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 relâ—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 Seâ—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 Jâ—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. â— 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 Sâ—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
combate the Jews only brought away nothing besides confusion although they would many times boast that they were overcome not by argument or reason but by a faction Antoninus relating the story in the same words addes onely this That the Jews comming to this King on a certain Solemnity and offering him gifts after their removal from Rhoan to London he thereupon animated them to a conflict against the Christians swearing by St. Lukes face that if they overcame them he would revolt to their Sect as if he spake it in good earnest with whom the Magdeburg Centuries Iohn Stow in his Survey of London p. 288. and Sir Richard Baker in his Chronicle p. 51. accord By which we may observe That the Jews were no sooner transported and setled in Rhoan and London but thâ—y presently began to grow very insolent against the Christians 1. Endeavouring to pervert some of them by monies to Judaism 2ly Attempting to corrupt the King himself by gifts to side with them against the Bishops and Clergy and to become one of their Sect. 3ly By entring into open Disputations with the Bishops and Clergy against the Christian Faith to the great fear of the Professors and hazard of the Christian Religion 4ly By boasting frequently when they were overcome That it was only by power and faction not truth or disputation And will not this be their very practise now if re-admitted to the hazard of our Christian Religion and seduction of many simple unstable souls in this unsetled apostatizing age when not only the ignorant people but many great Professors turn Atheists Hereticks Seekers Apostates Blasphemers Ranters Quakers Antiscripturists and what not but real upright just and mortified self-denying Christians This History of William Rufus causing a disputation between the Christians and the Jews is related by Raphael Holinshed in his Chronicle Vol. 3. p. 27. who likewise records of him That he being at Rhoan on a time there came to him divers Jews who inhabited that City complaining to him that divers of that Nation had renounced their Jewish Religion and were become Christians wherefore they besought him that for a certain summe of money which they offered to give it might please him to constrain them to abjure Christianity and turn to the Jewish Law again He was content to satisfie their desires and so receiving the money called them before him and what with threats and putting them otherwise in fear he compelled divers of them to forsake Christ and to turn to their old errors Hereupon the Father of one Stephen a Jew converted to the Christian Faith being sore troubled for that his Son was turned a Christian and hearing what rhe King had done in such like matters presented to him 60 Marks of Silver conditionally That he should enforce his Son to return to his Jewish Religion whereupon the young man was brought before the King unto whom he said Sirra thy Father here complaineth that without his license thou art become a Christian If this be true I command thee to return again to the Religion of thy Nation without any more adoe To whom the Young man answered Your Grace as I guesse doth but â—est Wherewith the King being moved said What thou dunghill knave should I jest with thee Get thee hence quickly and fulfill my commandement or by St. Lukes face I shall cause thine eyes to be plucked out of thine head The young man nothing abashed thereat with a constant voice answered Truly I will not doe it but know for certain that if you were a good Christian you would never have uttered any such words for it is the part of a Christian to reduce them again to Christ which are departed from him and not to separate them from him which are joyned to him by Faith The King herewith confounded commanded the Jew to avant and get him out of his sight But his Father perceiving that the King could not perswade his Son to forsake the Christian Faith required to have his money again To whom the King said he had done so much as he promised to doe that was to perswade him so far as he might At length when he would have had the King to have dealt further in the matter the King to stop his mouth tendred back to him the one half of his money and reteined the other to himself All which encreased the suspition men had of his infidelity By this History we may perceive what a prevailing Engine the Jews money is both to serue them into Christian Kingdoms though the most bitter inveterate professed Enemies of Christ himself Christians and Christianity and how their money can induce even Christian Princes to perpetrate most unchristian and antichristian actions and enforce by threats and violence even converted Christian Jews to renounce their Christianity and apostatise to their former Jewish Errors which they had quite renounced And do not they still work even by the self-same Money Engine preferred by too many Christians before Christ himself and Christianity In the year of our Lord 1145. during the reign of King Stephen the Jews grew so presumptuous in England that they crucified a child called William in the city of Norwich in derision of Christian Religion as Mathew Westminster Flores Historiarum Ann. 1145. p. 36. and others ioyntly attest Not long after this Anno 1160. the 6 year of Henry the II. they crucified another child at Gloucester in contempt of Christ and his Passion as John Bromtons Chronicon col 1050. and others record And in the same Kings reign Anno 1181. upon the same account the Iews on the Feast of Easter martyred and crucified another child at St. Edmonds-bury called Robert who was honourably interred soon after in the Church of St. Edmunds and grew famous by miracles there wrought as Gervasius Dorobernensis in his Chronica col 1458. relates What punishments were then inflicted on them for these Murders and Insolencies I find not recorded perchance they purchased their peace with monies Yet I read That in the year 1168. King Henry the 2. wanting monies banished the wealthiest of the Jews out of England and fined the rest of them in 5000 Marks most likely for these their Misdemeanors John Stow in his Survey of London p. 288. writes That King Henry the 2. grievously punished the Jews for corrupting his coin which no other Historian mentions The Jews though there were a great multitude of them in England in every quarter of the Realm had only one Church-yard alotted them and that at London near Red-cross-street in which they were enforced to bury all their dead corps wheresoever they died which being a great trouble and annoyance to them thereupon in the year 1178. they petitioned King Henry the 2. being at Stanstede for a License to have church-yards without the Cities wherin they inhabited in convenient places where they could purchase them wherein to bury their dead which he then granted to them It seems the Jews
which agrees with that in Holinshed he being thrust out and meeting his Father standing before the door expecting the event being animated against him said O Son of death and fewel of eternal perdition is not thine own damnation sufficient for thee unless thou also cast me headlong into it together with thee But God forbid that I to whom Christ is now revealed should ever acknowledge thee henceforth for a Father because the devil is thy father I have omitted in this second enlarged Edition of my Demurrer no passage to my knowledge in any of our Historians relating to our former English Iews reciting them all in a Chronological Order in the Historians own words quoted in the Margin only I finde sundry Records concerning them which I shall supply by a subsequent Appendix by themselves to gratifie those who bought the first Edition whom their insertion into this might have injur'd Herein I have only briefly touched not handled the great Question of the general calling conversion of the Iewish Nation to the Faith of Christ towards the end of the world for which I cannot finde any satisfactory grounds in Scripture That Text of Levit. 26.41 to 46. on which some build their general call having these two clauses in it that seem strongly to oppose or make it very dubious v. 41. IF THEN their uncircumcised heart be humbled and that they accept of the punishment of their iniquity c. v. 46. I will not cast them away neither will I abhor them to DESTROY THEM UTTERLY And that other Text of Rom. 11. whereon others most rely having this conditional passage express clauses against it v. 23. And they also IF they abide not still in unbelief shall be grafted in for God is able he saith not resolved to graffe them in again And v. 3 to 8. I have reserved to my self 7000 men c. Even so then at this present time there is a Remnant according to the election of grace c. But the Election hath obtained it and the rest were hardned or blinded Which compared with Rom. 9.27 29. Isaiah also saith concerning Israel Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the Sea yet a REMNANT of them only shall be saved Except the Lord of Hosts had left unto us A SEED A VERY SMALL REMNANT so Isaiah calls it we had been as Sodom c. will necessarily evince that Rom. 11.26 And so all Israel shall be saved c. on which they ground this general call must be intended onely of all this small elect remnant of the Israel of God and seed of Abraham according to the faith not flesh Rom. 4 11 12 13 14 15 16. Gal. 3.7 8 9 14 16. Ga. 6.16 of all such who are Jews inwardly and have the Circumcision of the heart Rom 2.28 29. not of the whole Jewish Nation whose servants I fear weâ—e as few under the Gospel as the Gentiles Converts and Proselytes under the Law And those who will strain that Text further must necessarily aver not only an Universal Calling but likewise Salvation and taking away the ungodliness and sins of the whole Nation then by Christ of which that Text only speaks not only contrary to these forecited Scriptures and Gods dealing with all other Churches Nations but to Jer. 3.14 I will take you one of a City and two of a Tribe and I will bring you to Sion Mat. 21.16 Many are called but few chosen few saved Mat. 7.14 Luke 13.23 Therefore for any to call in the Jews among us upon this surmise of their general approaching Conversion is a strange Solecism both in State-Policy and Christianity especially in this age wherein that Speech of Waltramus Bishop of Naumburge is most truely verified Diabolus videns Idola derelicta per nimium credentium populum sedes suas ac templa deserta excogâ—itavit novam fraudem ut sub ipso Christiani nominis titulo fallat incautos haeresesque invenit schismata quibus subverteret fidem corrumperet veritatem Exinde divisa est Ecclesia divisa sunt Ecclesiae Sacerdotia atque omnia scandalorum orta sunt genera Exinde crevit grave diuturrum bellum non solum civile bellum sed plusquam civile bellum factae sunt absque divino pariter humano respectu vastationes Ecclesiarum caedes hominum Exinde etiam corruptae sunt divinae pariter humanae leges sine quibus non subsistit vel Dei Ecclesia vel Imperii Respublica ex inde violata est fides publica Catholica exinde etiam illa crevit injustitia ut pro veritate falsa testimonia pro fide Catholica abundent perjuria ut post quam Leges bello silvere coactae impleaturiam ista Domini sententia per Osee Prophetam Non est veritas non est misericordia non scientia Dei in terra maledictum mendacium homicidium furtum adulterium inundaverunt sanguis sanguinem tetigit Ipse Diabolus videtur nunc de carcere suo solutus esse Hinc publicae civium contra Cives congressiones aliis pro pastoribus legitimis aliis vero contra pastores dimicantes as he and Gerhobus Richerspergensis writ of Pope Hildebrands dayes If any man chance to censure me as overharsh or earnest in my expressions against the Jews I hope that speech of their royal Prophet a man after Gods own heart Ps 139.20 21 22. Do not I hate them O Lord that hate thee and am I not grieved with those that rise up against thee I hate them with a perfect hatred I count them mine enemies for they speak against thee wickedly depart from me therefore ye bloody men will apologize for me especially seeing their Proposals are Not only to be admitted and received into our Commonwealth under the protection and safeguard of our Governours AS THE NATIVES THEMSELVES and that all the Heads and Generals of Arms may take an Oath to defend them upon all occasions that they may be permitted to traffick freely in all sorts of Merchandize as others but to be judged by their Judges in differences between themselves according to the Mosaick Law And to be allowed PUBLICK SYNAGOGUES not onely in ENGLAND but also IN ALL OTHER PLACES under our power and TO OBSERVE IN ALL THINGS THEIR RELIGION AS THEY OUGHT That in case there have been any Laws against their Jewish Nation they may IN THE FIRST PLACE and BEFORE ALL THINGS BE REVOKED A clear evidence of an intended design in them only to set up their Synagogues of Satan Judaism Jewish Ceremonies in the highest degree amongst us as lawful in direct opposition and subversion of our only Lord Saviour Redeemer Mediator Jesus Christ his Person Offices Kingdom Gospel and Christianity it self without any thoughts of turning Christians themselves As Manasseh Ben Israel his printed Addresses most fully discovers In which case
except only to Popery and Prelacy yet certainly it can no ways extend to the toleration or protection of Iews and their Antichristian blasphemies against Christ himself and the Gosple seeing they are so far from professing faith in Iesus Christ that they utterly renounce and professedly decry him to be the true Saviour and Messiah of the world rejecting the whole New Testament and Doctrine of the Gospel and so by consequence are necessarily secluded by this Instrument and Oath for its observation from practising their Jewish worship Ceremomies or erecting any Synagogues in our Nation for that purpose 2ly Though the Kings of England by the Law and their Prerogative may in sundry cases erect New Corporations of their Subjects by their Charters only yet notwithstanding no Corporation or Fraternity of Iews being meer Aliens may can or ought to be erected in England by the Fundamental Lawes and Constitutions of the Realm but only by full consent of the Nation in Parliament by special Acts of Parliamennt it being one of the greatest Intrenchments that can be upon the English Nations Rights Liberties Customs priviledges profit and a violation of all the former Charters Previledges Rights Franchises confirmed to them by the great Charter of England forty times since ratified by new Acts of Parliament This is evident by the Statutes of Magna Charta c. 9.37 34 E. 1. c. 4. 1 E. 3. c. 9. 14 E. 3. c. 1. 1. H. 4. c. 1. 2. H. 4. c. 1. 7. H. 4. c. 1. 9. H. 4. c. 1. 13. H. 4. c. 1. 3. H. 5. c. 1. 2. H. 6. c. 1. compared with 2 E. 3. c. 9. 27. E. 3. c. 1. to 29. 28 E. 3.13.15 39. E. 3. c. 7 19 H. 7. c. 12 and all other Acts for the Staple and Styliard and with 3. E. 4. c. 6. 1. R. 3. c. 9. 14 H. 8. c. 2. 21 H. 8. c. 16. 22 H. 8. c. 8. 32 H. 8. c. 16. touching Artificers Mâ—rchants and Aliens 3ly The preambles of the Statute of Merton 20 H. 3. 3 E. 1. with c. 17.48 6 E. 1. of Quo Warranto and of Glocester 13 E. 1. 12 E. 2. of York 9 10 14 15 25 28 36 37. E. 3.1.3 6 7 8 10 11 12 13 14 21. R. 2.1 2 4 6. H. 4.1 8 10 12. 36. H. 6. 18 E. 3. c. 1 2 3. R. 2. Rot. Parl. n. 36 40. 6 H. 6. c. 5. and other Acts declare and resolve That the Kings of England by their Oath and Duty and the Lords and Commons in Parliament are all obliged by their trusts and our Laws to advance uphold maintain and defend the welfare wealth safety of the Church Realm Subjects People of England and to prevent redresse suppresse remove by wholesom Laws and Ordinances all Grievances Mischiefs Damages Inconveniences Disinherisons contrary thereunto it being a fundamental Maxime both in our Laws and Law-Books SALUS POPULI SUPREMA LEX which the Army Officers in their Declaration of 16 Novemb. 1648. and Mr. John Pym in his Speech against Strafford 12 April 1641. p. 3. c. printed by the Commons special Order much insist on Moreover it is another Maxime in our Law Summa ratio est quae pro religione faecit Now the admission of the Jews into England as appeareth by the Statute de Judaismo and premised Histories is no way consistent with the welfare profit wealth safety of the Church Realm Subjects People or Religion of England and will be an extraordinary damage mischief grievance inconvenience and disinherison to them all Therefore prohibited enacted against by the general scope of all these Laws and Maxims and no ways to be admitted 4ly The Jews heretofore in England and still in all other parts being most grievous Clippers coyners forgers of money Vsurers Extortioners and the greatest cheators cozeners Impostors in the world in all their Merchandizes and Manufactures whatsoever upon this accompt they are and ought to be still excluded and never re-admitted amongst us by the provisions of all our Laws yet in force prohibiting clippâ—ng coyning usury extortion frauds deceipts in any Merchandizes or Manufactures whatsoever unless we intend to have them now more practised by them and others among us than ever heretofore The rather because they were never admitted free Trading and Habitation in England by any of our Laws touching Alien Merchants and Artificers free Traffick amongst us from the time of their forementioned banishment till this present under the Name and Notion of Jews Foraign Merchants or Artificers And therfore not to be admâ—tted to those new desired priviledges from which all these forecited Laws in my weak Judgement with the former old Parliamentary Judgement and Edict for their perpetual banishment in Law Justice Conscience still debarre them re-admittance til repealed and they if ever readmitted against all these Acts and Statutes must be introduced re-setled by special Acts of Parliament which no English Parliament in probability will ever indulge unto them as the peoples general present declamations in all places against their endeavoured introduction prognostick And thus much I thought meet to inform the Nation touching those Laws and Statutes which in my poor opinion directly or by consequence oppose their re-admission and refute those Lawyers mis-information who confidently averred there is no Law of England at all against it if Mr. Nye did truly inform me 2. For Scriptures these Texts may resolutely engage us against their re-admission 1. Matth. 5.13 Luke 14.34 35. Salt is good but if the salt have lost its savor wâ—erewith shall it be seasoned It is neither fit for the land nor yet for the dunghil but to be cast out and to be trodden under foot of men This is the condition of the Jews who have loâ—t both their Saviour and their favor too Therefore not fit for our land nor yet for our dunghils but to be kept and cast out from amongst us and trodden under foot of all true Christian men whiles unbeliever s. 2. 1 Cor. 16.22 If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ let him be Anathema Maranatha That is separated and cast out from all Christian society and communion until the day of Judgement the highest kind of Jewish Excommunication Now the Jews are such who doe not only not love but deny defie and hate our Lord Jesus Christ in the highest degree Therefore to be excommunicated and secluded from our Christian communion and cohabitation amongst us to which they can pretend no right 3. 2 Cor. 6.14 15 c. Be ye not unequally yoaked together with unbelievers for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness and what communion hath light with darkness and what concord hath Christ with Belial and what part hath he that believeth with an Infidel and what agreement hath the Temple of God with Idols c. Wherefore come out from among them and be ye separate saith the Lord and touch no unclean thing and I will receive you The
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 Aâ—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 Bzouâ—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 â—â—â—e was decreed by the Council of Basil Sess 20. and â—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 theâ—r continual conversation and daily familiarity might easily incline the minds of simple people to their superstition and infideâ—ity And should not those men who pretend themâ—elves far greater Zealots than the Goths Spaniards or Pope and the Popish Canonists who decree the like upon the sâ—me reason upon these very grounds much more oppose prohibiâ—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 dishonoâ—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 Jeâ—uites who derive both their Name and pedigree from the Jews eâ—en from Iesui and his family of the Iesuits Num. 16.44 as some of them affirm in prinâ— though others from other grounds of Popish Priests and Friers come over freely into England from Portugal Spaine Rome Italy Poland and othâ—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 Superâ—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 Glocestershâ—re in his â—rink where he would have ravished the Maid-servant of the house locking the door upon her whiâ—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 pâ—ople in other places instead of being brought to Tybuâ—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 Citiâ—s Countries Kingdoms and their Synagogues burnt and destroyed especially for their Infidelity and other forementioned Mildemeanors Crimes Viâ—lanies About the year of Christ 430. at the instigation of St. Cyâ—il Bishop of Alexandria and the Christians there they were expelled and banished that famous City where they had long inhabited for their insolencâ—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
Jews may do well to transplant themselves if they be weary of their former habitation 10. The forecited Christian Authors Historians old and new much applaud and magnifie those Christian Emperors Kings Magistrates States who have most opposed restrained suppressed by severest Laws Edicts the Jewish Synagogues Ceremonies Superstitions Rites Abuses and banished these Antichristian Blasphemers and Enemies of Christ Jesus out of their Kingdoms and Territories especially for their Infidelity and censured those who favoured them And Matheus Flacius Illericus Johannis Wigandus Andreas Corvinus Thomas Holthuter 4 famous learned Protestant Historians and Divines in their laborious learned Ecclesiastical centuries as they every where do the like So in their 12 Cent. cap. 7. col 1078 1079. they pass this sharp censure against the Decrees of Pope Alexander the 3. and Clement the 3. prohibiting the Jews to build any new Synagogues where were none before yet tollerating them only to repair old ones where they were fallen down and defaced to use their rites in But withall forbidding all christians under pain of Excommunication any communion with them for fear of being seâ—ucâ—d to their Superstitions â— Denique ut extremamâ—â—omanorum â—â—omanorum Paparum impadentiam et stupendam impletatem videas non pige â—iâ—â—orum Decreta pro blasphema in deum gente Iudaeorum lata adscribere â—â—ough some Popish Schoolmen as Alexander Alensis Summa Theologiae pars 2. qu. 61 Aquinas 2.2 quest 10. Art 9 10 11 12. Scotus in l. 4. Sent. dist 4. qu. 9. are not ashamed to justifie Quod ne deterius quid contingat aliquo modo bonum eliceatur tollerandi sunt Judaei ritus suos servare to graâ—â—fie their Popes herein which they likewise affirm of the iâ—olatrous Gentiles rites and worship as well as of the Jews And Peter Heylin in his Microcosme p. 569 570. writing That the Jews having been put to divers fines and ransoms they are at last even thrust quite out of Europe also They were banished out of England by Edward the 1. Anno 1290. Out of France Spain Portugal Naples and Sicil by the Kings forecited subjoyns by way of censure Yet are they found in great numbers in the Romish part oâ— Germany and Poland in most Cities of Italy especially Rome where there are no lesse than 15000 or 20000 of them and also in the Popes country of Avignion The reason why they are permitted to live thus under our holy â—athers Nose is forsooth an expectation of their conversion which is a meer pretence the reason being indeed the benefit hence arising to his Holinesse coffers but the hopes of their converâ—ion is small and the means lesse c. And therefore we cannot now re-admit them into England upon the self-same pretence and ground of gain without incurring the like censures from Protestants and Papists too and bringing intollerable Scandal Dishonour Reproach both on our Nation and Religion in these times of pretended highest Reformation they being the professed Enemies of our Lord Jesus Christ who will not have him to rule over them Luk. 19.27 and so odious to the very Turks themselves for crucifying Christ that they oft use to say in detestation of a thing I would I might die a Jew Neither will they permit a Jew to turn Turk unless he be first baptized 11. Many of the wisest Heathen Law-givers Politicians States have specially prohibited the introduction and habitation of foraigners amongst them Hence Lycurgus the famous Legislator and the Spartans by his Law and advice expelled all foraigners out of their city and country lest by insinuating themselves amongst them they should teach their Citizens some ill introduce foraign manners an ill disordered kind of life upon which ground they also prohibited their Citizens to travel into foraign countries Upon these grounds the Thebans Apoloniatae in imitation of the Spartans banished all foraigners out of their City as Aelian Var. Hist l. 13. c 16. Alexander ab Alex. l. 4. c. 10 record Plato the Philosopher Dialogo 12. de Legumlatione though he permits foraigners by way of study trade travel and embassie to come into his city and Republike under certain Laws and Rules yet he totally secludes them from inhabiting therein or to trade without strict Laws to prevent their danger upon this ground Solet enim civitatum in commerciis permixtio varios mores civitatibus ammiscere dum externi externis vicissim novationes inducunt quae res civitatibus per rectas leges benè institutis maximum deirimentum affert Aristotle observes That the bringing in of foraigners is the principal cause of seditions tumults Qui inquilinas aut advenas recipiunt in civitatem Hi fere omnes aut certe plurimi seditionibus conflictantur Dr. Jo. Case gives the reason of it Nam ut nihil citius corpus humanum inficit quam pestilentium vaporum malis humoribus copulatio ita nihil velocius corrumpit Civitatem quam peregrinorum admissio in qua contagio venenum latet And hereupon he raiseth this question from Aristotles Text Utrum periculosa sit in Rempublicam peregrinorum admissio And thus resolves it It is perillous to take Snakes into the bosom and Foraigners into the Commonweal for as they being refreshed with heat do bite and sting So these being enfranchised destroy the Republike To prove this by arguments we may consider that every Nation hath its proper ceremonies which they bring along with them and do not change with the climat when they come into another Countrey Wherefore there is great danger lest by receiving strangers the ancient manners and Laws should be changed into new and foraign Now what sooner begets sedition than alteration of Laws and Customes as we may see even in sundry Scripture examples which he remembers not and of the Jews especially Acts 14.2 to 7.16 c. 16.19 to 25. c. 18.5 6 7.17 18 19. c. 17.12 to 18. c. 19.24 to 41. c. 21.27 to 40. c. 22.22 c. c. 23 24 25. What therefore is more perillous than the admission of Foraigners into our Commonwealth Moreover wherefore hath Nature instructed like to associate together with like if it should draw men of strange and different manners into a Republike Nature will not that sheep should be associâ—ted with wolves neither wills Prudence that Natives should be coupled with Foraigners For Philosophy perswades this that contraries cannot dwell in the same place but strangâ—rs for the most part are Enemies to the Citizens with whom they converse Adde to this that as Locusis are to the Corn so are Foraigners to the Republike for as they doe wast and consume the grain of Corn so these devour the fruit of the Commonwealth for although they are branches of the same plant yet they suck not wholsom juyce but poyson from the root wherewith at length the whoâ—e plant being infected perisheth This he proves by several examples out of Aristotle himself by the Trezenii Zanclei
have been dâ—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 eâ—ected for Delinquency or being in actual arms for the late King against the thâ—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 sâ—questred persons house Nor after the 1. day of January keep any School publike or private Nor preach in any publike place or private meetâ—ng of any other persons than those of his own family Noâ— shall admâ—nister Baptism or the Lords Supper or Marry c. upon pain that every person so offending in any of the premisses shâ—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 banishmâ—nt for the 3 d Offence as I am informâ—d If native freeborn Engâ—ishmen formerly ejected out of any Benefice Colledge or School only for their old delinquency in adhering to the lâ—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 conâ—ersation and eminent in learning without any particular impeachment hearing conviction of any new Delinquency or miâ—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 hâ—uses under the foresaid penalties at this season only in Order to the Nations peace Then much lesse ought Jâ—ws meer aliens who always have been and still are â—â—ofessed Enemies in arms against the Person Kingdom Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ which the late Parliamenâ— by their solemn Protestation Vow and Covenant engâ—ged by all good means to dâ—fend and advance to be entâ—rtained by any Engliâ—h Christians or publikely or privaâ—ely to teach preach spread propagate their Jewish Doctrines Errors and aboâ—ished Ceremonies in our Island but to be banished for ever from amongst us if any oâ— them should pubâ—ikely or privately attempt to creep in amongst us Else not onâ—y all sequestred Delinquents but the whole Engâ—ish Nation and world too will cry out and say the faithfull loyal Chaplains Sâ—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 temâ—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 adâ—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 neithâ—r teach nor preach Christ Jesus to any in publique or private though Gods word and their function condition enâ—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 Antichrâ—sts on the other if now put in execution I humbly refâ—rre it to the saddest confiderations and conscientious meditations of all in power to resolve themselves how scandaâ—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 againâ—t Mr. Workman of Glocester whom he first prohibited from preaching then from teaching School and practising Physick to suâ—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 extiâ—pate Christian Religâ—on without shedding the bloud of Christians first shewed himself a most zealous Christian professor reducing the Oâ—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 discontinuâ—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 consâ—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
Generals and Commissioners named in them To banish and send into Foraign parts and Plantations all persons of the royal party formerly in arms of no estate and living loosly and all persons whatsoever that shall appear by their words or actions to adhere to the party of the late King or his Son to be dangerous Enemies to the peace of the Commonwealth even without and before any Legal indictment tryal conviction of any particular crime for which a Sentence of Banishment is prescribed by our Laws or any Judgement or Act of Parliament inflicting this heavy Punishment upon them far worse to many than death it self Now I shall earnestly intreat in the name and fear of God all those whom it most concernes to consider and determine in their own retired thoughts how unjust un-righteous unreasonable unchristian and more then brutish it will seem to all Freeborn English men and conscientious christians both at home and abroad and what great scandals it may bring both upon our Nation Government and Religion it self in this manner and on this old account alone to banish these christian English Freemen out of their Native country both from their Wives children Kinred and Gods own publike Ordinances and at the self-same time to call in foraign Infidel Jews greatest Enemies to Christ himself and Christians and in that respect more dangerous to the peace and welfare of the Nation than thoâ—e thus to be banished to supply their places even against an express old Judgement and Edict of the whole Kingdom in Parliament for their perpetual exile What a sad pernicious president it may prove in future ages especially to the Authors of it and their posterities by divine retalliation as the Athenian Ostracisme did to Clisthenes who invented it was the first exiled by it upon eâ—ery new revolution to banish all English freemen of a contrary party and call in Forraigners in their rooms Whether it will not revive that ancient complaint of Petrus Cluntacensis Lex nam vetusta sed verè diabolâ—ca ab ipsis Christianis Principibus processit c. Manet inultum scelus detestabile in Judaeo quod exilio vel horrenda morte suspendit punitur in Christiano Pinguescit inde deliciis affluâ—t Iudaeus unde laqueo suspendâ—tur Christianus And whether upon consideration of this and the precedent reasons deduced from these Declarations and all the premises they ought not peremptorily to conclude against the Jews present and future re-admission into England I shall close up all with an Answer to the two principal Allegations for their reception into our Realm 1. The main and onâ—y consciencious Argument for their introduction is this That it may be a very probable hopefull means of the general calling and conversion of the Iewish Nation to the Christ an Faith which hath been so long prayed for and expected by Christians and seems now approaching which their seclusion from us may much obstruct Not to enter into any large debate of this conversion of the Iews wherein learned Orthodox Divines and Writers are much divided I say 1. That I could never yet be satisfied that there shall be such a general call and conversion of the whole or major part of the Nation of the Jews as some expect but only of every smal electremnant of them The forecited Texts with Is 30.8 9 10 11. Now go write it before them in a Table and note it in a book that it may be for the time to come FOR EVER and EVER That this is a rebellious people children that will not hear the Law of the Lord which say to the Seers see not and to the Prophets prophesie not unto us right things c. cause the holy one of Israel to depart from before us Luk. 20.16 17 18. Mat. 21.41 42 43 44 45 John 1.11.12 Rom. 9.27.26.33 c. 11.2 5 7 8. contradicting such a general conversion of them that of Rom. 11.26.27 28. And so all Israel shall be saved being meant only of the Elect and true Israel of God both Jews and Gentiles as many judicious Expositors and Rom. 2 26 27 28 29. c. 9.6 7 8. c. 11.1 to 8. Gal. 3.7 9 14 16 22 28 29 c 6.16 seem to expound it not of the whole Jewish Nations calling and salvation at the last 2ly It is agreed by most who expect such a general calling and conversion of the Iews That it shall not be till the fullnesse of the Gentiles become in as Rom 11 24 25. resolves And whether this fullnesse be yet come in there being so many Gentile Nations yet unconverted especially in Asia Africa and America and those infinitely exceeding the Gentiles yet converted to the Gospel let those consider who now expect the Iews conversion 3ly If this fullnesse of the Gentiles conversion to Christ must preceed the general calling of the Iews as a necessary preparative and introduction thereunto then we ought by this allegation in the first place to call the Turks Tartars Persians Chinoys Indians all other unconverted Gentile Nations with their Religions into England first convert them to the Christian faith before we bring in the Iews whose conversion is to succeed theirs the Gentiles fullness And then we shall have Religions enough in England to please all Novellists and a thousand aliens to each English Native 4ly There are farre more expresse direct promises texts grounds both in the Old and New Testament for the calling conversion of all Gentiles and yet unconverted Heathen Nations to the faith of Christ then of the Iewish Nation not one Nation of them for ought we read being so far rejected broken off and given up to an obduration of heart and blindness of mind by Gods judiciall decree as we read the Jews to be Isa 6.9 10 11 c. 8 14.15 16. c. 29.9 10 11 12. Mat. 13.14 15. Mar. 4.11 12. Lu 8.10 Iohn 12.37 38 39 40. Act 28.25 26 27 28. Rom. 11.7 8 9 10. Therefore our prayers and endeavours ought first to be for the conversion of all Gentiles yet unconverted to the faith being more hopefull more successfull in all probability than our prayers endeavors for the Iews conversion at least till the Gentiles fullnesse be come in 5ly Admit either a general or special calling and conversion of the Iews in the latter end of the world yet the calling of them into England to cohabit with us in such a manner as they now desire is no ways necessary for that end For 1. it is no where declared in Gods word that they must be called in England or by English men 2ly If they were principally to be converted by English Divines or Laicks we may with more ease lesse danger and prejudice to our Nation and Religion send English Divines and Laicks into other forraign parts where they now reside to instruct teach convert them to the faith than call them into England to convert them now in this giddy unsetled
audacias turpitudines ne dicam scelera indigna audiru profatuque quae vix credenti non modò enunciata sed visa comperta fuere Iason Matassalanus Ludovicus Matha quum sacerdotalibus quibus fungebantur muneribus cedere nollent quaesitis occasionibus ad inimicorum libidinem tetro carcere usque eò tenti fuere donec illorum arbitrio singulis ornamentis fama fortunis omnibus exturbati quoad illis liberet excruciati sunt non verò judicio sed praesidentis sola temeritate libidine ne prosequar viros vitae inculpassimae summa integritate fide falsis criminibus circunuentos ab impotentibus inimicis miseros laborentes in quos graviter crudeliterque consultum vidimus vel ut afflictas fortunas invaderent ipsosque de possessione antiquissimis sedibus deturbarent vel ut invidorum libidini obtemperarent aliaque in miseros edita exempla nulla pietate in supplices calamitosos eosque innoxios turpibus judiciis conflictari usque premi ab his qui gratiâ opibus plus possunt pollentque alios vero autores manifesti facinoris ne appellari quidem Quae cum viderem patronisque contra vim potentiorum aut gratiam nihil praesidii esse nihil opus frustra nos in legum controversiis ediscendis tot casuum varâ—etatibus â—am pensiculatè editis tantum laboris vigiliarum suscipere tantoque nos studio fatigari dicebam quum ad ignavissimi impurissimique cujusque temeritatem qui jure dicundo praesideret quem leges virum bonum esse volunt non aequo jure sed ad gratiam libidinem judicia ferri decretaque legum tanto consilio edita convelli labefactari viderem FINIS ERRATA EPistle p. 8. l. 17. servants were r. Converts will be l. 33. excogitavit p. 10. l. 10. discover Book p. 9. l. 8. r. multa p. 20. l. 21. r. quesuerunt sufflatis p. 35. l. 10. thence from p. 41. l. 11. r. Claus 4. E. 1. l. 12. r. Gamalict l. 19. parte ne r. Regno nostro p. 45. l. 20. Judaei p. 62. l. 4. fift r. first p. 105 l. 11. CeremonÃes l. 35. these p. 109. l 32 others r their Margin p. 35. l. 13. Geogr. p. â—9 l. â— c 10. p 105. l. 1. Imo â— 23 1 Tiâ— 5.8 p. 115. l 17. 〈◊〉 l. 22. servirebant p. 116. l. 42. Episcopalis l. 42. Calâ—ernâ—nus The Second Part of a Short DEMVRRER TO THE IEWES Long discontinued REMITTER into ENGLAND Containing a Brief Chronological Collection of the most material RECORDS in the reigns of King John Henry 3. and Edward 1. relating the History Affaires State Condition Priviledges Obligations Debts Legal Proceedings Justices Taxes Misdemeanors Forfeitures Restraints Transactions of the Jews in and final Banishment out of England never formerly published in Print with some short usefull Observations upon them Worthy the knowledge of all Lawyers Scholars Statists and of such Jews who desire Re-admission into England By VVilliam Prynne Esquire a Bencher of Lincoâ—ns-â—nne Amos 3.3 Can two walk together unless they be agreed Gregorius lib. 7. Registri Epist 226. Surius Tom. 2. Concil p. 698. Cùm Excellentia vestra Reccaredus Rex Gothorum Suevorum Constitutionem quandam contra Judaeorum perfidiam dediâ—â—et â—i de quibus prâ—â—â—â— fuerat rectuudinem vestrae mentis inflectere pecuniarum summam offeâ—â—◠〈…〉 sunt quam Excellentia vestra contempsit omnipotentâ—s Dei placere judâ—â—â—â—r quiâ—â—nâ— auro innocentiam praetulit Si igitur ab armato Regâ— in Sacâ—ificiuâ— Dâ—â— vâ—â—sa câ—â— aqua contempta pensemus quale sacrificium omnipotenti Dâ—o Râ—x â—â—â—uâ—it qui pro amore illius non aquam SED AURUM ACCIPERE CONTEMPSIT Itaque fili Excellentissime fidentâ—â— dicam quia libaâ—iâ— AURUM Dâ—mino quod contra cum habere noluisti LONDON Printed and sold by Edward Thomas in Green Arbor 1â—56 To the Ingenuous Reader THe Extraordinary Coldness and Shortness of the Time I had to compile transcribe publish my Short Demurrer to the Jews long discontinued Remitter into England that it might come into the world in due season before any final Resolves upon the late Whitehall Debates and Consults concerning it necessitated me not only to omit three or four less pertinent Passages in some of our Historians concerning the English Jews with some few others relating to their misdemeanors in foraign parts which I have since supplied and to be more sparing in refuting reverend Sir Edward Cooks mistakes touching the time of the making of the Statute de Judaismo and the Jews voluntary banishing of themselves thereupon without any particular Act or Edict of the King and Parliament for their universal Exile and Expulsion hence which I have more fully refuted in the second inlarged Edition thereof beyond all contradiction But likewise to leave out most of the unprinted Records in the reigns of King John Henry the 3. and Edward the 1. relating to the History State Affairs of the Iews in England under them and to their final Banishment thence which Records because I could not conveniently insert into the Second Impression for fear of incrâ—asing it into an over-large bulke and of oâ—er prejudicing those who had bought the first Edition I have therefore digested into a Chronological method according to their series of time and published apart by themselves in this Second Paâ—t that so such who have bought the first Impression may annex them thereunto and those who shall buy the second may bind them up with it if they see cause into which Impression I have insâ—rted only such new Records not extant in the first as were necessary to clear some passages in our Histories and to refute our learned Sir Edwâ—rd Cooks mistakes whose venerable Authority hath misguided many especially of the long robe in point of the Jews expulsion and date of the Statute de Iudaismo VVhat new light information or satisfaction this Additional Publication may yield to the judicious Readers consisâ—ing of unprinted and for the most part unknown Records never formerly published I cannot diâ—ine yet the great satisfaction my former Demurrer hath given to and kind acceptation it hath found with most godly and judicious persons throughout the Nation give me some good assurance that this Appendix to back and illustrate it will not be unwelcom but delightfull to them especially to those of my own Profession for whose information I principally intended it I hope both of them united will through Gods blessing prove a perpetual Barr to the Antichristian Iews re-admission into England both in this new-fangled age all future Generations maugre all printed pleas and Endeavors for their present Introduction the sole end of their publication by The unfeigned weak Endeavor to Promote his Saviours Honour Religions Safety with his Native Countries weal and Prosperity by this Undertaking WILLIAM PRYNNE Lincolnes Inne Feb. 1. 1655. 6. The Second Part of a short Demurrer to the Iews long discontinued barred
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 prinâ—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 counâ—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 â—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 Christeâ—â—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 withâ—ut any special Edict for their exile thence What other particulars of lesâ—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 Whimâ—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