Demurrer to the Jews, Part 1 (2 of 3)

Demurrer to the Jews · Part 1 (2 of 3)

p. 44(y)(y)Flores Hiſt. par. 2. ann. 1290. p. 381.Matthew Westminster (flouriſhing at that time) gives this relation of it. About theſe days, namely the 31 of Auguſt, the exaſperating multitude of Jews, which dwelt confidently in times paſt through divers Cities & ſtrong Forts, JUSSA EST, was commanded with their wives & children, together with their moveable goods, to depart out of England, about the Feast of All Saints, which was aſſigned to them for the term, WHICH THEY DARED NOT TO TRANSGRESSE UNDER PAIN OF HANGING, whoſe number was ſuppoſed to be 16511. Such A DECREE had iſſued out before from the laudable King of England in the parts of Aquitain, from whence all the Jews were likewiſe baniſhed.

(z)(z)Ypodigma Neustriae, p. 62.Thomas Walſingham, living near that age, thus records it. The King returning out of Gaſcoigne to London, was ſolemnly received by the Clergy and all the people: who the ſame year baniſhing all the Jews out of England giving them their expences into France, confiſcated the reſt of their goods. This year the King held A Parliament, in which were made the Statutes called Weſtminſter the 3d. In quo etiam Parliamento pro expulſione Iudaeotum. p. 45conceſſa ſunt Regi a Populo, quinta decima pars honorum. In which Parliament likewiſe for the baniſhment of the Jews, there was granted to the King by the People, a fifteenth part of their goods.

(a)(a)De Eventibus Angliae, l. 3. c. 1. col. 2462 2466.Henry de Knyghton a Canon of Leiceſter, a moſt diligent Antiquary flouriſhing in Richard the 2ds. reign, rendreth it in theſe terms: King Edward grievouſly puniſhed the Jews and their conſorts for clipping of money, and corrupt exchanges, whereupon in one day he cauſed all the Iews to be apprehended: ſome he hanged, the reſt he baniſhed. When he had done his will upon his corrupt Judges (fined, depoſed, and ſome of them baniſhed in the ſame Parliament that the Jews were exiled) preſently another cauſe moved him concerning his money, which he found to be baſely clipped and corrupted, to the prejudice of the Crowne, and the great damage of the people, By the Infidelity and Malice of the Iews as it was inquired and found or found upon inq…iry) et fecit ſtabilire unum Parliamentum, in quo convicti ſunt Iudaei de ea falſitate: Et ſtatuit, quod omnes Iudaeis exirent de Terra Angliae, deinceps non redituri, propter eorum incredulitatem principaliter, et propter falſitatem quam eis dure impoſuerat: et pro hac cauſa cum feſtinatione facienda, et ſine dilatione explenda, communes regni dederunt Regi quintum denarium de omnibus bonis ſuis mobilibus. And he cauſed a Parliment to be ſummoned, wherein the Jews are convicted of that falſhood; And he ordained that all the Jews ſhould depart out of the Realm of England, not to return again afterwards, for their incredulity principally, and for their falſeneſſe, which he had hardly preſſed upon them. And for this (their baniſhment) ſpeedily to be made and executed, without delay, the Commons of the Realm gave to the King the fifth part of all their moveable goods.

(d)(d)Hiſtor. Majoris Brit. l. 4. c. 9.John Major, and the (c)(c)Cent: Mag: 13. c. 15. col. 1286.Centuriators of Magdeburgh, out of him, thus regiſter it to poſterity. In the year 1290. Iudaei Anglia pulſi ſunt, the Jews were baniſhed out of England, for the Engliſhmen had made a great complaint to Edward the 1. that by their uſuries and frauds p. 56moſt men of the inferior ſort were reduced to nothing: which thing was gainfull to the King, for every of the Commoners gave the King the fifteenth penny, ut Iudaeos ejiceret, that he might baniſh the Jews.

Our learned (d)(d)Centur. 4 Scrip. Brit. c. 60. in Appendice.Iohn Bale (e)(e)Lib. 17. Ed. 1.Polydor Virgil, and the (f)(f)Cent. Mag. 13 c. 9. col. 967. c. 13. col. 1284.Century Writers out of him thus expreſſe it. Anno Dom. 1291 (it ſhould be 1290) In the Parliament at London, the…e was a debate …n the firſt place de Iudaeorum ejectione, Concerning the baniſhing of the Iews; whereof there was a gr…t m…ltitude throughout England, Sed Edicto publico Concilii Londinenſis (writes one) Publico igitur Decreto juſsi ſunt alio commigrare, ut infra paucos dies omnes exirent; (ſaith another) But by the publick Edict of the Parli…me…t aſſembled in London, and by a publicke decree, They were all commanded to depart the Realm with their goods within a few days, which they, Concilii juſsis obedientes obeying the commands of the Parliament, ſpeedily did.

Thomas Stubs his Acta Fontificum Eboracenſium c. 1728 thus relates the univerſal baniſhment of them out of all England in one day, Anno Dom. 1290. In c…raſtino animarum Exulati fuerunt Iudaei a Regno Angliae, et hoc eodem die per totam Angliam. Raphael Ʋolaterianus, Geograph. lib. 3. f. 25. thus expreſſeth it: Iudaei omnes expulſi… Annales Dominicanorum Colmarionſium, thus relate it; Anno 1291. Rex Angliae omnes Iudaeos Regno expulit. Gilbertus Genebrardus, Chronogr. l. 4. p. 659. thus records it, Anno 1291. Concilium Londinenſe ad Weſtmonaſterium juſſu Edwardi Regis: Eo in Concilio Publico Edicto juſſi ſunt Iudaei de Anglia in perpetuum exire, words moſt expreſs. Abraham Bzouius thus: Anna: Eccleſiaſticorum, Tom. 13. Anno 1291. n. 1. col. 966. **Ex Polydoro l. 19. & Man: Vaticano 1526 de Rebus Angliae.Londini ad Weſtmonaſterium celebratum eſt Concilium. In hoc imprimis agitatum eſt De ejectione Iudaeorum, quorum erat per omnem Angliam ingens multitudo: quo ſic oves ab hoedis ſegregarentur. Itaque Publico juſſum eſt Edicto ut intra paucos dies omnes abierint cum bonis. illi juſſis Concilii parentes, alii alio diſceſſerunt. Ita profuga Gens de p. 47Anglia, 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 3d. 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 p. 48convey with them. **See Cooks 2. Inſtit. p. 508.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 [g][g]Chron. Dunſtap: Cooks 2. Inſtit: p. 508.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 p. 49Iews 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 **See Purchas Pilgrimage. l. 2. c. 10. Sect. 7. p. 171.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. p. 501. 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 **See Cooks 2. Inſtit. p. 89.benefit the Crown had, before the making of this Act, appeareth by former records, as take [h][h]Rot. Pat. Anno 3 E. 1. m. 14.17.20. William Middleton reddit compot.one for many. From the 17 of December in the 50 year of H. 3. until the Tueſday in Shroveride, the 2 year of Edward the firſt, wh…ch was about 7 years, the Crown had four hundred and twenty thouſand pounds, fifteen ſhillings and four pence De exitibus judai…mi: at which time, the ounce of ſilver was 20 d. and now it is more than treble ſo much. So as the recital of the Preamble is true, That he and his Anceſtors had received great profit from Iudaiſm. (i)(i)Temp. R. Job. Ro. Char. 2. Jo. n. 49.53.18. H. 3. Dorſ. Clauſ. m. 37. Dorſ. Pat. 55. H. 3. m. 20.Many proviſions were made both by this King and others: Some time they were baniſhed, but their cruel uſury continued, and ſoon after they returned; and for reſpect of lucre and gain, King John in the ſecond year of his reign, granted unto them la…ge Privileges, whereby the miſchiefs rehearſed in this Act multiplyed. But the lucre and gain which King John had, and expected of the Infidel Iews, made him impie judaiſare for to the end they ſhould exerciſe the Laws of their Sacrifices (which they could not do without a Prieſthood) the King by his Charter granted them to have one, &c. Which for the great rarity thereof, and for that we find it not either in our Books or Hiſtories, I will rehearſe In haec verba.

(k)(k)Rot. Char. … Regis Johan. pa…t. 1 m. 28. Char. 171.Rex omnibus fidelibus ſuis, & omnibus & Judaeis & Anglis, ſalutem. Sciatis nos conceſſiſſe, Jacobo Judaeo de Londoniis Presbytero, Judaeorum Presbyteratum omnium Judaeorum totius Angliae. Habendum & tenendum quamdin vixerit, liberè & quietè & honorificè & integrè it a quod nemo ei ſuper hoc moleſtiam aliquam, aut gravamen inferre preſumat. Quare volumus & firmiter p. 51praecipimus, quod eidem Jacobo quoad vixerit, Presbyteratum Judaeorum per totam Angliam, garantetis, manu-teneatis, & pacificè defendatis. Et ſi quis et ſuper eo forisfacere praeſumpſerit, id ei ſine dilatione (ſalva nobis emenda noſtra) de forisfactura noſtra emendare faciatis, tanquam Dominico Judaeo noſtro, quem ſpecialiter in ſervicio noſtro retinuimus. Prohibemus etiam ne de aliquo ad ſe pertin…nte ponatur in placitum, niſi coram nobis, aut coram capi…ali Juſticiario noſtro, ſicut Charta Regis Richardi ſratris noſtri teſtatur. Teſte S. Bathonien. Epiſcopo, &c. Dat. per manus Huberti Cantuarientis Archiepiſcopi Cancellarii noſtri apud Rothomagum 12 die Julii, Anno Regni noſtri primo.

To which Charter Sir Edward Cook annexeth this marginal Note, Th…s King had a moſt troubleſom and diſhonourable reign, God raiſing againſt him, for his juſt puniſhment, two potent Enemies, Pope Innocent the 3. and Philip K…ng of France, And beſides, which was the worst, he loſt the heart and love of his Baronage and Subjects, and at the last had a fea…full end.

He adds (i)(i)Rot. 2. E. 1. m. 1.3.5. Rot. Clauſ. 3. E. 1. m. 8.10 13.16.23. Rot. Pat. 3. E. 1. m. 36. and 17. Dorſ. Clauſ. 7. E. 1. m. 6.Our Noble King Edward 1. and his Father H. 3. before, ſought by d…vers Acts and Ordinances, to uſe ſome means and moderation herein, but in the end it was found, That there was no mean in m…ſchief, and as Seneca, ſaith, Res profecto Stulta eſt nequitiae modus (And will it not be ſo now in their new limited re-admiſſion, if conſented too?) And therefore King Ed. 1. as this Act ſaith, for the honour of God, and for the common profit of his people, without all reſpect (in respect of theſe) of the filling of his own Coffers, did ordain, That no Jew from thenceforth ſhould make any bargain or contract for uſury, nor upon any former contract ſhould take any uſury, from the Feaſt of St. Edward then laſt paſt. So in effect all Iewiſh Ʋſury was forbidden: This Law ſtruck at the root of this peſtilential weed, for hereby uſury it ſelf was forbidden, and thereupon the cruel Iews thirſting after rich gain, to the number of 15060 departed out of this Realm into forraign parts, where they might uſe their Jewiſh trade of uſury, p. 53and from that time that Nation never returned again into this Realm. (m)(m)Holinſhed, p. 385. Walſing. Ypodig. 72. Florileg. Chron, Dunſtab.Some are of opinion, (and ſo it is ſaid in ſome of our Hiſtor…es) That it was enacted by authority of Parliament, that the uſurious Iews ſhould be baniſhed out of the Realm: …t the truth is, that their uſury was baniſhed by t…s Act of Pa…liament, and that was the cauſe, that they baniſhed themſelves i…to other Countries, where they might l…ve by their uſury: So that by his opinion, they were not then baniſhed by the King or Parliament, but only voluntarily baniſhed themſelves upon the making of this Statute againſt their Uſury.

But under the favour of this deceaſed reverend Judge, whoſe memory and judgement in Law I generally reverence, this opinion of his is a meer miſtake. For 1. This Statute de Iudaiſmo was not made in the Parliament of 18 E. 1. as he confidently affirmeth, without any ground or Authority at all, but in the 3d year of his reign, as I have **Here p. 37. to 42.formerly proved; being full 15 years before the Jews baniſhment out of England: the term the Statute de Iuda…ſmo allowed them to take Lands and Houſes to farm, but no longer. If then they reſided here full 15. years after the baniſhment of their Uſury by this Statute, it is moſt certaine, it was not the ground of all their voluntary baniſhments in 18 E. 1. as he ſtrangely fancieth, but ſome particular Act for their general expulſion then made upon the Commons importunity: elſe they would have voluntarily exiled themſelves 15 years before, upon the firſt publication of this Statute againſt their Uſury, in all probability, rather than ſo long after its baniſhment of it in 3: 2. This Stat. hath not one ſyllable of their baniſhment in it, but expreſly authorizeth them, to take houſes and lands to farm and continue here 15 years space, but no longer. Now, had it been made in 18 E. 1. as Sir Edw. Cooke affirms, the King and Parliament had been ſo far from baniſhing them that year, (as the premiſed Hiſtories and Records he cites do joyntly atteſt they did) that they had thereby authorized them to continue here 15 years longer, even till 33 E. 1. Yea the Commons p. 53had been much overſeen to give the K…ng a fifteen in the Parliament of 18 E. 1. for the preſent baniſhment of all the Iews out of England, had they paſſed the Statute de Iudaiſmo at that very time, which allows them 15 years ſpace longer to take Houſes and Lands to farm; to extend the mo… ty of the Lands and Goods of their Creditors; to be reſident in the Kings Cities and Burroughs, where their cheſts for Indentures were: to grant them the Kings Peace and Protection, both for their perſons and eſtates, and exempt them from ſuits in all Courts but the Kings, and from all Taxes, with other Subjects. And that clauſe of this Statute preſcribing them to wear a badge on their uttermoſt Garments, after they were 7. years of age; and to pay 3 d. the poll yearly to the King after they were 12 years old: had been meerly ridiculous, if made but in 18 E. 1. when they were forthwith baniſhed, and not in 3. before their exile, as our Hiſtorians affirm; who are only to be credited in this caſe, becauſe all the Parliament Rolls of this Kings reign, and before are utterly loſt, and this very Statute de Iuda…ſmo, not extant on Record in the Tower, or elſewhere; nor any other Statutes made in his or his Anceſtors reigns all loſt, as well as that of 18 Edw. the 1. for the Jewes Baniſhment; as the Clerks and Keepers of the Records informed me, upon my ſearches after them. 3ly. No Record nor Hiſtorian mentions, that the Jews voluntarily baniſhed themſelves upon the making of this Law: and their voluntary departure hence upon the publication of it, could not be ſtiled a Baniſhment, ſince **Annalium l. 3.Cornelius Tacitus, reſolves; Exilium non eſt, ubi quis abit non Senatus conſulto, non Lege pulſus. This their baniſhment therefore muſt neceſſarily be by an expreſs Law or Decree of Parliament. 4ly, The forecited Hiſtorians record, that the Jews but a few years before gave King Edw. the 1. a vaſt ſumm of money (full 12 years after this Statute De Judaiſmo made in the 3. of his reign) to prevent their baniſhment hence, urged by the Commons in Parliament in the 15 year of his reign, with the profer of the 5th part of their goods to the King for their baniſhment. Therefore it p. 54is very improbable they would in 18 E. 1. (full 15 years after this Statute) voluntarily baniſh themſelves only becauſe their Uſury was ſo long before exiled by it. 5. All the forecited Hiſtorians of thoſe and of later times (who are more to be credited then Sir Edward Cookes ſingular, groundleſs opinion) unanimouſly record, that the Iews were all judicially, really expelled & baniſhed the Realm in 18 E. 1. both by the King and Parliament, and that principally for their infidelity not Ʋſury, and other fore-alleged reaſons; and commanded under pain of hanging by a ſpecial Decree and Edict to depart hence by a prefixed day: for the effecting and haſtning whereof, the Commons gave the King a fifteenth. Ther…fore they were all preciſely baniſhed by the King and Parliament, not by themſelves alone. 6. The King then baniſhed them out of England upon the ſame grounds, and in the ſelf-ſame manner, as he had newly baniſhed them the year before out of Gaſcoigne, and all his Dominions in France, as Matthew Westminſter, Walſingham, and others record. But then and there he baniſhed their perſons by an expreſs Decree, not only for their Ʋſury, but chiefly for their Infidelity and Enmity to Chriſts Croſs. Therefore he did the like in England. 7ly, All Uſury in all perſons whatſoever, was ſtrictly prohibited, and quite baniſhed out of England, long before this Statute De Judaiſmo, which was but a meer confirmation of former Lawes with particular relation to the Jews: not an introduction of any new Law: The clearing whereof (nor impertinent to my Theam againſt Jewiſh Uſurers) will moſt fully diſcover Sir Edward Cooks miſtake to the very meaneſt capacity. The famous **Spelmanni Concil. p. 299.Council of Calchuth, Anno Dom. 787. under King Alfwood, and King Offa, condemned all uſury in theſe terms, c. 17. Ʋſuras quoque prohibemus, dicente Domino ad David, dignum fore habitatorem Tabernaculi ſui qui pecuniam ſuam non dederit ad Ʋſuram, &c. After which King Edward the Confeſſor enacted this Law againſt Uſury about the Year, 1050. ratified by William the Conquerour in the fourth year of his reign. p. 55**Hoveden Annalium pars poſterior p. 6…0 Lambardi Archaion. Spelmani Concil. p. 623.Uſurarios quoque defendit rex Edwardus, Ne remaneret aliquis in toto regno, &c. & ſi qu…s inde conv…ctus eſſet, qu…d f…r…ns ex…ger…, omni ſubſtantia propria careret & pro Exlege haberetur. Hoc autem aſſerebat ille Rex ſe audiſſe in Curta Regis Francorum dum ibidem moraretur, quod Uſura ſumma radix eſt omnium v…tiorum. This Law preciſely baniſhed all Uſurers, with their Uſury out of England, and confiſcateth all their goods to the King as Outlaws upon conviction. If therefore there had been any Jewiſh Uſurers in England in St. Edwards reign (as the ſpurious Law juſt before it in Spelman & Hoveden **Here p. 3.forecited pretends) they had all been expreſly baniſhed the land by this Law, and never permitted to reſide therein, above 270 years before the Stat. de Judaiſmo was enacted. In **Simeon Dunelmenſis Hiſt. de geſtis Regum Angl. col. 254. and Richardus Prior Hagaſtaldenſis de geſtis Regis Stephani col. 327.the Council of London Anno 1128. 25 H. 1 and in the Council of Weſtminſter Anno 1138. the 3 of King Stephens reign; All uſury was prohibited under pain of deprivation both from Office and Benefice in Clergy men. By virtue of which laws and Canons all the goods of Uſurers became forfeited to our Kings after their deaths & they excōmunic…ted perſons. This is evident by the words of Ranulp. de Glanvil, a famous Lawyer under King Henry the 2. De legibus & conſuetudinibus Regni Angliae lib. 7. c. 16. where thus he writes. Uſurarit verò omnes res, ſive testatus, ſive inteſtatus deceſſerit, DOMINI REGIS SUNT. Vivus autem non ſolet aliquis de crimine uſurae appellari nec convinci. Sed inter caeteras Regias Inquiſitiones ſolet inquiri & probari, aliquem in tali crimine deceſſiſſe, per duo decim legales homines de vic… neto, & per eorum Sacramentum. Quo probato in Curia, omnes res mobiles, and omnia catalla quae fuerunt ipſius uſurarii mortui, Ad uſus domini Regis capientur penes Quemcunque inveniantur res illae: Haeres quoque ipſius hac eadem de cauſa exhaeredatur, ſecundum jus regni, & ad Deminū vel Dominos revertetur haereditas. Sciendum tamen, quod ſi quis aliquo tempore Uſurarius fuerit in vita ſua, & ſuper hoc in patria publice defamatus, ſi tamen a delicto ipſo ante mortem ſuam deſtituit, & poenitentiam egerit, post mortem ipſius, ille vel res ejus lege Uſurarii minime cenſebuntur; Oportet ergo p. 56conſtare, quod uſurarius deceſſerit aliquis ad hoc, ut de eo tanquam de uſurario, poſt mortem ipſuis judicetur, & de rebus ipſius tanquam de rebus uſurarii diſponatur; which he likewiſe affirms for Law in that age, lib. 10. c. 3.8. Therefore uſury in that and former ages, was equally prohibited to all, as well **See here p. 13.Jews as Engliſh, under pain of forfeiture of all their real and perſonal eſtates to the King, and their inheritances to the Lords, in caſe they died uſurers. And if the Jews had not been within the compaſs of theſe Laws, but might have freely exerciſed uſury when the Engliſh could not, they had been in this reſpect in far better condition than the native Engliſh; when as the forecited law concerning them reſolves us, **Hoven Annal. Pars Poſterior p. 604. Spelmani Concil. p. 623. here p. 3.13.Iudaei & omnia ſua Regis ſunt, both in this Kings reign and before upon this account amongſt others, becauſe they were known Uſurers. This Law continued ſtill the ſame in ſucceeding ages, as is moſt apparent by **Roger de Hoveden Annal, pars poſterior p. 744.Cap…tula placitorum Curiae Regis made, and to be inquired of by the Juſtices itinerant, in the 6 year of King Richard the 1. Anno 1194. wherein I find this Article. Item de Faeneratoribus, & eorum catallis qui mortui ſunt: which is general, extending equally to all Uſurers, whether Engliſh or Jews, Chriſtians or Infidels. But in the **Hoveden p. 783..Capitula Placitorum Coronae Regis in the 10 year of this King Richard, Anno 1198, it was thus varied, and confined only to Chriſtian Uſurers; Inquirendum eſt (by the Juſtices itinerant, then appointed in each County) etiam de uſuris Chriſtianorum, & eorum Catallis qui mortui ſunt. Perchance to put a difference between the Jews, whoſe goods the King claimed as his own whiles living, and the Engliſh Uſurers who forfeited not their eſtates for uſury, till after their deaths & not unleſs they died uſurers without publike repentance therof before their death.**Tottles Mag. Chart. l. 151. This form of Inquiſition continued both before and after the Statute de Judaiſmo, as is evident by Capitula itineris, uſed in the reigns of Henry the 3. and Ed. 1. De Christianis uſurariis, qui fuerunt, & quae catalla habent, & qui catalla illa habuerant? De catallis Judaeorum occiſorum, & eorum chartis & vadiis, & qui ea habeant. King p. 57Henry the 3 rot. finium 29. H. 3. m. 8. De catallis quae fuerunt cujuſdam foeneratoirs: ſeiſed the Charters of a certain Uſurer, as confiſcated by Law unto him; the Statute of Merton c. 5. in the 20 year of his reign, provided and granted; That uſuries ſhould not run against any, being within age, from the time of the death of his Anceſtors, whoſe heir he is unto his lawfull age, &c. So nevertheleſſe that the payment of the principle debt, with the payment of the uſury, that was before the death of the Anceſtor, whoſe heir he is, ſhall not remain. On which Statute St. Edward Cook himſelf thus Coments. This Statute hath been diverſly expounded (ſome expounding it only of Nomine poenaes and doubling the rent upon Leaſes, Bonds and Recognizances, others literally) That the Statute extended to the uſurious Iews that then were in England, for at that time, and **Inter leges ſancti Edw. Lamb. Si quis de uſura convictus Glanv. l. 7. c. 16. Ockham qualiter non abſolvitur Cap. Itineris de Chriſtianis uſurariis.before the Conqueſt alſo, it was not lawfull for Chriſtians (he might have added, nor yet for Jews) to take any uſury, as it appeareth by the Laws of St. Edward, &c. and Glanvil, and other ancient Authors and Records: And by this Act it was manifeſt, that the uſury intended by the Statute was not unlawfull, for the uſury before the death of the Anceſtor is enacted to be paid, and after the full age of the heir alſo. And no uſury was permitted but by the Jews only. But King Edw. the 1. (That mirror of Princes) By aeuthority of Parliament made this Law, which is worthy to be written in letters of gold. Foraſmuch, &c. That no Jew ſhould take any uſury, &c. As if uſury (in his opinion) had been lawfull for Jews, before the Statute de Judaiſmo, when it was equally prohibited to Jews and Chriſtians, though not to make to contractor uſury meerly void, except only againſt Infants during their minority, yet to make both their chatels goods and eſtates liable to confiſcation to the King after their deaths, or before, as the premiſes undeniably evidence. So that the Statute de Judaiſmo prohibiting uſury to the Jews, was no introduction of any new Law, as to the unlawfullneſſe and penalty of uſury it ſelf in the Jews, no more than in Chriſtians, (to whom Raſtal equally extends it. Ʋ ſury 2.) but only in reſpect of the legal means for recovevering p. 58the uſe upon uſurious contracts, **See Claudius Salmaſius, De uſuris.Uſury it ſelf being even reputed abſolutely unlawfull by Gods Lawes and ours.

Hence I find Rot. clauſ. 36 H. 3. m 21. A Prohibition by writ to all forain Merchants within the Realme, Quod nil capiant ad Vſuram: and if they do, Omnia mobilia & immobilia eorum cedant ad uſum Regis, all their goods movable and immovable, ſhall be confiſcated to the Kings uſe: Rot. clauſ. 2. E 1. m. 1. De Mercatoribus Uſurariis, commands all Merchants that were Uſurers to depart the Realm, the year before the Stat. de Iudaiſmo made. And in the Patent Roll of 5 E 1. Dorſ. 26. There is an Inquiſition De Uſurariis ſeu Chriſtianis Judaizantibus, ut de eis fiat juſtitia ſecundum legem terrae: which puniſhed them by ſines and loſs of Goods in the Temporal Courts, and by Eccleſiaſtical cenſures in the Spiritual Courts, as is clear by Placita. 18 H. 3. rot. 36. and all Canoniſts in their Titles De Uſura; which is further evident by theſe Records & Statutes made ſince the Statute De Iudaiſmo, by 15 E. 3. rot. Parl. n. 24.32.21. E. 3. rot. Parl. n, 49.50. E. 3. rot. Parl. n. 47. 6 R. 2. rot. Parl. n. 57. 14 R. 2. rot Parl. n. 23. 5 H. 4. rot. Parl. n. 68.15. E. 3. c. 5. 3 H. 7. c. 5, 6. 11 H. 7. c. 8. 37 H. 8. c. 9.5 & E. 6. c. 20. 23 Eliz. c. 8. 39 Eliz. c. 18.21. Iac. c. 17. Therefore the baniſhing of Uſury by this Law, thus condemned, prohibited in all former ages, could no wayes move the Jews voluntarily to baniſh themſelves hence, no more than all other Engliſh and Italian Ʋſurers, but ſome new ſpecial Act for their final expulſion. 8ly, It cannot be proved, or imagined, that all the Jews then in England were Uſurers, though the moſt and wealthieſt of them were ſuch. And it is very improbable that all the Jews throughout England with one conſent ſhould agree to baniſh themſelves voluntarily out of England, where they were born and lived ſo long, and that on the ſame day, becauſe the Uſury of ſome of them was there prohibited, without any Law for their baniſhment. 9ly, The**Concil. Later. ſub Innocentio 3. Surius, Tom. 3. p. 753. Extrav. de Uſuris. c. 18. Volaterranus, lib. 2. Geog…. Cent. Magd. 13. c. 15.1285. Munſteri Coſm. l. 4. c. 12.22.23 f. 1061, 1062. Jacobus de Graffiis Deciſ. Aur. Tom. 2. l. 2. c. 23. ſect. 39. &c. c. 34. Iews by ſeveral Laws, Canons were expreſly prohibited Uſury elſwhere in that age, which they are totally p. 59forbidden to uſe of late years, and now in Lithuania, Ruſſia, Poland, and ſome other places where they reſide, living only by **See Purchas Pilgrims. l. 9. c. 5.Merchandize, Husbandry, and Manufactures. Yea Menaſſeh Ben-Iſrael himſelf in his Humble Addreſſes newly printed, p. 22.23. writes thus: As for Vſury, ſuch dealing is not the eſſential property of the Iews, for though in Germany there be ſome indeed that practiſe it, yet the moſt part of them that live in Turky, Italy, Holland, and Hamburgh, being come out of Spaigne, they hold it **See Mr. Selden, De Jure Nat. & Gentiū juxta Diſcipl. Ebraeorum, l. 6. c. 9, 20. p. 723.infamous to uſe it. Therfore the bare ſuppreſſion of their Uſury in England by this Statute would no more induce them to baniſh themſelves voluntarily out of England, and leave all their houſes, morgages, houſholdſtuff, amounting to a vaſt ſumm, to the King, than out of other Countries where their uſury was reſtrained, then & ſince, ſeeing they might live as well without Vſury in England, by their Merchandizes, Husbandry, and Manufactures, as in any other Climate. 10ly, Sir Edward Cooke himſelf contradicts himſelf herein, not only in his 4th Inſtitutes, p. 254. where writing of The Court of the Justices aſſigned for the Government of the Jews; he ſaith, But when the Iews were utterly baniſhed (as hath been ſaid) this Court ceaſed with them, in 18 E. 1. Anno Dom, 1290. (miſprinted 1293.) but likewiſe in this very Chapter, his own ſubſeqvent words and Records in direct terms contradicting this opinion of his no leſs than 5 times, which I wonder he obſerved not; I ſhall recite them at large to undeceive his over-credulous Readers of the long Robe, who take his words and works for Oracles (though in many things very full of groſs miſtakes contradicted by his own Records, he cites, ſpecially in his Chapter of**See my Levellers levelled and Plea for the Lords. Parliament and Admiralty.)

(n)(n)2 Instit. p. 507.And for that [writes he] they were odious both to God and Men, that they might paſs out of the Realm in ſafety, they made Petition to the King, that a certain day might be prefixed to them to depart the Realm [it was prefixed by the King and Parliament againſt their wills] to the end that they might have the Kings writ to his Sheriffs for their p. 60ſafe conduct, and that no injury, moleſtation, damage or greivance be offered to them in the mean time, (for which perchance they did petition, though not for their departure hence.) One of which Writs we will tranſcribe.

[o][o]Rot. clauſ. 18 E. 1. m. 6. 11 Julii. The like writs, to other Counties, and intituled, De Judaeis Regno Angliae exeuntibus.Rex, Vic: G. Cum Judaeis Regni noſtri univerſis Certum tempus praefixerimus a regno illo transfretandi: (therefore prefixed by the King h…mſelf, without their Petition, and that for the baniſhment of them all out of the Realm.) Nolentes quod ipſi per miniſtros noſtros, aut alios quoſcunque, aliter quam fieri conſuevit, indebite pertrectentur: Tibi praecipimus, quod per totam Ballivam tuam, publice proclamati, & firmiter inhiberi facias, ne quis eis intra terminum praedictum, injuriam, moleſtiam, damnum inferat, ſeu gravamen. Et cum contingat ipſos cum catallis ſuis, quae eis conceſſimus, verſus partes London, cauſa transfretationis ſuae, dirigere greſſus ſuos, ſalvum & ſecurum conductum eis habere facias ſumptibus eorum. Proviſo, quod Judaei praedicti, ante receſſum ſuum, Vadia Chriſtianorum quae penes ſe habent, illis quorum fuerint, ſi ea acquietare voluerint, reſtituant, ut tenentur: Teſte Rege apud Weſtmin. 18. die Julii, Anno 18 E. 1.

This Statute De Judaiſmo, was made at the [p][p]Parl. 1.3. E. 1.Parl. poſt feſtum Hilarii, Anno 18 E. 1. (a **See p. 33. to …1.groſs miſtake.) At which Parliament the King had a 15 granted to him, pro expulſione Iudaeorum [Therefore by his own confeſſion they were expelled, baniſhed by the King and Parlament againſt their wills, and a fifteenth given for it, as the former Hiſtorians note] And this writ was granted in July following [in purſute therefore of their Judgement of baniſhment, not upon their petition] the King beginning his reign Novemb. 16. For the Parliament knew [a ſtrange conceit of a Judge, for how could they certainly know it?] that by baniſhing of Uſury [though they baniſhed it only, not the Jews:] the Jews would not remain. And thus this Noble King by this means baniſhed for ever theſe p. 61infidel uſurious Iews [Ergo, their perſons, not their Uſury only] the number of which Jews, thus baniſhed, was fifteen thouſand and threeſcore.

[q][q]Plac. Parl. poſt Paſcha apud London, 21 E. 1. rot. 4.We will here adde a (Parliament) Record de Priore de Bridlington; thus.

Et quod praedictus Prior cognoſcit, quod praedicta peonnia praed. Judaeo debebatur, viz. 3 col. nec ei ſolvebatur Ante exilium Iudaeorum (therefore by this Parliamentary record but 3 years after, they were judicially baniſhed by Parliament, not voluntarily of themſelves, no baniſhment in Law.) Et quicquid remanſit eorum, debitis aut catallis in regno poſt eorum Exilium (again repeated, as moſt certain) Domino regis ſuit. Confideratum eſt, quod Dom. Rex recuperet pecuniam praedictam: & dictum eſt eidem Priori, quod non exeat Villa antequam Domino Regi de praedicta pecunia ſatisfaciat: Et reſpondeat Johannes Archiepiſcopus Eborum, quia praecepit dicto Priori ſolvere Valetto ſuo praedictam pecuniam in deceptionem Regis, contra Sacramentum & fidelitatem ſuam Domino Regi datam. Idem in alio Rot. Ann. 27. E. 1. rot. 5.

Therefore by theſe 3 records reſolutions cited by himſelf, the Jews were all baniſhed by ſentence of Parliament, in ſuch ſort as our Hiſtorians record, and not in his New ſence alone, amounting but to a voluntary Receſs. And to put this beyond all future doubt or controverſie, though the particular Act and Parliament Roll for their Baniſhment be utterly loſt, for ought I can find upon diligent ſearch and inquiry after it as are all other Parliament Rolls during this Kings reign; yet there is a particular Roll ſtill extant in the Tower, of the particular ſales of all the Jews Houſes and Lands in London, Yorke, Canterbury, Northampton, and all other places of England where they reſided, made by King Edward the 1. in the 19 and 20 years of his reign, (the next years after their exile) reciting, they were all eſcheated into the Kings hands p. 62By the Iews baniſhment out of England, which Roll was thus indorſed in that age: Charta de Judaiſmo, Patentes de domibus Iudaeorum conceſſis poſt eorum exilium de Anglia, Annis 19, & 20. E. 1. The fifth Charter mentioned in the Roll of 19 E. 1. conteins this Kings Grant of the Houſe of one Leo a Jew, in St. Martins Pariſh in London. Domus Leonis, filu Cuſae, filii Eliae Judaei, de Parochia Sancti Martini, &c. per Exilium ejuſdem Iudaei e Regno noſtro tanquam eſcheata in manu noſtra exiſtentis. After which follow near one hundred other ſeveral charters of other particular Jews houſes to particular Engliſhmen the ſame year, in the ſelf-ſame Roll, as eſcheated to the King, per Exilium ejuſdem Iudaei. After theſe, in the ſame Roll, follow ſeveral other Patents of this King of the Jews houſes, made in the 20 year of his reign, the firſt whereof is this Kings grant, Domus Benedicti Iudaei, per Exilium ejuſdem Iudaei ex Regno noſtro, tanquam eſcheata nostra, in manu noſtra exiſtentis. After which follow ſeveral other Charters of other Jews Houſes in the ſelf ſame form. So that by the teſtimony of all theſe Charters and Records, & likewiſe of the Patent Roll of 19 E. 1. granting all the profits of the Jews houſes **Twice repeated: See the 2 part of the Demurrer.a tempore Exilii eorundem, to charitable uſes (the two very next years after their exile) the Jews were all immediatly and legally baniſhed out of England againſt their wills, and all their houſes there upon eſcheated into the Kings hands, who upon this Title, made ſales of them to Engliſhmen, recited in all their Charters, the Rolls whereof I have lately peruſed in the Tower, where all who pleaſe may examine them for their ſatisfaction herein.

By all theſe concurrent irrefragable Records and Teſtimonies it is apparent [againſt Sir Edward Cooks grounleſſe conceit.]

1. That all the Jews were then baniſhed out of England, never to return again, at the ſpecial inſtance and requeſt of the Commons in two ſeveral Parliaments, as an intollerable grievance and oppreſſion under which they then groaned.

p. 632. That the principle grounds of this their perpetual baniſhment were, their Infidelity, Uſury, Forgeries of Charters, clipping and falſifying of monies, by which they prejudiced the King and Kingdom, and much oppreſſed and impoveriſhed the people.

3. That this their baniſhment was ſo acceptable to all the people, who oft-times preſſed it in Parliament, that they gave the King a Fifth and Fifteenth part of their moveables, to ſpeed and execute it.

4. That this their baniſhment was by the unanimous deſire, judgement, edict and decree both of the King and his Parliament, and not by the King alone: and this Baniſhment, totall of them all, and likewiſe final, Never to return into England. Which Edict and Decree, though not now extant in our Parliament Rolls (many of which are utterly loſt) nor in our printed Statutes, yet it is mentioned by all theſe Authorities and Records.

From whence I ſhall inferre and conclude: That as by the fundamental Laws of England: No Freeman and Natives of England can be juſtly baniſhed or exiled out of it, but by ſpecial judgement of Parliament, or by act of Parliament, (as well as by the ancient Romans, Athenians, and Syracuſians Laws, **Lege Duodec…m Tabularum hoc ſancitum fuerat, ut de capite Civis Romani, NISI CENTURIATIS COMITIIS, nihil decerni poſſit, ſed nec tolli de Civitate, vel a ſolio Patrio relegari, aut in exilium agi, niſi dicta cauſa & CENTURIATIS COMITIIS POSSET. Atheniexſibus Cliſthenes exilii legem tulit primus, qui haud multò poſt ſua lege damnatus paenas primus tulit. Oſtraciſmon dixerunt, ab oſtraco per quam ſuffragia ferebant: qui mos talis erat, ut in teſtulis nomen civis, cujus potentiam formidabant, Comitiis inſcriberent; & cujus plures erant teſtae in urnam conjectae, is DE CONCILII SENTENTIA, ab aris focisque projectus, ut à Civium arceretur aspectu, 15 aut 10 Annorum, exilio ſolum vertebat: Quae Comitia NISI SUPRA SEX MILLIA CIVIUM CONCILIO AD JUDICII DIEM CONVENIRENT, nulla atque irrita erant. Alexander ab Alexandro, Gen. Dierum l. 3. c. 20. T. Livii Hiſt. l. 26. c. 9. C. Taciti Ann. 13 and 4. Xenophon de Athenienſium Republica Plutarchi Ariſtides, Nicias. Diodorus Siculus. Bibl. Hiſt. p. 308, 404. Ariſt. Polit. l. 3. c. 8, 9. Dr. Caſe Sphaera Civitate l. 3. c. 9. Aelian variae, Hiſt. l. 13. c. 24.no Citizen of Rome, Athens, Syracuſe could be baniſhed his City or Country, but by the lawfull judgement of the Senat and People in their Parliamentary Aſſemblies and Senates, which were very numerous,) as is evident by Magna Charta c. 29. The baniſhment of Sir Thomas Wayband Chief Juſtice of the Common? Pleas, 19 E. 1. Rot. Pat. p. 64rot. 12. and theſe Jews then baniſhed. **Walſingham…, Ypodig. Neuſtriae Hiſt. Ang. p. 52 75 95.Exilium Hugonis le Dispenſer patris & filii. Tottles Magna Charta, f. 50.51. The double baniſhment of Peter de Gaverſton out of England, Aſſenſu communi Procerum & Magnatum, and of the King in Parliament. Walſingham Hiſt. Angliae, p. 71, 72. The Statute of 1. Edward the 3. c. 2. 11 Richard the 2. c. 2, 3, 4. for the baniſhment of Belknap and other Judges into Ireland, 21 R. 2. Rot. Parl. n. 16, 17. For the baniſhment of Thomas Arundel Arch-biſhop of Canterbury. The Statute of 35 El…z. c. 1. of & 39. Eliz. c. 4. For baniſhing dangerous Sectaries, Rogues, out of the Realm, after conviction upon Indictment only, not before (which could not be done by Law, before theſe Acts) Cooks 2 Inſtitutes, f. 47. Mr. St. Iohns Speech againſt the Shipmoney Iudges. p. 22. My New Diſcovery of the Prelates Tyranny, p. 166, 167, 168. Walſingham H…ſt. Angl…ae, p, 394. and other Teſtimonies: as alſo by 1 E. 3. c. 54. H. 4. c. 13. The Statute for the preſſing of Souldiers for Ireland. 17 Caroli Exact. Collect. p. 435. The **Mat. Paris 1256.1258. p. 872.934.55 Daniel p. 172.175.Barons oppoſition and refuſal to aſſiſt King Henry the 3 in their perſons or purſes in his foraign wars in Apulia and elſewhere, as no way obliged thereunto. The Petition and Proteſtation of the Lords and Commons in **See my Soveraign power of Parl. 6, 7, 8, &c.Parliament againſt ſerving the King in perſon, or contribution to his wars in Flanders, and other foraign parts. 25 E. 1. Walſingham Hiſt. p. 35, 37, 38. Henry de Knyghton de Event. Angl, l. 3. c. 11.14 or in Gaſcoign, France, Normandy, Scotland, or Ireland, Cook 2 Inſtit. p. 528. 4 H. 4. n. 48. 1 H. 5. n. 17. 7 H. 5. n. 9.18. R. 2. n. 6. So none once baniſhed the Realm by Judgement or Act of Parliament, can, may or ought, by the fundamental and known common Laws of England, to be reſtored and recalled again, but only by a like judgement Act and Reſtitution in full Parliament, as is adjudged, declared, reſolved by the caſes and Petitions of the two Spencers, and Pierce Gaveſton, Walſingh. Ypodig. Neuſt. p. 104, 101 152. Hiſt. Angl. p. 68.71, 72. Holinſhed p. 328. Speeds Hist. p. 674. The Printed Statute of 20 R. 2. c. 6. for the reſtitution of Belknap, and the other exiled Judges, 28 E. 3. p. 65Rot. Parl. n. 8. to 14 and 29 E. 3. Rot. Parl. n. 29. touching the repeal of the Judgement in Parliament againſt Roger Mortimer Earl of March, 17 R. 2. Rot. Parl. n. 18. for the pardon and reſtitution of the Juſtices baniſhed into Ireland 21. R. 2. n. 55. to 71. for confirmation of the repeal of the exile of Hugh de la Spencer, Father and Son, An. 15 E. 2. and the revocation of the repeal thereof in 1 E. 3. [A notable full record in point.] The **Osbernus &. Mat. Parker in his life Antonini Chron. Tit. 16. c. 6. f 163. Spelman. Concil. p. 439.revocation of Abbot Dunſton his ſentence of baniſhment by King Edgar and his great Council held at Brentford. Anno Dom. 959. 3 H. 7.10. 4 H. 7.10. 1 H. 7, 4. 10 H. 7.22. b. 15 E. 3. Fitz. Petit. 2. 9 E. 2.23.24. 9 E. 4.1. b. with ſundry other Records for the repeals of Iudgements and Acts of former Parliaments, by the ſubſequent Judgements and Acts of other Parliaments, in Cooks 4 Inſtitutes, c. 1. and Aſhes Tables. Parliament. 16. and Statutes 68. Therefore the Jews being ſo long ſince by Judgement, Edict and Decree both of the King and Parliament for ever baniſhed out of England (never ſince repealed or reverſed) neither may, nor can by Law be re-admitted, reduced into England again, but by common conſent and Act of Parliament, which I conceive they will never be able to obtain.

I have now preſented you with a true Hiſtorical and exact Chronological Relation of the Jews firſt admiſſion into England; (not in the time of the Emperour Constantine the great) as ſome groundleſly would collect, from his **Socrates Scholast. l. 1. c. 9. Theod. l. 4. c. 10. Niceph. Eccl. Hiſt. l. 4. c. 25. Cent. Mag. 4. c. 3. col. 650, 651. Spelman. Concil. p. 43.44General Epiſtle to all Churches, touching the Decrees of the Council of Nice, and the unanimous obſervation of the Feaſt of Eaſter, not after the Jewiſh computation; wherein there is mention of the Churches in Britain, (as well as in Rome, Africk, Spain, France, and other places) conc… …ing with other Churches herein; but not one ſyllable of any Jews therein, or in Britain then; nor in any other particular places, but onelyonly theſe general paſſages againſt Chriſtians complying with them in their Paſchal obſervation. Ac primum quidem indigna res funt ſanctiſſimum eum diem imitatione, atque conſuetudine Iudaeorum c… lebrare, p. 66qui manibus ſuis nefario flagitio contaminatis, non injuria quoque animis ſunt excaecati, homines ſcelerati. Quidni enim l…ceat, gente ea rejecta, rectiore, verioreque ordine, quem à primo paſsionis di… hucuſque ſervavimus, ad futura quoque ſaecula obſervationis hujus ritum tranſmittere? Item nihil nob…s commune ſit cum infeſtiſſma Judaeorum turba, &c. Quin & ſtrict or ipſa atque exactior ratio flagitare v…detur, NEQUA NOBIS CUM IUDAEORUM PERIURIO COMMUNIO. From whence, as all may jui…ly reſolve, that the blinded wicked Jews ought not to be introduced amongſt, nor to have communion with us, nor we with them: ſo no rational man can thence inferr, that there were any Jews at that time obſerving their Jewiſh paſſeover in Britain, of which I 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 **See Leges Wiſigothorum, l. 12. Tit. 2.3. Surius Concil. Tom. 2.3. Hiſpaniae Illuſtratae, Tom. 5.Titus 2:3Gothiſh, 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 ††Only I find John Stow in his Survey of London, p. 288.289. hath collected ſome of them very imperfectly. And Purchas in his Pilgrimage, l. 2. c. 10. Sect. 7.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 p. 67can 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 **See Menaſſeth Ben-Iſrael his Humble Addreſſes.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, (h)(h)See Cent. Magd. 2. to 13. c. 15. in each: Antonini Chro. pars 2. Tit. 16. c. 1.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 (i)(i)Chron. Johannis Bromton col. 829.901.908. Lambardi Archaion, & Spelman. Concil. p. 376.513.515, 521, 522, 549, 550, 599. Mr. Jo. Selden ad Eadmerum Notae, p. 189. makes this one of the Conq. Laws too. Statuimus imprimis ſuper omnia, Unum Deum per totū Regnum noſtrū, venerari; unam fidem Chriſti ſemper inviolatam cuſtodiri &c. Takē out of theſe Kings Laws.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, p. 68and 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 (k)(k)Spelman. Concil. p. 553.566.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.

p. 693. 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 (l)(l)Article 37.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) except only to Popery and Prelacy: yet certainly it can no ways extend to the toleration or protection of Iews, and their **John 4.3 2 John 7.John 4:32 John 1:7Antichriſtian blaſphemies againſt Chriſt p. 70himſelf, and the Gosple; ſeeing they are ſo far from profeſſing faith in Ieſus Chriſt, that (m)(m)See Petrus Alphonſus adverſus Judaeos, Antonini Chro. pars 2. Tit. 16. c. 12. Agobardus de Inſolentia Judaeorum, & Judaicis ſuperſtitionibus, & Cent. Magdeburg. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13. c. 14, 15. where this is largely proved, & Judaiſme refuted.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 (n)(n)See Brooke and Aſh. Corporation and Prerogative.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 (o)(o)See Raſtal Staple.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, M…rchants and Aliens.

3ly. The **See my Soveraign power of Parliaments part 2. p. 76, 77, 78.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 p. 71by 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, **Cooks Reports l. 10. f. 55.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 [p][p]See Cent. Mag. 3. to 13. c. 14. Alberti Argentinenſis Chron. & de Geſt…s Bertoldi, p. 148.149.178.other parts, being moſt grievous Clippers, coyners, forgers of money, Ʋſurers, 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 [q][q]See Raſtals Abridgement title, Artificers, Aliens, Money, Treaſon, Drapery, &c.all our Laws, yet in force, prohibiting clipp…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 [r][r]See Raſtals Abridgment, Tit. Merchant… and Merchandiſe.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 p. 72of Jews, Foraign Merchants, or Artificers. And therfore not to be adm…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, w…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 lo…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, **See. Cent. Magd. 3. to 13. c. 14, 15.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.

p. 733. 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 unconverted Jews, are both Unbelievers, Infidels, Darkneſs, Belialiſts, and the very Synagogue of Satan, as the Scripture reſolves them, Acts 14.1. Mar. 6.6. Rom. 11.20.23.32. Heb. 4.6.11. Iohn 1.5. Mat. 8.12. Rev. 2.9. 1 Theſſ. 2.14, 15, 16. Therefore we Chriſtians ought not to be unequally yoaked, or to have any fellowſhip, communion, agreement, part or mixture with them; much leſs to receive them into our land and boſoms, from whence they were formerly ſpued out, but to keep our ſelves ſeparated from amongſt them, leſt God reject us, as he hath done them.

4. 2 John 6.7. This is the commandement that ye have heard from the beginning, that ye ſhould walk in it: For many deceivers are entred into the world, Who confeſs not that Ieſus Chriſt is come in the fleſh: This is a Deceiver and an Antichriſt. & v. 10, 11. Whoſoever tranſgreſſeth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Chriſt, hath not God: he that abideth in the doctrine of Chriſt, he hath both the Father and the Sonne. If there come any unto you, and bring not this Doctrine receive him not into your houſe, neither bid him, God speed: for he that biddeth him God speed, is partaker of his evil deeds. The Jews are theſe Deceivers and Antichriſts, who confeſs not, but abſolutely deny, that Jeſus Chriſt is come in the fleſh & they abide not in the Doctrin of Chriſt; and if they come unto us, they will not bring this Doctrine to us, but the quite contrary. Therefore we ought not to receive them into our Dominions or Houſes, nor bid or wiſh them Godſpeed, in returning to dwell amongſt us. And if any do the contrary, they are and ſhall be partakers of their evil deeds.

p. 745. Tit. 1.10, 11, 13, 14. For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, Eſpecially they of the Circumciſion; whoſe mouthes muſt be stopped, who ſubvert whole houſes reaching things which they ought not, for filthy lu…res ſake. Wherefore rebuke them ſharply, that they may be ſound in the fa…th: Not giving heed to Iewiſh Fables, and commandements of Men that turn from the Truth. I… the circumciſed Jews were ſuch unruly Decei…ers, …educers, and ſubverters of whole hou…es, even in the Apoſtles own dayes, and their Jewiſh fables then did turn ſo many from the truth, to prevent which, their mouthes were then to be stopped, With what colour of Chriſtianity, piety, conſcience, can we call them in amongſt us now, in theſe times of fearful, and almoſt univerſal Apoſtacy from the truth, and give them leave to ſet up their Synagogues, and open their blaſphemous mouthes here in England, even when many orthodox Miniſters mouths are quite ſtopped up in publick & privat, without hearing, to the great Joy both of Ieſuits and Iews, (even whiles their re-admiſſion amongſt us is in agitation) when leſs dangerous ſeducers are freely permitted to ramble abroad in all places, and have ſubverted whole houſes, pariſhes, and almoſt Cities and Counties too, to Gods diſhonour, and the danger of the peoples ſouls.

6. 1 Theſſ. 2.14, 15, 16. For ye alſo have ſuffered l…ke things of your Countrymen, even as they have of the Iews: who both killed the Lord Ieſus, and their own Prophets, and have perſecuted (or chaſed out) us, and they pleaſe not God, and are contrary to all men: **Acts 4.17, 18, c. 5.28, 29.40. c. 13.45. Let thoſe who now imi…a…e them, in ejecting & ſilencing Miniſters from preaching, conſider & repent of this Jewiſh crime.Acts 4:17Acts 4:18Forbidding us to ſpeak to the Gentiles, that they might be ſaved, to fill up their ſins alway: For the wrath is come upon them to the uttermoſt. This Goſpel character of the Jews, expreſſing their tranſcendent malice to the Lord Jeſus, their own Prophets, the very Apoſtles themſelves, the Gentiles, with their contrariety to God, and all other men, and Gods wrath upon them for it to the uttermoſt: adminiſter plenty of invincible arguments, againſt our receiving them in again amongſt us, leſt they bring along with them the extremity p. 75of Gods wrath upon the whole Engliſh Nation, who have enough thereof already, and are likely to feel more of it, if they really imitate or play the Jews, and ſilence, caſt out their own Prophets, Miniſters, Countrymen in theſe and other particulars.

7. Acts 18.5, 6, 7. Paul was preſſed in Spirit, and teſtified to the Jews that Jeſus was the Chriſt. And when they oppoſed themſelves and blaſphemed, he ſhooke his rayment, and ſaid unto them, your blood be upon your own heads: I am clean, from henceforth, I will goe unto the Gentiles. And he departed thence and entred into a certain mans houſe named Juſtus, who worſhipped God. &c. compared with Acts 13.44. to 52. The next Sabbath-day came almoſt the whole City together to hear the word of God: but when the Jews ſaw the multitude, they were filled with envy, and ſpoke againſt thoſe things that were ſpoken by Paul, contradicting and blaſpheming: Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and ſaid, it was neceſſary the word of God ſhould firſt have been ſpoken unto you; but becauſe ye put it from you, and judge your ſelves unworthy of everlaſting life; Loe we turn to the Gentiles; For ſo hath the Lord commanded us, &c. And the word of the Lord was publiſhed throughout all the Region. But the Jews ſtirred up the devout and honourable women, and the chief men of the City, and raiſed perſecution againſt Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them out of their coaſts, but they ſhook off the duſt of their feet againſt them, and came unto Iconium: See the like, Acts 17.5. to 16. c. 19.8, 9, 10. c. 28.25. to 31. This malitious carriage and perſecution of the Jews, even againſt the Apoſtles themſelves, their Doctrine, and the Gentiles ſalvation, and caſting them maliciouſly out of their coaſts; with their Separation from them, and turning themſelves wholly to the Gentiles upon this account, by Gods own command; demonſtrates, what all Gods faithfull Miniſters, and we Chriſtian Gentiles muſt expect from them now: and that being formerly caſt out of our p. 76Coaſts by our Anceſtors for their infidelity, crucifying of Chriſt in his Members, and ſuch like miſdemeanors, and ſo being totally ſeparated in cohabitation and communion from us, we neither may nor ought now to reſume them into our Land, Boſoms or Communion again, upon any pretences whatſoever. The rather for that Martin Luther on Mich. 4.1.2. and Mr. Samuel Purchas in his **l. 2. c. 21. p. …13.Pilgrimage inform us, That ſooner than the Jews would endure that the Gentiles, whom in their dayly prayers they curſe and revile, ſhould have any part with them in their Meſſias, and be accounted coheirs thereof, they would cruc…fy ten Meſſiahs, yea if it were …oſſible would do to death God himſelf, with all the Angels and creatures elſe, although they ſhould therefore undergoe a thouſand Hells.

8. When God was bringing the Jews into the promiſed Land which he gave them to inherit, he gave them theſe ſpecial commands. Thou ſhalt driv… the Inhabitants of the land out before thee (s)(s)Exod. 23.31, 32, 33. c. 34.1. to 17. Deut. 7.2. to 9. Joſ. 23.3. to 15. Judg. 2, 3, 4.Exod 23:31Exod 23:32Exod 23:33Deut 7:2–9Josh 23:3–15Judg 2:3Judg 2:4Thou ſhalt make no Covenant with them▪ nor with their Gods they ſhall not dwell in thy land, leſt they make thee ſin againſt me, and it be a ſnare in the midſt of thee. Thou ſhalt make no Covenant with them, nor ſhew mercy to them, Neither ſhalt thou make marriages with them. Thy Daughter thou ſhalt not give unto his Son, nor his Daughter ſhalt thou take unto thy Son, for they will turn away thy Sons from following me, that they may ſerve other Gods, ſo will the anger of the Lord be kindled againſt thee, and deſtroy thee ſuddenly; If ye doe in any wiſe go back, and cleave unto the remnant of theſe Nations, and go in unto them, and they to you, know for a certain, that the Lord will no more drive out any of theſe Nations before you; but they ſhall be ſnares and traps unto you, and ſcourges in your ſides, and thorns in your eyes, until you periſh from the good Land which the Lord your God giveth you: But thus ye ſhall deal with them, ye ſhall deſtroy their Altars, and break down their Images, and cut down their groves, &c. for thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God. Now, p. 77the not driving out of theſe Nations by the Iſraelites from amongſt them, according to the…e command, o… God, is charged … ſpecial ſin upon them by God, ent…ce… them to Idolatry, and brought his ſevere wrath upon them, …udges 1.27. to 36. c. 2.2, 3, 12, 13, 19, 20▪ 21, 22, 2…. and is thus expreſſed by the Pſalmiſt Pſal. 106.14. to 43. They did not deſtroy the N…tions concern…ng …m t… L…d commanded them but were mingled amongſt the heathen, and learned their works, and they ſerved their …ol…, which were a ſnare unto them, yea they ſacrificed their Sons and Daughters unto Devils, and ſhed innocent blood, even the blood of their Sons and Daughters, whom they ſacr…ficed unto the Idols of Canaan, and their Land was defiled with b…ood. Therefore was the wrath of the Lord kindled againſt his peo…le, inſomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance, and he gave them into the hands of the Heathen, and they that hated them were Lords over them; their enemies alſo oppreſſed them, they were brought unto ſubjection under their hands. The morality, ground and equity of which precepts, as they juſtifie our Anceſtors expulſion of the Jews out of England, with their adulterous worſhip, Ceremonies & Synagogues heretofore. So I conceive they ſtrongly oblige all Engliſh Chriſtians (eſpecially after our late ſolemn League and Covenant) to ſeclude and keep them out from re-entring, coming in, mingling, and dwelling among us now, for fear they draw the ſelf-ſame ſad effects, and bring down the ſame, or like heavy judgements of God upon us, as theſe Scriptures threatned, and God himſelf inflicted on the Iſraelites for tranſgreſſing them.

In brief, the Parables of the Vineyard and Husbandmen, the King going into foraign parts, and Marriage-Supper, Mat. 21.33. to 46. c. 22.2. to 11. c. 23.21. to the end. Mar. 12.1. &c. Luk. 19.12. to 28. c. 20.9. &c. particularly applyed to the Jews, and notably ſetting out their deſperate malice againſt our Saviours perſon, Kingdom, Government, Ordinances, Miniſters, Goſpel, and his rejection of them for it. Together with Rom. 16, 17, 18.31.32. 1 Cor. 5.4. &c. Phil. 3.2.3. Mat. 7. p. 7815. c. 16.7.11.12.17 Col. 2.8. 2 Pet. 3.17. c. 2.1 &c. 7, 8.20, 21, 22. 2 Tim. 3.1. to 10. c. 2.16, 17 Titus 3.10.11. Rev. 2.9.14. Heb. 6.4. to 9. c. 16.26. to 32. Ph. 4.2, 3. Gal. 4.29.30. will all furniſh us with ſundry arguments againſt their re-admiſſion amongſt us, as likewiſe Prov. 9.27.28. Amos 3.3. Pſal. 101.3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. Pſal. 119.104. Pſal. 139.21, 22. Numb. 8.13. Numb. 16.26, 27. Pſal. 6.8. Pſal. 119.115. Pſal. 139.16. which every good Chriſtian may peruſe at leaſure, and apply as he ſees cauſe.

3. For Reaſons againſt their re-admiſſion into England, they are divers, Theological, Political, and mixt of bo…h.

1. God himſelf by his Prophets, Son, Apoſtles, before their rejection, while they were his ſpecial, peculiar choſen people, treaſure, above all other Nations of the world, moſt frequently complains of them, and the generality of the Nation(t)(t)Deut. 9.6, 7, 13. c. 31.17. Exod. 32.9. c. 33.3.5. Pſal. 78.8, 9. Jer. 3.6. to 22. c. 5.23. c. 8.5. c. 2.11. c. 23.14 Iſay 3.9. c. 24.5. Ezech. 2.3. to 9. c. 3.26, 27. c. 12.2. to 26. c. 17.12. c. 16, 46, 56, 57 c. 24.3. c. 44.4. Hoſ. 4.16. c. 5.2. c. 6, 7. c. 11.7. Mat. 3.7. c. 11.23, 24. c. 23.33. Acts 7.51, 52. and other texts. Levit. 26. Deut. 28. Iſay. c. 1. & 9. & 14. & 29. & 32. Jer. c. 1. to 30. Lam. c. 1. to 5. Ezech. c. 2. to 25. Hoſ. c. 1. to 11. Joel, c. 1. and 2. Amos, c. 2. to 5. Mal. c. 1. & 2. Zeph. 1. Zach. 11.2. Kings 17.2. Chron. 36. Mat. 24. Lev. 22. Egeſippus, Euſebius, and others.Deut 9:6Deut 9:7Deut 9:13Exod 32:9Ps 78:8Ps 78:9Jer 3:6–22Isa 3:9Ezek 2:3–9Hos 4:16Matt 3:7Acts 7:51Acts 7:52Lev 26Deut 28Isa 1Jer 1Lam 1Ezek 2Hos 1Mal 1Zeph 1Zech 112 Kgs 172 Chr 36Matt 24Lev 22 That they were a moſt rebellious, diſobedient, gainſaying, ſtiff-necked, impenitent, incorrigible, adulterous, whoriſh, impudent, froward, ſhameleſſe, perverſe, treacherous, revolting, back-ſliding, idolatrous, wicked, ſinfall, ſtubborn, untoward, hardhearted, hypocritical, fooliſh, ſottiſh, brutiſh, ſtupid, ungratefull, Covenant breaking Nation, Houſe, People; a ſeed of evil doers, a generation of Vipers, doing evil greedily with both hands, according to all the Nations that were round about them; as bad, nay worſe than Sodom or Gomorrha, caſting all Gods Laws, Ordinances, behind their backs, trampling …em under their feet, rejecting, forſaking, deſpiſing God himſelf, provoking him continually to his face, grieving him to the heart, forgetting him days without number, alwayes erring in their hearts, and diſobeying his voice, and the like: And dare, can we then harbour ſuch a Nation as this, p. 79and bring them in amongſt us now they are worſe in all theſe reſects than ever?

2. God himſelfe hath denounced againſt, and inflicted upon the Iewes, greater, ſeverer Woes, Iudgments, Calamities Disperſions, Devaſtations, Captivities, Deſolations, Curſes, Plagues of all kinds, for their ſins, rebellions, impenitencies, and to on, their Nation, Kingdom, Countrie, Cities, than to or on any other Nations, Kingdoms, People, and that more frequently than againſt any other: Swearing againſt them in his wrath, that they ſhould never enter into his reſt, Pſal. 95.11. Hebr. 3.10, 11, 18. ſtiling them, the generation of his wrath; Jer. 7.29. and averting of them, that wrath is come upon them to the utermoſt, 1 Theſſ. 2.15.16. And can or ſhall we then receive ſuch a Nation as this into our boſoms now, without entertaining, and pulling upon us, that wrath and theſe curſes of God which are denounced againſt, and do now purſue and accompany them in all places?

3. The Jews were alwaies heretofore a very murmuring, mutinous, diſcontented, rebellious, ſeditious people for the moſt part, not only against God, but their (x)(x)Exod. 15.24. c. 16.2. &c. Num. c. 14. c: 16. c. 20. c. 21. 2 Sam. 1.15 to 21. 2 Kings c. 12, c. 15. c. 16. 2 Kings c. 9. c. 10. c. 12.20. c. 14.17. c. 17.21.23. c. 23. c. 20. c. 27. 2. Chron. c. 23. c. 36. Ezech. 17.13. to 24.Exod 15:24Num 142 Sam 1:15–212 Kgs 122 Kgs 92 Chr 23Ezek 17:13–24lawfull Governors, Kings, Prieſts, Prophets, oft tumul…uouſly rebelling againſt, diſobeying, revolting from, depoſing, murdering their Kings, and Sovera…gns, and contemning, diſobeying, ſlaying, killing, ſtoning the Prophets, Meſſengers whom God ſent unto them. Whence God himſelf gives us this black Character of them, 2 Chron. 36.15, 16. And the Lord God of their Fathers ſent unto them by his Meſſengers, riſing up betimes, and ſending, &c. But they mocked the Meſſengers of God, and despiſed his words, and miſuſed his Prophets, until the wrath of the Lord roſe againſt his people, till there was no remidy, &c. And our Saviour Chriſt a worſe: Lu. 13.33, 34. It is impoſſible (or cannot be) that a Prophet periſh out of Jeruſalem: Mat. 23.27. O Jeruſalem, Jeruſalem, thou that killeſt the prophets, and ſtoneſt thoſe that are ſent unto thee! Which St. Stephen thus ſeconds, Acts 7.51.52. Ye ſtiff-necked and uncircumciſed in heart and ears; ye do alwaies reſiſt the holy, Ghoſt as your fathers p. 80did, ſo do ye? W…ch of the Prophets have not your Fathers perſecuted; and they have ſlain them which have ſhewed them before of the coming of the Juſt One, of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers. Which St. Paul alſo confirms in the forecited obſervable Text of the 1. Theſſ. 2.14, 15, 16. And can we then in point of piety or policy, even in theſe diſtracted, rebellious, mutinous times, entertain, or bring in ſuch a Nation, People as this amongſt us? Or can our deſpiſed Miniſtry in this age, when they can hardly convert, keep any of their own Engliſh from ſeduction, have any hopes of reclaiming or converting ſuch a mutinous, ever rebellious, ſtiff-necked people, who have thus abuſed, murdered, ſtoned their own Prophets in former times, though immediatly ſent unto them by God himſelf? and will quickly teach the Engliſh to do the like, who already imitate them in too many places.

4. (y)(y)Mat. 21.33. to 36. c. 26. & 27. & 28. Mar. 14 & 15. Lu. 22. & 23. John 5.16.18. c. 7.1. c. 9.22. c. 10.31, &c. c. 11.8.55. c. 18 & 19. c. 20.19 Act. 2.23.36. c. 3.13, 14, 15.Matt 21:33–36Mark 14John 5:16John 5:18Acts 2:23Acts 2:36They were the greateſt haters, revilers, perſecuters, blaſphemers, betrayers, and the only murderers, crucifiers of our (z)(z)1 Theſ. 2.14, 15.1 Thess 2:141 Thess 2:15Lord Jeſus Chriſt himſelf, and his (a)(a)Act. 4.1. to 23. c. 5, 5.17. to 42. c. 6.9. to 15. c. 7. c. 8. v. 9. c. 12.3. c. 13.42. to the end. c. 14.2.4, 5.19. c. 17.6. to 17. c. 18.12, &c. c. 21. to c. 27. c. 28.17, 18, 19. 2 Cor. 11.24. 1 Theſſ. 2.14, 15, 16.Acts 4:1–232 Cor 11:241 Thess 2:141 Thess 2:151 Thess 2:16Apoſtles whiles on earth, as the Evangeliſts, Acts, and other Scriptures teſtifie. And although Chriſt and his Apoſtles miraculouſly converted ſome thouſands of them by their preaching and miracles, to the faith of Chriſt, Acts, 2.41. c. 21.20. Yet the generality and body of the Nation continued ſtill blind, obſtinate, under the very moſt powerfull Miniſtry of the Prophets, Apoſtles and Chriſt himſelf, being then and ever ſince that time, judicially and penally given up to a blind, obdurate, obſtinate, impenitent, ſtupid heart and ſpirit, a reprobate ſenſe, a cauterized conſcience, and divorced, rejected, reprobated, broken off, caſt off by God himſelf, proclaiming them to be no more his people, to be reprobate ſilver, becauſe he hath rejected them; to make way for the calling, converſion, ſalvation of the Gentiles, whom he hath ingrafted, called, and taken into ſpecial Covenant in their ſtead, as is evident by Acts 13.45, 46, 47. c. 19.9. c. 28.25, 26, 27, 28. Iſa. 8.14. to 17. c. 10.22, 23. c. 29.8. to 15. c. 65.2, 3, p. 819. c. 53. 1. Jer. 6.10. c. 7.29. c. 14. 19 Lam. 5.22. Hoſ. 1.9.10. c. 4.6. Mat. 13.13, 14, 15. c. 21.24. to 46. c. 22.2. to 11. Mar. 4.12. Luk. 2.34. c. 8.10, &c. John 9.39.41. c. 12.37. to 44. Rom. 9.24. to 33. c. 10.16.19.20, 21. c. 11.5.7. &c. 1 Theſſ. 2.14, 15, 16. Heb. 10.26. to 31. compared together. Which Texts conjoyned with Lu. 18.8. Mat. 24.9. to 15. Joh. 1.11. 1 Tim. 4.1, 2, 3. 2 Tim. 1.3. to 10. c. 4.3, 4. 2 Pet. 2.1.2. &c. c. 3.3.1. John 2.18. Jude 18. in my judgement unanſwerably refute, that commonly received opinion, of the calling and converſion of the whole Nation and Body of the Iews in theſe latter dayes to the faith of Chriſt, and ſuch glorious Goſpel times in the laſt age of the world, which ſome have over-confidently aſſerted, and now inſiſt on, as the chiefeſt argument for calling in the Jews amongſt us at this ſeaſon, as if they were able more effectually to perſwade, convert them, then either their own Prophets, or Chriſt himſelf and his Apoſtles, and remove that veil of obſtinate blindneſſe, and obduration, which God hath laid upon their hearts and eyes, to this very end, that they might neither ſee, hear, nor underſtand, nor be converted, that he might heal them. Acts 28.25, 26, 27, 28.

5. God himſelf, (eſpecially for their rejection of Jeſus Chriſt, and refuſing him to be their King to rule and reign over them) hath utterly extirpated and ejected the Jews out of their own promiſed land, which himſelf beſtowed on them for their peculiar (b)(b)Gen. 15.7.8. c. 26.5. Nu. 26.54.55. c. 27 7.8. c. 32.18.19. c. 33.55. Joſh. c. 14. to 20. Pſ. 78.55. Pſ. 105.11.1 Kings 8.36. Ezech. 48.29.Gen 15:7Gen 15:8Josh 14Ps 78:55Ps 105:111 Kgs 8:36Ezek 48:29inheritance, and habitation, and ſetled them in actual poſſeſſion thereof by an outſtretched hand, and power: yea, ſcattered, diſperſed them into other Nations, like chaff before the wind, without any fixed habitation, according to the ancient comminations and curſes long ſince denounced againſt, and now fully executed upon them. Deut. 28.63, 64, 65. &c. Levit. 26.33.36, 37, 38, 39. Deut. 4.27. c. 32, 26. 1 Kings 14, 15. Neh. 1.8. Pſal. 106.27. Jer. 9.16. & 17.24. c. 18.17. c. 49.32.36. Ezech. 5.2. to 13. c. 12.14, 15. c. 20.23. c. 22.15. Daniel 12.7. Zach. 1.21. Ezech. 11.16, 17. c. 6.8.17.21. which ſcattering, is principally intended p. 82only amongſt Heathen Nations, where they ſhould be totally deprived of all Gods Ordinances, and means of ſalvation, & where they ſhall ſerve other Gods, which neither they nor their Fathers have known, even wood and stone; as theſe texts expreſly reſolve and import. Therefore, to receive them into, and ſettle them in our Chriſtian Kingdom and Iſland, whereunto they have no title, nor colour of inheritance, which God hath (c)(c)See Acts 17.28. Exod. 36 43. Num. 20 14. to 22. c. 21.21, 22, 23. Deut 2.26. to 32. Judg. 11.12. to 29. Deut 2.9 2 Chron. 20.10. Gen. 34.20. Num. 26.54. Deut. 26.9. Ezech. 36.5. Exod. 20.17. Gal. 4.30.31.Acts 17:28Exod 36:43Num 20:14–22Deut 2:26–32Judg 11:12–29Deut 2:92 Chr 20:10Gen 34:20Num 26:54Deut 26:9Ezek 36:5Exod 20:17Gal 4:30Gal 4:31appointed to the Engliſh alone for their portion, (and therefore theſe Aliens may not invade or intrude themſelves into it, without the whole Natio…s general conſent) is in ſome ſence to croſſe theſe ſacred Texts, and neither convenient for us to grant, nor for them to requeſt, being already over-ſtored with Native Engliſhmen.

6. Since the Jews crucifixion of our Saviour Jeſus Chriſt himſelf, and their extirpation and diſſipation for it, they have oft times in ſundry places, ages, in high contempt and deſpight of his perſon, and paſſion, maliciouſly acted it over and over again in repreſentation, not only, by (d)(d)Athanaſius de paſſione Imaginis Chriſti: Cent Magd. 4. c. 13. col. 1445. Cent. 6. col. 825. Cent 8. col. 122. Cent. 10. col 633. cent. 11. c. 657. Faſciculus Temporum. f. 56. Sigeberti Chro. Hermannus Sched…l. Chron. f. 168. Nauclerus. …l. 1. Gener. 50. C…anzius Vandalia l. 4. Abraham Ezouius. Annal. Eccleſ. An. 1291. n. 16. Anno 1298. n. 1. An. 1299. n. 22. An. 1399. n. 13. An. 1406. n. 20. An. 1407. n. 20. An. 1491. n. 7. An. 1505. n. 4. Naucl. vol. 1. Chronogr. gener. 44. Cent. Magd, 13. c. 15. col. 1287.1288.piercing his Images with ſwords and spears, and by (e)(e)Chron. Magn. Germaniae, An. 1036. p. 268, 269. Hermanus Sched…l. C…n. f. 278, 289. Genebr. chronogr. p, 824, 825. Janſenius, l. 4. Mer. Gallobelgici.ſtabbing, piercing, boyling, burning, braying in a mortar, and otherwiſe despighting the conſecrated Sacramental bread, repreſenting his crucified bod…, as the Hiſtorians in the Margin at large relate; and likewiſe by crucifying a Ram at Eaſter, as they did at (f)(f)Johannis Bromton chron. col. 1025,Syracuſa, in the year, 1113: but likewiſe by crucifying ſundry Chriſtian children on Good Fryday, or near Eaſter, on a Cro…ſe, in a moſt barbarous manner, in deriſion of our Saviours death and paſſion. To pretermit thoſe 7. or 8. forecited inſtances in England alone, I ſhall inſtance in ſome forreign ones recorded by Hiſtorians. About the year of our Lord, 430. the Jews in their …b…ick (g)(g)Socrates Scholaſt. l. 7. c. 16. Cent Magd. 5. c. 14.Enterludes and Dances, held on their Sabbath, openly p. 83crucified a Chriſtian child in contempt and deriſion of Chriſts death and paſſion, at Inmeſtar in Syria; firſt nailing him to a tree, and lifting him up on high; then deriding and laughing at him; after that like mad men, ſcourging him as long as any breath remained in his body: whereupon there aroſe great contention between them and the Chriſtians; and by the Emperours command, the Jews who had done this in jeſt, were puniſhed in earneſt, Anno 1172. (h)(h)Sigeberti continuator. Cent. Magd. 12. c. 14. Cent. 13. c. 14.they crucifyed in like manner another Chriſtian child at Bloys in France, and near the ſame time, the Jews at[i][i]Antonini Chron. pars 2. Tit. 17. ſect. 26. Vincentius Spec. Hiſt. l. 29. c. 25. Gaguinus l. 6. de Francis, Cent. Magd. 12. c. 14. col. 170. Bray in France, crowned a Chriſtian man (whom they accuſed for a Malefactor) with thorns, then led him publickly about the Town, ſcourged him with many ſtripes, and at laſt crucified him in contempt of Chriſt. Not long after the [k][k]Vincentius Spec. Hiſt. l. 29. c. 25. cent. Magd. 13. c. 14. Munſters Coſm. l. 2. p. 170.Jews at Paris in France, in like manner impiouſly crucified a Chriſtian child called Richard, and ſundry others yearly. Anno 1236. (l)(l)Fragmentum Hiſtoricum Chronicon. Hirſaug. Muntzerus. Centur. Magd. 13. c. 14. Bzouius An. 1296. n. 16.the Jews at the Monaſtery of Fulda, killed many Chriſtian children in a Mill, piercing them with ponyards, and ſqueſing out their blood, to mix and knead it with their unleavened bread in their Paſſeover, as was generally reported, which being diſcovered, many of them were burnt to death for it, & the reſt grievouſly puniſhed. Anno 1252. they maſſacred and crucified a Chriſtian Child **Bzouius Ecl. Annal. Anno 1252. n. 16.at Wiſſinburgh. At (m)(m)Cranzius. l. 7. c. 14. in Vandalia. Cent. Magdeb, 13. c. 14.Prague in Bohemia, the Jews on Good-Friday in the year 1283. ſhutting their gates, crucified a Chriſtian man, having firſt of all done unto him in contempt, what ever they had learned was done to Christ by their Anceſtors: which when the people had diſcovered, running to their arms, they raged cruelly againſt, and ſlew many of theſe impious Murtherers.

The Jews (n)(n)Chron. Hirſaug. Cent. Magd. 13, c. 14. Faſciculus Temporum, Aventinus Analium Boiorum l. 7. p. 576.Anno 1286. ſtole away, cruelly tormented, pricked with ponyards, drew the blood, and impiouſly crucified a Chriſtian Child called Wernerus, not far from the Rhene in Germany, barbarouſly murthering him after ſundry torments. (o)(o)Sebaſt. Munſteri Coſm l. 3. p. 482.Anno 1287. they tormented and crucified another Chriſtian Child at Bern called Rodolphus, p. 84for which they were maſſacred and cruelly handled by the furious vulgar. The Jews at [p][p]Hermannus Schedel. Chron. f. 285.286. Ant. Coccius Sabellicus Enead. 10. l. 6. p. 742. Bzouius Au. 1479, n. 13. Munſter. Coſm. l. 2. c. 71. p. 300,Trent on Good-Friday, in the year 1475. tortured, whipped, pierced and crucified to death a Chriſtian child, about 13 years old, called Simeon, in contempt of Chriſts paſſion and Chriſtians, kneeding their Paſchal unleavened bread with his blood, which Hiſtory is as large related by the Marginal Hiſtorians; for which many of them were tortured, burnt ſlain, put to death, and others baniſhed the City: yet 6 years after **Chron. Hermanni Sched. f. 286. Aetas 6.An. 1480. they again perpetrated the like wickedneſs in crucifying and torturing a child at a Town called Motta near Friuli, [q][q]Chron. Herm. Sched. ſexta Aetas f. 186. Sebast Munſter Coſmogr. l. 2. c. 57. p. 171.for which 3 of them were carried priſoners to Venice, and there tortured and burnt to aſhes. And to inſtance in no more particulars. Vincentius Beluacenſis Speculum Hist. l. 29. c. 25. Gaguinus l. 6. de Francis. Centur. Magd. 12 and 13 c. 14. Antonini Chron. p. 2, 3. f, 17. ſect. 8. Mat. Par. Mr. Fox, and ††Purchas Pilgrimage, l. 2. c. 10. Sect. 7.others record, That the Jews in Paris & elſewhere, did every year ſteal ſome Chriſtian child or other brought up in the Kings Court, and carrying him to a ſecret houſe or vault, did on Good-Friday, or Eaſter-day, in contempt and deriſion of Chriſt and Chriſtian Religion, crucify him on a Croſſe (as Chriſt was crucified) and that they had been frequently apprehended perſevering in this wickedneſſe; for which, upon Detection, they were uſually murthered, ſtoned, burned, deſtroyed, hanged by the furious multitudes violence, or executed, impriſoned, baniſhed by Chriſtian Kings and Magiſtrates; yet ſuch was their malice to Chriſt, that they would ſtill perſevere therein, and act it over again upon every opportunity: Which being ſo fully juſtified by theſe many particular preſidents, proofs, authorities, in ſeveral ages, places, ſufficiently refutes **Humble Addreſſes p. 24, 25.Menaſſeh Ben Iſrael his bare-denial, and poor ſhifts to evade it, as falſe and ſcandalous. How can or dare we then receive into our Chriſtian Iſland, ſuch barbarous, bloody obſtinate murderers, and inveterate, incorrigible, malicious enemies to, and deriders, deſpiſers of our bleſſed Saviours death and paſſion, formerly caſt out by our Anceſtors p. 85(amongſt other things) for their bloody impieties and unchriſtian blaſphemies of this nature, unleſſe we firſt renounce both our Chriſtianity and Humanity at once, and become as bad as the very worſt of Jews?

7. The Jews ever ſince their diſperſions, in all ages, places to their power, have been more bitter enemies to the Chriſtians than the worſt of Pagans, bending all their ſtudies, forces, wits, endeavours to hinder, oppugne, blaſpheme, extirpate the Chriſtian Religion, and all profeſſors of it out of the world; ſtirred up many bloody perſecutions againſt them, upon all advantages, confederating both with Julian the Apoſtate, the Pagan Perſians, the Tartars, Sarazens, Turks, to murder and delete them, having a great hand in raiſing the 4th. perſecution, and murdering, **Juſtiniani Codicis lib. 1. Tit. 12. Lex 2. Cent. Mag. 4. c. 15. col. 1471. Vincentius Beluacenſis Speculum Hiſt, l. 21. c. 78.ſtoning to death, burning, deſtroying even thoſe of their own Nation, yea poyſoning their own Wives, Children, for imbracing Chriſtianity. Moreover they have raiſed up many ſeditions, rebellions againſt Chriſtian Princes, poyſoned, deſtroyed ſome of them and their Nobles, yea, raiſed, occaſioned many great popular Tumults, Commotions, Seditions againſt them in all ages, places, as well as formerly here in England, As you may read at large in Socrates Scholasticus, Eccl. Hiſt. l. 7. c. 13. Zonaras, Tom. 3. Paulus Diaconus, l. 16, 17, 18. Nicephorus Eccleſ. Hist. l. 14. c. 14. l. 17. c. 6. Ambroſe Epiſt. l. 5. Epiſt, 29. Jerom. in cap. 4. ad Galatas, & in Abdiam. Sozomen, Hiſt. l. 1. c. 8. Mat. Paris Hiſtoria Angl. p. 564. Aventinus Annal. Boyorum, l. 5. and 7. Abbas Uſpergenſis Paraleip. p. 346. Cent. Magd. 4. c. 14, 15. and c. 3. …ol. 85, 86. Cent. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13. c. 3.14.15. Mr. Fox Acts and Monuments, vol. 1. p. 56. Munsteri Coſmogr. l. 3. c. 71. p. 482. l. 2. c. 71. p. 310. l. 3. c. 55. p. 583.707. with ſundry others. Upon this ground, certain Chriſtians on the contrary, out of an over-furious zeal, ha…e endeavoured to extirpate them all from under Heaven, unleſſe they would turn Chriſtians. Anno. 1101. (o)(o)Aventinus Annal. Boyorum. l. 5. p. 468. Hedio in Chron. Annot. Cent. Magd. 11. c. 15. co…, 68…,Emicho a German Earl, and the Inhabitants near the Rhine, p. 86pillaged, plundered, baniſhed, ſlew and deſtroyed all the Jews in thoſe parts, w…o refuſed to turn Chriſtians, ſlaying no leſſe than twelve thouſand of them, many of the Jews killing each other with their own hands, to avoid their fury, but the reſt receiving baptiſme, and turning Chriſtians only to ſave their lives, relapſed to their Judaiſme again when the ſtorm was over. In the year 1146. one (o)(o)Otto de Geſtis Fred. 1. Imp. l. 1. c. 37.38. p. 428. Cent. Magd. 12. c. 14. Genebrardi Chronogr. l. 4. p. 618.Rudolphus a Monk, out of a miſguided bloody zeal, ſtirred up many thouſands of people in France and Germany, near the Rhine, to take up the Croſſe for the holy wars; exhorting them in his preaching, that they ſhould in the firſt place kill and deſtroy all the Jews, remaining every where in the Cities and Towns, as being the greateſt enemies of Chriſt. The ſeeds of which doctrine took ſuch deep root in many Cities of France and Germany, that in a tumultuous ſedition and uproar, they ſlew moſt of the Jews in thoſe parts, but ſuch who fled into fenced Cities and Caſtles, under the protection of the Emperor Fred. the 1: which bloody doctrine and proceeding was reprehended by St. Bernards Letters to theſe people, informing them, That the Jews for their exceſſive wickedneſſes were not to be ſlaughtered, but diſperſed. In the year of Chriſt 1298. (q)(q)Aventinus Annal. Boiorum. l. 7. p. 589. See Munſteri Coſmogr. l. 3. p. 547, 707. Cent. Magd. 13. c. 15. c. 1287.one Rindflaiſch an Husbandman in Germany, openly preached to the people; That he was ſent from heaven, and ſpecially choſen by God to root out the Jews in all places: And proclaimed, who ever will have the Chriſtian Commonwealth to be ſafe, let him follow me; Whereupon the people flocking to him in great multitudes, and chuſing him for their Captain, ſought out the Jews in Wirtzburge, Nurinburgh, Rotenburgh, Bambergh, O…enberge, and all other Towns and Villages in Franconia and Bavaria, and ſlew many of them, the greateſt part of them in theſe places, both men and women obſtinately ſetting their own houſes on fire, and burning both them…elves, wives, children, with their houſes, houſholdſtu…f and goods together, that they might not fall into the Chriſtians hands. In p. 87the year (r)(r)M. Alberti Argentini Chro. & de rebus geſtis Bertoldi, p. 147, 148.149.177, 178. He… manus Schedel. Aetas 6. f. 258. See Abbas Ufpergenſis Paraleip. p. 346. Seb. Munſteri Coſmogr. l. 3. c. 139. p. 563.707. Faſciculus Temporum.1349. There being a great plague and mortality in Germany, the Jews were generally accuſed for the chief Authors or increaſers thereof, by poyſoning all the Wells and Fountains, to deſtroy all the Chriſtians, and corrupting likewiſe ſome baptized Jews, and other Chriſtians with money and charms ſo far, that they could willingly have deſtroyed and ſlain all their fellow Chriſtians, which ſome of them confeſſed upon their examinations. Hereupon the Common people in great rage and fury (againſt their Magiſtrates and Biſhops wills and commands, who neither could nor durſt withſtand their violence) fell upon all the Jews in Bern, Friburgh, A…gentine, Wormes, Oppenheim, Francfort, Mentz, Spires, and other places, ſlew, and brained many of them, burned other of them, hanged up many others upon Gibbets, pillaging, burning, breaking and pulling down their Houſes, the Jews themſelves in many of theſe places burning both themſelves, wives, children, goods, to avoid the enraged peoples fury; very few of them eſcaping, who were baptized to preſerve their lives: The Inhabitants of Spire, fearing the air would be infected with the ſtink of the ſlaughtered Jews dead corps lying in the ſtreets, although moſt of them were burnt, put them into empty Caskes, and threw them into the Rhine. All ſuch who protected any of the Jews for money (as ſome did) were ſo murmured againſt, and hated by the people, that they were in great danger of their lives, which ſome of them loſt, as Albertus Argentinenſis records at large: Which ſad calamity came upon them by Gods juſt judgement, many of them being found guilty of all ſorts of wickedneſſes, poyſonings, the murder of many Children, forging of Letters, counterfeiting and corrupting of moneys, thefts, deceipts, and other villanies, whereby they offended the Divine Majeſty. To theſe I might add many other ſuch tumults, uproars, occaſioned by, and maſſacres, burnings and deſtructions of them for their villanies in France, Spain, Germany, and other parts, recorded p. 88in Hermannus Schedel. Chron. f. 243, 248, 258, 271, 272. and Genebrardi Chronog. p. 461, 627, 660, 618, 688, 824, 830. Abraham Bzou…us, Annal. Eccl. Tom. 15. Anno 1239. n. 9. Anno 1391. n. 8. Anno 1464. n. 44. An. 1491 n. 6.7. Cromerus de Rebus Polonor. l. 25. with thoſe forementonioned in England, and that of **Munſteri … Coſm. l. 3. c. 306 p. 707.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?