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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

care and cost as the richest Pearls Treasures and Jewels of the Nation To which I answer● 1. That all our wisest Kings Parliaments Ancestors Statesmen in former ages had ever a special care to record all businesses of publike or private ocncernment and to preserve our ancient Records as the choicest Treasures appointing special Treasu●ies places to preserve them in and Custodes R●tulorum Treasurers Chamberlains Registers Clerks to keep them safe from injury corrupting and embe●●l●ing and enacting many Statutes for this purpose wi●ne●●e not only the Chests Cyrographers Officers and o●hers forementioned for keeping the Records and Charte●s of the Jews and their Rolls but also 13 E. 1. c. 25.30 1 E. 3. c. 4. 5 E. 3. c. 12. 9 E. 3. c. 5. 6 R 2. c. 4. 13 H. 4. c. 7. 2 H. 5. c. 8. 4 H. 6. c. 3. 8 H. 6. c. 12.15 10 H. 6. c. 4. 18 H. 6. c. 1.9 27 H. 8. c. 16. 32 H. 8. c. 28. 34 H. 8. c. 22.28 37 H. 8. c. 1. 2 E. 6. c. 10.3 4 E. 6. c. 1.1 2 Phil. Mar. c. 2. 23 Eliz. c. 3. 27 Eliz. c. 9. 31 Eliz. c. 3. 1 Jac. c. 6. with other Acts And must they now after all these Statutes be all ma●e a burnt-offring unto Vulcan upon the crack-brain'd Motion of an Ignatian Incendiary 2. The Statute of 8 H. 6. c. 12. still in force O●dai●s That if any Record or parcel of the same writ retori● pa●el proces or warrant of Attorney in the Ki●gs Cou●ts of Chancery Eschequer the one Bench or other or in his Treasury be willingly stolen taken away withdrawn or avoided by any Clerk or other Person by cause whereof any judgement be reve●sed 〈…〉 ●al●r taker away wi●hdr●●● 〈◊〉 and avoider their Procurers Counsellors and Abettors being thereof ina●●ted and by process the●eupon 〈◊〉 thereof duly convict by their own confession or by enquest to be taken by legal men whereof the one half shall be of the men of some Court of the same Courts and the other hal● of ●●her shall be judged for Felons and shall incurre the pain of Felons And that the Iudg●s of the sai●●our●●● of the one Bench and of the other have power to hear and det●rmine such defaults before them and thereo● to m●ke due puni●hment as is aforesaid And now Hugh Peters if I may be thy Counsel●or in sober sadnesse look to thy neck which as thou hast oft indangered forfeited by thy late Fire-works to blow up Kings Kingdoms Parliaments Lords our old fundamental Lawes Liberties Government as Straffords Canterburies late Impeachments Sentences with Mr. St. Iohns and others Arguments at their Atta●nd●rs will resolve thee and thy open treasonable advising abetting the seising imprisoning of my self and above 40 more Members of Parliament in Hell on the bare boards Decemb. 6. 1648. whose names thou didst then list with an iron Sword under thy arme instead of the Sword of the Spirit So this thy Iesuitical Project to burn all our old Records whereby all former Judgement Titles Fines Recoveries c. will be nulled reversed which thou publickly abettest counsellest thy Magistrate to effect in Print proclaimes thee by thine own Confession without other evidence a Notorious Felon within this Act in the highest degree The burning avoiding of all our Records in general being a more transcendent Felony yea Treason to the whole Kingdom Nation than the embezelling only of one or two private Records or Writs relating but to one private person And if ever thou be brought to a legal Trial for it before such a Iury and such Iudges as this Act prescribes thou art sure to undergoe a Halter-Martyrdome at Tyburne which all will cry up according to thy Pamphlets Title for A good work of a good Magistrate and a short cut to great quiet for thy devoting all our old Records to a fiery Martyrdom in Smithfield which I trust they shall never undergo And that upon these en●uing weighty Considerations First the●e old Records which he would have burnt contain in them all the antient Rights Titles Evidences Charters Agreements Leagues Compacts of the Kings Kingdom Nation and people of England to all their pristine and present Dominions Jurisdictions Prerogatives Preheminences Priviledges Hereditaments and enjoyments both at home and abroad by Land and by Sea as they are a Kingdom Nation Republike body Politick in general and that both in relation to themselves and their own intrinsecal affairs at home as they have been owned reputed negotiated treated with upon special occasions as a Kingdom Nation Republike by any forraign Kings Princes Kingdoms States whose ancient undoubted Rights Titles to all or any of our Dominions Territories Jurisdictions Royalties cannot otherwise be legally c●eared judicially evidenced upon any emergenr occasion or controversie between our Kingdom Nation and other Forraign States and Realms or between our selves at home but by our old Records the only publike evidences of the whole Kingdom and English Nation as necessary to defend maintain justifie their common publick Rights Dominions Possessions Jurisdictions Claims priviledges upon all occasions as any private Noble or Gentlemans ancient Charters Records Writings are to defend manifest his right and Title to his private Inheritance and Injoyments witnesse the famous Letter of the King Parliament and Nobles of England written and sent to the Pope Anno 1302. to clear the subordination of Scotland to the Crown of England and the Homage of the Kings of Scotland made for their kingdom to the Kings of England as their superiour Lords from time to time manifested by the ancient Histories and Records of England beyond all contradiction Mr. Selden his Mare Clausum proving the Dominion and Jurisdiction of the Kings of England o●er the Narrow Seas by Records and Sir Robert Cottons Posthuma Therefore it must necessarily be as bad and mad a worke for a bad and mad Magistrate to burn all the publick Evidences and Records of the whole Kingdom and Na●ion upon the frantick motion of a Bedlam in this particular as for a Great landed Nobleman to burre all the old Charters Evidences of his Lands and Honors or for a rich Usurer to burn all his Bonds and Morgages which all wise men will repute an act of Frenzy and Hugh Peters too in his right senses 2. They contein in them all the great publike Charters Contracts Agreements Leagues formerly granted or made by the Kings of England to or with the Prelates Earles Barons Freemen Commons of England Ireland Scotland Wales Gernsey Iersy Man and all other Isles and Dominions belonging to the Crown of England in general all Charters Patents Grants Contracts Writs Releases Gifts Pardons Offices Honors Liberties Franchises Customs Priviledges Faires Markets Inheritances Rents Revenues Licences compositions formerly granted by our Kings to the respective Counties Cities Towns Burroughs Villages Hundreds Arch-bishops Bishops Deans Chapters Prebends Abbies Priories Nunneri●s Colledges Hospitals Free-schools Universities great Officers Chancellors Generals Admirals Marshals

if faithfully transcribed and methodically digested into a Parliamentary Chronicle would for rare usefull matter Excellency certainty far exceed all Histories Statute-Books Law-Books Chronicles ever yet compiled rectifie many grosse mistakes in most of them and make more able knowing Lawyers Judges parlamentmen Statesmen than former ages have produced Besides the old Records in the respective Treasuries of the Tower Courts at Westminster and the Rolls faithfully relate at large the Institutions Jurisdictions procedings Judgements Writs Formalities Debates commissions Law-cases Judges Officers names customes Fees of all the great courts of Law Justice Equity civil Ecclesiastical Military Marine Justices Itinerant Justices of the Forrest Justices of Assize Oyer and Determiner of most other inferiour Courts and Commissioners bo●h in England Wales Ireland Scotland Gascoyne Normandy Poyters the Isles of Man Gernsy Iersy Alderny Serk Silly and other Isles the Stanneries in Cornwall and in most Corporations Counties Hundreds Honors Mannors in them Record all sorts of commissions charters Writs Warrants Instruments relating to Law Iustice Trade peace Wa● The Courts Jurisdictions priviledges Mannors Lands Fees Rents exemptions Liberties Royalties Tenures Services customs Offices Successions pedigrees of the Kings Princes Queens Archbishops Bishops Deans Chapters cities corporations Fraternities Gui●ds Nobility Gentry Fre●holders of England Ireland Wales Scotland and all Dominion Isles annexed to them with sundry other particulars necessary for an accomplished Lawyer out of which industrious Lawyers if countenanced by authority and encouraged by a a publike Salary might collect such a rare new Body and Systeme of the Laws customs courts and ancient legal proceedings in all the courts of Justice throughout our Dominions as would as far excell all other Abridgements collections Reports Institutes Registers Law-Books hitherto published for use excellency as the richest Diamond exceeds the basest pibble and bring more honour benefit to the English Nation than all the Shepheards Calenders and New-corps or Models of our old English Laws attempted by Hugh Peters Sword-men and ●ome bold illiterate Ignoramusses of the Law who neuer yet perused any of our old Records nor read over half our English Law-books and yet will be reformers or deformers rather of what they ne●er exactly knew nor understood In brief the exact knowledge of our Records wi●● furnish industrious Lawyers with such rare usefull materials of all sorts for the publike service of their Nati●e country upon all emergent occasions the benefit information of their clyents the honour of their profession and their own reputation advancement profit as will enable them to outshine all others of their robe unversed in the Records as far as the Sun and Moon outshine the lesser stars which lose all their borrowed splendor when ●hey once ap●ear in place Witnesse Mr. Noy Mr. Seldon Mr. Littleton and some other Lawyers of late times whose real and Sir Edward Cooke whose borrowed superficial insight in Records advanced not only their Names Fames Arguments Books but practise and imployments likewise whiles they practis●d above all others of their Profession and hath immortalized their memories to posterity A sufficient Argument to engage all generous Students and Practisers of the Law to spend some years or long Vacations at least in the Study of our almost forgotten Records which though it may hinder their present gains and practise for a time will abundantly increase them afterwards the longest Studies in this kind like Merchants longest voyages being recompenced with the richest returns 2. All persons of quality desirous thoroughly to enable themselves to serve their Soveraign or Country in any publick great State-Offices Imployments at home or in foreigne parts may out of our Records furnish themselves with all former publike Negotiations Embassies Treaties Truces Leagues Contracts Agreements Transactions Letters Missives Commissions Instructions Claims Controversies Debates between the Kings Parliaments Nobles Clergy Merchants Kingdom People of England Ireland Scotland Wales and Dominions thereunto annexed or any of them and any other forraigne Kings Kingdoms Princes States Cities Embassadors Agents Legates Merchants relating to Peace Warre Amity Trade Marriages Alliances Government mutual aid Jurisdictions Soveraigntie Regulation of Injuries Abuses Depredations c. and likewise between themselves All Passages Writs Commissions Debates resolves relating to the Parliaments Judicatories Laws Justice Trade Merchandise Man●factures Navy Shipping Ports defence Militia by Land or Sea Coins Weights Measures of England Ireland and other our Dominions formerly specified with all other particulars fit for an accomplished Statesman no where extant but in our Record wherein they are faithfully registred for the information and benefit of posterity 3. All Heroick English Spirits desiring exact knowledg in the History and Chronology of England may find in our old Records all the choicest materials relating there un●o faithfully recorded with all the particular dates circumstances of time and place All Grounds Occasions Commissions Summons of Arrayes Armies Navies Fleets Ships Fortifications of Townes Castles Con●ultations Articles Instructions transactions relating to our Civil Foraign wars by Land or Sea with the Names of the Generals Officers Marshals Admirals and persons of greatest eminency in them All Truces Leagues Embassies Contracts Agreements Letters passages of State Parliamentary affairs Coronations Charters Patents of our Kings and what ever may compleat adorn our English History exactly registred which if faithfully transcribed and digested into order would make a farre more usefull compleat excellent English History and Chronicle then any yet published or compiled And if all the Charters Patents Commissions Records Writs Mandates priviledges Le●ters granted sent written by our Kings Parliaments Counsel and Officers of State relating to England Wales Ireland Scotland Jersey Gernsey Man and our other Isles and Dominions and to the particular Counties Hundreds Cities Corporations Ports Officers Bishopricks Monasteries Colleges Hospitals Free Schooles Parishes Churches Noblemen Gentlemen and particular Mannors places in them were judiciously collected digested after the moddel of Mr. Cambdens Britannia I dare affirm they would as far excel it in use and benefit as it transcends all former publications of our British world and Monarchy 4. Such Gentlemen as are addicted to Heraldry may find a Rich Magazine of all choice materials belonging to the Office and Study of an English Herald relating either to the Regal Noble Gentile families Great Officers Pedegrees Marriages Successions Coats Titles of Honor Chivalry c. of England Scotland Ireland Wales and other parts of our English Dominions The Coronations and Solemnities of our Kings the creations of our Nobles Knights Officers of all sorts with their Formalities Robes c. Most of our English Heraulds having been either Keepers of our Records or Clerks under them out of which they extracted most of their knowledge 5. All Divines studious of eminency in the Church History of England may read in our Records many excellent Letters Embassies passages Debates between our English Kings Parliaments Prelates Clergy Councils Synods and the Popes Cardinals Legates Court of Rome and forraign Councils

alio discesserunt Ita profuga Gens de Anglia in perpetuum exivit misera semper alicubi terrarum peti●ura usque eo dum denique deleatur But I shall pass from Latin to our more common Engl●sh Historians Fabian in his Chronicle part 7. p. 133. Mr. Iohn Fox in his Acts and Monuments Lond. 1640. Vol. 1. p. 443. and Richard Grafton in his Chronicle p. 169. thus report it in the same words almost This year also 1290. all the Iews were utterly banished the Realm of England for the which the Commons gave he King a fifteenth N●cholas Trivet Polychronicon l. 7. c. 38. and William Caxton in his Chronicles printed 1502. in the life of K. Edward the 1. thus stories the Jews banishment out of Hygden and Trevisa in their words Anone after the King had done his will of the Iustices tho lete he inquere and espye how the Iews dysceyved and beguyled his people thorough the synne of falseness and of usury And lete Ordain a Prevy Parlement among his Lords So they ordainned among theim That all Iewes should void out of Englande for their Mysbyleve and also for their false vsury that they did unto Crysten Men. And for to speed and make an end of this thing All the Comynalte of Englande gave unto the King the XV. Penny of all theyr Goodes mevable and so were the Iewes driven out of Englande And tho went the Iews into France and there they dwellyd thrugh leve of Kyng Phylip that tho was Kyng of France Raphael Holinshed in his Chronicles out of them Vol. 3. p. 285. thus publisheth it In the same year was a Parliament holden at Westminster wherein the Statutes of Westminster the 3 d. were ordained It was also DECREED That all the Jews should avoid out of the Land in consideration whereof a fifteenth was granted to the King and so hereupon were the Jews banished out of all the Kings Dominions and Never since could they obtain any priviledge to return hither again All their goods not moveable were confiscated with their tailles and obligations but all their goods that were moveable together with their coyn of gold and silver the King licensed them to have and convey with them A sort of the richest of them being shipped with their Treasure in a mighty tall ship which they had hired when the same was under sail and got down the Thames towards the mourh of the River beyond Quinborow The Master Mariner bethought him of a wile and caused his men to cast anchor and so rode at the same till the ship by ebbing of the stream remained on the dry sands The Master herewith inticed the Jewes to walke out with him on land for recreation and at length when he understood the tyde to be comming in he got him back to the ship whither he was drawn by a cord The Jews made not so much hast as he did because they were not ware of the danger But when they perceived how the matter stood they cryed to him for help Howbeit he told them that they ought to cry rather unto Moses by whose conduct their Fathers passed through the red Sea and therefore if they would call to him for help he was able enough to help them out of these raging flouds which now came in upon them They cryed indeed but no succour appeared and so they were swallowed up in the water The Master returned with the ship and told the King how he had used the matter and had both thanks and reward as some have written But others affirm and more truly as should seem that divers of those Marriners which dealt so wickedly against the Jews were hanged for their wicked practise and so received a just reward of their fraudulent and mischievous dealing In Capitula Itineris in Totles Magna Charta f. 151. made in Edward the first his reign There is one chapter of Inquiry De catallis Judaeorum occisorum et eorum chartis vadiis qui ea habeant taken out of the Eyre of Rich. the 1. forecited which relates to these Jewes thus drowned and slain as I conceive since I read of no other massacre of them near that time John Stow in his Annals p. 204. and Survey of London p. 289. writes thus of it King Edward banished all the Iews out of England g●ving them to bear their ena●rges till they were out of the Realm The number of the Iews then expelled was fifteen thousand and sixty persons whose hous●s being sold the King received an infinite masse of money Iohn Speed in his History of Great Britain p. 545 thus varieth the expression of it King Edward Anno 1290. to purge England from such corruptions and oppressions as under which it groaned not neglecting therein his particular ga●n banished the Iews out of the Realm confiscating all their goods leaving them nothing but money to bear their charges they by their cruel Usuries having eaten his People to the bones To passe by Heylins Microcosm p. 570. Henry Isaacsons Chronology Anno 1290. Sir Rich. Baker his Chronicle of the Kings of England p. 146 147. with others who mention this their final banishment out of England I shall conclude with the words of Samuel Daniel his History p. 160. Of no lesse grievance than corrupt Judges then fined displaced banished this King eased his people by the banishment of the Jews for which the kingdom willingly granted him a fifteenth having before in Anno Regis 9. offered a fifth part of their goods to have them expelled But then the Jews gave more and so stayed till this time which brought him a great benefit by confiscation of their immoveables with their Tallies and Obligations which amounted to an infinite value But now hath he made his last commodity of this miserable people which having never been under other cover but the will of the Prince had continually served the turn in all the necessary occasions of his Predecessors but especially of his Father and himself Sir Edward Cook in his 2 Institutes p. 506 507 508. in his Commentary upon Statutum de Judaismo forecited seems to contradict these forecited Historians touching their banishment whose words I shall at large rehearse and refute too in this particular This Statute was made writes he in the Parliament of 18 Ed. 1. That the m●schiefs before this Statute against Jewish Usury were these 1. The evils and disherisons of the good men of the land 2. That many of the sins and offences of the Realm had risen and been committed by reason thereof to the great dishonour of Almighty God And are no● the●e two sufficient grounds to keep them out now as well as to restrain and banish them then The difficulty adds he was how to apply a remedy considering what great yearly revenue the King had by the Usury of the Iews and how necessary it was that the King should be supplyed with Treasure What benefit the Crown had before the making of this

can find no syllable in any Domestick or foreign Historians or Writers whatsoever nor yet that they inhabited here or were here in the Briton Saxon or Danish Kings Reigns which if they had some of our Historians Synods Decrees and Laws in those ages would have mentioned it as well as the Gothish Spanish Histories Laws Councils and Constitutions where they resided in which there is not one syllable of them but only in the forecited Law foisted in amongst the Confessors to which doubtless it was puny but in William the Conquerours reign Together with their ill deportments misdemeanors sufferings massacres servile condition and manifold popular tumults against them during all the time of their residence in England and final banishment out of it never to my knowledge collected into one intire History before The serious consideration whereof will in my weake judgement sufficiently satisfie convince the whole English Nation that they have just grounds and reasons in point of piety of policy never to re-admit them more into our Island and likewise resolve the very Jewes themselves that they have little cause or reason at all to desire to re-plant themselves in England where their ancestors in times past susteined so many miseries massacres affronts oppressions fleecings upon all occasions themselves can expect little better usage for the future To this principal part of my undertaking for fuller satisfaction I shall hereunto subjoyn a Tast of such Laws Scriptures Reasons as seem strongly to plead yea conclude against their re-admission into England at least in that latitude and freedom as formerly they there enjoyed and now petition for As 1. To erect new Synagogues Temples amongst us or turn any of our Churches Chappels into Synagogues for the free publique exercise of their Judaism Jewish Worship Customs Religion diametrically contrary to the Gospel Person Kingdom Priesthood Offices Mediation Redemption of our Lord Jesus Christ which they thereby professedly deny renounce as false and fabulous 2ly To set up a Jewish Corporation or Fraternity amongst us in our Cities and Corporations distinct and separate from the English subject to their own immediate peculiar Officers and Judges as heretofore 3ly To purchase Houses Habitations Rents Lands exercise Merchandizes and all sorts of Trades and Manufactures amongst us as free Denizens or Merchants upon such terms and qualifications as shall be indulged to them 1. For our Laws and Statutes these following make directly or obliquely by way of necessary consequence against their re-admission 1. For their Jewish Synagogues Worship Sacraments Religion these ancient pious Laws of our Saxon and Danish Kings made in their great Parliaments and Councils before the Jews first coming into England strongly oppose their admission now As namely the Laws of King Alfred and Guthern Lex 1.2 of King Ethelred in the Council of Aenham c. 1.3.27 29 30. of Habam c. 1. with the Laws of King Knute the Dane Lex 1.27 28. All which enact That the only true God and our Lord be loved worshipped in all ages by all the people with all their might the one Christian holy Catholick faith orthodoxly kept and the Churches of God to be diligently frequented throughout the Realm That all Paganisme and false Religions be renounced both in words and deeds That who ever wickedly resisteth the Laws of Christ shall be grievously fined and put to death and that all men should diligently seek out by all means Ut recta Christi rel●gio maximè provehatur That the right religion of Christ might be most of all advanced obtesting all Ecclesiastical and secular persons again and again most earnestly to keep the sincere faith unanimously in the true God and the right Christian faith in a right manner diligently to hear the Teachers of Gods word studiously to follow their Doctrine and Precepts to maintain peace and tranquility in the Church of God and there diligently to pour forth their prayers All which particulars exclude all Jewish Synagogues and Judaisme and are of perpetual force being grounded on the very Law of God Moreover King Cnute his Ecclesiastical Lawes made by the advise of his wise men to be observed throughout all England prohibited That no Christian should be sold or sent out of the Realm or banished amongst those who had not as yet embraced the faith in Christ lest per adventure those Souls should perish at any time which our Lord Jesus Christ had redeemed with his own blood and life If Christians for this cause ought not to be sent sold or banished amongst Jews and Infidels much more then ought not Infidel Jews with their Jewish Synagogues Religion Ceremonies to be now introduced amongst us Christians to the hazard of many Christian Souls redeemed by Christs blood 2. All the Statutes concerning Uniformity of Common Se●vice and administration of the Sacraments as 1 Ed. 6. c. 1 2. 2 Ed. 6. c. 1. 6 Ed. 6. c. 1.1 Eliz. c. 2.23 Eliz. c. 1.35 Eliz. c. 1.2 most of them still in force being never legally repealed do fully and directly oppugne the introduction of any J●wish Synagogues Service Sacraments Worship Ceremonies with the use of them in any place within our Realm 3. The Statutes of 3. E. 6. c. 10.13 Eliz. c. 2.23 Eliz. c. 1.28 Eliz. c. 2.6 35 Eliz. c. 1.3 Jac. c. ● against Popish Recusants Seminary Priests Jesuites Friers Masse-Books Agnus Dei's Popish Books Superstitions for eventing the withdrawing of the Subjects of this Realm from the publique Ordinances Sacraments and Religion here established and for speedy banishing all Seminary Priests and Jesuites and keeping them perpetually out of the Realm upon this account amongst others though professing Christ Christian Religion and agreeing with us in all Articles of the Creed and most fundamental points of Christianity Must in Substance Law Reason in this regard much more perpetually exclude abolish all Jews Jewish Priests Rabbies Synagogues worship Ceremonies Superstitions out of our Dominions being far more dishonourable to Christ opposite to our Christian Religion and destructive to the peoples souls if once admitted then any Jesuites Seminary Priests Friers Popish Recusants or any Romish Masses Superstitions whatsoever And if the Jewish Priests Judaism and Jewish Ceremonies may be now set up and practised publiquely amongst us notwithstanding all these Statutes then much more Masse-Priests Masses Popery and Prelacy by the self-fame reason justice equity To these I might annex all the late Ordinances for the Directory The solemn League and Covenant and for Suppressing punishing of Heresy and Blasphemy therefore of Judaism which is both Heresy and Blasphemy and Jewish assemblies the very Synagogues of S●tan and Jews great blaspemers by Christs own resolution Rev. 2.9 c. 3.9 Acts 18.6 Rom. 2.21 With the late printed Instrument of Government which although it allows not only toleration but protection to all Sects and Religions professing faith in God through Jesus Christ though differing from the Doctrine and Discipline publickly held forth in the Nation

Sybarites Bysantii Antissiaei Apoloniatae Chii Syracusani Amphipolitae who by receiving strangers into their cities and countries were all much infested some of them quite supplanted and ejected by them the rest enforced to expel them by force of arms Then he subjoyneth That the strangers admitted among Gods own people proved briars and thorns unto them and Solomon himself by many strange women fell into Idolatry concluding thus The Spaniards in my opinion did not unjustly banish the seditious Iews out of their Coasts propius non accedo ●ed Christum oro ne peregrinorum turba immanis turbo in civitate fiat As these Grecians in ancient times prohibited the introduction of strangers amongst them for the forementioned reasons so likewise did some of the wisest Romans Pennus in ancient times and Papius after him as Cicero relates Peregrinos Vrbibus prohibent eosque exterminant which although he thus censures as an inhumanity suverò urbis prohibere peregrinos sanè inhumanum est Yet he intends it only of excluding strangers from all trading and commerce not from cohabitation as Denizens from which he holds it just to debarre them there being a special Law then in force for that purpose which he thus expresseth Nam esse pro cive qui civis non sit RECTUM EST NON LICERE QUAM LEGEM TULERUNT SAPIENTISSIMI CONSULES Crassus Scaevola Hence Claudius the Emperour banished the Jews out of Rome Acts 18.2 and Suetonius in his life And the mischief of admitting forraigners is largely argued in Cornelius Tacitus who were after his time banished out of Rome as Coelius Rhodigmus relates out of Ammianus Marcelinus So the Carthaginians Solthians Scythotauri Gamphasantes Seres Indians Aegyptians in some places the Epidauri Athenians also excluded foraigners their country company conversation Ne cives longo usu dissimiles mores imbuerent in alienas leges ritusque transirent as Alex. ab Alexandro Gen. Dierum l. 4. c. 10. and Boêmus de Mor. Gentium record Yea we read of the Tartars and most politick Inhabitants of China at this day that they will admit no strangers into their Countries so much as to travel or traffick for fear of discerning their secrets and corrupting their manners and those few they admit by special licence to enter into their Country they will by no means suffer to return thence nor permit Merchants and Marriners there trading to walk abroad publikely in their Cities and Countries nor to lodge on land but only in their ships And to come nearer home our Kings heretofore upon the grievous complaint of the Nobility Gentry People have frequently banished all strangers out of England as the greatest pests inconveniences and grievances to the Natives Thus in the reign of King Edward the Confessor Anno 1052 All the Normans except two or three were banished our of England for giving ill counsel to the King and incensing him against the English by agreement both of the King and Parliament So King Henry the 2. in the 1 year of his reign Anno Dom. 1154. or in the second year of his reign as others write commanded all strangers to avoid out of the Realm by Proclamation by a certain day under great penalty especially the Flemings and Souldiers who committed all kinds of mischief under pretence of a liberty permitted to Souldiers by the Law of arms in time of war In the year 1220. King Hen. the 3. by his Proclamation commanded all strangers to avoid the land by Michaelmas next following except such as came with Merchandize to make sale of their wares under the Kings safe conduct After which the Po●ctouvines coming into England in great number obtaining great offices about the King miscounselling seducing and encensing him against the English Nobility and ingrossing the wealth of the Kingdom into their hands were assaulted plundered and many of them inforced to retire out of England by the Barons in the year 1258. And the next year after they were all banished out of England by Edict of Parliament After which they returning and oppressing the Realm were again expulsed and exiled by the Barons Anno 1260. So in the Parliament of 4 Ed. 2. Anno 1311. It was ordained by the Archbishops Bishops Earls and all the Commons in Parliament amongst other things That the King should banish all Foraigners out of his Court and Kingdom as his Father had commanded him which the King obliged himself by Oath to performe And thereupon banished his own Minion Pierce Gaveston into Ireland Which practices and proceeding of all these recited Nations and our Ancestors being if not grounded on yet at least warranted by Gods own forcited Precepts to the Israelites being warranted by the Jews own practise who had no dealings with the Samaritans John 4.9 and the Samaritans reciprocal carriage towards the Iews whom they would neither lodge nor entertain Lu. 9.51 52 53. Why we should not upon this account seclude those alien Jews so different from us both in manners customs Laws Religion and obeying not the Laws of our Saviour Christ Jesus it being not for the Kings or the Kingdoms profit to suffer them as Haman Esther 3.8 once said of them in another case I referre it to all wise Statesmen to resolve since it may be truly said of such unwelcom guests Turpius ejicitur quâm non admittitur hospes Neither will this contradict that Gospel precept Heb. 13.2 Be not forgetfull to entertain strangers or Deutr. 10.18.19 c. 23.7 Mat. 25.35 43. which extend only to Christian hospitality liberality and pity towards private distressed exiles travellers and other strangers coming to lodge or sojourn with us for a short season into our houses or country upon extraordinary or just occasions especially such who stand in need of our releif and are of the Houshold of Fa●th as is clear by the Texts themselves compared with Rom. 12.13 1 Pet. 4.9.3 Iohn 5. Gal. 6.10 not to Infidels Jews Pagans or who are in no such absolute necessity nor stand in need of our charity or reception nor yet to the reception of any forraign Nation or Colony into our Island to cohabit perpetually with us the only point in question which the Scripture no where commands nor intends but disallows in the aforecited Texts Neh. 9.2 c. 13.30 And these Scripture expressions Prov. 5.10 Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth Isay 1 7. your lands strangers devour in your presence and it is desolate as overthrown by strangers Lam. 5.2 Our inheritance is turned unto strangers our Houses to aliens Hosea 7.9 Strangers have devoured his strength and he knoweth it not sufficiently manifest both the illegallity folly and sad consequences of our receiving Jews and other strangers in such a nature of which our Ancestors had sufficient experience in the Jews themselves enforcing them for ever to exile them hence who have places enough in many other parts of the world where they now inhabit in

peace and plenty and enjoy their Merchandizes and other franchi●es together with their Schools and Synagogues as Benjamin the Sonne of Ionas a Jew records at large in his Peregrination together with Mr. Samuel Purchas in his Pilgrims l. 9. c. 5. And Menasseh Ben-Israel him self confesseth in his Epistle Dedicatory and Addresses where thus he writes Our Nation at the present is spread all about and hath its seat and dwelling in the most flourishing parts of all the Kingdoms and Countries of the world as well in America as in the other three parts which he prosecutes more at large p. 3 4 5 6 7 8 9. boasting of their extraordinary wealth Offices Power and Priviledges in other places And therefore this only remains in my judgement Before the Messia come and Restore our Nation that first we must have our seat here ●●kewise therefore having so much Elbow-room already throughout the world their reception here will be no act of piety or charity in us neither do they presse it as such but an act of the highest impiety they now insisting on it as a necessary preparative to the coming of th●ir long expected false Messia to restore them to their temporal Kingdom again and Fathers inheritance as he expresly writes These general Reasons against the Jews readmission premised which I hope will satisfie most men I shall conclude with some particular Reasons drawn from late published Declarations of our Grandees which I conceive will best satisfie them of any other and for this end I hope without any just offence or Scandalum magnatum I shall crave leave to presse them home in this common cause for the defence of the Glory Honor Scepter Gospel Kingdome of our Lord Jesus Christ the only Potentate the Prince of the Kings of the Earth the King of Kings and Lord of Lords the head of all principality and power and God over all blessed for ever before whose feet all other subordinate Kings and Potentates whatsoever ought to prostrate not only their persons but Crowns and most peremptory Royall Wills and Edicts too for whose pleasure honor and glory alone all things and powers likewise both are and were created in whose cause we must be mo●t bold and zealous not fearing the faces of any Mortals My 1. Reason shall be drawn from the very words of the Declaration of 21. Novemb. 1655. inviting the people of this commonwealth to a day of solemn Fasting and Hum●liation on the 6. of December last a day of trouble and of rebuke of blasphemy provocation in respect of the violence acted on it that time seven years when the children were come to the birth and there was no strength to bring forth but only to obstruct and pull out the Members to prevent out peace and settlement The principal cause whereof they Declare to be The abominable Blasphemies vented and spreading of late through the Apostacy of and the abuse of Liberty by many professing Religion And to joyn with them in solemn and earnest supplications to the throne of Grace That the Lord will disappoint the designs of those that labour to lift themselves up against the interest of Christ and his people That he will rebuke the foresaid Evils and give his people to know the things that belong to their Peace that so we may with one heart and shoulder serve the Lord both theirs and ours The Jews of all other Nations in the world are the greatest venters spreaders of abominable Blasphemies against our Saviour and the Gospel the greatest Apostates from God and abusers of Liberty of any professing Religion The greatest designers plotters and lifters up of themselves against the interest of Christ and his people as the Premises undeniably evidence And their introduction amongst us at this season when the generality of the people and professors of Religion likewise are so bent to Apostacy and all kind of Errors of Novelties in Religion will no ways allay but most certainly increase the venting and spreading of abominable Blasphemies amongst us multiply the Apostacies of and abuse of liberty by the professors of Religion and make thousands in probability turn Apostate Jews instead of converting any of the Jews to Christianity It will not disappoint but most of all advance the designes of those that labour to lift up themselves against the interest of Jesus Christ and his people this being as some justly fear the Jews very end and plot in pressing now to be received amongst us to seduce us unto Judaism to which many are now inclined and to deny our Saviour Christ in words as too many have denied him in their works and some in their opinions of late years It will not rebuke but foment the foresaid Evils obstruct Gods people both from knowing and pursuing the things that concern their peace and instead of enabling them with one h●art and shoulder to serve the Lord divide them into more Sects and Schisms than formerly and set up Judaism to affront Christianity with open face as 2 Pet. 2.1 Jude 3.4 c. Tit. 1.10.11 1 Joh. 4.3 2 Joh. 7 resol●● so multiply the late Rebukes and Judgements of God upon the Nation Therfore their re-admission into England after such a Sol●mn Declaration and Day of Humiliation as this and some others formerly prescribed observed through the Nation for the late monstrous growth and spreading of Errors and Blasphemies amongst us if resolved and effected wil● be reputed by God and Men A most palpable violation yea contradiction of this Declaration and Humilation a mo●t hypocritical Atheistical mocking of God himself to his face a most prophane abuse and per●ersion of this Solemn Fast and Humiliation a frustration of all the prayers hopes of most religious people thereon who observed it for far other prescribed ends and an high Provocation of Gods severest wrath against the perverters of it to this very end to introduce the long-since banished Jews the debate whereof was proposed immediately before and began the very next day after it My 2. Reason shall be deduced from the Declaration of the 24 Novemb. 1655. in order to the securing of the peace of the Commonwealth Declaring it necessary to use all good means to secure the Peace of the Nation and prevent future troubles within the same The bringing in of the Jews at this season when the people are ●o generally divided discontented and declare for ought I can learn their highest unanimous dislike and detestation of it is the most probable means to disturb the peace of the Nation and to engender future new troubles Tumults within it the generality of the people in England and in other Countries having in former ages frequently ri●en up in armes against them massacred burnt ●nd de●●royed them notwithstanding their Kings and Magi●●r●te Proclamations and Edicts to the contrary And the Jews themselves in all ages having been principle firebrands of sedition both in their own Land and all places where they

have been d●spersed as the Texts and Authors in the 3. and 7. premised reasons with the foregoing Relations out of our English Historians attest Therefore their re-admission into England especially in this unquiet season must needs be diametrically contrary to the scope of this Declaration and neither in policy nor prudence to be resolved on but utterly rejected My 3d. reason shall be grounded on this clause of that Declaration That no person who hath or shall be sequestred or e●ected for Delinquency or being in actual arms for the late King against the th●n Parliament or for Charis Stuart his Son c. out of any Benefice School or Colledge shall from and after the 1. day of December be kept as a Chaplain or School-master in any s●questred persons house Nor after the 1. day of January keep any School publike or private Nor preach in any publike place or private meet●ng of any other persons than those of his own family No● shall adm●nister Baptism or the Lords Supper or Marry c. upon pain that every person so offending in any of the premisses sh●l be proceeded against as by Orders therin mentioned is provided prescribing 3 months imprisonment for the 1.6 months for the 2 d and banishm●nt for the 3 d Offence as I am inform●d If native freeborn Eng●ishmen formerly ejected out of any Benefice Colledge or School only for their old delinquency in adhering to the l●te King and Prince though according to their Oaths duties and dictate of their consciences after some years publike liberty to preach Articles of Agreement confirmed by the Army and both Houses and that which some call An Act of Oblivion and future indempnity though orthodox in Doctrine unblamable in con●ersation and eminent in learning without any particular impeachment hearing conviction of any new Delinquency or mi●demeanors whatsoever must not have so much liberty as to keep any School or preach Gods Word in publike or private or to be entertained in formerly sequestred Englishmens h●uses under the foresaid penalties at this season only in Order to the Nations peace Then much lesse ought J●ws meer aliens who always have been and still are ●●ofessed Enemies in arms against the Person Kingdom Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ which the late Parliamen● by their solemn Protestation Vow and Covenant eng●ged by all good means to d●fend and advance to be ent●rtained by any Engli●h Christians or publikely or priva●ely to teach preach spread propagate their Jewish Doctrines Errors and abo●ished Ceremonies in our Island but to be banished for ever from amongst us if any o● them should pub●ikely or privately attempt to creep in amongst us Else not on●y all sequestred Delinquents but the whole Eng●ish Nation and world too will cry out and say the faithfull loyal Chaplains S●rvants followers Friends of the late K. and Pr. though English Nativs Freemen ye our felow brethren Members in Christ are more execrable to more injuriously unchristianly uncharitably dealt with by their Fellow English Christians in present power only for their loyalty and conscientious adhering to their late temporal King and Prince than the very alien Jews who both denied rejected crucified the Lord Jesus Christ their own tem●oral Soveraign who was born King of the Iews and had this very title inscribed on his Crosse and their our only spiritual King and Saviour whose Honour Power Kingdom Gospel we avowedly profess to ad●ance that they enjoy lesse Christian or civil liberty for themselves their wives and families necessarie subsistance for whom they must provide unless worse than Infidels now in their Native country then the Jews where they must neith●r teach nor preach Christ Jesus to any in publique or private though Gods word and their function condition en●oyn necessitate them to do both when as these admitted Jews may and all other kind of Sectaries do both teach and preach against him too in publick and privat Which restraints on these English Royalists on the one hand and indulged liberty to the alien Jew Antichr●sts on the other if now put in execution I humbly ref●rre it to the saddest confiderations and conscientious meditations of all in power to resolve themselves how scanda●ous and odious it will prove both to God and all good men how much it will resemble the proceedings not only of the malicious Jews themselves against the Apostles Ministers of Christ recorded Acts 4.1 to 24. c. 5.24 to 32.1 Thess 2.14 15 16. of beheaded Canterbury again●t Mr. Workman of Glocester whom he first prohibited from preaching then from teaching School and practising Physick to su●port himself and his family whereby he was reduced to great extremity But likewise of that detestable Apostat Emperour Julian who out of his desperate malice to Christ to undermine and exti●pate Christian Relig●on without shedding the bloud of Christians first shewed himself a most zealous Christian professor reducing the O●thodox Bishops Ministers christians whom the persecuting Arian Emperour Constantius had exiled and restoring them to their confiscated Bishopricks to ingratiate himself with the people but not long after turning Apostat he took away all the priviledges honours revenues of the Clergy setled on them by Constantine with the Laws for their establishment shut up the Churches and Schools of the Christians prohibiting them to preach or teach in publike or private or to set their Children to School unless they would renounce their former Religion and turn Pagans impoverished oppressed the Christians with extraordinary doubled Taxes from which the Pagans were exempted and cast many of them into prison But on the contrary at the same time he shewed extraordinary favour and affection towards the Iews sent for the chiefest of them to his Court where he dicoursed with them writing a special Letter to them wherein the desired their prayers for him granted them free exercise of their Jewish ceremonies and sacrifices long discontinu●d encouraged and assisted them with monies out of his publike Treasury to re-edifie the Temple at Jerusalem to revive set up all their Jewish Sacrifices and customes there formerly used whereupon they began to build it till miraculously interrupted therein and all to vex and undermine the Christians By which indulged Liberty the Jews then grew so insolent against the Christians that they greivously persecuted divers of them destroyed and burne down some of their Churches and threatned to persecute them worse than the Pagan Romans had done as the Marginall Historians record more at large The imitation of whose proceedings now in any degree in these particulars what harsh cons●ructions and sad events they may produce I refer to all wise Christian States-men seriously to ponder for their own and our Religions honor and Security My 4. argument is this The Orders for securing the peace of the Nation which the Declaration relates to contrary to all the Statutes Acts Resolutions of our Parliaments and Law-books forecited upon another occasion authorize the Major