heathen Gentiles heretofore to dwell among them nor to set up any Altars Images Idols Groves or exercise any Idolatrous worship amongst them or to blaspheme reproach their God or Religion under pain of death if they transgressed therein There being the selfsame Law of God in these things both to Gentiles Iews And like as they afterwards would not permit the Apostles and Christians in Ierusalem or any other Cities for to preach the Gospel and exercise the Christian Religion freely but raised up present tumults against and persecuted and cast them out thence as 1 Thes 2.14 15 17. the whole History

the like 7. That notwithstanding all the Injuries Oppressions Indignities cruelties they here sustained both from our Kings their Officers the generality of the people by Gods just curse and vengeance on them fot their sins yea notwithstanding all means used by our Kings Magistates Bishops preaching Friers and others both for their reformation and conversion to the Christian Faith yet the generality of them continued persevered still in their willfull obstinacy infidelity blindnesse enmity malice blasphemies despite against our crucified Saviour and Christianity which they manifested upon all occasions in publike and private by circumcising and crucifying chistian children breaking the Crucifix in Oxford and trampling it under foot in the midst of the Universities soleme Procession and otherwise expressed at large in the forementioned records as likewise in their extorsions clipping and falsifying moneys Charters usuries frauds rapes murders forgeries very few of them turning Christian converts and that either to save their lives or prevent some imminent dangers to their persons families estates and those of the poorer sort for the most part to get a present livelyhood from the Christians who frequently turned Apostates or flagitious malefactors to the scandal of religion 8. That the Jews here had their Synagogues Schools Priests Presbyter and Comptroller of their Exchequer Escheator Cofferers Cyrographers Attornies Bayliffs with their proper Judges and Court of Exchequer wherein only they were to be sued proceeded against and by whom they were Iudged their Prisons Attachers Tax-Masters Record-Keepers ordered in all things according as the King by his Writs and Letters directed All which Offices were appointed by the Kings special Patents Writs whose Names Powers Jurisdictions Salaries together with their legal trials and proceedings of all sorts civil criminal the forms of their Starrs Charters Extents of Lands assignments of Debts Releases Reliefs Fines with the names of the chiefest Jews are registred and most clearly fully related in the forecited Records and in no other prin●ed History or Law-book whatsoever 9. That the Jews were exempt from all other Temporal and Ecclesiastical Courts and Jurisdictions but the Justices specially appointed for their custody and the Kings Exchequer for the Jews yea from all publike Taxes imposed on the English and could not be excommunicated by the Masters of their Law without the Kings special license 10. That the Iews usury was no ways coun●enanced nor approved but generally condemned and frequently released by our Kings long before the Statute de Judaismo which most infallibly appears to be made in 3 Ed. 1. not in 18. as Sir Edward Cook very grosly mistook And that the banishment of their Usury by it was not the cause of their voluntary banishment hence as he most fondly conceited 11. That the Presbyteratus Judeorum totius Angliae was not the High Priests spiritual function as Sir Edward Cook and others affirm but only a temporal office and Comptrolership in the Kings Exchequer of the Jews 12. That our Kings and Auncestors in times of Popery made and published ●undry excellent Ordinances against the blasphemies abuses of the Jews and were very zealous industrious to convert them to Christianity and carefull to maintain support confirm and provide for them when converted in their Domus Conversorum That King Edward the first remitted his right to all the goods of convert Jews by an unchristian usage confiscated formerly to the Crowne by their very conversion allowing all Converts the moity of their estates to maintain them and granting the other moity of their Estates together with his Deodands and all forfeitures and Chevages of the Jews for the support of the Converts and their House Chappel Chaplains Yet very few of them were converted 13. That King Edward the 1 in the 18 year of his reign did by publike Edict of Parliam actually banish all the Jews out of England except the Converts by a set prefixed day beyond all contradiction much against the Jews good wills as I have undeniably proved by sundry Records forecited here and by multitudes of Historians in my first Demurrer against Sir Edw. Cooks grosse error A truth so clear that the very Jews themselves as I am informed by those best versed in their Manuscript Antiquities do make special mention of this their Banishment out of England in their Chronicles in Manasseh Ben-Israels custody taking their later computations of years from thence as a time very remarkable and ominous to their whole Nation And well might they do so seeing learned Mr. Edward Brerewood in his Enquiries touching the diversities of Languages and Religions throughout the chief parts of the world London 1614. c. 13. p. 92. assures us that The first Country of Christe●●om whence the Iews were expelled without hope of Return was our Country of England whence they were Banished Anno 1290. by King Edward the first By which example Not long after they were likewise banished France Anno 1307. by Philippus Pulcher Only of all the Countries of France in the Iurisdiction of Avignon the Popes State some are remaining Out of Spain An. 1492. by Ferdinand and shortly after out of Portugal Anno 1539. by Emanuel Out of the Kingdome of Naples and Sicilie Anno 1539. by Charls the V. as he there writes Out of which Sir Edward Cooke might have as well averred they only voluntarily banished themselves as that they voluntarily banished themselves out of England with●ut any special Edict for their exile thence What other particulars of les●er moment concerning the Jews occurre in these Records I have formerly touched in their respective places and shall here omit Having thus compleated my JUDAISMUS ANGLICANUS REDIVIVUS if I may so stile it or Chronological Collections of the Historical and Legal affairs of the English Jews out of the rich unknown Magazine of our generally neglected slighted precious old Records which Hugh Peters the great New-modeller Reformer of our former Lawes Liberties Government Kingdom Republike Church Religion Justice Law Merchandise Navy the Poor and what not but himself out of his rash fiery Zeal and transcendent ignorance would now make all new Martyrs but yet be none himself For which end in his Good Work for a good Magistrate London 1651. after his proposal of A short Model for the Law p. 28. c. he concludes with this advice as a Good Work fit for his good Magistrate p. 33. This being done It is very advisable to burn all the old Records yea even those in the Tower the Monuments of Tyranny that so his New Whim●es only might be known and adored for our English Lawes and Monuments in all succeeding ages I shall therefore crave Liberty to inform the World and this Ignoramus of the incomparable Excellency Utility Necessity of preserving these Records which he hath so brutishly devoted to the fire before he either knew their contents or worth which our Ancestors even in all former Wars Revolutions as well as times of peace and settlement preserved with much

Synods Princes Pre●●tes concerning the Popes Ecclesiastical and Tem●●ra● usurped Jurisdiction formerly claimed usurped in England his Legates Bulls Excommunications Interdictons Peter-pence Tenths First-fruits Palls Provisions Letters Taxes all Disputes betweene our Kings Nobles Parliaments Judges and the Pr●la●es or Clergy of England Scotland Ireland Wales and betwixt our Prelate● and Clergymen themselves concerning their Jurisdictions Courts Priviledges Possessions Pr●cedency Visita●ions Exemptions Taxes Tenths First-fruits Elections consecrations Investitures c. And all Charters Priviledg●s Exemptions Glebes rents 〈…〉 ●●●onging to the Bishopricks Monasteries 〈◊〉 clergy of England Ireland ●●les Scotland and the 〈…〉 which if ●ige●ted into an History would not only ●dorn but exce● all Ecclesiastical Histo●ies of Engl●nd hither●o p●blish●d and rectifie some mistakes in ●any of them Upon all which consid●rations I hope the God of the Spi●●●s of all fle●h wi●●in this stupid selfish degenerated age raise up some heroick active publike English Spirits of all these rankes not only to preserve our precious antient Records from Hugh Peters designed Martyrdom but likewise diligently to study and extract such useful collections out of them as I have hinted for the benefit honor of their Native country and advantage of succeeding ages of which I have here given them a leading president in these Historical Legal Chronological collections relating only to our English Iews the transcendent malice of my former causlesse Enemies in debarring me by a special old Council-Table Order from all accesse to the Tower Records during my 5. years Imprisonment in it made the very next day after my commitment thither to deprive me of their benefit seconded with above 3. yeares close imprisonment and exile in remotest Castles and the late ungrateful despiteful unrighteous Oppressions of some of their new Whitehall Successors though my pretended great Friends in seising all my Papers Writings Records they could meet with both in Lincolns Inne a●d the Country ●nd keeping me close Prisoner in ● rem●●e Castles under stri●t●st armed Guards near full 3. y●ars space wi●hou● any accusation hea●ing or cause expr●ssed ●ither th●n or since of purpose to hinder me from our R●cords 〈◊〉 ●ublishing any thing for the common good as ●ome of them have ac●nowledged having so long deba●●ed so much impo●e●ished so ●far disabled me from the●e Noble Undertakin●s de●er●ing all encouragements e●en ●●on ● common publick pur●e and account that I must recommend the pursuite of th●m to some other Gent●emen of l●sser years but far greater abilities and estates then my self who may both demerit receive in after ages far better rewards for their Labors and Publications herein then long tedious Imprisonments close imprisonment Pillories Stigmatizing Fines Exiles Degradations Affronts Losses discouragements of all sorts the only Encouragements Guerdons Recompences I ever yet received for all my useful publications my unmercenary faithful Services and Sufferings for the publike upon all occasions I shall close up all with some Scripture-Texts discovering the excellent use benefit of old Records and what high esteem the wisest Kings in the Old and Paul himself in the New Testament had of them The first Text I shall cite gives us a true character of the Jews seditious carriage then manifested by Records E●ra 4.14 15. Now because we are salted with the Salt of the Palace and it was not meet for us to see the Kings dishonour therefore have we sent and certified the King that search may be made in the Books of Records of thy fathers so shalt thou find in the Book of the Records ●nd know that this City is a Rebe●lious City and hurtfu●l unto Kings and Provinces and they have moved sedition within the same of old times for which cause was the city destroyed which appeared true upon search made in the Records vers 19.20 Esther 6.1 On that ni●ht could not the King sleep and he commanded to bring the Book of Records of the Chronicles and they were r●●d be●o●e the King Neh. 12.22.23 The ●evites in the days of Eliashib Joiada c. were recorded chief of the Fathers also the Priests to the reign of Daruis the Persi●● The Sons of Levy the chief of the Fathers were recorded in the Books of Chronicles c. 2 Tim. ● 1● When thou comest bring with thee the books bu● especially the Parchments which the Latin Translators a●●●end● Membranas ● Parchment Rolls Upon which words ●●e●●o●e●t Oecum●mus and others thus comment M●xime Membranas Membranas Latina magis voce volumina sive Chartas volubiles appell●●●i I● complicatis en●m involutis Chartis habebant olim quae ad divinam spectant Scripturam Quemadmodum ●tiam ad ●re●●n●●m a●●us 〈◊〉 p●u●ima habent If then a●l our parchment Membran●es Rolls Records must be burnt Hugh Peters and his good Magistrate to accomplish this good Work must first burn the old original parchment Membranaes Rolls of the Old and New Testament the ancientest of all others which St. Paul was so carefull to preserve and then those of the Kingdom next And whether this will be a Good or christian work for a Good or christian Magistrate or Minister let all sober men resolve seeing it will totally deprive us of all sacred all civil Antiquities and Records and be matter of greatest rejoycing advantage to our common Romish Enemies and the Jesuites the original projectors of this infernal Jesuitical designe and practice as Ludovicus Lucius Hist Iesuiticae l. 1. c. 6. p. 144. manifests records What therefore our Saviour himself concludes of old Wine that will all learned discreet sage men determine of our good old English Laws Liberties Records compared with Hugh Peters and others New Models Instruments papers relating to the publike Lu. 5.39 No man having drunk Old Wine streightway desireth New for he saith the Old is better FINIS Errata and Omissions KInd Reader Take notice that the Records of Edw. 1. being transc●ibed before the later of King John and those of Henry the 3d. and printed at guess before them they amounting to above double the sheets conjectured thereupon from C. p. 13. to H. p. 53. the folioes only are figured and some sheets altogether w●●hout figures Wherefore I shall desire thee to page them all with thy p●n from p. 13. to p. 53. t●at so thou maist the better correct those few Errataes which have escaped the Press in some Copies here noted as if they had all been paged in order In the Epistle p. 2. l. 27. read Endeavorer In the Book p. 3. l. 32. Priesthood● P●esbytery p. 11. l. 33. together p. 13. l. 6. preceding p. 16. l. 1. on r. in l. 14. Statutes p. 18. l. 30 thu● p. 20. l. 3 Fra●ket p. 24. l. 13. placia p. 25. l. 32. lucio p. 27 l. 37 victu●lia et si quem inveneritis quae deneger eis victualia c. p. 34. l. 36. ●s●nd p. 37. l. 10. reddendam p. 38. l. 36. but then p 43. l. 1. Jews Cha●reis p. 44. l. 37. ●e●minis p