Demurrer to the Jews 2, Floating text

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p. 3eeRo. Hoved. Annal. pars poſterior p. 604. Spelmanici Concil. 623. Lombard. A… chaiori.De Judaeis in Regno conſtitutis.

SCiendum est quo que , quod omnes Judaei, ubicun que in Regno ſunt, ſub tutela & defenſione Domim Regis ſunt; nec quilibet eorum alicui diviti ſe poteſt ſubdere, ſine Regis licentia. Judaei, & omnia ſua Regis ſunt. Quod ſi quiſpiam detinuerit eis pecuniam ſuam, perquirat Rex tanquam ſuum proprium: (or detmuerit eos, vel pecuniam corum perquirat Rex, ſi vult, tanquam ſuum proprium, (as Sir Henry Spelman renders it.)

This Law or Declaration (being the firſt record making mention of their being, and condition in England:) proves, That as all the Jews when they came firſt into England, were under the Kings protection and patronage where ever they reſided: that they were under him only as his meer Vaſſals, their perſons and goods being his alone; & that they could diſpoſe of neither of them without his Licenſe: Into which ſlaviſh condition they doubtleſſe then put themſelves, (being baniſhed out of other Nations for their Villanies) only to avoid the fury of the common people, to whom they were moſt deteſtable, who elſe would have quickly murdered, or ſton'd them to death, and ſtript them of all their wealth; as the ſequell will declare.

The next Paſſage in Hiſtorians concerning the Jews being and condition in England, is that of ffDe Geſtis Regum, l. 4. p. 122.William of Malmsbury in William Rufus his reign. The Jews (writes he) in his time gave a teſtimony of their inſolency: Once at Rhoan, endeavouring by gifts to perſwade and revoke p. 4certain men to Judaiſm, who had deſerted their error: Another time at London, being animated to enter into a combate (or diſpute) against our Biſhops, becauſe the King (in merriment, as I believe) had ſaid, That if they ſhould▪ overcome the Chriſtians, and confute them by open arguments, he would then revolt to them, and become one of their Sect; Whereupon it was managed with great fear of the Biſhops and Clergy, and with pious ſolicitude of ſuch who were afraid of the Chriſtian Faiths miſcarriage. And from this combate the Jews only brought away nothing beſides confuſion; although they would many times boaſt, that they were overcome not by argument, but by a faction. ggChronica… …ars 2. Tit. 16. c. 5. f. 167.Antoninus relating the ſtory in the ſame words, addes only this, That the Jews comming to this King on a certain Solemnity, and offering him gifts; (after their removal from Rhoan to London) he thereupon animated them to a conflict againſt the Chriſtians, ſwearing by St. Lukes face, that if they overcame them, he would revolt to their Sect: (as if he ſpake it in good earneſt) with whom the hhCentur. xi. …. 14. col. 687.Magdeburge Centuries accord.

By which we may obſerve, That the Jews were no ſooner tranſported and ſetled in Rhoan and London, but they preſently began to grow very inſolent againſt the Chriſtians; 1. Endeavouring to pervert ſome of them by monies to Judaiſm. 2ly, Attempting to corrupt the King himſelf, by gifts, to ſide with them againſt the Biſhops and Clergy, and to become one of their Sect. 3ly, By entring into open Diſputations with the Biſhops and Clergy againſt the Chriſtian Faith, to the great fear of the Profeſſors, and hazard of the Chriſtian Religion. 4ly, By boaſting frequently when they were overcome, That it was only by power and faction, not truth or diſputation. And will not this be their very practiſe now, if re-admitted, to the hazard of our Chriſtian Religion, and ſeduction of many ſimple, unſtable ſouls, in this unſetled, apoſtatizing age? when not only the ignorant People, but many great Profeſſors, turn Atheiſts, Hereticks, Seekers, Apoſtates, Blaſphemers, Ranters, Quakers, p. 5Antiſcripturiſts, and what not, but real Chriſtians?

This Hiſtory of William Rufus, cauſing a diſputation between the Chriſtians and the Jews, is related by Raphael Holinſhed in his Chronicle; Vol. 3. p. 27. who likewiſe records of him, That he being at Rhoan on a time, there came to him diverſe Jews, who inhabited that City, complaining to him, that divers of that Nation had renounced their Jewiſh Religion, and were become Chriſtians: wherefore they beſought him, that for a certain ſumme of money which they offered to give, it might pleaſe him to conſtrain them to abjure Chriſtianity, and turn to the Jewiſh Law again. He was content to ſatisfie their deſires, and ſo receiving the money, called them before him; and what with threats, and putting them otherwiſe in fear, he compelled divers of them to forſake Christ, and to turn to their old errors. Hereupon, the Father of one Stephen a Jew, converted to the Chriſtian Faith, being ſore troubled for that his Son was turned a Chriſtian, and hearing what the King had done in ſuch like matters, preſented to him 60 Marks of Silver, conditionally, That he ſhould enforce his Son to return to his Jewiſh Religion; whereupon the young man was brought before the King, unto whom he ſaid, Sirra, thy Father here complaineth, that without his licenſe thou art become a Chriſtian: If this be true, I command thee to return again to the Religion of thy Nation, without any more adoe. To whom the Young man anſwered, Your Grace (as I gueſs) doth but jeſt. Wherewith the King being moved, ſaid, VVhat? thou dounghil knave, ſhould I jeſt with thee; Get thee hence quickly, and fulfill my commandement, or by St. Lukes face, I ſhall cauſe thine eyes to be plucked out of thine head. The Young man nothing abaſhed thereat, with a conſtant voice anſwered, Truly I will not do it; but know for certain, that if you were a good Chriſtian, you would never have uttered any ſuch words; for it is the part of a Chriſtian, to reduce them again to Chriſt, which are departed from him, and not to ſeparate them from p. 6him, which are joyned to him by Faith. The King herewith confounded, commanded the Jew to avant and get him out of his ſight: But his Father perceiving, that the King could not perſwade his Son to forſake the Chriſtian Faith, required to have his money again. To whom the King ſaid, He had done ſo much as he promiſed to doe; that was, to perſwade him ſo far as he might. At length, when he would have had the King to have dealt further in the matter; the King (to ſtop his mouth) tendred back to him the one half of his money, and received the other to himſelf. All which increaſed the ſuspition men had of his Infidelity.

By this Hiſtory we may perceive what a prevailing Engin the Jews money is, both to ſcrue them into Chriſtian Kingdoms, though the moſt bitter, inveterate, profeſſed Enemies of Chriſt himſelf, Chriſtians, and Chriſtianity; and how their money can induce even Chriſtian Princes to perpetrate moſt unchriſtian, and antichriſtian actions; and enforce by threats and violence, even converted Chriſtian Jews, to renounce their Chriſtianity, and apoſtatiſe to their former Jewiſh Errors which they had quite renounced. And do not they ſtill work even by the ſelf-ſame Money-Engin? preferred by too many Chriſtians, even before Chriſt himſelf, and Chriſtianity?

In the year of our Lord, 1145. during the reign of King Stephen, the Jews grew ſo preſumptuous in England, that they crucified a child called VVilliam, in the City of Norwich, in deriſion of Christian Religion, as Matthew VVeſtminſter, Flores Hiſtoriarum, Ann. 1145. p. 39. Chronicon Johannis Bromton; Col. 1048. Hygden in his Polychronicon; Antoninus: Centuriae Magdeburgenſes: Cent. 12. c. 14. Mr. John Fox in his Acts and Monuments, 1640. Vol. 1. p. 302. Richard Grafton in his Chronicle, p. 46. Raphael Holinſhed in his Chronicle, Vol. 3. p. 56. and others joyntly atteſt. Not long after this, Anno 1160. (the 6. year of Henry the II.) p. 7they cracifyed another child at Glouceſter, (in contempt of Chriſt and his Paſſion) as John Bromtons Chronicon. col. 1050. Henry de Knyghton, de Eventibus Angliae, l. 2. col. 2394 Polychronicon: Fox Acts and Monuments, Vol. 1. p. 302. Grafton, in his Chronicle, p. 46. and others record. And in the ſame Kings reign, Anno 1181. upon the ſame account, the Jews on the Feast of Eaſter martyred and crucified another child at St. Edmonds-bury, called Robert; who was honourably interred ſoon after in the Church of St. Edmunds, and grew famous by miracles there wrought; as Gervaſius Dorobernenſis, in his Chronica, col. 1458. relates.

What puniſhments were then inflicted on them for theſe Murders, and Inſolencies, I find not recorded; perchance they purchaſed their Peace with monies: For I iiGervaſius Dorobern: Chro. col. 1403.read, That in the year 1168. King Henry the 2. wanting monies, baniſhed the wealthieſt of the Jews out of England, and fined the reſt of them in 5000 Marks; moſt likely for theſe their Miſdemeanors.

The kkChronicon Johann. Bromton, col. 1129. Polydor Virgil l. 13. Holinſheds Chronicle, Vol. 3: p. 101. Graftons Chro: p. 79. Cent. Magdeburg. 12 c. 15. col. 1759.Jews, though there were a great multitude of them in England, in every quarter of the Realm, had only one Church-yard alotted them, and that at London; in which they were enforced to bury all-their dead corps whereſoever they died; which being a great trouble and annoyance to them, thereupon in the year 1178. they petitioned King Henry the 2. (being at Stanſtede) for a Licenſe to have Church-yards without the Cities wherein they inhabited, in convenient places where they could purchaſe them, wherein to bury their dead; which he then granted to them.

It ſeems the Jews were then ſo odious to the whole Nation, that they would not permit them to bury their very dead corps in any Engliſh ſoyl, for fear of polluting it, nor near any Chriſtians bodies, without the Kings ſpecial Licenſe.

p. 8llGuliel. Nubrigenſ. Hiſt. l. 4. c. 1. 7…8. &c. Matthew weſt. Matth. Paris, Rog. Hoveden, Hygden, Fabian, Holinſhed, Grafton, Slow, Speed, Fox, Daniel, in the life of Rich. 1. Chronicon Johannis Bromton, col. 1152, 1160. 1171. Radulphus de Di…eto Ymagines hiſtoria…ū, 647. 651. Henricus de Knyghton, de Eventibus Angliae, l. 2. …. 13. col. 2401.King Richard the first being to be crowned King at London, in the year of our Lord, 1189. the chiefeſt of the Jews flocked together from all parts to his Coronation, reſolving to purchaſe the favour of the New King with moſt ample gifts, and to get their former priviledges confirmed, which they feared they ſhould loſe. But they being ſuſpected of Sorcery and Magick, the King by a publick Proclamation prohibited all Jews from entring the Church while she was crowning, or his Palace, whiles he was therein feaſting. Notwithſtanding ſome of the principal Jews ſecretly got into the Church and Palace; who being diſcovered one after another were well beaten, and thruſt out of the Church and Court by the Kings Officers and Chriſtians. Upon which the common people then flocking in greatmultitudes to the Kings Coronation, fell upon the Jews ſtanding in great multitudes at the Pallace gate, firſt beating them with their fiſts, and then taking up clubs and ſtones ſlew ſome of them, and left the others half dead: whereupon one of them called Benedict of Yorke; being ſo beaten and wounded, that he deſpaired of life, and extraordinarily terrified with the fear of death, received Baptiſm from William Prior of St. Maries of Yorke, and thereby eſcaped the peril of death, and hands of the perſecutors. In the mean while there was a great rumor ſpred throughout the City of London upon this occaſion, That the King deſired, and had commanded, that all the Jews ſhould be baniſhed and deſtroyed; Whereupon an infinite number of People, as well out of the City, as moſt Counties of England then coming to the Coronation, inflamed with the deſire of booty, betaking themſelves to their arms, fell pell-mell upon the Jews, and ſlew and pillaged them both in the ſtreets and in their houſes; and thoſe who defended themſelves for a time in ſuch ſtrong houſes which they could not enter, were there ſoon after burnt and conſumed, together with their houſes, by the furious multitude, who put fire to their houſes, and burnt down p. 9moſt of them, Synagogae dat… dedec…ri, and likewiſe defaced their Synagogues, as Radulphus de Diceto records. The King being informed hereof whiles he was feaſting with his Nobles, thereupon ſent Ranulphus de Glanvd then chief Juſtice of the Realm, a potent and prudent man, together with other great Noblemen, to perſwade and reſtrain theſe bold people. But all in vain, for in ſo great a multitude, none would hear their voices, nor reverence their perſons; but rather murmuring againſt them, exhorted them ſpeedily to return: whereupon they adviſedly declining their unbridled rage, the fury of theſe Plunderers ceaſed not till the next day. Ac licet immenſit as, tantae rabiei ſi diſſimulata est inulta tranſiret, primordia regiae majeſtatis denigraret plurimum; propter re…um tamen infinitam multitudinem diſſimulari oportuit quod vindicari non potuit; writes Henry de Knyghton. Yet the very next day the King ſending his Officers throughout the City, commanded ſome of the ſaid malefactors to be apprehended, and brought before him, of which three were hanged by the judgement of his Court: one, becauſe he had ſtollen the goods of a certain Chriſtian: and two becauſe they had made a fire in the City, whereby the houſes of Chriſtians were burned. After which the King ſent for the man, who of a Jew was made a Chriſtian, and demanded of him, in the preſence of thoſe who had ſeen him baptized, Whether he were made a Christian? Who anſwered, That he was not, but that he permitted the Chriſtians to do to him what they would, that he might eſcape death. Then the King demanded of the Archbiſhop, in the preſence of many Archbiſhops and Biſhops, VVhat was to be done concerning him? Who anſwering very indiſcreetly, ſaid: If he will not be a man (or ſervant) of God, let him be a man (or ſervant) of the Devil; And ſo he returned to the Judaical Law. In the mean time the King ſent his Writs throughout all the Counties of England, prohibiting, That none ſhould doe any harm to the Jews, but that they ſhould enjoy his peace. But before that Edict p. 10was …ubliſ…e, the Jews which were in the Towne of D…nſtaple (to preſerve their lives from the peoples fury) being con…erted to the Chriſtian Faith were baptized, b…roathing their Wi…es after the manner of Chriſtians; which was likewiſe done through many Cities of England. And although the King by his Proclamation had decreed Peace to the Jews, yet notwithſtan…ing the fury againſt the Jews kindled at London, not verily out of a zeal of Faith, but of Gain, vehemently raged in other places of the Land. For a certain Jew at Lynne happening to be made a Chriſtian; thereupon the Jews perſecuting him, as a prevaricator of the Law, taking an opportunity, aſſaulted him with arms as he paſſed through the city; whereupon he took ſanctuary in the Church; yet notwithſtanding he raging Jews would not reſt quiet …or this, but with a continued fury preſently began to aſſault the ſaid Church with great violence preſently hereupon there aroſe a great clamor; and the Chriſtians aſſiſtance was deſired with loud out-cries. This clamor and fame incenſed the Chriſtian people, and young men who were ſtrangers, of which a great number at that time reſorted thither, by reaſon of traffick; who running to the Church armed, valiantly aſſaulted the proud Jews, who being unable to reſiſt the aſſault of the Chriſtians, preſently betook themſelves to flight. After which, the Chriſtians aſſaulting and taking their houſes, ſpoyled, and then burnt them with fire. Hereupon the youngmen who were ſtrangers, laden with prey, departed with it ſpeedily to their ſhips, leſt they ſhould be queſtioned, and perchance inforced to reſtore their booty, by the Kings Officers. But the inhabitants of the place, when they were queſtioned for this by the Kings Officers, tranſlated this fact to the ſtrangers, who were then departed from thence; although themſelves were not altogether innocent, taking up arms againſt the Jews upon the outcry, but yet doing nothing againſt the Jews, for fear of the Kings diſpleaſure,

p. 11Not long after, in Lent there aroſe a new ſtorm againſt the Jews at Stanford; for there being ſolemn Fairs there held in Lent, the young men and Souldiers who had taken upon them the ſign of the Croſſe, and were then ready to go to Jeruſalem with the King, aſſembling together there out of divers Counties, diſdaining that the Jews, being the enemies of the Croſſe of Chriſt, poſſeſſed ſuch great ſtore of goods and wealth, when as they had not ſufficient to defray the neceſſary expences of ſo great a journey; and imagining that they ſhould do God good ſervice, if they aſſaulted theſe his enemies; boldly ruſhed upon them, no man oppoſing himſelf againſt ſo great attempts; whereupon divers of the Jews were ſlain, & the reſt being received into the Caſtle, hardly eſcaped with their lives, their goods being all plundered, and the plunderers departing freely away with their booty, none of them being ſo much as queſtioned, or puniſhed by the Kings diſcipline. The Citizens of Lincoln hearing what was done to the Jews of Stanford, taking occaſion, and being animated by the examples of others, were willing to do ſomething againſt them: and being aſſembled together againſt the Jews inhabiting together with them, became enraged againſt them. But theſe Jews being made more wary by the ſlaughters and damages of others, ſome few of them ſuffering harm and damages, the reſt fled timely with their monies into the Royal Fort, and there ſecured themſelves. In all other places whereſoever the Jews were found, they were pillaged and ſlain by the hands of the Pilgrims, who haſtning through England towards Jeruſalem, decreed to riſe up firſt againſt the Jews, before they invaded the Saracens. Hereupon all the Jews who were found in their own houſes at Norwich were ſlain on the 8. of February, ſome few of them only eſcaping to the Caſtle. At the ſame time, The Nobles and Gentry of Yorkeſhire, nothing fearing the Kings Proclamation, the wicked Jews having by Uſury reduced thē to extream poverty, joyning with them ſome holy ſoldiers, p. 12brake up th… Houſes of the chief Jews, equall to the Kings Palace, ſle… their families, ſpoiled their goods, and burnt their ho…s in the night, and then retired themſelves to their h…mes in the dark. After which, the promiſcuous multitud… making an aſſault upon the Jews, ſlew them without di…ction of ſex or age; except ſome few who would give up their names to Chriſt in baptiſm to ſave their lives. On the 18 day of April, being Palm-Sunday, the reſt of the Jews in the City of Yorke, (being 500 men and women, beſides their children) fearing the violence of the Chriſtians, ſhut up themſelves within the Caſtle of Yorke by the will and conſent of the Guardian thereof, and of the Sheriff; who being thus received into the Caſtle for their defence by the Guardian and Sheriff, would not afterwards deliver it up unto them again. Whereupon the Sheriff and keeper of the Caſtle being much offended with them, aſſembled the Souldiers of the County, and men of the City, that they might free the Caſtle from thoſe Jews, exhorting them to do their utmoſt endeavours to effect it: who when they had aſſaulted the Caſtle day and night, the Jews offered a great ſumme of money to ſave their lives; but all in vain, the people being ſo incenſed againſt them that they would not accept it: whereupon a certain Jew skilfull in their Law, ſtood up, and ſaid. Men of Iſrael hearken to my counſel; It is better for us to die for our Law, then to fall into the hands of the enemies of our Law; and our very Law commands the ſame thing. Upon which all the Jews, as well men as women, conſented to his counſel, and every Father of a Family going with a ſharp razor, firſt of all cut the throats of his own wife and children, and then of his family, caſting the dead corps of thoſe whom they had thus ſacrificed to Devils, over the Caſtle walls upon the Chriſtian people. After which, burning their rich cloathes, an / caſting their golden Veſſels and Jewels into Privies, that the Chriſtians might not be inriched by them, theſe murderers ſhutting up themſelves and the p. 13reſt they had killed in the Kings houſe, ſet it on fire, and ſo burnt both themſelves and it. After which the Citizens of Yorke, and the Souldiers of the County burnning all the Jews houſes together, ſpoyled their goods, ſeized their poſſeſſions to themſelves, and burn'd all the charters of their debts. The King being informed hereof, and much incenſed, both for the contempt of his Royal Proclamation and Authority, and dammage to his Exchequer, to which all the Goods and Debts of the Jews, being Uſurers belonged, commanded his Chancellor to inflict due puniſhment upon the authors of this Sedition. Whereupon, after Eaſter, the Biſhop of Ely the Kings Chancellor gathering a great Army together, came to Yorke, to apprehend thoſe as malefactors who had deſtroyed the Jews of the City: And underſtanding that this was done by the command of the Sheriff and Governour of the caſtle, he put them both from their Offices; and took ſureties from the Citizens of the City, for to keep the Peace of the King and Kingdom, and to ſtand to the Law in the Kings court concerning the death of the Jews: and commanded the Souldiers of the County who were at the deſtruction of the Jews, to be apprehended; but the chief of them flying into Scotland, eſcaped, not one of them all being put to death for this great maſſacre and Riot.

Henry de Knighton, De Eventibus Angliae, l. 2. c. 13. gives this cenſure of theſe ſlaughters and popular tumults againſt the Jews. The Zeal of the Christians conſpired againſt the Jews in England, but in truth not ſincerely, that is, for the cauſe of faith; but either out of emulation and envy becauſe of their felicity, or out of gaping after their goods: The Juſtice truly of God not at all approving ſuch things, but decently ordering them, that by this means he might puniſh the inſolency of a perfidious Nation. He likewiſe addes; That one John, a moſt bold Chriſtian, flying from Stanford with many ſpoyls of the Jews to Northampton, was there ſecretly ſlain by his Hoſt, to get his money, and p. 14thrown without the city in the night, the murderer flying therupon. After which, through the dreams of old women, & falacious ſigns, the ſimple people atributing to him the merits of a martyr, honoured his Sepulchre with ſolemn vigils, and gifts. This was derided by wife men, yet it was acceptable to the Clerks there living, by reaſon of the gains. Which the Biſhop hearing of, preſently unſaincted him, and prophaned the Monuments of this falſe martyr, continued by the ſtudy of ſimple and covetous perſons. I wiſh no ſuch plunderers as this, might be ſaincted and adored in our age, as too many of them are, even before their deaths, who will be un-ſaincted after them, as well as this bold plunderer of the Jews.

Mr. Fox in his Acts and Monuments, Vol. 1. p. 305. relating the ſtory of the maſſacres of the Jews this year out of the Chronicle of VVeſtminſter, ſaith: That there were no leſs than a thouſand five hundred of the Jews deſtroyed at that time in York alone, (beſide thoſe ſlaughtered in other places) ſo that this year, which the Jews took to be their Jubile, was to them a year of confuſion. Neither was this plague of theirs undeſerved for every year commonly their cuſtom was, to get ſome Chriſtian mans child from the Parents, and on Good-Friday to crucifie him, in deſpite of our Religion.

King Richard the firſt, after his return out of the Holy Land in the year, 1194. appointed Juſtices, Laws and Orders, for preventing the frauds, and regulating the contracts of the Jews, both between themſelves, and between Chriſtians and them, thus recorded at large by mmAnnalium pars poſterior, p. 745. Chron. Johan. Bromton, col. 1258. Holinſhed Vol. 3. p. 155.Roger de Hoveden, and briefly touched only by ſome others.

All the Debts, Pawns, Morgages, Lands, Houſes, Rents and Poſſeſſions of the Jews, ſhall be regiſtred. The Jew who ſhall conceal any of theſe, ſhall forfeit to the King his body, and the concealment, and likewiſe all his poſſeſſions and chattels; neither ſhall it be lawfull to the Jew ever to recover the concealment. p. 15Likewiſe 6 or 7 places ſhall be provided, in which they ſhall make all their contracts, and there ſhall be appointed two Lawyers that are Chriſtians, and two Lawyers who are Jews, and two egal Regiſters; and before them, and the Clorks of William of the Church of St. Maries, and William of Chimilli, ſhall their Contracts be made: and Charters ſhall be made of their contracts by way of Indenture. And one part of the Indenture ſhall remain with the Jew, ſealed with his ſeal to whom the money is lent; and the other part ſhall remain in the common cheſt; wherein there ſhall be 3 locks and keys, whereof the 2 Christians ſhall keep one key, and the 2 Jews another, and the Clerks of William of St. Maries Church, and William of Chimilli, ſhall keep the third. And moreover, there ſhall be three ſeals to it; and thoſe who keep the ſeals, ſhall put the ſeals thereto. Moreover the Clorks of the ſaid William and William ſhall keep a roll of the transcripts of all the Charters; and as the Charters ſhall be altered, ſo let the roll be likewiſe: For every Charter there ſhall be 3 pence paid, one moity thereof by the Jew, and the other moity by him to whom the money is lent; whereof the 2 writers ſhall have 2 pence, and the keeper of the roll the third. And from henceforth no contract ſhall he made with, nor payment made to the Jews, nor any alteration made of the Charters, but before the ſaid perſons, or the greater part of thē, if all of them cannot be preſent. And the aforeſaid 2 Christians ſhall have one roll of the Debts or receites of the payments which from henceforth are to be made to the Jews, and the 2 Jews one, and the keeper of the roll one. Moreover, every Jew ſhall ſwear upon his Roll that all his debts and pawns, and rents, and all his goods and poſſeſſions he ſhall cauſe to be enrolled, and that he ſhall conceal nothing, as is aforeſaid: And if he ſhall know that any one ſhall conceal any thing, he ſhall ſecretly reveal it to the Iuſtices ſent unto them; and that they ſhall detect and ſhew unto them, all Falſifiers or forgers of Charters, and clippers of moneys, where or when they ſhall know them, and likewiſe all falſe charters.

p. 16By theſe ſtrict politick Laws, the King and his Officers knew the particular wealth, monies, goods, debts, and real and perſonal Eſtates of every Jew, and in whoſe hands they were, and ſo could ſeize and command them at their pleaſure, upon any real or pretended miſdemeanors, or complaints againſt them.

nnMat. Weſt. A…. 1210. Mat. Paris, Hiſt. Angliae. Londini 1640 p. 229. Holinſhed. Vol. 3. p. 174. John Stow, p. 168. Daniel p. 115.King John, in the year of our Lord 1210. commanded all the Jews of both ſexes throughout England to be apprehended and impriſoned; and to be afflicted with moſt grievous torments, that ſo they might ſatisfie the Kings pleaſure with their mony. Some of them being grievouſly tortured, gave all things which they had, and promiſed more, that they might by this means eſcape ſo many kinds of torments. Amongſt whom one Jew at Bristol, puniſhed with various torments, when as he would neither redeem himſelf, nor ſubmit to any fine, the King commanded his tormentors, that they ſhould every day pull out one of his grinding teeth, untill he ſhould pay to the King Ten thouſand marks of ſilver. And when at laſt for 7 dayes ſpace they had pulled out 7 of his teeth, with intollerable torment, and now on the 8 day the Tormentors had begun the like work again; this Jew, an over-ſlow provider for his profit, gave them the aforeſaid money, that he might ſave the 8 tooth to himſelf, the other 7 being pulled out: who, with much more wiſdom, and leſs pain, might have done ſo before, and have ſaved his 7 teeth, having but 8 in all.

ooMat. Paris Hiſt. Ang. p. 314, 315. Antiq. Eccleſ. Brit. p. 152. Bracton l. 3. c. 9.In the year 1222. in a Council at Canterbury under Archbiſhop Stephen, a certain Apoſtate Jew, made of a Chriſtian a Deacon, and afterwards apoſtatizing, was there judicially puniſht, whom Falco preſently apprehending, cauſed to be hanged, as Matthew Paris writes; but Bracton and others record, that he was burned to aſhes.

ppMat. Paris hiſt. Ang. p. 365 Mat. Westminſter, p. 128. Holinſhed, p. 221.King Henry the 3▪ Anno 1230. wanting moneys, conſtrained the Jews, whether they would or would not, to give him the third part of all their movable p. 17goods, and that with all expedition.

qqJo. Stows Chronicle, p. 182.The Jews in the year of our Lord 1231. builded a Synagogue very curiouſly, but the Chriſtians obtained of the King, that it ſhould be dedicated to our bleſſed Lady, and was ſince by the ſame King Henry, granted to the Brethren of St. Anthony of Vienna, and called St. Anthonies Hospitall.

rrMat. Paris Hiſt. Angl. p. 393. Stow, p. 183. Speed, p. 519.In the year of our Lord, 1233. King Henry the 3. at his proper coſts built in London, not farr from the old Temple, a decent Houſe and Church, ſufficient for a Covent, with other convenient edifices thereto belonging, called **Near the Rolls.The houſe of the Converts: To which houſe the converted Jews flying, leaving the blindneſſe of Judaiſm, under a certain honeſt rule of living, might have a certain habitation, a ſafe refuge, and a ſufficient livelihood during their whole liues, without ſervile labour, and the gain of Uſury. Whereupon it came to paſſe, that in a ſhort time there was gathered together to that place, a great number of Converts, who were there baptized and inſtructed in the Chriſtian Faith, and lived laudably, being governed by a skillfull Rector, ſpecially appointed for that purpoſe.

ſſMat. Paris Hiſt. Angl. p. 409. Mat. Weſtm. p. 136. Holinſhed Vol. 3. p. 219. Stow p. 183. Fox Acts & Mon. Vol. 1. p. 423. Speed p. 521. Polychronicon, l. 7. c. 35. Fabian part 7. p. 46. Grafton p. 122. Mat. Park. An…iq. …. Eccl. Bri. p. 178King Henry in the year 1235. keeping his Court and the Nativity at VVestminster with many of his Biſhops and Nobles, there were brought before him upon the complaint of John Toly, 7 Jews, who had circumciſed a certain child in Norwich, whom they had ſtollen away from his parents, and kept for a years ſpace from the ſight of Chriſtians, intending to crucifie him on the feaſt of Eaſter. But being convicted for this fact, they confeſſed the truth of the thing in the Kings preſence; and ſo being at the Kings pleaſure, both for their life and members, were detained in priſon for this fact, and ſome of them drawn and hanged.

ttMat. Paris p. 532.In the year of our Lord, 1240. the Jews circumciſed a Chriſtian child at Norwich, and being circumciſed, they called him Jurninus: but reſerved him to be crucified, p. 18in contumely of Jeſus Chriſt crucified. But the Father of the child, from whom the Jews had ſtollen him, diligently ſeeking after his Sonne, at the laſt found him ſhut up in the cuſtody of the Jews: and with loud clamours declared, that his Sonne, whom he thought to have been loſt, was wickedly kept up in the chamber of a certain Jew. Which great premeditated wickedneſſe coming to the knowledge of the Biſhop, William Rele, a prudent and circumſpect man, and of other great men, leſt through the ſlothfulneſſe of the Chriſtians ſo great an injury of Chriſt ſhould be paſſed by unpuniſhed, all the Jews of the City were apprehended: and when as they would have defended themſelves by Regal authority; the Biſhop ſaid, Theſe things belong to the Church, and are not to be determined in the Kings Court, ſeeing the Queſtion to be diſcuſſed, is concerning Circumciſion, and the breach of faith. Whereupon 4 of the Jews being convicted of the aforeſaid wickedneſſe, were firſt dragged about at the tails of Horſes, and at laſt hanged on the Gallows, lamentably breathing forth the reliques of life.

The very next year the Jews in Forraign parts, eſpecially in Germany, believing, that the Tartars were of their own Nation, entred into a ſecret League with them, to deſtroy the Chriſtians, and ſubdue the whole world to themſelves; to which end they provided many, Hogſheads filled with arms to be tranſported to the Tartars; pretending to the Chriſtian Princes, that they were Veſſels filled only with poyſoned Wines, wherewith they intended to poyſon and deſtroy the Tartars, who would drink no wines, but ſuch as were made by the Jews. But this their Treachery being detected by the Cuſtomers in Germany; who found theſe pretended Veſſels of Wine, to be fraught with arms for the Tartars wherewith to deſtroy the Chriſtians; thereupon the Jews were delivered to Tormentors, to be perpetually impriſoned, or ſlain with their own ſwords, as Matthew Paris more at large relates. Anno 1241. p. 564.

p. 19uuMat. Paris, p. 605.King Henry, Anno 1243. exacted a great ranſom from the moſt miſerable Jews, both in gold and ſilver: ſo that, beſides what he exacted from others, he extorted from one Jew, Aaron of Yorke, 4 marks of gold, and 4000 marks of ſilver: the King himſelf receiving the gold with his own hand from every Jew, man or woman, being made of a King, a new receiver of Cuſtome; but the ſilver was received by others for the King.

xxMat. Paris, p. 644.Anno 1244. in Auguſt, the corps of a little male child was found buried in the City of London, in whoſe thighs and arms, and under his paps, there was a regular inſcription in Hebrew Letters. To which ſpectacle when as many reſorted, admiring at it, and not knowing how to read the letters, knowing that the Letters were Hebrew, they called thither converted Jews, who inhabited the Houſe which the King had founded in London, that they as they loved their life or members, for the honour, love, and fear of their Lord the King, without figment of falſhood, might declare that writing. For the Kings Bayliffs and Conſervators of the Peace were preſent. They likewiſe believed, neither without cauſe, that the Jews had either crucified that little child in obloquy and contumely of Chriſt (which was related frequently to have happened) or had afflicted him with ſundry torments to crucify him, and when he had given up the ghoſt, they had now caſt him there, as unworthy the Croſſe. Moreover, there appeared in his body blew marks, and rents of rodds, and manifeſt ſigns and footſteps of ſome other torment. And when as thoſe Converts were brought, to read thoſe things that were inſcribed, and ſtudied that they might perfectly read them, they found the Letters deformed, and now not legible, being many ways diſordered, and toſſed up and down, by reaſon of the extenſion and contraction of the skin and fleſh. But they found the name of the Father and Mother of the little child, ſuppreſſing their ſurnames, and that the child was ſold to the Jews; but to whom, or to p. 20what end, they could not find. In the mean time, certain of the London Jews took a ſecret and ſudden flight, never to return again, who by this very thing rendered themſelves ſuſpected. And ſome aſſirmed that the Lord had wrought miracles for the child. And becauſe it was found, that the Jews at other times had perpetrated ſuch wickedneſſe, and the holy bodies crucified had been ſolemnly received in the Church, and likewiſe to have ſhined brightly with miracles, although the prints of the 5 wounds appeared not in the hands and feet, and ſide of the ſaid corps, yet the Canons of St. Paul took it violently away, and ſolemnly buried it in their Church, not far from the great Altar.

yyMat. Paris p. 641.The ſame year (1244.) The Barons in Parliament ordered, That there ſhould be one Juſtice at the leaſt appointed for the Jews, by the nomination of the Parliament.

zzMat. Paris p. 778, 779. 785. Speed. p. 529.In the year of our Lord; 1250. King Henry the 3d. burning with a covetous deſire, commanded mony to be extorted from the Jews without all mercy, ſo as they might ſeem to be altogether and irrecoverably impoveriſhed; exacting what monies ſoever they had in their cheſts. Notwithſtanding, although they were miſerable, yet they were pittied by none, becauſe they were often proved and convicted to have been counterfeiters as well of monies as of ſeals. And to paſſe by the monies of others, we ſhall only mention one, that their malice may the more appear to many. There was a certain rich Jew, having his abode and houſe at Berkamſtede and Wallingford, Abraham in name, not in faith, who was very dear to Earl Richard, who had a very beautifull wife, and faithfull to him, named Flora. This Jew that he might accumulate more diſgrace to Chriſt, cauſed the Image of the Virgin Many, decently carved and painted, as the manner is, holding her Sonne in her boſom. This Image the Jew placed in his houſe of Office▪ and which is a great ſhame and ignomy to expreſſe, blaſpheming p. 21the Image it ſelf, as if it had been the very Virgin her ſelf, threw his moſt filthy, and not to be named excrements upon her, days and nights, and commanded his wife to do the like. Which when his wife ſaw, after ſome days, ſhe grieved at it by reaſon of the Sex, and paſſing by ſecretly, wiped off the filth from the face of the Image moſt filthily defiled. Which when the Jew her husband had fully found out, he therefore privily and impiouſly ſtrangled the woman her ſelf, though his wife. But when theſe wicked deeds were diſcovered, and made apparent, and proved by his conviction, although other cauſes of death were not wanting, he was thruſt into the moſt loathſom Caſtle of the Tower of London. Whence to get his freedom, he moſt certainly promiſed, That he would prove all the Jews of England, to have been moſt wicked Traitors. And when as he was greatly accuſed almoſt by all the Jews of England, and they endeavoured to put him to dea…h, Earl Richard interceded for him. Whereupon the Jews grievouſly accuſing him both of the clipping of money, and other wickedneſſes, offred Earl Richard a thouſand marks, if he would not protect him; which notwithſtanding the Earl refuſed, becauſe he was called his Jew. This Jew Abraham therefore gave the King 700 marks, that he might be freed from perpetual impriſonment, to which he was adjudged, the Earl aſſiſting him therein. The King thereupon at the ſame time ſent the Juſtices of the Jews throughout all England, to ſearch out all their mony both in Debts and Poſſeſſions, and with them a certain moſt wicked & mercileſſe Jew, that he might wickedly & falſly accuſe all the reſt againſt the truth; who verily reprehended the Chriſtians, pitying and weeping over the affliction of the Jews, and called the Kings Bayliffs, lukewarm and effeminate; and gnaſhing with his teeth over every Jew, affirmed with many great Oathes, that they could give twice as much more to the King, then what they had given, although he moſt wickedly lyed againſt p. 22his own head. This Jew, that he might more effectually hurt the reſt, revealed all their ſecrets daily to the Kings Chriſtian Exactors. In the mean time the King ceaſed not to ſcrape mony together from all hands, but principally from the Jews; ſo that from one Jew alone, born and living in Yorke, called Aaron, (becauſe he was convicted of falſifying a Charter, as was reported) he extorted 14000 marks, and 10000 marks of gold for the Queens uſe, for a little times reſpite, that he might not languiſh in priſon. All which ſums being paid, it was found that this Aaron had paid to the K. ſince his return from forraign parts, 30000 marks of ſilver, and two hundred marks of gold to the Queen, as the ſaid Aaron upon the atteſtation of his honor and faith averred to Matthew Paris, who records it. Yet notwithſtanding, although the Jews might be pittied, yet were they pittied by no man, ſeeing they were corrupters and counterfeiters of the Kings mony and of charters, and manifeſtly and frequently proved, condemned, and reprobated as ſuch.

aaMat. Paris, p. 827.Philip Lunel Clerk, called to the ſervice of the King, and addicted to the cuſtody of the Jews, Anno 1251. was grievouſly accuſed before the King, his adverſaries affirming, that when he and Nicholas of St Albans Clerk, were ſent towards the Northern parts to tax and ſqueeze the Jews, he privily received moſt precious Veſſels from a certain Jew, that he might ſpare him in his Tallage to the King; and that he likewiſe took ſecret gifts from others, that he might ſpare them; and that he oppreſt theſe Jews notwithſtanding, to the dammage of the King, and the violation of his Faith. Whereupon the King being very angry, commanded Philip himſelf to be unworthily handled, untill he ſhould ſatisfy him for this great tranſgreſſion. Philip hereupon, a crafty and circumſpect man, humbly craved advice and aſſiſtance from the Lord John Manſell, the Kings Prime Counſellor, concerning his great tribulation, becauſe he had p. 23promoted him to the Kings ſervice, who effectually procured that he recovered the Kings favor, giving him a great ſumm of mony for it, a thouſand marks, as was reported. Yet notwithſtanding he was removed from his Office, and not a little diſgraced.

It ſeems the Kings Officers could fleece the Jews in that age, by ſecret Bribes and Gifts, as well as himſelf, by intollerable Exactions.

bbMat. Paris, p. 831. 856.King Henry the III. to ſatisfie the Popes deſire in taking a Voyage to the Holy Land, Anno 1252. extorted from the Jews whatſoever thoſe miſerable wretches might ſeem to have, not only by ſcraping or excoriating, but even by unbowelling them. Being alſo an Hydropical thirſter after gold, he ſo greedily ſucked talents, or Bullion, or Jewels, as well from Chriſtians as Jews, that a new Craſſus might ſeem to be raiſed from the dead. And th…s very year Robert de la Ho, to whom the King had committed the cuſtody of the Jews, and of the Seal which belonged to their Exchequer, was grievouſly accuſed before the King, being charged with this crime, That he had oppreſſed the innocent Son of a certain Knight, by a certain falſe Charter, confirmed with the Seal, of which the ſaid Robert, Juſtice of the Jews, was the bearer and keeper. Whereupon he was baſely apprehended, and committed to a cloſe Priſon; and defamed with the like ſcandal wherewith Philip Lunel but the year juſt before had been intangled in the-ſnares of the perfidious Jews, who was then their Juſtice. At laſt, by the great labour of his friends, the malice of the Jews is detected, but the innocency of the ſaid Robert then ſet free, ſcarce declared. Whereupon being put from his Offices, he openly paid 4 marks of gold at leaſt for his fine.

ccMat. Paris Hiſt. Angl. p. 861▪ 862. Fox Acts and Mon. Vol. 1. p. 423.This very year (1252.) there came out of the holy Land a Mandate from the King of France; that all the Jews ſhould be expelled out of the Realm of France, and condemned to perpetual exile; with this clauſe of p. 24moderation added thereto: But he who deſires to remain, let him be an artificer, or handicrafts-man, and apply himſelf to mechanical artifices. For it was ſcornfully objectd to the ſaid King by the Saracens; That we Nota.d…d little love or reverence our Lord Jeſus Chriſt, who tolerate the murderers of him to live among us.

ddMat. Paris, p. 873, 874.In the year of Chriſt, 1253. Novemb. 10. the Obligatory Charter wherewith the Abbot and Covent of St. Alban were held bound for the debt of Richard de Oxaie Knight, was taken out of the hand of Elias the London Jew, and freed out of the cheſt; and it was proclaimed in the School of the Jews at London (where it ſeems they had then a School) that the foreſaid Abbot and Covent ſhould be quit from all this debt againſt them, from the beginning of the world till then, as the Statute obtained by them proteſteth.

eeFox 'Acts & Mon. Vol. 1. p. 423. ex Eulogio.The Jews in Northampton about the year of our Lord, 1253. had among themſelves prepared wild-fire, to burn the City of London; for the which divers of them were taken and burned in the time of Lent, in the City of Northampton.

ffMat. Paris p. 887.Anno 1254. King Henry after Eaſter ſo cruelly raged againſt the moſt miſerable people of the Jews, that they loathed even to live. And when they were called together, Earl Richard exacted of them for the uſe of the King, who was in great want, no ſmall ſumme of mony, under pain of a moſt loathſom priſon, and a moſt ignominious death. Elias therefore of London, High Prieſt of the Jews, taking counſel with his Companions, anſwered for them all, who had frequently paid very great ſumms of mony, whether they would or would not. O noble Lords, we ſee undoubtedly that our Lord the King purpoſeth to deſtroy us from under heaven. We intreat, for Gods ſake, that he would give us licenſe & ſafe conduct of departing out of his kingdom, that we may ſeek and find a manſion in ſome other place, under ſome Prince who bears ſome bowels of mercy, and ſome ſtability of truth and faithfulneſs. And p. 25we will depart, never to return again, leaving here our houſholdſtuff, and houſes behind us. How can he love or spare us, miſerable Jews, who deſtroyes his own natural Engliſh? He hath people, yea his own Merchants, I ſay not Uſurers, who Nota.by uſurious contracts heap up infinite heaps of money. Let the King rely upon them, and gape after their emoluments. Verily they have ſupplanted & impoveriſht us. Which the K. howſoever diſſembles to know, exacting fro us thoſe things we cannot give him, although he would pull out our eyes, or cut our throats when he had firſt pulled off our skins. And ſpeaking this with ſighs and tears hindring his ſpeech, he held his peace, falling almoſt into an extaſie, ready to die. Which when it came to the knowledge of the Magiſtrates, they permitted them not to depart out of the Realm; ſaying. Whether will ye flee, O wretches? Behold the King of France hateth and perſecuteth you, and hath condemned you to perpetual exile: ſhunning Charibdis, you deſire to be drowned in Scylla. And ſo the ſmall little ſubſtance, which was left to them for their mean ſuſtentation, was violently extorted from them.

ggMat. Paris p. 902. Mat. Weſt. p. 270. Holinſhed. Vol. 3. p. 252.King Henry the 3d. An. 1255. exacted with great earneſtneſſe from the Jews, although very frequently impoveriſhed, 8000 marks, to be ſpeedily paid unto him under pain of hanging. But they ſeeing nothing elſe hanging over them, but deſtruction with confuſion, anſwered all unanimouſly. Sir King, we ſee that thou ſpareſt neither Chriſtians, nor Jews, but ſtudieſt with crafty fetches to impoveriſh all men: we have no hope of reſpiration left us: the Uſurers of the Pope have ſupplanted us; permit us to depart out of thy kingdom with ſafe conduct; and we will ſeek for our ſelves ſuch a manſion as we can, be it what it will. Which when the King had heard, he cryed out with a querulous voice, ſaying: It is no marvel if I covet money, it is an horrible thing to imagin the debts wherein I am held bound. By the head of God they amount to the ſum of two hundred thouſand marks, & if I ſhould ſay of three, I ſhould not exceed the bounds of truth. I am deceived on every p. 26ſide. I am a maimed and abridged King, yea, now but an halfed King. For having made a certain eſtimate of the expences of my rents, the ſum of the annual rent of Edward my Sonne amounts to above 15000 marks. There is therefore a neceſſity for me to live of the mony gotten from what place ſoever, from whomſoever, and by what means ſoever. Therefore being made another Titus, or Veſpaſian, he ſold the Jews for ſome years to Earl Richard his brother, that thoſe whom the King had excoriated, he might eviſcerate. Yet the Eatl ſpared them, conſidering their abbreviated power, and ignominious poverty.

hhMat. Paris p. 912. Fabian part 7: p. 58. Fox Acts &. Mon. Vol. 1. p. 423. Jo. Stow, p. 190. Grafton, p. 127 Holinſhed, p. 253. Balaeus Cent. 4. c. 22. Johan. Major l. 4. c. 12. Cent. Magdebur. 13. c. 14. col. 1282.The ſame year, about the Feaſt of Peter and Paul, the Jews of Lincoln ſtole a child called Hugo, being 8 years old, and when as they had nouriſhed him in a certain moſt ſecret chamber, with milk and other childiſh aliments, they ſent almoſt to all the Cities of England wherein the Jews lived, that in contempt and reproach of Jeſus Chriſt, they ſhould be preſent at their ſacrifice at Lincoln: for they had, as they ſaid, a certain child hid to be crucified. Whereupon many aſſembled at Lincoln. And comming together, they appointed one Lincoln Jew for the Judge, as it were for Pilate. By whoſe judgement, by the conſent of all, the child is afflicted with ſundry torments. He is whipped even unto bloud and lividneſſe, crowned with thorns, wearied with ſpittings and ſhriekings: and moreover he is pricked by them all with ponyards, made to drink gall, derided with reproaches and blaſphemies, and frequently called by them with grinding teeth, Jeſus the falſe Prophet. And after rhey had derided him in divers manners, they crucified him, and peirced him with a ſpear to the heart. And when the child had given up the ghoſt, they took down his body from the croſſe, and took the bowels out of his corps, for what end is unknown, but it was ſaid it was to exerciſe Magical arts. The mother of the child diligently ſought for her abſent ſon for ſome dayes, and it was told her by neighbours, that the laſt time they ſaw her child whom p. 27ſhe ſought, he was playing with the children of the Jews of his age, and entred into the houſe of a certain Jew. Whereupon the woman ſuddenly entred that houſe, and ſaw the body of the child caſt into a certain pit. And having warily called the Baylifs of the City together, the body was found and drawn forth; and there was made a wonderful ſpectacle among the people. But the woman, mother of the child, complaining and crying out, provoked all the Citizens there aſſembled together, to tears & ſighs. There was then preſent at the place John de Lexinton, a circumſpect and diſcreet man, and moreover elegantly learned, who ſaid. We have ſometime heard, that the Jews have not feared to attempt ſuch things in reproach of Jeſus Chriſt, our crucified Lord. And one Jew being apprehended, to wit, he into whoſe houſe the child entred playing, and therefore more ſuſpected than the reſt; he ſaith unto him. Owretch! knoweſt thou not that ſpeedy destruction abides thee? All the gold of England will not ſuffice for thy deliverance or redemption. Notwithſtanding I will tell thee, although unworthy, by what means thou maiſt preſerve thy life and members, that thou maiſt not be diſmembred. I will ſave both to thee, if thou doſt not fear to diſcover to me whatſoever things are done in this caſe without falſhood. Whereupon this Jew, whoſe name was Copin, believing he had thus found out a way of eſcape, anſwered, ſaying. Sir John, if thou makeſt thy words good by thy deeds, I will reveal wonderful things to thee; and the induſtry of Sir John animating and exciting him thereto, the Jew ſaid. Thoſe things are true which the Christians ſay. The Jews almoſt every year crucify one Nota.child, to the injury and contumely of Jeſus; but it is not found out every year: for they do this ſecretly, and in hidden and moſt ſecret places; But this child whom they call Hugo, our Jews have moſt unmercifully crucified, and when he was dead, and they deſired to hide him being dead, he could not be buried in the earth, nor hid. For the corps of the innocent was reputed unprofitable for Divination, for he was unbowelled for p. 28that end. And when in the morning it was thought to be buried, the earth brought it forth, and vomitted it out, and the body ſometimes appeared inhuman, whereupon the Jews abhorred it. At laſt it was caſt headlong into a deep pit, neither as yet could it be kept ſecret, For the importunate mother diligently ſearching all things, at laſt ſhewed to the Baylifs the body ſhe had found. But Sir John notwithſtanding this, kept the Jew bound in chains. When theſe things were known to the Canons of the Church of Lincoln, they requeſted the body to be given to them, which was granted them. And when it had been ſufficiently viewed by an infinite company of people, it was honourably buryed in the Church of Lincoln, as the corps of a moſt precious Martyr. The Jews kept the child alive for 10 days, that being fed for ſo many dayes with milk, he might living ſuffer many ſorts of torments. When the K. returned from the Northern parts of England, and was certified of the premiſſes, he reprehended Sir John, that he had promiſed life and members to ſo flagitious a perſon, which he could not give; for that blaſphemer and homicide was worthy the puniſhment of many ſorts of death. And when as unavoydable Judgement was ready to be executed upon this Offender, he ſaid. My death is now approaching, neither can my Lord John preſerve me, who am ready to periſh. I now relate the truth to you all. Almoſt all the Jews of England conſented to the death of this child, whereof the Jews are accuſed: and almoſt out of every city in EnglandNota. wherein the Jews inhabit, certain choſen perſons were called together to the immolation of that child, as to a Paſchal Sacrifice. And when as he had ſpoken theſe things, together with other dotages, being tied to an horſes tail, and drawn to the Gallows, he was preſented to the aereal Cacodaemons in body and ſoul; and 91 other Jews, partakers of this wickedneſſe, being carried in Carts to London, were there committed to priſon. Who if ſo be they were caſually bewailed by any Chriſtians, yet they were deplored by the Caurſini (the Popes Italian Uſurers) p. 29their corrivals with dry eys. Afterwards by the Inquiſition of the Kings Juſtices, it was diſcovered & found; That the Iews of England by Common Councel had ſlain the innocent Child, puniſhed for many days, and crucified. But after this the Mother of the ſaid child conſtantly proſecuting her appeal before the King againſt them for that iniquity and ſuch a death; God the Lord of Revenges, rendred them a condigne retribution, according to their merits; for on St. Clements day, 88. of the richeſt and greateſt Jews of the City of London, were drawn and hanged up in the air upon new Gibbets eſpecially prepared for that purpoſe, and more than 23 others were reſerved in the Tower of London to the like judgement.

I have tranſcribed this Hiſtory at large out of Matthew Paris, who flouriſhed at that time, becauſe our other Hiſtorians doe but briefly touch it, and becauſe it undeniably manifeſts the tranſcendent impiety, blaſphemy, malice, perſecution, and obloquy of the Jews againſt our Saviour Jeſus Chriſt, and Chriſtians, and their conſtant, uſual practiſe of crucifying Children almoſt every year, in contempt and reproach of our crucified Saviour, by common conſent; which Mr. Nye conceived might be eaſily wiped off, as falſe, and not fully proved or charged on them by our Hiſtorians, which this enſuing paſſage concerning theſe Jews will further ratify.

iiMat. Paris. p. 922.Certain infamous Jews being 71 in number, adjudged to death by the Oath of 25 Knights, for the miſerable death of the Child crucified at Lincoln, being reſerved in the Priſons of London to be hanged Anno 1256 (the year after their condemnation) ſent ſecret Meſſengers (as their enemies affirm) to the Friers Minors, that they might intercede for them, that they might be delivered from death and priſon, being notwithſtanding worthy of the moſt ſhamefull death. Whereupon they (as the world reports, if the world in ſuch a caſe be to be credited) by the mediation of money, freed them by their p. 30prayers and interceſſion, both from the priſon and from the death which they had deſerved; led thereto with a ſpirit of piety, as I think is piouſly to be believed: Becauſe ſo long as any man is in life, and in this world, he hath free will, may be ſaved, and there is hope of him. But yet for the Devil, or the manifeſtly damned we are not to hope nor pray, becauſe there is no hope of them; for death and a definitive ſentence, at once irrevobly intangle them; Neither could this anſwer excuſe the Minors, for although they were not guilty, yet the ſcandal did defame them. The common people now hath withdrawn their hands, that they do not benefit them with their alms, as heretofore, and the Londoners devotion is grown cold towards the Minorites. For procuring theſe condemned Jews life and liberty, whoſe money (it ſeemeth) could even corrupt theſe very ſelf-denying Popiſh Saints, who had renounced the world in habit, but not in heart.

kkMat. Pariſ. Addi…amenta, p. 202. 207.All the Prelates of England in the year 1257. drew up certain Articles in writing concerning their liberties, which they intended to preſent to the King and Nobles, to be ratified by them in Parliament in due ſeaſon; wherein they complain, Artic. 32, 33. That when as the Jews are convicted before the Eccleſiaſtical Judges for delinquency against an Eccleſiastical perſon, or for Eccleſiaſtical things, or for ſacriledge, or for laying violent hands upon a Clerk, or for adultery with a Chriſtian woman; the conuſans of the cauſe is hindered by the Kings prohibition: becauſe it alleageth that they have their proper Judge, the Sheriff of the place, and their proper delegated Judges, who may and ought to have conuſance of theſe things. And yet if they be convented by a Clergy-man or Lay-man before them for ſuch things, upon the denial thereof by the perſon alone, the ſimple aſſertion of another Jew, and of one Chriſtian, without the administring of any Oath they purge themſelves, the proof of the proſecutor being utterly rejected.

Item, If Communion be denied to them by the Church p. 31becauſe they bear not their Table or ſigne, or becauſe they retain Chriſtian Nurſes againſt the precepts of the Church, or if they be excommunicated for ſome other exceſſes; the Bayliffs (or Officers) of the King communicating with them, command on the behalf of our Lord the King himſelf, that they be not avoided by any, and cauſe them to be admitted and received to Communion.

Againſt which Grievances in derogation of Eccleſiaſtical Juriſdiction, the Biſhops then thus provided. And becauſe in like manner the office of the Prelates is hindred when as it happens a Jew offending againſt Eccleſiaſtical things and perſons, ſhall be convented for theſe things before them, and for other things which apperta…n to the Eccleſiaſtical Court of meer right; We provide, that the Jew notwithſtanding ſhallbe compelled to anſwerin theſe caſes by the interdict ofcommerce, contracts, and communion of the faithfull: likewiſe the inhibiters, hinderers and distrainers ſhall incurre the puniſhments of interdiction and excommunication.

(l) In the year of Chriſt 1259. On the Feaſt of ChriſtsMat. Pariſ. Hist. Angl. p. 982. Nativity, a certain creature, Elias a Jew of London, whoſe Sirname was Biſhop, fearing danger and manifeſt damnation to himſelf, fled to the laver of defence and ſalvation, and was new-born in the Spirit; for being cleanſed with wholeſom Baptiſm, two others alſo accompanying him, he was delivered out of the lot of the Devil, and ſaved from the revenge of the most wicked crime heretofore committed by him. For it was ſaid, that in his houſe that poyſonous drink was made, which had proved mortal and perillous to many Nobles of England, (poyſoned therewith by the Jews) which even he himſelf, as was reported, well confeſsed. But then he was a Devil, but now throughly changed, and a Chriſtian, and as the condition, ſo the operation is changed. As Mathew Paris Ironically writes of him.

mmMat. Paris hiſt. Ang. p. 990 Fox Acts & Mon. Vol. 1. p. 423. John Stow. p. 91.A certain Jew in the year 1260 fell into a Privy at Teuk…ſbury; but becauſe it was then the Sabbath, he would not ſuffer himſelf to be pulled out, except on the p. 32following Lords day, for the reverence of his Sabbath: Wherefore Richard Clare Earl of Glocester, commanded him (in reverence of the Lords Day) to be kept there till Munday, at which time he was found dead of the ſtink, or hunger.

nnJohn Stows Chronicle p. 210. Holinſhed, Vol. 3. p. 263.The Barons of England Ann. 1262. robbed and ſlew the Jews in all places: There were ſlain of them in London to the number of 700. the reſt were ſpoyled, and their Synagogues defaced. The original occaſion of which maſſacre was, becauſe one Jew had wounded a Chriſtian man in London, within Cole-church, and would have enforced him to have paid more than two pence for the Uſury of 20 s. for one week.

ooMat. West. An. 1264. pars 2. p. 320. Rapbael Holinſhed, Vol. 3. p. 267.In the year 1264. in the Paſſion week, the Jews that inhabited the City of London, being detected of Treaſon, which they had deviſed againſt the Barons and Citizens, were ſlain almoſt all the whole number of them, and great riches found in their houſes, which were taken and carried away by thoſe that ranſacked the ſame houſes.

ppHolinſhed Vol. 3. p. 272.The diſinherited Barons and Gentlemen in the Iſle of Oxholme, in the year 1266, took and ſacked the City of Lincoln, ſpoyled the Iews, and ſlew many of them, entred their Synagogue, and burnt the Book of their Law.

qqMat. Weſt. An. 1278. p. 367. Walſingham, Hiſt. Ang. Anno 1279. p. 18. Ypodigma Neuſtriae, p. 69. F…bian, part. 7. p. 124. Grafton, p. 164. Stow, p. 200. Holinſhed, p. 279.In the 7th year of King Edward the 1. Ann. Dom. 1278. as ſome, or 1279. as others compute it, the King held a Parliament at London, which was chiefly called for the reformation of his coyn, which was then ſore clipped, by reaſon whereof it was much diminiſhed and impaired. In the time of this Parliament in the monethmonth of November all the Jews throughout England, (as Matthew VVeſtminſter) or many of the Jews in London, and other parts of the Realm, were apprehended in one day, and impriſoned in London for clipping of money: and in December following, divers Enqueſts were charged in London to enquire of the ſaid Jews and all others who p. 33had ſo blemiſhed and clipped the Kings Coyn; By which Enqueſts the Jews of the City, with the Gold-ſmiths that kept exchanges of ſilver were indicted. Andſhortly after Candelmas, the Mayor and Juſtices of the Land ſat at London, where before them was caſt 297 perſons for clipping; of the which 3 only were Engliſhmen, and all the other were Jews, born either within this Realm, or elſewhere, but moſt of them Engliſh Jews; who were all of them at ſundry places and times put to execution in London; who impeached the chief men of London, and very many Chriſtians, who conſented to their wickedneſſes. After which a very great multitude of Jews were hanged in other Cities of England for the ſame offence.

rrJohn Stow, p. 20.Anno 1279. The Jews of Northampton crucified a Chriſtian boy, but did not throroughly kill him, upon Good-Friday; for the which fact many of the Jews at London, after Eaſter, were drawn at Horſes tails, and hanged.

ſſJohn Stow his Chronicle p. 202.In the year of our Lord 1282. John Peckham Arch-biſhop of Canterbury, ſent an expreſſe precept and command to the Biſhop of London, to ſuppreſſe and deſtroy all the Synagogues of the Jews within his Dioceſſe.

ttStow his Chronicle, p. 203. 204.On May 2. Anno 1287. All the Jews of England were apprehended by the Kings precept, for what cauſe was not known; who ranſomed themſelves for 12000l. of ſilver; They had then a Synagogue at Canterbury. Fabian writes, that the Jews of England were ſeſſed at great ſums of mony (perchance the cauſe of their ſeiſure) which they paid unto the King; But of **Fabian part 7. p. 131. Grafton p. 168. Holinſhed vol. 3. p. 283.other Authors it is ſaid, That the Commons of England then granted to the King the fifth part of their moveables, for to have the Iews baniſhed out of the land. For which cauſe the ſaid Jews, for to put the Commons from their purpoſes, gave of their free wills great ſums of money to the King, which ſaying appeareth to be true, for that the ſaid p. 31Jews were exiled within few years after, with whom Grafton and Holinſhed accord. A ſtrong evidence of the potency of Jewiſh money, over-powring the whole Commons of England in Parliament, and this their Liberal ſubſidy for their baniſhment at that ſeaſon.

About this year (as I conceive) the Statutes of Edward the firſt, Intituled de Judeiſmo, were made and publiſhed, Printed in rench in Tottles Magna Charta Anno 1556. part 2. f. 58, 59. which being not printed amongſt our Statutes at large in the Engliſh Tongue, I ſhall here inſert and tranſlate.

Nota.1. For that the King hath ſeen, that many miſchiefs & diſheriſons of honeſt men of this land have happened by the Uſuries which the Jews have made therein in times paſt, and that many ſins have therein riſen from thence: Albeit he and his Anceſtors have had great profit from the Jews both now and in times paſt: Nota.Notwithſtanding this, for the honour of God, and for the common benefit of the People, the King doth ordain and eſtabliſh; that no Jew hereafter ſhall take ought for uſury upon lands, rents, nor upon other things: and that no Uſury ſhall run from the Feaſt of St. Edward laſt paſt, and before, but that the Covenants before made ſhall be held, ſave only that the Uſuries themſelves ſhall ceaſe. Provided that all thoſe who are indebted to Jews upon pawns moveable, ſhall diſcharge them between this and Eaſter at furtheſt, and if not, let them be forfeited: And if any Jew ſhall take uſury againſt this eſtabliſhment, The King neither by himſelf, nor any of his Officers, will not intermeddle to cauſe him to recover his debt (or uſe) but will puniſh him at his pleaſure for the Treſpaſſe, and ſhall do right to the Chriſtian to recover his gage.

2. And it is provided, that the diſtreſſes for the debt of Jews, ſhall not hereafter be ſo grievous, that the moity of Lands and Chattels to the Chriſtians ſhall not p. 35remain for their ſuſtenance. And that no diſtreſſe ſhall be made for the debt of a Jew, upon the heir to the Debtor named in the Charter of the Jew, nor upon other which holds the Land which was the Debtors, before the debt ſhall be dereigned and acknowledged in Court. And if the Sheriff or other Bayliffs by commandment of the King ought to make ſeiſin to a Jew, to one or more, for their debt, of chattels, or of lands, to the value of the debt; the chattels ſhall be praiſed by the Oath of honeſt men: the chattels ſhall be delivered to the Jew or Jeweſſe, or to their Attorney, to the value of the debt. And if the chattels be not ſufficient, the lands ſhall be extended by the ſame Oath, before that the ſeiſin ſhall be delivered to the Jew or Jeweſſe, every one according to the value: and ſo that they may after know certainly the Debt is diſcharged, that the Chriſtian afterwards may then have his lands: ſaving to the Chriſtian for ever the moity of his lands, and of his chattels for his ſuſtenance, as afore is ſaid, and the chiefhouſe.

3. And if any thing ſtollen at this hour ſhall be found in the poſſeſſion of a Jew, and any will ſue, let the Jew have his ſummons, if he may have it, and if not, he ſhall anſwer ſo, that he ſhall never be privileged for it otherwiſe than a Chriſtian.

4. And that all the Jews ſhall be reſidents in the Cities and in the Burroughs which are the Kings own, where the **See here, p. 15. & Rot. Clauſ. 1 E. 1. m. 3.Cheſt for the Jews Indenture is wont to be. And that every Jew after he is paſt 7. years of age, ſhall carry a ſign (or badge) in his chief garment; that is to ſay in form of two Talles of yellow taffety, of the length of ſix fingers, and breadth of 3. fingers (or handfulls.) And that every one after he is paſt 12 years, ſhall pay 3 d. the poll every year to the King, which ſhall be paid at Eaſter; and this ſhall be intended as well of women as of men.

5. And that no Jew ſhall have power to infeoff another p. 36Jew nor Chriſtian of their houſes, rents or tenements which they have now purchaſed, not to alien them in any manner, nor to make an acquittance to any Chriſtian of his debt, without the ſpecial licenſe of the King, untill the King hath otherwiſe ordained.

6. And becauſe holy Church wills and ſuffers, that they ſhould live and be protected, the King takes them into his Protection, and gives them his peace, and wills that they ſhall live, and ſhall be guarded and defended by his Sheriffs, and his other Bayliffs, and by his Leiges; and commands that none ſhall doe them harm, injury, nor force in their bodies, nor in their goods, moveables or unmoveables. And that they ſhall not be impleaded, ſued nor challenged in any Court, but in the **See Rot. clauſ. 3 E. 1. memh. 17.Kings Court, whereſoever they are.

7. And that none of them ſhall be obedient, reſpondent, nor render rent, but to the King and his Bayliffs in his name, if it be not of their houſes which they now hold rendering rent; ſaving the right of holy Church.

8. And the King grants them, that they ſhall live in their lawfull merchandizes, and by their labour, and that they ſhall converſe with the Chriſtians for lawfull merchandizing in ſelling and in buying. But yet, that by this priviledge, nor any other, ſhall they be levant (riſing) or couchant (lying down) amongſt them. And the King will not, that by reaſon of their merchandize, that they ſhould be in lots nor ſcots, nor Tallage with thoſe of the Cities or Burroughs where they remain, ſeeing they are tailable to the King, as his own Vaſſals, and to none other.

9. Moreover the King grants them, that they may buy houſes and curtelages in the Cities or Burroughs where they reſide, ſo as they hold them in chief of the King: ſaving to the Lords the Services due and accuſtomed.

p. 3710. And that they may take Lands to farm for term of ſix years, or under, without taking homages or fealties, or ſuch manner of ſervice of a Chriſtian, and without having advowſon of holy Church, for to ſupport their life in the world, if they know not how to merchandize, or be unable to labour. And this power for to take Lands to farm, ſhall not endure to them but 15 years from this time forth to come.

By theſe Laws this politick King to pleaſe his Engliſh Chriſtian Subjects, who deſired and ſollicited the Jews baniſhment in Parliament, abridged many of their former priviledges, and put many new reſtraints upon them. And yet on the other hand, to gratifie the Jews, (who gave him more monies than the Engliſh, to reſide here ſtill) he takes them all into his ſpecial protection, prohibits all violence to their perſons or eſtates, and grants them ſome petty priviledges for the preſent, which ſeemed to content them, and made for his own advantage, more than theirs.

uuThomas Walſingham Hiſt. Angl. p. 14.K. Edward the 1. the next year (1288.) being in Gaſcoigne, a certain Engliſh Knight decreed to convent a Jew, for the undue detention of a certain Mannor morgaged to him, before the Judges: but the crafty Jew refuſed to anſwer, pretending a Charter of King Henry heretofore, which was granted to him, that he ſhould not be drawn into judgement before any Judge, except only before the perſon of the King. The Knight being troubled at this, went into Gaſcoigne, that he might obtain ſome remedy hereupon from the King. Whom when the King had heard, he anſwered: It is not ſeemly for children to make void the deeds of their parents; to whom by Gods Law they are commanded to give reverence: wherefore I have decreed, not to make void the deed of my Father; but I grant to thee, and to the reſt of my Realm by the like Law (leſt a Jew might ſeem better than a Christian) that for any injury whatſoever done to the Iew, ſo long as he ſhall enjoy his Charter, you ſhall p. 38not be convented before any Iudge, except my ſelf. The Knight returning with this priviledge, the Jew conſidering that danger and peril hung over his head, voluntarily renounced his Charter, evacuating the condition of his priviledge, and wiſhing that both parties might be ſubject to the Common Law.

xxTh. walſingham, Hiſt. Angl. p. 15.The year following, Anno 1289. King Edward taking upon him the character of the Croſſe at Blankeford in Gaſcoigne, preſently baniſhed all the Jews out of Gaſcoigne, and all other his Lands which he poſſeſſed in the Realm of France, AS ENEMIES OF THE CROSSE. From whence returning into England, Anno 1290, he was joyfully received at London, both by the Clergy and all the people; and the ſame year exiling the Jews likewiſe out of England, giving them expences into France he confiſcated all the reſt of their goods.

Upon what grounds, by what Authority, for what time, in what manner, with what deſire of, and content to all the whole Commons and Realm of England, the Jews were then baniſhed thence, theſe enſuing Hiſtorians will at large relate, in their own words, which I ſhall tranſcribe for the better information and ſatisfaction of all ſorts of men, whether Chriſtians or Jews.

yyFlores Hiſt. par. 2. ann. 1290. p. 381.Matthew Weſtminſter (flouriſhing at that time) gives this relation of it. About the ſ…days, namely the 31 of Auguſt, the exasperating multitude of Jews, which dwelt confidently in times past through divers Cities and strong Forts, JUSSA EST, was commanded with their wives and 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 landable King of England in the parts of Aquitain, from whence all the Jews were likewiſe baniſhed.

p. 23zzYpodigma Neuſtriae, p. 72.Thomas Walſinghaem, 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 Iudaeorum, conceſſa ſunt Regi a Populo, quinta decima pars bonorum. In which Parliament likewiſe for the baniſhment of the Iews, there was granted to the King by the People, a fifteenth part of their goods.

aaDe eventibus Angliae, l. 3. c. 1. col. 2462, 2466.Henry de Knyghton a Canon of Le…ceſter, a moſt diligent Antiquary flouriſhing in Richard the 2ds. reign, rendreth it in theſe terms▪ King Edward grievouſly puniſhed the Iews and their conſorts for clipping of money, and corrupt exchanges, where upon 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 Iudges (fined, depoſed, and ſome of them baniſhed in the ſame Parliament that the Jews were exiled) preſently another cauſe moved him concerning Money, which he found to be baſely clipped and corrupted, to the preiudice of the Crowns, and the great damage of the people, By the Infidelity and Malice of the Iews as it was inquired and found, Et fe…it ſtabilire unum Parliamentum, in quo convicti ſunt Iudaei de ea falſitate: Et ſtatuit, quod omnes Iudaeos 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 d…latione explenda, communes regni …ederunt Regi quintum denarium de omnibus bonis ſuis mobilibus. And he cauſed a Parliament to be …ed, wherein the Iews are convicted of that falſhood; And he ordained, that all the Iews ſhould depart out of the Realm of England, not to return again afterwards, for their incredulity, principally, and for their falſeneſſe, p. 40which 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.

bbHiſtor. Majoris Brit. l. 4. c. 9.Iohn Major, and the ccCentur. Magd. 13 c. 15 col. 1286.Centuriators of Magdeburgh, out of him, thus regiſter it to poſterity. In the year 1290 the Iews were baniſhed out of England, for the Engliſhmen had made a great complaint to Edward the 1. that by their uſuries and frauds most m…n 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, that he might baniſh the Jews.

=Our learned ddCentur. 4 Script. Brit. c. 60. in Appendice.Iohn Bale eeJu. Ed. 1.Polydor Virgil, and the Century VVriters out of him thus expreſſe it. Anno 1291 [It ſhould be 1290] In the Parliament at London, there was a debate in the firſt place, Concerning the baniſhing of the Jews; whereof there was a great multitude throughout England; Sed edicto Publico Concilii Londinenſis (writes one) Publico igitur decreto (ſaith another) But by the publick ffCent. Magd. 13 c. 9. col. 967. c. 13. col. 1284.Edict of the Parliament aſſembled in London, and by a publick decree; They were all commanded to depart the Realm, with their goods, which they, Concilii juſsis obedientes, obeying the commands of the Parliament, ſpeedily did.

To theſe Latin Authors, I might annex Thomas Stubs his Act a Pontificum Eboracenſium: col. 1728. who makes mention of this univerſal baniſhment of them out of all England in one day; but I ſhall paſſe to our more Common Engliſh 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 Jews were utterly baniſhed the Realm of England, for the which the Commons gave the King a fifteen.

Nicholas Trivet in his Polychronicon, and VVilliam Caxton, p. 41in his Chronicles, printed 1502. in the life of K. Edw. the 1. thus ſtories the Jews baniſhment, out of Hygden and Trev…ſa, in their words; A none after the King had done his will of the Juſtices, tho lete he inquere and eſpye how the Iews dyſceyved and beguyled his people, thorough the ſynne of falſneſs: and of Uſury. And lete Ordain a Prevy Parlement among his Lords: So they ordained among theim, That all Iewes ſhould voyde 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 Englonde gave vntounto the King the XV. Penny of all theyr Goodes mevable: and ſo were the Iewes driven out of Englonde. And tho went the Iewes 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 convey 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 mouth of the River beyond Quinborow. The Master Marmer 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 Jews to walk out with him on land for recreation: and at length, when p. 42he underſtood the tyde to be comming in, he got him back to the ſhip, whether he was drawn by a cord. The Iews 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 floods, 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 ggChron. 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 miſchi…vous dealing.

John Stow in his Annals, p. 204. writes thus of it; King Edward baniſhed all the Jews out of England, giving them to bear their charges till they were out of the Realm. The number of the Jews then expelled, was fifteen thouſand and ſixty perſons, whoſe houſes being ſold, the King received an infinite maſs 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 gain, baniſhed the Iews out of the Realm, confiſcating all their goods, leauing them nothing but mony to bear their charges, they by their cruel Ʋſuries HAVING EATEN HIS PEOPLE TO THE BONES.

To paſſe by Heylms Microcoſm, p. 570. Henry Iſaacſons Chronology, Ann. 1290. with others, who mention this their final baniſhment out of England, I ſhall conclude with the words of Samuel Daniel, his Hiſtory, p. 160. Of NO LESSE GRIEVANCE (than corrupt Judges then fined, diſplaced, baniſhed) this King eaſed his people, p. 43by 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 Iews 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 2d. 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 to in this particular. This Statute was made (writes he) in the Parliament of 18 Edw. 1. That the miſchiefs before this Statute, against Jewiſh Uſury, were theſe. 1. The evils and diſheriſons of the good men of the land. 2. That many of the ſins and offences of the Realm, had riſen, and been committed by reaſon thereof, to the great diſhonour of Almighty God. (And are not theſe 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 Jews, and how neceſſary it was, that the King ſhould be ſupplyed with Treaſure. What benefit the Crown had, before the making of this Act, appeareth by former records, as take bbRot. 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 Shrovetide, the 2d. year of Edward the first, which was about 7. years, the Crown had four hundred and twenty thouſand pounds, fifteen ſhillings and four pence; De exitibus Judaiſmi: at which time, the ounce of ſilver was but 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 p. 44from Judaiſm. (i) Many proviſions were made both byl) Temp. R. 1. Jo. Char. 2. oh an. n. 49. 53. 18 H. 3. Dorſ. clauſ. m. 27. Dorſ. Pat. 55. H. 3. m. 10. 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 large Liberties and Priviledges, whereby the miſchiefs rehearſed in this Act multiplyed. But the lucre and gain which King John had, and expected of the Infidel Jews, 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.

kkRot. char. 1. Reg…s Johan. part. 1. m. 28. Char. 171.Rex omnibus ſidelibus ſuis, & omnibus, & Judaeis & Anglis, ſalutem. Sciatis nos conceſſiſſe, Jacobo Judaeo de Londoniis Presbytero, Judaeorum Presbyteratum omnium Judaeorum totius Angliae. Habendum & tenendum quam in vixerit, liberè & quietè, & honorificè & integrè; it à quod nemo …i ſuper hoc moleſtiam aliquam, aut gravamen inferre praeſumat. Quare volumus & firmiter praecipimus, quod eidem Jacobo quoad vixerit, Presbyteratum Judaeorum per totam Angliam, garantitis, manu-teneatis, & pacificè defendatis. Et ſi quis eum ſuper eo ſorisfacere 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 pertinente ponatur in placitum, niſi coram nobis, aut coram capitali Juſticiario noſtro, ſicut Charta Regis Richardi fratris noſtri reſtatur. Teſte S. Bathonienſ. Epiſcopo, &c. Dat: per manus Huberti Cantuarienſis Archiepiſcopi Cancellarii noſtri apud Rothomagum 21 die Julii, Anno Regni noſtri primo.

To which Charter Sir Edward Cook annexeth this marginal p. 45Note, This King had a moſt troubleſom and diſhonourable rrign, God raiſing against him, FOR HIS JUST PUNISHMENT, two potent Enemies, Pope Innocent the 3 and Philip King 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 fearfull end.

He adds (l) Our Noble King Edward 1 and his Father(i) Rot. 2. E. 1. m. 1. 3. 5. Rot. Clauſ. 3. l. 1 m. 8. 10. 13. 16. 23. Rot. Parl. 3 E. 1. m. 36. & 17. Dorſ. Clauſ. 7 E. 1. m. 6. H. 3 before him, ſought by divers Acts and Ordinances, to uſe ſome means and moderation herein, but in the end it was found; That there was no mean in miſchief, and as Seneca ſaith, Res profecto Stulta eſt nequitiae modus (And will it not be ſo now in their new limited readmiſſion 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 Jewiſh Uſury was forbidden, This Law ſtruck at the root of this peſtilent weed, for hereby Uſury it ſelf was forbidden, and thereupon the cruel Jews thirſting after rich gain, to the number of 15060 departed out of this Realm into foraign parts, where they might uſe their Jewiſh trade of Uſury, & from that time that Nation never returned again into this Realm. mmHolinſhed p. 285. Walſing. Tpodig. 72. Flerileg. chron. Dunſtable.Some are of opinion, (and ſo it is ſaid in ſome of our Hiſtories) That it was enacted by authority of Parliament, that the uſurious Iews ſhould be baniſhed out of rhe Realm: But the truth is, that their uſury was baniſhed by this Act of Parliament, and that was the cauſe, that they baniſhed themſelves, into other Countries, where they might live 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 Statutes aginſt their Uſury.

But under the favour of this deceaſed reverend Judge, whoſe memory I generally reverence, this opinion of his p. 46is a meer miſtake. For 1. This Statute of Judaiſme was made ſome years before their baniſhment hence, as I formerly hinted, and the laſt clauſe thereof for renting houſes (to continue for 15 years) manifeſts; not in 18E. 1. 2ly. No Record nor Hiſtorian mentions, that they voluntarily baniſhed themſelves upon the making of this Law, neither can their voluntary departure hence upon this occafion be ſtiled a Baniſhment. 3ly. The forecited Hiſtorians record, that they gave but few years before a vaſt ſum of money to prevent their baniſhment, then urged in Parliament by the Commons, with the profer of the 5 part of their goods to the King for their baniſhment and therefore it is very improbable they would at the ſame time volunntarily baniſh themſelves. 4ly. All the laſt cited Hiſtorians of theſe latter times unanimouſly record, and theywere judicially, really baniſhed both by the King and Parliament, principally for their infidelity, and other fore-alloaged reaſons, commanded under pain of hanging to depart out of it by a ſet day; for the effecting and haſtning whereof, the Commons gave the King a ſifteenth. Therefore not baniſhed by of themſelves alone. Who are more to be credited than this Judges ſingular opinion. 5ly. His own ſubſequent words and Records in direct terms contradict this opinion of his no leſſe 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 groſſe miſtakes contradicted by by his own Records, he cites, ſpecially in his Chapter of **See my Levellers levelelled and Plea for the Lords.Parliament and Admiralty.

nn2 Inſtit. p. 507.And for that [writes he] they were odious both to God and Man, that they might paſſe out of the Realm in ſafety, they made Petition to the King, that a certain day might he 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 ſafe conduct, and that no injury, moleſtation, damage or grievance p. 47be offered to them in the mean time, One of which Writs we will tranſcribe.

ooRot. clauſ. 18 E. 1. m. 6. 11 Julii. The like writs, to other Counties & intituled, De Judaeis Regno Angliae exeuntibus.Rex, Vic: G. Cum Judaeis Regni noſtri univerſis CERTUM TEMPUS PRAEFIXERIMUS (therefore prefixed by the King himſelf, without their Petition) … regno illo transfretandi: Nolentes quod ipſi per miniſtros noſtros, aut alios quoſcunque, aliter quam ſieri conſnevit, indebite pertrectentur: Tibi praecipimus, quod per totam Ballivam tuam, publice proclamari, & firmiter inhiberi facias, ne quis eis intra terminum predictum, 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 Weſtminſt. 18. die Julii, Anno 18 E. 1.

This Statute, De Judaiſmo, was made at the ppParl. 1 3 E. 1.Parl. poſt feſtum Hilarii, Anno 18 E. 1. At which Parliament the King had a 15 granted to him, PRO EXPULSIONE JUDAEORUM [Therfore by his own confeſſion they were baniſhed by the King and Parlament againſt their wils 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] that by baniſhing of Uſury [Did they baniſh it onelyonly, not the Jews?] the Jews would not remain. And thus this Noble King by this means BANISHED FOR EVER THESE INFIDEL USURIOUS JEWS [Ergo, their perſons, as well as Uſury only] the number of which Jews THUS BANISHED, was fifteen thouſand and threeſcore.

p. 48qqPlac. Parl. Post Paſcha apud London. 21 E. 1. rot. 4.VVe will here adde a (Parliament) Record de Priore de Bridlington; thus.

Et quod praedictus Prior cogno cit, quid praedicta pecunia praed. Judaeo debebatur, viz. 300l. nec ei ſolvebatur ANTE EXILIUM JUDAEORUM (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 reorum, debitis aut catallis in regno POST EORUM EXILIUM, [again repeated] Domino Regi fuit. Conſideratum eſt, quod Dominus Rex recuperec pecuniam praedictam: & dictum eſt eidem Priori, quod non exeat Villaean equam 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. An. 22 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 Receſſe.

By all theſe concurrent Teſtimonies it is apparent [againſt Sir Edward Cooks groundleſſe 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.

2. 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 pople.

3. That this their baniſhment was ſo acceptable to p. 49all the people, who oft-times preſſed it in Parliament, that they gave the King a Fift and Fifteenth part of their moveables, to ſpeed and execute it.

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

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 is evident by Magna Charta c. 29. The baniſhment of Sir Thomas Wayland Chief Juſtice of the Common Pleas 19. E. 1 Rot. Parl. rot. 12. and theſe Jews then baniſhed. 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. 68, 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. Pa… l. n. 16. 17. For the baniſhment of Thomas Arundel Arch-biſhop of Canterbury, The Statute of 35 Eliz. 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 Shipmony- Judges p. 22 My New Diſcovery of the Prelates Tyranny, p. 166, 167, 168. VValſingham, Hist. Angliae, p. 394: and other Teſtimonies; as alſo by 1 E. 3. r. 5. 4 H. 4. c. 13. The Statute for the preſſing of Souldiers for Ireland. 17 Caroli. Exact Collect, p. 435. The Petition and Proteſtation of the Lords and Commons in p. 50Parliament againſt ſerving the King in perſon, or contribution to his wars in Flanders and other forain parts, 25 E. 1. Walſingham Hist. p. 35, 37, 38, &c. nor yet in Gaſcoigne, France, Notmandy, Scotland, or Ireland, Cooks 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 Peirce Gaveſton, VValſingham, Ypodig. Neuſtriae. p. 152. and Hiſt Angl. p. 68. 71, 72. Holinſhed, p. 328. Speeds Hiſtory, p. 674. The Printed Statute of 20 R. 2. c. 6. for the reſtitution of Belknap, and the other exiled Judges 28 E. 3. Rot. Parl. n. 8. to 14. and 29 E. 3. Rot Parl. n. 29. touching the Repeal of the Judgement in Parl. againſt Roger Mortimer Earl of March, 17 R. 2. Rot. Parl. n. 18. for the pardon and reſtitution of the Juſtices baniſhed into Irel. 21 R. 2. n. 55. to 71. for confirmation of the repeal of the exile of Hugh de la Spencer, Father & Son, An. 15. E. 2. and the revocation of the repeale thereof in 1 E. 3. [A notable full Record in point.] 3 H. 7. 10. 4 H, 7. 10. 1. H. 7. 4. 10 H. 7. 22 b. 15. E. 3 Fitz Pet…t. 2. 9. E. 3. 23, 24. 9 E. 4. 1 b. with ſundry other Records, for the repeals of Iudgements and Acts of former Parliaments, by the ſubſequent Judgments 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 readmitted, 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 p. 51exact 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. Theodoret, l. 4. c. 10. Niceph. Eccleſ. Hist. l. 4. c. 25. Cent. Magd. c. 3. col. 650, 651. Spelman. Concil. p. 43, 44General Epistle to all Churches, touching the Decrees of the Council of Nice, and the Ʋnanimous 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) concurring 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 fuit ſanctiſſimum eum diem imitatione atque conſuetudine Iudaeorum celebrare, qui manibus ſuis nefario flagitio contaminatis, non injuria quoque animis ſunt excaecato, homines ſcelerati. Quidni enim liceat, gente ea rejecta, rectiore, verioreque ordine, quem à primo paſſionis die hucuſque ſervavimus, ad futura quoque ſaecula obſervationis hujus ritum tranſmittere]? Item nihil nobis commune ſit cum infestiſſima Iudaeorum turba, &c. Quin & ſtrictior ipſa atque exactior ratio flagitare videtur, NEQUA NOBIS CUM IUDAEORUM PERJURIO COMMUNIO. From whence no rational man can 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 forreign 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 foiſled in amongſt the Confeſſors, to which doubtleſſe it was puny:) but in Will the Conq. reign: Together with, their ill deportments, miſdemeanors, ſuffrings, maſſacres, ſervile condition, and manifold popular p. 52tumults againſt them, during all the time of their reſidence in England, & final baniſhment out of it, never yet to my knowledg, collected into one intire History▪ before. The ſerious conſideration whereof, will, in my weake judgement, ſufficiently ſatisfie, convince the whole Engliſh Nation, that they have juſt grounds and reaſons, in point of piety, of policy, never to re-admit them more into our Iſland; and likewiſe reſolve the very Jewes themſelves, that they have little cauſe or reaſon at all to deſire to re-plant themſelves in England, where their anceſtors in times paſt, ſuſteined ſo many miſeries, maſſacres affronts, oppreſſions, fleecings upon all occaſions, & themſelves can expect little better uſage for the future. To this principal part of my undertaking, for fuller ſatisfaction, I ſhall hereunto ſubjoyn a Taſte of ſuch Lawes, 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.

As 1. To erect new Synagogues, Temples amongſt us, or turn any of our Churches, Chapels into Synagogues, for the free publique exerciſe of their Judaiſme, Jewiſh Worſhip, Cuſtomes, Religion, hhSee Centur Mag 2 to 13. c. 15. in each. Antonini Chronica. pars 2. Tit. 16. c. 12.diametrically contrary to the Goſple, Perſon, Kingdome, 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 of 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.

p. 531. 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 iiChron. Johannis Brompton col. 829, 901, 908 Lambardi Archaion, & Spelman Concil. p. 376, 513, 515, 521, 522. 549. 550, 599.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 Cnute the Dane, Lex. 1. 27, 28: All which enact, That the only true God and our Lord be loved, worſhipped in all ages by all the people, with all their might: the one Chriſtian, holy Catholick faith, orthodoxly kept, and the Churches of God to be diligently frequented throughout the Realm. That all Paganiſme and falſe Religions be renounced both in words and deeds; That who ever wickedly reſiſteth the Laws of Chriſt, ſhall be grievouſly fined and put to death: and, that all men ſhould diligently ſeek out by all means; Ut recta Chriſti religio maxime provehatur; That the right Religion of Christ might be moſt of all advanced: obteſting all Eccleſiiaſtical 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 kkSpelmani▪ Concil. p. 553, 566.Cnute his Eccleſiaſtical Laws [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 anytime, which our Lord Ieſus 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 p. 54ought 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 Servicc, & 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 Jewiſh Synagogues, Service, Sacraments, Worſhip, Ceremonies, with the uſe of them in any place within our Realm.

3. The Statutes of 3 E. 6. c. 10. 13 Eliz. c. 2. 23 El. c. 1. 28 Eliz. c. 2. 6. 35 Eliz. c. 1. 3 Iac. c. 4. againſt Popiſh Recuſants, Seminary Prieſts, Ieſuites, Friers, Maſſe-Books, Agnus Dei's, Popiſh Books, Superſtitions: for preventing 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 farre more diſhonourable to Chriſt, oppoſite to our Chriſtian Religion, and deſtructive to the peoples ſouls, if once admitted, then any Jeſuits, 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 ſame reaſon, juſtice, equity.

To theſe I might annex, all the late Ordinances for the p. 55Directory, The ſolemn League and Covenant, and for Suppreſſing, puniſhing of Hereſy and Blasphemy: therefore of Iudaiſm, which is both Hereſy and Blaſphemy, and Jewiſh aſſemblies, the very Synagogues of Satan, and Iews great blaſphemers, by Chriſts own reſolution, Rev. 2. 9. c. 3. 9. Acts 18. 6. Rom. 2. 21. With the late printed llArticle 37.Inſtrument of Government: which though it allows not only toleration, but protection to all Sects and Religions profeſſing faith in God through Ieſus Chriſt, (though differing from the Doctrine and Diſcipline publtkely held forth in the Nation,) except only to Popery and Prelacy; yet certainly it can no ways extend to the toleration or protection of Jews and their Antichriſtian blasphemies againſt Christ himſelf and the Goſpel; ſeeing they are ſo far from profeſſing faith in Jeſus Christ; that mmSee Petrus Alphonſus, adverſus Judaeos. Antonini Chro. pars 2. Til. 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 & Judaiſm refuted.they utterly renounce, and profeſſedly decry him to be the true Saviour and Meſſiah of the world; rejecting the whole New Testament and Doctrin of the Goſpel: and ſo by conſequence, are neceſſarily ſecluded by this Inſtrument, and Oath for its obſervation, from practiſing their Jewiſh worſhip, Ceremonies, or erecting any Synagogues in our Nation for that purpoſe.

2ly. Though the nnSee Brooks & Aſh. Corporation & 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 Parliament; 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 ancient Charters, Priviledges, 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. p. 561. 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, 36. E. 3. c. 7, 19 H. 7. c. 12, and all other Acts for the ooSee Raſtals 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, Merchants and Aliens.

3ly. The **See my Soveraign power of Parliaments, parl. 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 by their Oath and Duty, and the Lords and Commons in Parliament, are all obliged by their truſts and our Laws, to advance, uphold, maintain and defend the welfare, wealth, ſafety of the Church, Realm, Subjects, People of England, and to prevent, redreſſe, ſuppreſſe, remove by wholſom 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 Nov. 1648. and Mr. Iohn 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.Summa ratio eſt, quae pro religione facit. 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 Maximes, and no wayes to be admitted.

p. 574ly. The Jews heretofore in England, an … ſtill in all ppSee Cent. Mag. 3 to 13. c. 14.other parts, being moſt grievous Clippers, Coyners, Forgers of money, Uſurers, Extortioners, and the greateſt Chea…ors, 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 qqSee Raſtals Abridgement Title, Artificers, Aliens Money, Treaſon, Drapery, &c.all our Laws, yet in force, prohibiting clipping, coyning, uſury, extortion, frauds, deceipts, in any Merchandizes or Manufactures whatſoever; unleſſe we intend to have them all now more practiſed by them and others among us, then ever heretofore. The rather, becauſe they were never admitted free Trading & Habitation in England by rrSee Raſtals Abridgment, Tit. Merchants and Merchandize.any of our Laws touching Alten Merchants, and Artificers free Traffick amongſt us, from the time of their forementioned baniſhment, till this preſent, under the Name and Notion of Jews, Foraign Merchants, or Artificers. And therefore not to be admitted to thoſe deſired Priviledges, from which all theſe forecited Laws (in my weak Judgement) with the former old Parliamentary Judgment, and Edict, for their per petual baniſhment, in Law, Juſtice, Conſcience ſtill debarre them readmittance, till repealed; and they (if ever readmitted againſt all theſe Acts and Statutes) muſt be introduced, reſetled 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 thoughr meet to inform the Nation, touching thoſe Laws & Statutes which (in my poor opinion) directly or by conſequence oppoſe their re-admiſſion, and refute thoſe Lawyers miſinformation, 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 engage us againſt their re-admiſſion.

1. Matth. 5. 13. Lu. 14. 34, 35. Salt is good: but if the p. 58ſalt have loſt its ſavor, wherewith 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 loſt both their Saviour & their Savor too. Therefore not fit for our land or dunghils; but to be kept and caſt out from amongſt us, and trodden under foot of all true Chriſtian men.

2. 1 Cor. 16. 22, If any man love not the Lord Ieſus Chriſt, let him be Anathema Maranatha. That is, ſeparated and caſt out from all Chriſtian ſociety and Communion until the day of Judgment, the higheſt kind of Jewiſh Excommunication. Now the Jews are ſuch, who do not only not love, but deny, defie and hate our Lord Jeſus Chriſt in the higheſt degree. Therefore to be excommunicated and ſecluded from our Chriſtian Communion and Cohahitation amongſt us, to which they can pretend no right.

3. 2 Cor. 6. 14, 15, &c. Be ye not unequally yoaked together with unbelievers: for, what fellowſhip hath righteouſneſs with unrighteouſneſs? and what communion hath light with darkneſs? and what concord hath Chriſt with Belial? and what part hath he that believeth with an Infidel? and what agreement hath the Temple of God with Idols? &c, VVherefore 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, Darkneſſe, Belialids, 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. Ioh. 1. 5. Mat: 8. 12. Rev. 2. 9. 1 Th…ſſ. 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 leſſe to receive them into our land and bo…omes, 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 9. 10. 11. VVhoſoever tranſgreſſith, and p. 59abideth 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 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 God ſpeed, in returning to dwell amongſt us. And if any do the contrary, they are and ſhall be partakers of their evil deeds.

5, 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, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucres ſake. VVherfore rebuke them ſharply, that they may be ſound in the faith: NOT GIVING HEED TO JEWISH FABLES, and commandements OF MEN THAT TURNE FROM THE TRUTH. If the circumciſed Jews were ſuch unruly Deceivers, ſeducers, and ſubverters of whole houſes, even in the Apoſtles own dayes, and their Jewiſh fables then did turn ſo many from the truth. With what colour of Chriſtianity, piety, conſcience, can we call them in amongſt us now, in theſe times of fearfull, and almoſt univerſal Apoſtacy from the truth, when leſſe dangerous ſeducers have ſubverted whole houſes, pariſhes, and almoſt Cities and Counties too?

6. 1 Theſſ. 2. 14, 15, 16. For ye alſo have ſuffered like things of your Countrymen, even as they have of the Jews: who both killed the Lord Jeſus, 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 imitate them, inejecting & 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 p. 60Jews, expreſſing their tranſcendent malice to the Lord Jems, 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 of Gods wrath upon the whole Engliſh Nation, who have enough thereof already.

7. Acts 18. 5, 6, 7. Paul was preſſed in spirit, and teſtified to the Jews, that Jeſus was Chriſt. And when they oppoſed themſelves and blasphemed, he ſhooke his rayment, and ſaid unto them, Your bloud be upon your own heads: I am clean, from henceforth, I will go 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 Iews 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; LO 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 chiefmen of the City, and raiſed perſecution againſt Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them out of their coaſts; but they ſhock off the duſt of their feet againſt them, and came unto Iconium. This malitious carriage and perſecution of the Jews, even againſt the **See the like, Acts 17. 5. to 16. c. 19. 8, 9, 10. c. 28. 25. to 31.Acts 17:5–16Apoſtles themſelves and 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 p. 61that being formerly caſt out of our Coaſts by our Anceſtors for their infidelity, crucifying of Chriſt in his Members, and ſuch like miſdemeanors, and ſo being 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 pretence.

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 drive the Inhabitants of the land out before thee ssExod. 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 DVVELL IN THY LAND, l…ſt 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, Nether 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 do IN ANY VViſe go back, and cleave unto the remnant of theſe Nations, and go in unto them, and they to you, know for a certain, that the Lord will no more drive out any of theſe Nations before you; but they ſhall be ſnares and traps unto you, and ſcourges in your ſides, and thorns in your eyes, until you periſh from the good Land which the Lord your God giveth you: But thus ye ſhall deal with them, ye ſhall deſtroy their Altars, and break down their Images, and cut down their groves, &c. for thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God. Now, THE NOT DRIVING OF THESE NATIONS BY THE ISRAELITES FROM AMONGST THEM, according to theſe commands of God, is charged as a ſpecial ſin upon them by God, enticed them to Idolatry, and brought his ſevere wrath upon them, Judges 1. 27. to 36. c. 2. 2, 3, 12, 13, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23. and is thus expreſſed by the Pſalmiſt Pſal. 106. 34 to 43. They did not destroy the Nations, concerning whom the Lord commanded them; BUT WERE MINGLED AMONG p. 62THE HEATHEN, AND LEARNED THEIR WORKS; & they ſerved their Idols, which were a ſnare unto them, yea they ſacrificed their Sons & Daughters unto Devils, & ſhed innocent blood▪ even the blood of their Sons and Daughters, whom they ſacrificed unto the Idols of Canaan, and their Land was defiled with blood. Therefore was the wrath of the Lord kindled againſt his people, inſomuch that he a…horried 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 into ſub jection 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, Ceromonies & Synagogues heretofore; So I conceive they ſtrongly oblige all Engliſh Chriſtians (eſpecially after our late ſolemn forgotten League and Covenant) to ſeclude and keep them out from re-entring, coming in, mingling, and dwelling, amongſt 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 applied 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▪ 1. 32. 1 Cor. 5, 4. &c. Phil. 3. 2, 3. Mat. 7. 15 c. 16. 7. 11. 12. 17. Col. 2. 8. 2. Pet. 3. 17. c. 2. 1. &c. 7, 8, 20, 21, 22. 2 Tim. 3. 1. to 10 c. 2. 16, 17. Titus 3. 10, 11. Revelations 2. 9. 14. Hebrewes 6. 4. to 9. c. 16. 26. to 32. Phil. 4. 2, 3. will all furniſh us with ſundry arguments againſt their re-admiſſion amongſtus, as likewiſe Prov. 6. 27. 28. Pſal. 101. 3, 4, 5, p. 636, 7, 8. Pſal. 119. 104. Pſ. 139. 21. 22. Num. 8. 13. Num. 16. 26. Pſ. 6. 8. Pſ. 119. 115. Pſ. 139. 19. 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 both.

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, ttDeut. 9. 6, 7, 13. …. 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. 7. c. 6, 7. c. 11. 7. Mat. 3. 7. c. 11. 23. 24. c. 23. 33. Acts. 7. 51. 52. and other texts.Deut 9:6Deut 9:7Deut 9:13Deut 9:31Deut 9:17Exod 32:9Ps 78:8Ps 78:9Jer 3:6–22Isa 3:9Ezek 2:3–9Hos 4:16Matt 3:7Acts 7:51Acts 7:52that they were a moſt rebellious, diſobedient, gainſaying, stiffnecked, imp…nitent, incorrigible, adulterous, whoriſh, impudent, froward, ſhameleſſe, perverſe, treacherous, revolting, back ſliding, idolatrous, wicked, ſinfull, stubborn, untoward, hard-hearted, hypocritical, fooliſh, ſottiſh, brutiſh, ſtupid, ungratefull, Covenant-breaking Nation, Houſe, People; a ſeed of evil-doers, a generation of Vipers, doing evil greedily with both hands, according to all the Nations that were round about them: as bad, nay worſe than Sodom or Gomorrha, caſting all Gods Laws, Ordinances behind their backs, trampling them under their feet,(H) Levit. 26. Deut. 28. Iſay. c. 1. & 9. & 14. & 29. & 32. Jer. cap. 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 3. Mat. c. 1. 2. Zeph. 1. Zach. 11. 2 Kings 17. 2 Chron. 36. Mat. 24. Lev. 22. Egeſippu…, Euſebius, and others.Lev 26Deut 28Isa 1Jer 1Lam 1Ezek 2Hos 1Matt 1:2Zeph 1Zech 112 Kgs 172 Chr 36Matt 24Lev 22 rejecting, forſaking, deſpiſing God himſelf, provoking him continually to his face, grieving him to the heart, forgetting him days without number, always …rring in their hearts, and diſobeying his voice, and the lik: And dare, can wethen harbour ſuch a Nation as this, and bring them in amongſt us, now they are worſe in all theſe reſpects than ever?

2. God himſelf hath denounced against, and inſlicted upon the Jews grea…, ſeverer W…s, Judgements, Calamities, Diſperſons, D…v…ſ…ations, Captivities, Deſolations, Curſes, P▪ …gues of all kinds, for their ſins, rebellions, imponnencies, and to their Nation, Kingdom, Countrie … Cities, than to any … Nations, Kingdomes, People; and that more frequently th…n againſt any other▪ S… againſt them in his wrath, that they ſhould never … into his r…st, Pſal. 95. p. 6411. Hebr. 3. 10, 11, 18. ſtiling them, the Generation of his wrath, Jer. 7. 29. and averring of them, that wrath is come upon them to the uttermoſt, 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 curſes of God which are denounced againſt, and do now purſue and accompany them in all places?

3. The Jews were alwayes heretofore xxExod. 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 9Ezek 17:13–24a very murmuring, mutinous, diſcontented, rebellious, ſeditious people for the moſt part, not only againſt God, but their Lawfull Governors, Kings, Priests, Prophets, …oft tumultuouſly rebelling againſt, diſobeying, revolting from, depoſing, murdering their Kings, and Soveraigns; and contemning, diſobeying, ſlaying, killing the Prophets, Meſſengers whom God ſent unto them. Whence God him…elfe gi…es 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, untill the wrath of the Lord roſe againſt his people, till there was no remedy, &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 alwayes reſiſt the holy Ghoſt; as your fathers did, ſo do ye. VVhichWhich of the Prophets have not your Fathers perſecuted? and they have ſlain them which have ſhewed them before of the comming 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, enterrain, or bring in ſuch a Nation, People as this amongſt us? Or can our deſpiſed Miniſtry in this age, have any p. 65hopes of reclaiming or converting ſuch a people, who have thus abuſed, murdered, ſtoned their own Prophets in former times, though immediatly ſent unto them by God himſelf?

4. yyMat. 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▪ 1… & 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 zz1 Theſſ. 2. 14, 15.1 Thess 2:141 Thess 2:15Lord Ieſus Chriſt himſelf, and his aaAct. 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. … Cor. 11. 24. 1 Theſſ. 2. 14. 15, 16.Acts 4:1–231 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 blinde, 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 of by God himſelf, proclaiming them to be no more his people, to be reprobate ſilver, becauſe be hath rejected them; to make way for the calling, converſion, ſalvation of the Gentiles, whom be 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 9. c. 53. 1. Jer. 6. 10. c. 7. 29. c. 14. 19 Lam. 5. 22. Ho…. 1. 9. 10. c. 4. 6. Mat. 13. 13, 14, 15. c. 21. 24. to 46. v. 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. 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, which ſome have over-confidently aſſerted, and now inſiſt on, as the chiefeſt p. 66argument 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 obſtiſtinate blindneſſe, and obduration which God hath laid upon thoir 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 bbGen. 15. 7. 8. c. 26. 5. Num. 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, 29Gen 15:7Gen 15:8Num 26:54Num 26:55Josh 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. Deutr. 28. 63, 64, 65, &c. Levit. 26. 33. 36, 37, 38, 39. Deutr. 4. 27. c. 32. 26. 1 Kings 14, 15. Neh. 1. 8. Pſ. 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. c. 17. 21. which ſcattering, is principally intended only 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. Therfore, 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 ccSee 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.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 20:17appointed to the Engliſh alone for their portion, (and therefore theſe Aliens may not invade or intrude themſelves into it, without the whole Nations general conſent) is in ſome ſenſe to croſſe theſe ſacred Texts, and neither convenient for us to grant, nor for them to requeſt; being already over-ſtored with Native Engliſhmen.

p. 676. 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 deſpite of his perſon, and paſſion, maliciouſly acted it over and over again in repreſentation; not only by ddAthanaſius 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 Tem. po…um. f. 56. Sigeberti Chro… Hermannus Schedel. chron. f. 168.piercing his Images with ſwords and spears, and in eeChron. mag. Germaniae, An. 1036. p. 268, 269. Hermanus Schedel. chron. f. 278. 289. Genebr. chronogr. p. 824. 825. Janſenius, l. 4. Mer. Gallobelgici.ſtabbing, piercing, boyling, burning, braying in a mortar, and otherwiſe despiting the conſecrated Sacramental bread, repreſenting his crucified body, as the Hiſtorians in the Margin at large relate; and likewiſe by crucifying a Ram at Eaſter, as they did at ffJohannis Bromton chron. col. 1005.Syracuſa, in the year 1113▪ but likewiſe by crucifying ſundry Chriſtian children on Good Friday; o… near Eaſter, on a Croſſe, in a moſt barbarous manner, in deriſion of our Saviors 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 publike ggSocrates Scholaſt. l. 7. c. 16. Centur. Magd. …. c. 14.Enterludes and Dances, held on their Sabboth, openly cruciſied 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 Emperors command, the Jews who had done this in jeſt, were puniſhed in earneſt, Anno 1172. hhSigeb…rti continuatur. Cent. Magd. 12. c. 14. Cent. 13. c. 14.they crucified in like manner another Chriſtian Child at Bloyes in France. And near the ſame time, the Jews at iiVincentius Spec. Hiſt. l. 29. c. 25. Gaguinus l. 6. de Francis, cent. Magd. 12. c. 14. col. 1670.Bray in France, crowned a Chriſtian man (whom they accuſed for a Malefactor) with thornes, 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 kkVincentius Spec. Hiſt. l. 29. c. 25. cent. Magd. 23. c. 14. Munſteri Coſm. l. 2. p. 170.Jews at Paris in France, in like manner crucified a Chriſtian child called Richard; & ſundry others yearly.

p. 68Anno 1236. llFragmentum Hiſtoricum Chronicon▪ Hirſaug. Mun…zerus. Centur. Magd. 13. c. …4.the Jews at the Monaſtery of Fulda, killed many Chriſtian Children in a Mill, piercing them with ponyards, and ſqueezing out their blood, to mix and knead it with their vnleavened bread in their Paſſeover, as was generally reported, which being diſcovered many of them were burnt to death for it, & the reſt grievouſly perſecuted. At mmCranzius. 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 nnChron. Hirſaug. Cent. Magd. 13. c. 14. Faſciculus Temporum. Aventinus Annalium Boiorum l. 7. p. 576.Anno 1286 ſtole away, cruelly tormented, pricked with ponyards, drew the blood, & impiouſly crucified a Chriſtian Child called VVernerus, not far from the Rhene in Germany, barbarouſly murthering him after ſundry torments. ooSebaſt. Munſteri Coſm. l. 3. p. 482.Anno 1287. they tormented and crucified another Chriſtian Child at Bern called Rodolphus, for which they were maſſacred and cruelly handled by the furious vulgar. The Jews at ppHermanus Schedel. Chron. f. 285. 286. Ant. Coc. …ius Sabellicus …ead. 10. l. 6. p. 742.Trent on Good-Friday, in the year 1475. tortured, whipped, pierced & crucified to dearh a Chriſtian child about 13 years old called Simeon, in contempt of Chriſts paſſion, and Chriſtians, kneding their Paſchal unleavened bread with his blood, which Hiſtory is as large related by the Marginal Hiſtorians, And to inſtance in no more particulars, Vincentius Beluacenſis qqAnd ſo doth Sebaſt. Munſter Coſmog…. l. 2. c. 57. p. 171.Speculum Hist. l. 29. c. 25. Gaguinus l. 6. de Francis. Centur. Magd. 12. and 13. c. 14 record, That the Jews in Paris did every year ſteal ſome Chriſtian child or other brought up in the Kings Court, & 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 appprehended per ſevering in this wickedneſſe; for which, upon Detection, they were uſually murthered, ſtoned, burned, deſtroyed, hanged by the furious multitudes p. 69violence, or executed; impriſoned, baniſhed by Chriſtian Kings and Magiſtrates, yet ſuch was their mal…ce to Chriſt, that they would ſt…ll perſevere there…n, and act it over again upon every opportunity. 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 (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 diſperſion, 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, extirſtate 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, ſtoning to death, burning, deſtroying even thoſe of their own Nation, yea poyſoning their own VVives, 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. Nicepkorus 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 Parale. p. p. 346. Centur. Magd. 4. c. 14. 15. &c. 3 col. 85, 86. Cent. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13. …. 3. 14, 15. Mr. p. 70Fox Acts and Menuments, vol. 1. p. 56. with ſundry others record. Upon this ground, certain Chriſtians on the contrary, out of an over-furious zeal, have endeavoured to extirpate them all from under heaven, unleſſe they would turn Chriſtians. Anno. 1101 ooAventinus Annal. Boiorum. l. 5. p. 468. Hedio in Chron. Annot▪ Cent. Magd. 11 c. 15. col. 689.Emicho a German Earl, and the Inhabitants near the Rhene, pillaged, plundered, baniſhed, ſlew, and deſtroyed all the Jews in thoſe parts, who 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 ppOt…o de Geſtis. Fred. 1 …mp. l. 1. c. 37. 38. p. 428. Cent▪ Magd. 12. c. 14. Genebrardi Chronogr l. 4. p. 108.Rudolphus a Monk, out of a miſguided fur…ous zeal, ſtirred up many thouſands of people in France and Germany, near the Rhene, 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 greateſtenemies of Christ. The ſeeds of which doctrin took ſuch deep root in many Cities of France and Germany. that in a tumultuous ſedition & uproar, they ſlew moſt of the Jews in thoſe parts, but ſuch who fled into fenced Cities & Castles, under the protection of the Emperour Fred. the 1. w^ch bloody Doctrine & 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… 298. rrSee Munſteri Coſmog. l. 3. p. 547, 707.one Rindflaſh an Husbandman in Germany, openly preached to the people; That he was ſent from heaven, & specially choſen by God to root out the Jews in all places: And proclaimed, whoever will have the Chriſtian Commonwealth to be ſafe, let him follow me; Whereupon the people flocking to him in great multitudes, & chuſing him for their Captain, ſought out the Jews in Wirtzburgh, Nurinburgh, Rorenburgh, Bamberge, Orenberge, 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 & women obſtinately ſetting their own houſes on ſire, p. 71& burning both themſelves▪ wives, children, with their houſes, houſholdſtuff and goods together, that they might not fall into the Chriſtians hands. In the yearrrM. Albertī Argentini Chron▪ & de rebus geſtis Bertoldi. p. 147. 148, 149, 177. 178. See Abbas Uſpergenſis Paraleip. p. 346. Seb. Munſteri Coſmogr. l. 3. c. 139. p. 563. 707. 1349. There being a great plague and mortality in Germany, the Iews were generally accuſed for the chief Authors or increaſers thereof, by poyſoning all the VVells and Fountains, to deſtroy all the Christians, and corrupting likewiſe ſome baptized Jews, & other Christians with money, and charmes 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 & Biſhops wills, & commands (who neither could nor durst withſtand their violence) fell upon all the Jews in Bern, Friburgh, Argentine, 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 Rhene. All ſuch who protected any of the Jews for mony (as ſome did) were ſo murmured againſt, and hated by the people, that they were in great danger of their lives, wh…ch 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 adde many other ſuch tumults, uproars, occaſioned by, and maſſacres, burnings and deſtructions of them for their villanies, recorded in Hermannus Schedel. Chron. f. 243, 248. 258. p. 72271, 272. and Genebrardi Chronog. p. 461, 627, 660, 618, 688, 824. 830. with thoſe forementioned in England. And can we then in point of Chriſtian piety or prudence, now bring in ſuch a generation of men as theſe amongſt us, eſpecially in theſe unſetled, unquiet, diſcontented times, to kindle new flames of diſcontent and tumults amongſt the people?

8. The rrSurius Concil. Tom. 2. p. 735. Gratian. Diſt. 28. qu. 1. & 29. qu. 1.converſation of the Jews is ſo dangerous to Chriſtians, that the 4 Council of Toledo: can. 59, 61, 62. made this Decree, The Converſations and Companies of evil men do oftentimes corrupt even the good, how much more then thoſe who are prone to vices. Let therefore the Jews who are converted to the Chriſtian faith have no further Communion henceforth with thoſe, who ſtill continue in their old Jewiſh rites, leſt peradventure they ſhould be ſubverted by their Society: Therefore we decree, that the Sons and Daughters of thoſe Jewes which are baptized, that they be not again involved in the errors of their parents, ſhall be ſeparated from their Company, and placed with Chriſtian men & women fearing God, where they may be well inſtructed, and grow in faith and Chriſtian manners; and that the Jewes believing Wives ſhall be divorced and ſeparated from their Husbands, unleſſe upon admonition they turne Chriſtians. The like was ſſFredericus Lindebrogus Codex Legum, Antiq.Enacted by the Wiſigothes, Laws: lib. 12. Tit. 2. 3. Yea, ttCentur. Magdeb. 12. c. 7. col. 1079.Pope Alex. the 3. Decretal. l. 6. c. 7. prohibited all Chriſtians, under pain of Excommunication, to cohabit with the Jews, or keep company with them, becauſe their manners and Christians accord in nothing, and they by reaſon of their continual converſation, and daily familiarity, might EASILY incline the minds of ſimple people TO THEIR SUPERSTITION AND INFIDELITY. And ſhould not thoſe then, who pretend themſelves far greatet Zealots then the Goths, Spaniards, or Pope, upon theſe very grounds, much more oppoſe, prohibit their readmiſſion into England, in this giddy Apoſtatizing p. 73age, leſt their Company and Society ſhould eaſily ſeduce the unſtable people to their Judaiſm and Infidelity, to Chriſts diſhonour, their own damnetion, and the infamy of our Church and Government. The rather, becauſe if extraordinary care be not taken herein, under pretext of Jews, we ſhall have many hundreds of Jeſuites, Popiſh Prieſts and Friers come over freely into England from Portugal, Spaine, Rome, Italy, and other places, under the title, habit, and diſguiſe of Jews, of purpoſe to undermine our Religion, Church and State, and ſow the ſeeds of Hereſie, Blaſphemy, Popery, Superſtition, Schiſms, and Diviſions amongſt us; they having formerly ſent over ſome of late years amongſt us, under the notion and vizard of converted Jews, as Ramſey the Scot, and Eleazer, and Joſeph Ben-Iſaiah, all Jeſuitical, wicked cheating Impoſtors: the two laſt whereof, have cheated the honeſt people of the Nation of many thouſand pounds, being notorious Villains, one of them formerly a Trooper and Plunderer in Prince Ruperts army, as he confeſſed to his Hoſteſſe at Durſly in Glocesterſhire in his drink, where he would have raviſhed the Maid-ſervant of the houſe, locking the door upon her, whiles ſhe was warming his bed in the night, and upon her crying out for help, fled away preſently in the night, to avoid apprehenſion; And yet wanders about cheating the people in other places, inſtead of being brought to Tyburne for his Villanies. And if they abuſe and cheat us thus already, much more will they doe it upon, and after the Jewes admiſſion.

9. To pretermit their baniſhment out of Rome by the Emperor Claudius, recorded Acts 18. 2. and that as ttOroſius, l. 2. c. 6. Cent. Magd. 2. col. 26 Euſcb. l. 2. c. 8. Opmeeri Chron. p. 185. Metamerus de Ac… demiis Hiſp.Eccleſiaſtical Hiſtorians report, for their cheating, and tumults there raiſed. I ſhall only in brief relate, how they have from time to time been baniſhed, expelled many Chriſtian Cities, Countries, Kingdoms, and their Synagogues burnt and deſtroyed, eſpecially for their Infidelity, and other forementioned Miſdemeanors, Crimes, p. 74Villanies. uuSocrates Schol. Eccl. Hiſt. l. 7. c. 13. Agobardus de Judaicis ſuperſtit. Bibl. Patrum. Tom. 9 pars 1. p. 564. Cent. Magd. 4. col. 1081. 1490About the year of Chri… 430. at the inſtigation of St. Cyril Biſhop of Alexandri…, and the Chriſtians there, they were expelled and baniſhed that famous City, where they had long inhabited, for their inſolencies, & ſeditious conspiracies against the Chriſtians. About the year of Chriſt, 615. they were baniſhed out of Jeruſulem it ſelf, by Heraclius the Emperour, as Zonaras, Tom. 3. in his life: Paulus Diaconus, rerum Rom. l. 18. & Cent. Magd. 7. c. 14. ſtorie. About Anno 616. xxRodericus Toletanus de Rebus Hisp. l. 2. c. 17. Vaſaeus Chron. Hisp. 685. Jo. Mariana de Rebus Hiſp. l. 6. c. 3. Sigeberti chro. Ado Viennenſis. Opmeerus Orbis Univerſi. Chronogr. p. 355 Cent. Magd. 7. c. 14. Genebrar. Chronogr.King Siſebutus baniſhed them all out of Spaine, unleſſe they would turn Chriſtians, which the moſt of them refuſing to doe, departed thereupon into France, as the marginal Authors unanimouſly atteſt. About the year 618. they were all baniſhed out of France by King Dagobert, unleſſe they would renounce their Judaiſm, and turn Chriſtians, upon the command and inſtigation of Her a…lius the Emperour; as Regino, Chron. l. 1. & Cent. Magdeb. 7. c. 14. relate. King Wamba about the year 710. baniſhed them out of the Province of Narbon; as Rodericus Toletanus de Rebus Hisp. l. 3. c. 11. informs us. The yyPaulus Diaconus, l. 17. Zonaras Tom. 3. Cent. Magd. 7. c. 15. col. 588.Emperor Phocas, about the year 60…. baniſhed them out of the City of Antioch, for the tumults they had there raiſed againſt the Chriſtians and Government. About the year 1196. they zzCent. Mag. xi. c. 14. &c. 15. col. 689.were baniſhed out of the City of Mentz, and near the ſame time out of the City of Triers, and the Biſhoprick thereof, by Biſhop Everhard. aaVincentiu… Belu. Spe. Hiſt. l. 29. c. 25. Antonini Chron. pars 2. Tit. 17. c. 9. Mat. Paris Hiſt. Angl. p. 861. A…b … …sp…g: Paral. p. 346. Herman. Schedel Chro. f. 231. Cent. Mag. 12. …. 15. col. 1781. Genebrardi …hron. l. 4; p. 638. Fox. Acts & Mon. Vol. …. p. 423, Cooks 2 Inſt. p. 507. Seb. M…. Coſ…. l. 2, c. 57. f. 171.Philip Auguſtus King of France, baniſhed them all out of France by ſeveral Edicts, Anno 1152, 1162. & 1182. for theſe reaſons: becauſe they had divers times crucified children of Chriſtians in Paris, and elſwhere, in contempt of Chriſt and his Paſſion; entertained Chriſtian men ſervants and maid ſervants in their houſes, who did likewiſe play the Jews with them, contrary to the Decrees of God and the Church; above meaſure oppreſſed▪ impoveriſhed by their Uſuries, the Citizens, Knights, Gentry, and Country people both p. 75in the Cities, Suburbs, and Villages of France, and detained ſome of them priſoners in their houſes, like captives, binding them by an Oath, not to depart out of them; moſt vilely profaned the ſacred Veſſels pawned to them by church-men in caſes of neceſſity, cauſing their little children ordinarily to drink wine and eat ſops out of them (in contempt of the Sacrament) and casting the ſilver Veſſels, Croſſes, and guilded Books of the Goſpel pawned to them, into Jakes in a ſack, that the Chriſtians might not find them; and becauſe the Saracens upbraided the Chriſtians for entertaining them amongſt them, being the profeſſed Enemies of Chriſt. Upon theſe grounds, as alſo becauſe their wealth and Number were ſo increaſed, that they had almoſt gotten half the City of Paris into their hands, King Philip cauſed them to be all apprehended through France in one day, as they were in their Synagogues: then spoiled them of all their rich gold and ſilver garments, confiſcated all their Lands, Houſes, Poſſeſſions; and baniſhed them the Realm, notwithſtanding the interceſſions of many Biſhops and Nobles (bribed with their gold and gifts) on their behalf, and the proffers, of great ſummes of money to him by the Jews, wherewith he would not be mollified. After which, he cauſed their Synagogues to be prophaned, and then conſecrated and converted to Churches; that ſo where Chriſt was first blasphemed after the manner of the Jews, he might in the ſame places be praiſed both by the Clergy and people, as Vincentius records at large. After this, creeping into that Realm again by money and Bribes, they were bbAemilius l. 8. Gaguinus, l. 7. Genebrardi chronogr. l. 4. p. 634. 660, 667. Heylins Microcoſme, p. 576.again baniſhed out of France, and their goods confiſcated by King Philip the Fair, in the year 1293. as ſome, or 1307. as others compute it, and driven into Germany. In the year 1349. at the earneſt importunity of the people they were all baniſhed out of ccAlberti Argentinenſis chron. p. 147, 148. De Rebus Ge…lis Bertoldi p. 177, 178.Alſatia, and the Imperial Cities, by the agreement of the Biſhops and Nobles, and moſt of them burnt and deſtroyed, as they had been formerly in thoſe parts by Earl ddAventinus Annal. Boior. l. 5. p. 468.Emicho, An. 1102. who then baniſhed them thence. Ludovicus Duke of Bavaria, about the year 1450, baniſhed all the Iews out p. 76of his Territories, as Aeneas Picolom…neus in his Europ… ſtaius ſub Frederico, l. 3. c. 32. p. 79. aſſures us. eeSeb. Munſte…t Coſmog. l. 2. p. 72, 73. 171. Hieron. Coneſtaggius de Portugal. & Caſt. conjunct. p. 1064, 1065. Vaſaeus chron. Hisp. Johan. Mariana de Rebus Hisp. l. 26. c. 1. 3. The General Hiſtory of Spain in their Lives. Genebrardi chronog. p. 380. 634. 660. 667. 703. 705, 708. Heylins Microſme, p. 570. Opmeeri chronogr. p. 429.In the years 1474. 1482. and 1492. they were all baniſhed out of Spain by King Ferdinand, ſurnamed the Catholique, from whence they were tranſported and received into Portugal, they paying to K. Iohn 2. 8. Duckets for every poll of them at firſt, for their admiſſion; which much augmented his Eſchequer, though it diminiſhed his piety and honour. Not long after, Anno 1497. they were driven and baniſhed out of Portugal by King Emanuel: And in the year 1539. they were baniſhed out of Naples and Sicily by Charles the 5th. To which I might adde the deſtruction, burning and utter extirpation of the Jews by the Rubeaquenſes Anno 1309. and 1338. Munſt. Coſm. l. 3. p. 547. out of Worms and Spires, An. 1092. Munſteri Coſm. l. 3. p. 580. Out of Prague, by VVratiſlaus for hating and ſlaying the Chriſtians, Geor. Bartholdus Pontanus, Bohemiae Piae. l. 2. p. 20. Out of Berne, An. 1287. Munſteri Coſm. l. 3. p. 582. Having therefore been thus frequently baniſhed by Chriſtian Kings, Princes, from time to time, at the earneſt ſollicitation of their godly Chriſtian Miniſters, Biſhops, People; and by our King and Parliament too out of **Annales Domin. colmarienſium, p. 25.England, ſo long ſince, never to return again, what ſhadow, colour of Piety, Policy, Prudence, Juſtice, Law, Reaſon, there can be for any perſon or perſons whatſoever to re-admit them (except the Argument of diſhoneſt, private, filthy under-hand Bribes or Lucre, by which they uſually ſcrue themſelves into thoſe places, whence they have been exiled) tranſcends my ſhallow capacity to comprehend, eſpecially at this ſeaſon, when we are ſo over-ſtored with Engliſh, that ſome think of ſending and planting Colonies in another world; whither theſe Gold-thirſty Jews may do well to tranſplant themſelves, if they be weary of their former habitations.

9. The forecited Chriſtian Authors, Hiſtorians old and new, much applaud and magnifie thoſe Chriſtian p. 77Emperors, Kings, Magistrates, States, who have moſt oppoſed, restrained, ſuppreſſed by ffSee Leges wiſtgothorum l. 12. Tit. 2. 3. Surius concil. Tom. 2. 277. 608. 640. 679. 696. 674. 680. 734. 735. 1092. Tom. 3. p. 552. 622. 670. 726. 754. Cent. Mag. 4. col. 541. 1461. cent. 6. col. 824 cent. 7. col. 588Titus 2:3ſevereſt Laws, Edicts, the Jewiſh Synagogues, Ceremonies, Superſtitions, Rites, Abuſes; and baniſhed theſe Antichriſtian Blaſphemers, and Enemies of Chriſt Jeſus out of their Kingdoms and Territories, eſpecially for their Infidelity, and cenſured thoſe who favoured them. And Matthaeus Flacius Illericus, Johannis Wigandus, Andreas Corvinus, Thomas Holthuter, 4 famous, learned Proteſtant Hiſtorians and Divines, in their laborious, learned Eccleſiaſtical Centuries, as they every where do the like: So in their 12. Cent. cap. 7. col. 1078, 1079. they paſſe this ſharp cenſure againſt the Decrees of ggSurius Concil. Tom. 3. p. 726.Pope Alexander the 3. and Clement the 3. (prohibiting the Jews to build any new Synagogues where were none before, yet tolerating thē only to repair old ones where they were fallen down or defaced, to uſe their rites in. But withall forbidding all Chriſtians under pain of Excommunication, communion with them, for fear of being ſeduced to their Superstitions, &c.) Deni que ut EXTREMAM Romanorum Paparum IMPUDENTIAM ET STUPENDAM IMPIETATEM VIDEAS, non pigebit eorum Decreta, PRO BLASPHEMA IN DEUM GENTE JUD AEORUM LATA, adſcribere. And Peter Herlin in his Microcoſme, p. 569, 570. writing, That the Iews having been put to divers fines and ranſoms, they are at laſt even quite thruſt out of Europe alſo. They were baniſhed out of England by Edward the 1. Anno 1290. Out of France, Spain, Portugal, Naples, and Sicily (by the Kings forecited) ſubjoyns by way of Cenſure. Yet are they found in great numbers in the Romiſh part of Germany and Poland, in moſt Cities of Italy, especially Rome, where there are not leſſe than 15000. or 20000. of them; and alſo in the Popes Country of Avignion. The reaſon why they are permitted to live thus under our Holy Fathers noſe, is forſooth, AN EXPECTATION OF THEIR CONVERSION:Nota. WHICH IS A MERE PRETENCE, THE REASON BEING INDEED, THE BENEFIT HENCE ARISING p. 78TO HIS HOLINESSE COFFERS. But the hopes of their converſion is ſmall, and the means leſs, &c. And therfore we cannot now readmit them in to England upon the ſelf-ſame Papal pretence and Ground of Gain; without incurring the like Cenſures from Proteſtants and Papiſts too; and bringing intollerable Scandal, Disſ…onor, Reproach, on our Nation and Religion, in theſe times of pretended higheſt Reformation; they being the profeſſed Enemies of our Lord Jeſus Chriſt, who will not not have him to rule over them, Luk. 19, 27. and ſo odious to the bbHeylins Microcoſm, p. 170.very Turks them ſelves for cru…fying Chriſt, that they oft uſe to ſay in deteſtation of a thing, I would I might die a Jew. Neither will they permit a Jew to turn Turk, unleſs he be firſt baptized.

11 Many of the wiſeſt Heathen Law-givers, Polititians, States, have eſpecially prohibited the introduction and habitation of foraigners amongſt them. Hence iiAlexander ab Alexandro, l. 4. p. 203. Plutarch's Laconica inſtituta Xenophon de Lacaedem. Republica, Thucidides coelius Rhodiginus antiqua in lect. l. 18. c. 5. Boemus de moribus Gent. p. 199.Lycurgus the famous Legiſlator, and the Spartans by his Law and advice expelled all foraigners out of their City and Country, leſt by inſinuating themſelves amongſt them, they ſhould teach their Citizens ſome ill, introduce foraign manners, and an ill diſordered kind of life; upon which ground they all prohibited their Citizens to travell into foraign Countries. Upon theſe grounds the Thebans and alſo Apotloniatae (in imitation of the Spartans, baniſhed all foraigners out of their City, as Aelian Variae Hiſtoriae l. 13. c. 16. & Alexander ab Alexandro l. 4. c. 10. record. Plato the Philoſopher Dialogo 12. de Legumlatione, though he permits forainers by way of ſtudy, trade, travel, and embaſſie to come into his City and Republike, under certain Laws, R…ules, yet he totally ſecludes them from inhabiting therein, or to trade, without strict Laws to prevent their danger. Solet enim civitatum in commerc…is permixtio, varios mores civitatibus ammiſcere, dum externi externiis viciſſim novationes inducum: quae res civitatibus per rectas leges benè inſtitutis MAXIMUM DETRIMENTUM AFFERT: **De Republ. l. 5. c. 2.Arist. obſerves, Thatthe bringing in of forainers is a principal cauſe of ſeditions, quarels; Qui inquilinas aut advenas …nt in p. 79vitatem, Hi ferè Omnes aut certè plurimi SEDITIONIBUS CONFLICTANTUR. kkSphaer… civitatis, l. …. c. 3. p. 435, 437, 438.Dr. Jo. Caſe gives the reaſon of it. Nam ut nihil citius corpus humanum inficit quàm peſtilentium vaporum malis humoribus copulatio; ita NIHIL VELOCIUS CORRUMPIT CIVITATEM, QUAM PEREGRINORUM HOMINUM ADMISSIO, in qua contagio & venenum latet. And hereupon he raiſeth this queſtion from Ariſtotles Text; Utrum periculoſa ſit in Rempublicam peregrinorum admiſſio? And thus reſolves it. It is perillous to take Snakes into the Boſom, and Forraigners into the Commonwealth; for as they being refreſhed with heat doe bite and ſting; So theſe being enfranchiſed deſtroy the Republike. To prove this by arguments, we may conſider that every Nation hath its proper manners and ceremonies which they bring along with them, & do not change with the climat when they come into another Country; VVherefore there is great danger, leſt by receiving ſtrangers the ancient manners & Laws ſhould be changed into new and forain. Now what ſooner begets ſedition then alteration of Laws and Cuſtoms? (as we may ſee even in ſundry Scripture examples, which he remembers not, and of the Jews eſpecially Acts 14. 2. to 7. 16. c. 16. 19. to 25. c. 18. 5, 6, 7, 17, 18, 19. c. 17, 12. to 18 c. 19. 24. to 41. c. 21, 27, to 40. c. 22. 22. &c. c. 23. & 24. & 25.) VVhat therefore is more perillous than the admiſſion of Foraigners into our Commonwealth? Moreover, wherefore hath Nature inſtructed like to aſſociate together with like, if it ſhould draw men of ſtrange and different manners into a Republike. Nature will not that ſheep ſhould be aſſociated with wolves, neither wills Prudence that Natives ſhould be coupled with forraigners; For Philoſophy perſwades this, that contraries cannot dwell in the ſame place; but ſtrangers for the moſt part are enemies to the Citizens with whom they converſe. Adde to this, that as Locuſts are to the corn, ſo are foraigners to the Republike; for as they do waſt and conſume the grain of corn, ſo theſe devour the fruit of the Commonwealth; for although they are branches of the ſame plant, yet they ſuck not wholeſom p. 80juyce but poyſon from the root, wherewith at length the whole plant being infected periſheth. This he proves by ſeveral examples out of**De Repub. l. 5. c. 2. 3. Aristotle himſelf; as by the Trezenii, Zanclei, Sybarites, Byſantii Antiſſiaei, Apolloniatae, Chii; Syracuſani, Aniohipoli…e, who by receiving ſtrangers into their Cities and Countries, were all much infeſted, and ſome of them quite ſupplanted and ejected by them, the reſt enforced to expel them by force of arms. Then he ſubjoyneth, That the ſtrangers admitted among Gods own people, proved briars and thorns unto them, and Solomon himſelf by many ſtrange women fell into idolatry: concluding thus, The Spaniards in my judgement did not unjuſtly BANISH THE SEDITIOUS JEWES OUT OF THEIR COASTS: propius non accedo, ſed Christum oro, ne peregrinarum turbâ immanis turbo in civitate fiat., As theſe Grecians in ancient times prohibited the introduction of ſtrangers amongſt them, for the forementioned reaſons, ſo likewiſe did ſome of the wiſeſt Romans: Pennus in ancient times, and Papius after him (as llSee Thucidides Hist. l. 6. p. 506.Cicero relates; Peregrinos Ʋrhibus prohibent, eoſque exterminant; which although he thus cenſures as a cruelty, uſu verò urbis prohibere peregrinos, ſanè inhumanum est; Yet he intends it only of excluding ſtrangers from all trading and commerce, not from cohabitation, as Denizens, from which he holds it juſt to debarre them, there being a ſpecial Law then in force for that purpoſe, which he thus expreſſeth: Nam eſſe pro cive qui civis non ſit, RECTUM EST NON LICERE: QUAM LEGEM TULERUNT SAPIENTISSIMI CONSULES, Craſſus & Scaevola. Hence Claudius the Emperour beniſhed the Jews out of Rome, Acts 18. 2 and Suetonius in his life. And the miſchief of admitting forraigners is largely argued in mmCicero de Officiis, l. 3.Cornelius Tacitus, who were after his time baniſhed out of Room▪ as nnPage 218, 210, 220.Coelius Rhodiginus relates out of Ammianus Marcelinus; So the Carthaginians, ooAntiqu. Lection, l. 1…. p. 5.(p) Alexander ab Alexan. Gen. Dier. l. 4. c. 10.Scithians, Scythotauri, Jamphaſanti, Seres, Indians, and Aegyptians in ſome places; The Aethenians alſo exluded p. 61forraigners company and converſation; Ne cives longo uſu diſſimiles mores imbuerent, & in alienas leges rituſque tranſirent, as Alex. ab Alexandro, Gen. Dierum l. 4. c. 10. and Boêmus de Mor. Gentium record. And we read of the ppPurchas pilg…image, l. 4. c. 13, 19. p. 537, 538.Tartars and moſt politick Inhabitants of China, at this day, that they will admit no ſtrangers into their Countries, ſo much as to travel or traffick, for fear of diſcerning their ſecrets, and corrupting their maners, and thoſe few they admit by ſpecial licence to enter into their Country, they will by no means ſuffer to return thence, nor permit Merchants and Marriners there trading to walk abroad publikely in their Cities and Countries, nor to lodge on land, but only in their ſhips; which practiſes of theirs, being if not grounded on, yet at leaſt warranted by Gods own forcited Precepts to the Iſraelites, and being warranted by the Jews own practiſe, who had no dealings with the Samaritans, John 4. 9. and the Samaritans reciprocal carriage towards the Iews, whom they would neither lodge nor entertain, Lu. 9. 51, 52, 53. Why we ſhould not upon this account ſeclude thoſe alien Jews, ſo different from us both in manners, cuſtoms, Laws, Religion, and obeying not the Laws of our Saviour Chriſt Jeſus, it being not for the Kings or the Kingdoms profit to ſuffer them, (as Haman, Eſther 3. 8. once ſaid of them in another caſe) I referre it to all wiſe Stateſmen to reſolve, ſince it may be truly ſaid of ſuch unwelcom gueſts.

Turpius ejicitur quâm non admittitur hoſpes.

Neither will this contradict that Goſpel precept, Heb. 13. 2. Be not forgetfull to entertain ſtrangers: or Deutr. 10. 18. 19. c. 23. 7 Mat. 25. 35, 43. which extend only to Chriſtian hoſpitality, liberality, and pity towards exiles, travellers, and other private diſtreſſed ſtrangers, coming in to lodge or ſojourn with us for a ſhort ſeaſon in our houſes, or Country, and ſtanding in need of our releif, as is clear by the Texts themſelves, compared with Rom. 12. 13. 1 Pet. 4. 9. 3. Iohn 5. but eſpecially to ſuch who are of p. 82the houſhold of faith, not Jews or Infidels) Gal. 6. 10. Not to the reception of any whole foraign Nation or Colony into our Iſland to cohabit perpetually with us (the only point in queſtion) which the Scripture noe where commands nor in ends, but diſallows in the forecited Texts, and Neh. 9. 2. c. 13. 30. And theſe Scripture expreſſions, Pro. 5. 10. Leſt ſtrangers be filled with thy wealth. Iſay 1. 7. your land ſtrangers devour in your preſence, and it is deſolate as overthrown by ſtrangers, Lam. 5. 2. Our inheritance is turned unto ſtrangers, our Houſes to aliens, Hoſea 7. 9. Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not; ſufficiently manifeſt both the illegallity, folly, and ſad conſequences of our receiving Jews and other ſtrangers in ſuch a nature, of which our Anceſtors had ſufficient experience in the Jewes themſelves; enforcing them for ever to exile them hence.

Theſe general Reaſons againſt the Jews readmiſſion premiſed, w^ch I hope will ſatisfie moſt men; I ſhall conclude with ſome particular Reaſons drawn from late publiſhed Declarations of our Grandees, which I conceive will beſt ſatisfie them of any other: and for this end (I hope without any juſt offence, or Scandalum Magnatum) I ſhall crave leave to preſſe them home in this common cauſe, for the defence of the Glory, honor, Scepter, Goſpel, Kingdom of our Lord Jeſus Chriſt, the only qq1 Tim. 6. 15. Col. 2. 10. & 16. Rev. 1. 5. c. 17. 14. c. 19. 16 Rom. 9. 4.1 Tim 6:15Col 2:10Col 2:16Rev 1:5Rom 9:4Potentate, the Prince of the Kings of the Earth, the King of Kings, and Lord of Lords, the head of all Principality and power, and God over all bleſſed for ever, before whoſe feet, all other ſubordinate Kings and Potentates whatſoever ought to rrRev. 4. 9. 10, 11; c. 19. 4 Rom. 11. 36.Rev 4:9Rev 4:10Rev 4:11Rom 11:36prostrate, not only their perſons, but Crowns, and most peremptory Royal Wills and Edicts too; for whoſe pleaſure, honor and glory alone, all things and powers likewiſe both are and were created: in whoſe cauſe we muſt be moſt ſſEzech. 2. 3. to 9. Acts 4. 19. 20. c. 5. 29. 30, &c.Ezek 2:3–9Acts 4:19Acts 4:20bold and zealous, not fearing the faces of any Mortals.

My 1. Reaſon ſhall be drawn from the very words of the Declaration of 21 Novemb. 1655. inviting the people of p. 83this Commonwealth to a day of ſolemn Faſting and Hum liation, on the 6. of December laſt (a **2 Kings 19. 3.2 Kgs 19:3▪ day of trouble and of rebuke, of blaſphemy, & provocation, in reſpect of the violence acted on it that time ſeven years, when the children were come to the birth, and there was no ſtrength to bring forth, but only to obſtruct and pull out the Members, to prevent our peace and ſettlement.) The principal cauſe whereof they Declare to be; The abominable Blaſphemies vented and spreading of late, through the Apoſtacy of, and the abuſe of Liberty by many profeſſing Religion. And to joyn with them in ſolemn and earnest ſupplications to the throne of Grace; That the Lord will diſappoint the deſigns of thoſe, that labour to lift themſelves up againſt the interest of Christ and his people: That he will rebuke the foreſaid Evils, and give his people to know the things that belong to their Peace, that ſo we may with one heart and ſhoulder ſerve the Lord, both theirs and ours. The Jews of all other Nations in the world, are the greateſt venters, ſpreaders of abominable **Acts 13. 45. Rev. 2. 9.Acts 13:45Rev 2:9Blasphemies againſt our Saviour and the Goſpel; the greateſt Apoſtates from God and abuſers of Liberty of any profeſſing Religion; The greateſt deſigners, plotters and lifters up of themſelves againſt the intereſt of Chriſt and his people; as the Premiſes undeniably evidence: And their introduction amongſt us at this ſeaſon, when the generality of the people, and profeſſors of Religion likewiſe are ſo bent to Apoſtacy, and all kind of Errors, of Novelties in Religion, will no ways allay, but moſt certainly increaſe the venting and ſpreading of abominable Blaſphemies amongſt us, multiply the Apoſtacies of, and abuſe of liberty by the profeſſors of Religion, and make thouſands in probability turn Apoſtate Jews, inſtead of converting any of the Jews to Chriſtianity. It will not diſappoint, but moſt of all advance the deſignes of thoſe that labour to lift up themſelves againſt the intereſt of Jeſus Chriſt and his people; this being (as ſome juſtly fear) the Jews very end and plot in preſſing now to be received amongſt us, to ſeduce us unto Judaiſm, to which p. 84many are now inclined; and to deny our Saviour Chriſt in words, as too many have ttTit. 1. 16. 2 Tim. 3. 5. 2. Pet. 2. 1. Jude 14. 1 Joh. 4. 3.Titus 1:162 Tim 3:52 Pet 2:1Jude 1:141 John 4:3denied him in their works, and ſome in their opinions of late years. It will not rebuke, but foment the foreſaid Evils; obſtruct Gods people both from knowing and purſuing the things that concern their peace; and inſtead of enabling them with one heart and ſhoulder to ſerve the Lord, divide them into more Sects and Schiſms, than formerly, and ſet up Judaiſm to affront Chriſtianity with open face, as 2 Pet. 2. 1. Jude 3. 4. &c. Tit. 1. 10. 11. 1 Joh. 4. 3. reſolve: & ſo multiply the late Rebukes and Judgements of God upon the Nation. Therfore their re-admiſſion into England after ſuch a Solemn Declaration, and Day of Humiliation as this (and ſome others formerly preſcribed, obſerved through the Nation, for the late monſtrous growth and spreading of Errors and Blasphemies amongſt us,) if reſolved and effected, will be reputed by God and Men, A moſt palpable violation, yea contradiction of this Declaration and Humilation; a moſt hypocritical, Atheiſtical mocking of God himſelf to his face; a moſt prophane abuſe, and perverſion of this Solemn. Faſt and Humiliation; a fruſtration of all the prayers, hopes of moſt religious people thereon, who obſerved it for far other preſcribed ends, and an high Provocation of Gods ſevereſt wrath againſt the perverters of it, to this very end, to introduce the long-ſince baniſhed Jews, the debate whereof was propoſed immediately before, and began the very next day after it.

My 2. Reaſon ſhall be deduced from the Declaration of the 24 Novemb. 1655. in order to the ſecuring of the peace of the Commonwealth; Declaring it neceſſary to uſe all good means to ſecure the Peace of the Nation, and prevent future troubles within the ſame. The bringing in of the Jews at this ſeaſon, when the people are ſo generally divided, diſcontented, and declare (for ought I can learn) their higheſt, unanimous diſlike, and dereſtation of it, is the moſt probable means to diſturb the peace of the Nation, and to engender future new troubles, Tumults within p. 85it; the generality of the people in England, and in other Countries, having in former **See here p. 8. to 15. 18. 24. 32. 33. 64. 65. 67. 68. to 77. 79.ages frequently riſen up in armes againſt them; maſſacred, burnt and deſtroyed them, notwithſtanding their Kings and Magiſtrates Proclamations and Edicts to the contrary. And the uuSee Socrates Scholaſt. l. 7. c. 13. Sozomen, l. 4. c. 7. Cent. Magd. 4. 5. 7. 12, 13, c. 14.Jews themſelves in all ages having been principle firebrands of ſedition both in their own Land, and all places where they have been diſperſed, as the Texts and Authors in the 3. and 7. premiſed reaſons, with the foregoing Relations out of our Engliſh Historians atteſt. Therefore their re-admiſſion into England, (eſpecially in this unquiet ſeaſon) muſt needs be diametrically contrary to the ſcope of this Declaration; and neither in policy nor prudence to be reſolved on, but utterly rejected.

My 3d. reaſon ſhall be grounded on this clauſe of that Declaration: That no perſon who hath or ſhall be ſequeſtred, or ejected for Delinquency, or being in actual arms for the late King againſt the then Parliament, or for Charls Stuart his Son, &c. out of any Benefice, School, or Colledge, ſhall from and after the 1. day of December, be kept as a Chaplain or School-maſter in any ſequeſtred perſons houſe; Nor after the 1. day of January, keep any School publike or private; Nor preach in any publike place, or private meeting of any other perſons than thoſe of his own▪ family; Nor ſhall administer Baptiſm, or the Lords Supper, or Marry, &c. upon pain that every perſon ſo offending in any of the premiſſes ſhal be proceeded againſt, as by Orders (therin mentioned) is provided: preſcribing 3 months impriſonment for the 1. 6 months for the 2d, and baniſhment for the 3d Offence, as I am informed. If native freeborn Engliſhmen, formerly ejected out of any Benefice, Colledge or School, only for their old delinquency in adhering to the lare King and Prince (though according to their Oaths, duties and dictate of their conſciences) after ſome years publike liberty to preach, Articles of Agreement confirmed by the Army and both Houſes, and that which ſome call, An Act of Oblivion, and future indempnity, though orthodox in Doctrine, unblameable p. 86in converſation, and eminent in learning, without any particular impeachment, hearing, conviction of any new Delinquency or miſdemeanors whatſoever, muſt not have ſo much liberty as to keep any School, or preach Gods Word in publike or private, or to be entertained in formerly ſequeſtred Engliſhmens houſes, under the foreſaid penalties at this ſeaſon, only in Order to the Nations peace: Then much leſſe ought Jews, meer aliens, who always have been, and ſtill are profeſſed Enemies in arms againſt the Perſon, Kingdom, Goſpel of our Lord Jeſus Chriſt (which the late Parliament by their ſolemn Proteſtation, Vow and Covenant, engaged by all good means to defend and advance) to be entertained by any Engliſh Chriſtians, or publikely or privately to teach, preach, ſpread, propagate their Jewiſh Doctrines, Errors and aboliſhed Ceremonies in our Iſland, but to be baniſhed for ever from amongſt us, if any ofImmo qui Regi paruerit pro excommunicato habeatur, qui contra regem fecerit, à noxâ injuſtitiae, & penurii abſolvatur, as Sigebertus Gemblacenſis, Chron. Au. 1088. writes of Pope Hildehrand, and his Abettors. them ſhould publikely or privately artempt to creep in amongſt us; Elſe not only all ſequeſtred Delinquents, but the whole Engliſh Nation and world too, will cry out and ſay, [x] the faithfull loyal Chaplains, Servants, followers, Friends of the late K. and Pr. though Engliſh Nativs, Freemen, ye our felow brethren Members in Chriſt are more execrable to, more injuriouſly, unchriſtianly, uncharitably dealt with by their Fellow Engliſh Chriſtians in preſent power, only for their loyalty and conſcientious adhering to their late temporal King and Prince, than the very alien Jews, who both denied, rejected, crucified the Lord Jeſus Chriſt, their own temporal Soveraign, who yyMat. 2. 2. c. 27, 37. Lu. 1. 32. 33. Rev. 25. 9.Matt 2:2was born King of the Iews, and had this very title inſcribed on his Croſſe; and their & our only ſpiritual King and Saviour, whoſe Honour, Power, Kingdom, Goſpel, we a vowedly profeſs to advance; & that they enjoy leſſe Chriſtian or civil liberty for themſelves, their wives and families neceſſarie ſubſiſtance, now in their Native country and muſt neither teach nor preach Chriſt Jeſus to any in publique or private, though Gods word and p. 87their function, condition enjoyn, **1 Cor. 9. 16 2. Tim. 4. 1. 2.1 Cor 9:162 Tim 4:12 Tim 4:2neceſſitate them to do both, when as theſe admitted Jews may both teach and preach againſt him too in publique & private. Which reſtraints on theſe Engliſh Royaliſts on the one hand, & indulged liberty to the alien Jew **1 John 4 3.1 John 4:3Antichriſts on the other, if now put in execution, I humbly referre it to the ſaddeſt conſiderations & conſcientious meditations of all in power to reſolv themſelvs how ſcandalous & odious it will prove both to God and all good men how much it will reſemble the proceedings, not only of the malicious Jews themſelves againſt the Apoſtles and Miniſters of Chriſt, recorded▪ Acts 4. 1. to 24. &c. 5. 24. to 32. 1 Theſ. 2. 14, 15, 16. of beheaded zzCanterries Doom, p. 107. 138, 491, 496.Canterbury againſt Mr. Workman of Gloceſter, But likewiſe of that deteſtable Apoſtate Emperour aaAmbroſ. Epiſt. l. 5. Ep. 29. Cent. Magd. 4. cap. 3. col. 114 to 120. c. 14. 1438, 1459. Nazianzon Oratio 2. in Julianum Socrates Schol. l. 3. c. 22. Ruffinus, l. 1. c. 28. Theodoret, l. 3. c. 20. Nicephorus l. 10. c. …3. 4. 5. 24, 25, 33 f. 32. Sozomen. l. 5 c. 22.Iulian, who out of his deſperate malice to Chriſt, to undermine and extirpate Chriſtian Religion without ſhedding the blood of Chriſtians, firſt ſhewed himſelf a moſt zealous Chriſtian profeſſor, reducing the Orthodox Biſhops, Miniſters, christians, whom the perſecuting Arian Emperor Conſtantius had exiled, & reſtoring them to their confiſcated Biſhopricks, to ingratiate himſelf with the people; but not long after turning Apostat he took away all the Privileges, honours, revenues of the Clergy ſetled on them by Conſtantine, with the Laws for their eſtabliſhment, ſhut up the Churches & Schools▪ of the Chriſtians, prohibiting them to teach in publike or private, or ſet their children to School, unleſs they would renounce their former Religion, and turn Pagans, impoveriſhed, oppreſſed the Chriſtians with extraordinary doubled Taxes, from which the Pagans were exempted, and caſtmany of them into priſon. But on the contrary at the ſame time, he ſhewed extraordinary favour and affection towards the Jews, ſent for the chiefest of them to his court, where he diſcourſed with them, writing a special Letter to them, wherein he deſired their prayers for him, granted them free exerciſe of their Jewiſh ceremonies, and ſacrifices long diſcontinued, encouraged and aſſiſted them with monies out of his publike Treaſury to re-edifie the Temple at Jeruſalem, p. 88to receive & ſet up all their Jewiſh Sacrifices and cuſtomes there formerly uſed, whereupon they began to build it, till-miraculouſly interrupted therein…; and all to vex and undermine the Chriſtians. By which indulged Liberty, the Jews then grew ſo inſolent againſt the Chriſtians, that they greivouſly perſecuted divers of them, deſtroyed and burnt down ſome of their Churches, and threatned to perſecute them worſe than the Pagan Romans had done; as the Marginall Hiſtorians record more at large. The imitation of whoſe proceedings now in any degree in theſe particulars, what harſh conſtructions and ſad events they may produce, I refer to all wiſe Chriſtian States-men ſeriouſly to ponder, for their own and our Religions honor and Security.

My 4. argument is this, The Orders for ſecuring the peace of the Nation, which the Declaration relates to; aaSee here, p. 49. 50. 1 H. 4. rot. Parl. n. 44, 47, 50. Memineritis, nihil poſſe judicio fieri contrarium magis, quam ſine judicio proſcribere aliquem. Non ſinit Lex decretum lege plus valer…: iſte cum tot ſunt leges, decretum ratum facit, leges tollit: Demoſthenes, Oratio contra Timocratem, p. 200.contrary to all the Statutes, Acts, Reſolutions of our Parliaments and Law-books forecited, upon another occaſion) authorize the Major Generals and Commiſſioners named in them. To baniſh and ſend into Foraign parts and Plantations, all perſons of the royal party formerly in arms, of no estate, and living looſly, and all perſons whatſoever that ſhall appear by their words or actions to adhere to the party of the late King or his Son, & to be dangerous Enemies to the peace of the Commonwealth, even without and before any Legal indictment, tryal, conviction of any particular crime, for which a Sentence of Baniſhment is preſcribed by our Laws: or any Judgement or Act of Parliament inflicting this heavy Puniſhment upon them, far worſe to many than death it ſelf. Now I ſhall earneſtly intreat in the name and fear of God, all thoſe whom it moſt concernes, to conſider in their own retired thoughts, how unjuſt, unrighteous, unreaſonable, unchriſtian it will ſeem to all Free-born Engliſh men, and conſcientious Chriſtians, both at home and abroad, and what great ſcandals it may bring, both upon our Nation, Government, and Religion it ſelf, in this manner, (and on this old account alone) p. 89to baniſh theſe Chriſtian Engliſh freemen one of their Native Country, both from their Wives Children, Kinred, and Gods own publike Ordinances; and at the ſelf-ſame time to call in foraign, Infidel Jews, (greateſt Enemies to Chriſt himſelf and Chriſtians, and in that reſpect more dangerous to the peace and welfare of the Nation than tho…e thus to be baniſhed) to ſupply their places, even againſt an expreſs old Judgement and Edict of the whole Kingdom in Parliament, for their perpetual exile. What a ſad p…rnicious **Mat. 7. 2. Luk. 6. 37. 38. & Rev. 13. 10. Obad. 15. & Joel 3. 6, 7, 8.Matt 7:2Luke 6:37Luke 6:38Rev 13:10Obad 1:15Joel 3:6Joel 3:7Joel 3:8preſident it may prove in future ages, upon every new revolution to baniſh all Engliſh freemen of a contrary party and call in Forraigners in their rooms: Whether it will not revive that ancient complaint of **Lib. 5. Epiſt. 33. & Cent. Mag. 12. ca. 14.Petrus Cluntacenſis. Lex nam vetusta ſed verè diabolica ab ipſis Chriſtianis Principibus proceſsit, &c. Manet inultum ſcelus deteſtabile in Judaeo, quod exilio vel horrenda morte ſuspendi… punitur in Christiano. Pingreſcit inde & deliciis affluit Iudaeus, unde laqueo ſuspenditur Chriſtianus? And whether upon conſideration of this and the precedent reaſons deduced from theſe Declarations, and all the premiſes, they ought not peremptorily to conclude againſt the Jews preſent and future re-admiſſion into England? moſt ſeriouſly to determine.

I ſhall cloſe up all with an Anſwer to the two principal Allegations for their reception into ourAllegat. 1. Realm.

1. The main and only conſciencious Argument for their introduction, is this, That it may be a very probable hopefull means of the general calling and converſion of the Iewiſh Nation to the Chriſtian Faith, which hath been ſo long prayed for and expected by Chriſtians, and ſeems now approaching; which their ſecluſion from us may much obstruct.

Not to enter into any large debate of this converſion of the Iews, wherein learned bbSee Hyperius, Oſiander, Peter Martyr, Bucer, Melancthon; Calvin, Selneccerus, Marlorat, Paraeus, Willet, I Wilſon, and others on Rom. 11. Dr. Prideaux, Orat. 6. de Vocatione Judaeorum▪Rom 11Orthodox Divines and Writers, are much divided. I ſay, 1. That I could never yet be ſatisfied, that there ſhall be ſuch a general call and p. 90converſion of the whole or major part of the Nation of the Jews, as ſome expect, but only of an elect remnant of them, The ccHere p. 63, 64, 65, 66.foreciced Texts, with I ſay 30. 8, 9, 10, 11. Now go write it before them in a Table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come FOR EVER and EVER, That this is a rebellious people, children that will not hear the Law of the Lord, which ſay to the Seers ſee not, and to the Prophets, propheſie not unto us right things, &c. cauſe the holy one of Iſrael to depart from before us. Luk. 20. 16, 17, 18. Mat. 21. 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, John 1. 11. 12. Rom. 9. 27. 26. 33. c. 11. 2, 5, 7, 8. contradicting ſuch a general converſion of them, & that of Rom. 11. 26, 27, 28. And ſo all Iſrael ſhall be ſaved, being meant only of the Elect, and true Iſrael of God, both Jews and Gentiles, as many judicious Expoſitors, and Rom. 2, 26, 27, 28, 29. c. 9. 6, 7, 8. c. 11. 1. to 8. Gal. 3. 7, 9, 14, 16, 22, 28, 29 c. 6. 16. ſeem to expound it, not of the whole Jewiſh Nations calling and ſalvation at the laſt. 2ly. It is agreed by moſt who expect ſuch a general calling and converſion of the IewsddParaeus Willet, Peter Martyr. Wilſon on the place, and Dr. Prideaux, Orat. 6. That it ſhall not be till the fullneſſe of the Gentiles become in, as Rom, 11, 24, 25. reſolves, And whether this fullneſſe be yet come in, there being ſo many Gentile Nations yet eeSee Purchas Pilgrimage, and Pilgrim. Edward Brerewood his Inquiry touching the diverſity of Religions through the chief parts of the world.unconverted, eſpecially in Aſia, Africa, and America, and thoſe infinitely exceeding the Gentiles yet converted to the Goſpel, let thoſe conſider who now expect the Iews converſion. 3ly. If this fullneſſe of the Gentiles converſion to Chriſt, muſt preceed the general calling of the Iews, as a neceſſary preparative and introduction thereunto, then we ought by this allegation in the firſt place to call the Turks, Tartars, Perſians, Chinoys, and all other unconverted Gentile Nations into England, and firſt convert them to the Chriſtian faith, before we bring in the Iews, whoſe converſion is to ſucceed theirs, and the Gentiles fullneſſe, And then we ſhall have Religions enough in England to pleaſe all Novelliſts, and a thouſand aliens to each Engliſh Native. 4ly, There are farre more expreſſe, direct promiſes, texts, p. 91grounds, both in the eePſ. 2. 8. Pſ. 22. 27. Pſ. 72. 1. to 18. Pſ. 67. 3. 4. 6. 7 Pſ. 86. 9, 10. Pſ. 100. 1, 2, 3, 4. Pſ. 148, 11, 12. 1. Kin. 8. 43 Iſay 2. 1, 2 3, 4. c. 9. 2. 7 c. …1, 10. c. 18. 7. c. 35. 1, 2, &c. c. 40. 4, 5. c. 41. 2. c. 42. 1, 6, 7, 10 11, 12, 16. c. 59. c. 6, 7, &c. 20, 21, 22, 23, 24. c. 54. 1, 2, 3, 4. c. 55. 4, 6. c. 56 c. 56 5, 7, 8. c. 60. through out, c. 61. 5, 6, 9, c. 62. …2. c. 65. 1. c. 66. 19. to 24. Jer. 16 19. Dan. 7. 14, Hag. 2. 7. Mic. 4. 1. to 8. Mal. 1. 10. Hoſ. 1. 10. c. 2. 23. Gen. 49. 10.Ps 2:8Ps 22:27Ps 72:1–18Ps 67:3Ps 67:4Ps 67:6Ps 67:7Ps 86:9Ps 86:10Ps 100:1Ps 100:2Ps 100:3Ps 100:4Ps 148:11Ps 148:121 Kgs 8:43Isa 2:1Isa 2:2Jer 16:19Dan 7:14Hag 2:7Mic 4:1–8Mal 1:10Hos 1:10Gen 49:10Old and ffMat. 12. 21. c. 28. 19, 20 Mar. 16. 15. Luk. 2. 32. Ioh. 7. 25. Acts 9. 15. c. 10. 1. &c 44. 65. c. 11. 1. 18. c. 13. 42. to 49. c. 14. 27. c. 15. 3. to 24. c. 16. 4. to 13. c. 17. 12. c. 18. 9, 7. &c. c. 19. 10. c. 21. 25. c. 22. 21. c, 26. 20, 21, 22, 23. c. 28. 28. Rom. 1. 13. c. 9. 24. 30. c. 10, 12, 13, 18, 19, 20. c. 11. 11, 12 &c. 25▪ 30. c. 18. 4. to 30. c. 16. 4. 26. 1 Cor. 12. 2. to 24. Gal. 2. 2. 16. c. 3. 14. Epheſ. 2. 1. 11. to 22. c. 3. 6. to 12. Col. 1. 6. 23, 26, 27. 1 Tim: 2. 1. to 9. c. 3. 16. 2 Tim. 1. 11. c: 4. 17. Rev. 5. 10. c. 6. 9, 10. c. 11. 15. c. 14. 1. 3. 6. 7.Matt 12:21Mark 16:15Luke 2:32John 7:25Acts 9:15Rom 1:131 Cor 12:2–24Gal 2:2Gal 2:16Eph 2:1Eph 2:11–22Col 1:6Col 1:23Col 1:26Col 1:272 Tim 1:11Rev 5:10New Teſtament, for the calling, converſion of all Gentiles, and yet unconverted Heathen Nations to the faith of Chriſt, then of the Iewiſh Nation: not one Nation of them (for ought we read) being ſo far rejected, broken off, and given up to an obduration of heart, and blindneſs of mind, by Gods judiciall decree, as we read the Jews to be; Iſa. 6. 9, 10, 11, c. 8 14. 15, 16. c. 29. 9, 10, 11, 12. Mat. 13. 14, 15. Mar. 4. 11, 12. Lu. 8. 10. Iohn 12. 37, 38, 39, 40. Act 28. 25, 26, 27, 28. Rom. 11. 7, 8, 9, 10. Therefore our prayers and endeavours ought firſt to be for the converſion of all Gentiles yet unconverted to the faith, being more hopefull, more ſucceſsfull in all probability, than our prayers, endeavors for the Iews converſion, at leaſt till the Gentiles fullneſſe be come in. 5ly, Admit either a general or ſpecial calling and converſion of the Iews in the latter end of the world; yet the calling of them into England to cohabit with us in ſuch a manner as they now deſire, is no ways neceſſary for that end. For 1. it is no where declared in Gods word, that they muſt be called in England, or by Engliſh men. 2ly. If they were principally to be converted by Engliſh Divines or Laicks, we may with more eaſe, leſſe danger and prejudice to our Nation and Religion, ſend Engliſh Divines and Laicks into other forraign parts where they now reſide, to inſtruct, teach, convert them to the faith, than call them into England to convert them now, in this giddy, unſetled, apoſtatizing age, wherein they are likelier to gain a thouſand Engliſh Proſelytes to their Judaiſme, than we one Jewiſh convert to Christianity, if introduced with their Synagogues and Jewiſh ceremonies; perhaps their hopes of ſuch a harveſt here, is the principal motive that they are ſo p. 92preſſing to be now admitted again into our Engliſh climate, without delay. 3ly. If we admit them with all their Jewiſh worſhip, Synagogues, Ceremonies, as they now propoſe, it will be rather a means to harden, then convert them; a gg1 Tim 2. 3. 10. Rom. 3 8.1 Tim 2:31 Tim 2:10Rom 3:8doing of evil that good may come of it: a ſwallowing down of a certain deadly poyſon, in hope to correct it with a ſubſequent antidote; and to ſet up a preſent hhRev. 2. 9. c. 3. 9.Rev 2:9Synagogue of Satan, upon hopes hereafter to convert it into a Church of Chriſt. 4ly. God can convert them in any other Countries, as well as in England, and by any other Chriſtian Nations, as well as Engliſhas he hath done iiSee Cent. Mag. 4. to 13. c. 14. Par…us Com. in Ro. 13. p. 1101. Here p. 17. Antonini Chron. pars 2. Tit. 16. c. 12. & Tit. 17.Rom 13ſome few of them in all ages, as Petrus Alphonſus, Lyra, and Junius, three eminent Divines and Writers, amongſt others: And there being as learned able Proteſtant Divines in Holland, Germany, France, Denmarke, as any▪ in England, if they cannot convert them, what hopes have we to do it? 5ly. Converſion of their hearts to the truth of the Gospel, and ſaving Grace, is kkJer. 31. 18. Epheſ. 2. 1. &c. John 3. 8. c 12. 40. Phil. 2. 13.Jer 31:18Eph 2:1John 3:8Phil 2:13only the work of God, not men, who can work it when, where, and by whom he pleaſeth, and is not tied either to place or perſons, much leſſe to our Engliſh climate to effect it. And, it is Gods and Chriſts uſual preſcribed way of converting Nations, People, to ſend Apoſtles, Miniſters to preach the Goſpel to, and convert them, in the Countries, places where they dwell; not to call them into another Forraign Land where the Goſpel firſt ſhined, or where it is entertained: as he ſent his Apoſtles from Jeruſalem into all the world, to convert the Gentiles, not called them all to Ieruſalem or Paleſtine, to be there inſtructed and converted, Mat. 9. 38. c. 10. 5. 6. c. 28. 19, 20. Mar. 16. 15. Iſay 2. 3, 4. Acts 9. 15. c. 10. 20. c. 22. 12. Epheſ. 3. 8. 2 Tim. 4. 17. 3. Iohn 7. Why then we ſhould take this new-found contrary way of calling the Iews in to us to convert them, and not rather ſend out Miniſters to them, I cannot diſcern; The rather, becauſe the **Surius Concil. Tom. 4. 57 …ox Acts & M…n. Vol. 1. p. 913. Summa Roſella & Angelica, Tit. Judaeus.Council of Baſil, An. 143 1. Seſſio 19. preſcribes this courſe both for the converting of the unbelieving Jews and Gentiles to the Orthodox Faith; p. 93That all Dioceſans ſhould yearly, at appointed times, provide certain men well learned in holy Scriptures, and in the Tongues, to preach and explain the truth of the Catholick Faith, IN SVCH PLACES WHERE THE IEWES AND OTHER INFIDELS DID DWELL, in ſuch ſort, that they acknowledging their error, might for ſake the ſame. To which preaching they ſhould compell all of both Sexes that were at years of diſcretion to reſort, by interdicting them commerce with Chriſtians, and other ſitting penalties. Provided, the Dioceſans and Rreachers ſhould behave themſelves towards them mercifully, and with all charity, whereby they might win them to Christ, not only by declaring of the truth, but alſo by other Offices of humanity. 6ly. If the obſervation of learned Paraeus be true, that the[m] Comment. on Rom. 11. p. 1101, 1102.Rom 11 overflowing of all ſorts of wickedneſſes, crimes, murders, wars, oppreſſions, rapines, injuſtice, tyranny, cruelty, extortions, uſuries, the infinite multiplicity, contrariety of Sects, Schiſms, Religions, and unchriſtian, heathen, atheiſticall practiſes of one Christian towards another, be principal obſtacles to hinder the Jews converſion, eſpecially amongſt Proteſtants (as theſe, with idolatrous worſhip of Images, Saints, and the Hostia amongſt Papiſts) than the calling of them now into England, where **See my Quakers unmasked: and New Diſcovery of Free State Tyranny.all theſe abound more than ever heretofore, and more than in other Nations, will be a means more to harden them, and hinder their converſion, then any furtherance thereunto: the rather, becauſe the deſperate Apoſtacy, and atheiſtical actions of ſundry late eminent Profeſſors, have cauſed many Engliſh Chriſtians to turn Antiſcripturists, Seekers, Atheiſts, and like the Iews, to repute Chriſt and Chriſtianity meer Fables. 7ly, Moſt of the Iews, who ſince their diſperſion have been baptized, and turned Chriſtians in any age or place, have done it either out of fear, to ſave their lives, or eſtates, when endangered by popular tumults, or judgments of death denounced againſt them for their Crimes; or for fear of baniſhment, or by coercion of penal Laws, not cordial…y and ſincerely, they ſtill playing the Jews in private p. 95upon every occaſion, and renouncing their baptiſm and chriſtianity at last, either before or at their deaths, as our own nnSee here p. 9, 10, 12, 16.forecited Hiſtorians; the 4th Council of …oledo, cap. 58, 59, 62. 63. Leges Weſigothorum, lib. 12. Tit. 2, 3▪ Vincenſius Beluacenſis ſpec. Hist. l. 29. c. 25. Rodericus Toletanus, de rebus Hiſp. l. 2. c. 17. Aventinus, Annal. Boiorum l. 5. p. 468. Abbas Uſpergenſis Chrou. p. 227 228. and ooCent. Magd. 4. Col. 1470. Cent. 8. col. 3 Joan Mariana de rebus Hiſpan. l. 19. p, 481, 482. Munſteri Coſmogr. l. 1. c. 19. c. 73. Sum. Roſella. Tit. Judaeus.other authors at teſt, Of which we have this late memorable Hiſtory recorded by Munſter in his Coſmography, l. 2. c. 19. f. 72, 73. There being no leſſe than one hundred twenty four thouſand Jews baniſhed out of Spain, Anno 1492. leaving all their gold, jewels, houſes behind them, and paying two duckets a pole to the King for their tranſportation into Portugal; ſome of them there ſeemingly turned Chriſtians, and were baptized, but yet ſecretly practiſed their Judaival rites, being Chriſtians only in ſhew, but not in heart, obſerving the Paſſeover, and eating fleſh with the Iewes: Upon the diſcovery hereof, there aroſe a great tumult of the people againſt them in Lisbon, the people complaining thereof to the King, Anno 1506. Whereupon the King commanded 16 of them to be impriſoned, and at laſt diſmiſſed them without other puniſhment. Upon this the Citizens conſpiring againg the King and Governour, raiſed a commotion againſt theſe Iews and falſe Chriſtians, ſlaying all thoſe falſe converted new Iews they could find throughout the City, to the number of ſix hundred, whom they likewiſe burnt; which example ſpreading into the Country, there were ſlain in the City and Country of theſe Iewiſh, falſe converts, to the number of 1630: which the King hearing of, being then abſent, he was ſo incenſed againſt the Iews, that he impriſoned very many of them, whereof ſome were burned, others beheaded, others hanged on Gibbets, and all the reſt ſpoiled of their goods, then expelled and baniſhed the Kingdom, A ſad judgement on them for their Hypocritical converſion; and ſuch converts moſtly we are like to find them, and none other. 7ly. If any private Iews out of meer conſcience or ſincere deſires of being converted p. 94to the Chriſtian faith, ſhall upon that account alone deſire admiſſion into England, to be inſtructed by our Engliſh Divines, I ſuppoſe no Engliſh Chriſtians will oppoſe, but further their deſires herein, and contribute both their prayers and beſt endeavors for their converſion, and if there be cauſe, admit them into our Churches Communion upon real teſtimonies of the truth of converſion in, and work of grace upon them; which is as much as they can deſire at our hands; But to admit whole multitudes and Colonies of infidel Iews at once into our Nation, who neither deſire nor pretend converſion to Chriſtianity, together with the free uſe of their Iewiſh Synagogues, Rites, Ceremonies, (which they ſtrongly inſiſt upon) is ſuch an Impious, Unchriſtian, Antichtiſtian dangerous preſident (gloſſed over only with a poſſibility of their future converſion) as no ſincere Engliſh Chriſtians can approve of, nor the Iews themſelves deſire: For as the Iews by ppDeut. 7. 5. Exod. 23. 35. c. 34. 13, 14. 2. Chron. 30. 14. c. 31. 1 c. 34. 3. to 9. 33 Levit.▪ 17. 12. c. 24. 16. 22. Nurin. l. 5 16. 30, 31. Deut. 31. 12. See Mr. Selden. de Jure naturali & Gentium, juxta Diſciplinam Judaeor…m. l. 2. and 3.Deut 7:5Exod 23:352 Chr 30:14Deut 31:12Gods own Laws, and their own Iewiſh Rabbies precepts, neither might, nor yet would permit any Heathen Gentiles heretofore to ſet up any Altars, Images, Idols, Groves, or exerciſe any Idolatrous worſhip amongst them, or to blaſpheme, reproach their God or Religion, under pain of death if they tranſgreſſed therein, There being the ſelf ſume▪ Law of God in theſe things both to Gentiles, & Iews. And like as they afterwards would not permit the Apoſtles and Chriſtians in Ieruſalem, or any other Cities, for to preach the Goſpel, and exerciſe the Chriſtian Religion freely, but raiſed up preſent tumults against and perſecuted and caſt them out, as 1 Theſ. 2. 14, 15, 17, the whole Hiſtory of the Acts, and premiſes abundantly teſtifie: So by the very ſelf ſame juſtice and equity, they can neither now demand nor expect that we, or any Chriſtian Realm or State ſhould tollerate or connive at, much leſſe openly countenance and protect them in the publick or private exerciſe of their Iudaiſme, or Iewiſh Rit, and Blaſpemies againſt our crucified Saviour, and his Goſpel: All then that Engliſh Chriſtians can do for p. 96them, is to qqRom. 10. 1. 1. Tim. 2. 1, 2, 3.Rom 10:11 Tim 2:11 Tim 2:21 Tim 2:3deſire, and pray for the converſion of all Gods elect amongst them in his due time, by ſuch means as he ſhall think meeteſt, and to inſtruct them in the faith, by learned Miniſters ſent to them, if they deſire it; but not to admit them (and perchance many diſguiſed Ieſuits, Papiſts and Friars with them) promiſcuouſly into our Nation; to undermine our Church and Religion, and undo many thouſand Souls, it being our duty, **1 Cor. 10. 32.1 Cor 10:32as to give no just offence to the Iew, ſo neither to the Gentiles, nor to the Church of God, whom their admiſsion amongſt us will offend. Laſtly thoſe Popes and Popiſh Princes, who have heretofore admitted any Iews to inhabit amongſt them, have done it under theſe ſeveral cautions and limitations preſcribed to them by their **Fredericus Lindebrogus codex ligum Antiqu. leges wiſ…gothorum. l. 12. Tit. 2, … 3. Laur. Surius, Concil. Tom. 2. p. 277. 322, 366, 608. 646, 634, 674, 679, 698, 735, 1042. Tom. 3. p. 552. 670. 726, 754, 632, 753, 495, 466. Concil Baſilenſ. Seſſ. 19. Surius Tom. 4. p. 57, 56. Alexander, 3 Decret. l. 5. Tit. 6. c. 4, 5, 7, 8. Innocentii, 3. opera. Tom. 1. p. 488. Tom. 2. p. 798 805. Graliau Cauſ. 28. qu. 1. Panormitan; ibid. …n…onii Corſeti, Repertorium in …ha…. qu. J…de…s Cardinalis Hoſtinenſis. Summa cum additionibus, Nicholai Superanti… l. 5. Tit. 1… de Judaeis & Saracenis & eorum ſervis Baptista Trovomala Summa Roſ…l…a Tit. Jud…s Angelus de Clav…ſio Summa Angelica. Tit. Iudaeus, Th Zerul a Pra…is …fcopa…s pars; 1 Tit. Judaeus, Centur. Magd. 12 c. 7. Iac. de Graffiis Decin. A… pars, …. lib. 2. cap. 23. de Judaeis & Saracenis Calderius de Judaeis. Conſil.Titus 2:3Titus 1Laws, Councile, Canons, Decrees, Divines and Canonist's. 1. That they ſhould build no new Synagogues, nor repair any old ones quite demoliſhed. 2. That where there were old Synagogues formerly uſed by them, they ſhould only repair, but not enlarge or build them higher than before, nor extraordinarily ad…rn them. 3. That they ſhould not ſtir out of their doors on good Friday, nor open their doors, windows, ſhops, or do any ſervile work, on the Lords days, or other ſolemn Chriſtian Feſtivals. 4. That they ſhall utter no blaſphemons words, ſpeeches againſt God, Chriſt, Chriſtians, or Chriſtian Religion, nor manifeſt their open contempt of them by geſtures or actions, under pain of peouniary, corporal, and capital puniſhments, according to the quality of the offence. 5. That they ſhall be admitted to no degrees of learning, honour, dignity, office or preferment whatſoever in ſtate or Church, becauſe it is moſt abſurd and unjuſt, that any blaſphemer of Chriſt ſhould exerciſe any power or authority over Chriſtians in any p. 97Christian State. 6. That they ſhould neither eat, nor drink, nor have any dayly familiarity or communion with Christians, nor entertain any Chriſtian man or woman in or out of their houſes, either as a Servant, Nu…ſe to th…ir Children, or otherwiſe, nor yet adminiſter phyſick to any Chriſtian in his ſickneſſe, leſt any ſimple Chriſtians ſhould be ſeduced by them to Judaiſme by th…ſe means. 7. That all Iews both males and females ſhould always wear a ſpecicial **See here, p. 35.badge or ſign in all places upon their outward Garments or heads, whereby they might be diſtinguiſhed from Christians, and known by all men to be Iews, to avoid c…mmixtion and communion between them and Chriſtians, which otherwiſe would happen. 8. That they ſhould be diſabled to bear witneſſe, or give in any legal teſtimony againſt Christians, or to exerciſe uſury amongſt them, or to purchaſe any advowſon or Eccleſiastical preferment, or to bequeath any legacy to the Nation or Corporation of the Iews. 9. That they ſhould be ſubject both to the Eccleſiaſtical & Temporal Courts and Iudges for all **Yea King Eringi…s and Leges VViſigothorum l. 12. Tit. 3. c. 3. 4. 7. prohibited the Jews the uſe of Circumciſion keeping of the Paſſ…over Jewiſh Sabbaths of and differences of me…ats, und…r pain of whip…ing, conſiſcation …f Goods loſſe of noſes, goni al… ▪ baniſhment.Titus 3offences properly puniſhable by them which they ſhould commit. 10. That they ſhould pay all predial and perſonal Tithes to the Chriſtian Miniſters where they lived. 11. That though they ſhould not be compelled to be baptized or turn Chriſtians againſt their willt, yet they ſhould at certain times be all conſtrained to come to the Sermons of ſuch Christian Prieſts and Miniſters as were appointed to inſtruct them in the Chriſtian faith, and to preach unto them to convert them 12. That their Servants and Children being Iews; when once baptized and turned Chriſtians ſhould no more c…habit with, nor be under their power. 13. That upon their converſion to Chriſtianity, all their goods and mony gotten by uſury and cheating ſhould be diſtributed to pious uſes, and the reſt only retained for their proper uſe and livelyhood. 14 That if any of them after their baptiſme apostatized and turned Iewes again, or fell into Hereſie, they ſhould be proceeded againſt and burned, …executed as Apoſtates, and Hereticks. 15. That no Chriſtians ſhould communicate with them in any p. 98kind, except in buying and ſelling, nor cohabit with, ſerve them as a Nurſe or Servant, under pain of excommunication, yet notwithſtanding all theſe reſtrictions and cautions, we read of few Iews really converted by them, and that the Iews have rrZonaras Tom. 3. Centur. Magd. 9, c. 14. col. 614. Marianus Scotus. General Hiſt. of Spain, p. 775 458.perverted and ſeduced ſundry Chriſtians to Iudaiſme, and made them profeſſed Iews; perſwaded other Chriſtians to obſerve Moſaical ceremonies, beſides Baptiſm, whereby they made a confuſed Chaos of Religion; yea they corrupted Michael Balbus the Emperor ſo far, that he commanded Chriſtians to faſt on their Sabbath, and made him as it were a ſink of Sects, as Zonaras and others record; Yea, Sedechias the Iewiſh Phyſician ſſAlarini Poloni ſupputationes. Anno 876. Sigeber…i chron. Grimſton and others in his life.poyſoned the Emperor Charles the Bald his body, as well as others in that age after poyſoned other Chriſtians ſouls. What miſchiefs then they may do to mens bodies in England, by poyſoning of them, (as they did the ttSee here, p. 31. 71.Engliſh Barons heretofore, and Dr. Lopez a Iew, would have poyſoned **Cambden, Speed, and others in her. life.Queen Elizabeth of late) and what deſperate venom they may infuſe into their ſouls by their Iewiſh Doctrines, Synagogues, and Antichriſtian Ceremonies, if admitted without ſuch or upon theſe reſtrictions or any other, let all prudent Chriſtians reſolve: Since uuConſtitut. l. 2. Constit. 22. Oper. Tem. 2. p. 798.Pope Innocent the 3. himſelf, and xxSumma li. 5. tit. 11. De Judae…s, &c.Cardinal Hoſtienſis, with other Popiſh Canoniſts, who have tolerated them, give us this account of their requital for it, in poſitive terms. Iudaei ingrati, progratia reddunt contumeliam, pro familiaritate contemptum, impendentes nobis illam retributionem, quam juxta vulgare proverbium, MVS IN PERA, SERPENS IN GREMIO, IGNIS IN SINV, ſuis conſueverunt Hoſpitibus exhihere, Nam ſunt quidam (quod nefandum eſt dicere) Nutrices Chriſtianas habentes, non permittunt lactare filios cum corpus Chriſti ſumpſerunt, niſi prius per triduum lac effuderint in latrinam, (quaſi intelligunt, quod corpus Chriſt incorporetur, & ad ſ…ceſſum deſcendat.) & alia inaudita committunt, & deteſtabilia, quae à fidelibus ſunt minime toleranda, ne ſi haec negligunt quae inducunt confuſionem fidei INDIGNATIONEM DIVINAM INCVRRANT. As therefore yyC…nſil. 87. & …64.Aldredus de Ponte; Abbot p. 99Panormitan, zzRepertorium in Ab. Panormitan. Tit. Judaus fac. de Graff. Deciſ. Aur. Tom. 2. l. 2. 23. Sect. 60.Antonius Corſitus, and other Popiſh Canoniſts conclude poſitively. That Chriſtians and Chriſtian Kings may lawfully expel and baniſh all Iews and Infidels out of their Realms, though peaceable, for their Infidelity, and other juſt cauſes: So may all Engliſh Proteſtants likewiſe upon the premiſed reaſons conclude: we may as juſtly, as lawfully now keep them from re-entring into England, notwithſtſtanding the pretence of their converſion to the Faith, which I hope I have ſatisfactorily anſwered.

The 2. Allegation for bringing in the Iews is meerlyAllegat. 2. politick, That it will bring in much preſent and future gain and mony to the State, and advance trading.

I anſwer, 1. That if this argument overpoyſed not theAnſwer. ſcales, that of conſcience, (the hopes of their converſion) would be lighter than the duſt of the ballance and ſticke with no man, their mony being the only engin, which hath opened the gate and paſſage for them into any Chriſtian Kingdoms at firſt, and made new entrance for them when they have been expelled, as aaSurius Concil. Tom. 3. p. 534.Concilium Toletanum, 4. c. 57. and others inform us. This opened their firſt paſſage into bbSee here, p. 2.England, ccHironimus Coneſtaggius de Portugal et Caſtil. unione. p. 1064. 1065. Opmeris Chronog. p. 429Spain, Portugal: and Philip Auguſtus who baniſhed them out of France, An. 1183. Postea verò quum propter bella inopia laboraret pecuniae, acceptae grandi à Iudaeis pecunia redditum cis conceſſit & domicilium Pariſiis, as ddCoſmogr. l. 2. p. 171. Vincentius, l. 29. c. 25, Gaguinus and others.Munſter and others inform us. And this kept them ſo long in England heretofore, till their very baniſhment; A ſign we love their money better than their ſouls or our own. 2ly, This argument, for their readmiſſion, is but wordly, carnal, ſenſual: the very ſame with that of Hamer to the Shechemites, when he would perſwade them to be circumciſed, and turn Iews, Gen. 23. 25. ſhall not their cattle and their ſubſtance, and every beaſt of theirs be ours? only let us conſent unto them, and they will dwell with us. An argument only fit for ſuch whom the Apoſtle characterizeth, Phil. 3. 18, 19. For many walk of whom I have told you p. 100often, and now tell you weeping, that they are the enemies of the Croſſe of Chriſt, whoſe end is deſtruction, whoſe God is their belly, and whoſe glory is in their ſhame, who mind earthly things; Or for ſuch Princes or Governours as God of old complained thus of eeEzech. 22. 27.Ezek 22:27Her Princes in the midſt thereof are like Wolves ravening the prey, and to ſhed blood, and TO DESTROY SOULS TO GET DISHONEST GAIN. It proceeds from ſuch ffIcr. 22. 17.whoſe eyes and hearts are not but for their Covetouſnes ggPhil. 2. 20, 21.Phil 2:20Phil 2:21who all ſeek their own, not the things that are Ieſus Chriſts. And if the root of it be covetouſneſſe hhEpheſ. 5. 3. Col. 3. 5.Eph 5:3Col 3:5which is Idolatry, which Chriſt commands all iiLu. 12. 15.to take heed and beware of, and kkEpheſ. 5, 3.Eph 5:3is not ſo much as to be named (much leſſe practiſed) amongſt Chriſtians, whoſe llHeb. 13. 5.Heb 13:5converſation ought to be without covetouſneſſe, and they to rest contented with thoſe things they have; Becauſe (l) They that will be rich fall into temptations, and a ſnare,1 Tim. 6. 9, 10.1 Tim 6:91 Tim 6:10 and into many fooliſh and noyſom luſts which drown men in perdition and deſtruction; For the of Love of mony is the root of all evill, which whiles ſome covered after, they have been ſeduced (or erred) from the faith, (as thouſands of late years have been) and pierced themſelvs through with many ſorrows, Therfore 'tis not as much as once to be named or inſiſted on amongſt us, unleſſe we will renounce our Chriſtianity, make great gain our only godlineſſe, inſtead of making nn1 Tim. 6. 6.1 Tim 6:6Godlineſſe with contentment our great gain; ooMat. 26, 15, 16. c. 27. 3, 4.Matt 26:15Matt 26:16betray and ſell our Saviour Chriſt again to the Iews, like Iudas, for thirty peeces of ſilver, without repenting and making reſtitution of it to the Iews, as he did; and moſt blaſphemouſly transferre our very Saviours moſt bleſſed Deity, and ſtamp his moſt ſweet and moſt higheſt Title ppMat. 1, 2, 3. 4.Matt 1:2Matt 1:3Matt 1:4GOD WITH US, upon a contemptible piece of white and yellow ſhining clay, as ſome have lately done on all our New State coyn (as if it were the only God with them and us) how chriſtian-like, let themſelves determine. 3ly. God himſelf who ſaith qqEzech. 22. 12, 13.Ezek 22:12Ezek 22:13Behold I have ſmitten mine hand at thy diſhoneſt gain, p. 101which thou haſt greedily gained of thy neighbour by oppreſſion, & other unlawfull means; will certainly ſmite his hand at this gain by the Iews re-admiſſion. And therefore let us give that reſolute anſwer to the Iewiſh Agents, if they proffer to purchaſe an idenization amongſt us by their gold, as rrActs 8. 18, 19, 20.Acts 8:18Acts 8:19Acts 8:20St. Peter once did to Simon Magus in another caſe: THY MONEY PERISH WITH THEE; Thou haſt neither part nor lot in this buſineſſe, for thy heart is not upright with God. 4ly. None ever gained by the Iews introduction or continuance in any Chriſtian State, but the King and ſome of his bribed Officers, and that by oppreſſing, ſqueezing, fleecing, taxing: excoriating, eviſcerating, crucifying, pillaging, plundering the poor Iews in ſuch an unchriſtian, inhuman, illegal, unrighteous manner, againſt ſſExod. 22. 21. c. 23. Mic. 2. 1, 2. c. 3. 2. 3, 4, 9. Zeph. 3. 3. Ezech. 22. 27. 28. Jer. 22. 17. Mal. 37. Levit. 13. 34. Baptiſta …ouomola, Sum Roſella Iudaeus. 2. …ngelus de Clavaſio, Sum Angelica Iudaeus, ſect. 30. Oldradus Conſil. 83. 264. Iacobus de Graſſus Deciſ. Aurearum. Tom. 2. l. 2. c, 23. Sect. 60. Gratian. Cauſ. 23 qu. 7.Exod 22:21Mic 2:1Mic 2:2Zeph 3:3Ezek 22:27Ezek 22:28Jer 22:17Lev 13:34the expreſs commands of God, as made both Chriſtians and Chriſtianity moſt deteſtable to them, brought a ſecret curſe of God upon all thoſe unrighteous gaines as alſo upon their very perſons and Government, (witneſſe ttSee Mat. Paris, and others in their lives.King Iohn, and Henry the 3d.) and encouraged them to oppreſſe, fleece and pillage their Native Subjects, by illegal Taxes and Projects, and to uſe them rather like Iews than Chriſtians, enforcing them thereby to take up arms againſt them for their Laws, Liberties and Properties juſt defence, as thoſe Kings reigns, and others ſufficiently evidence. 5ly, The introduction of the Iews into England and other Nations, never advanced the publike wealth of the Natives and Republike, but much impaired it by their Vſuries and Deceits, clipping and falſifying monies, ingroſſing all ſorts of commodities into their hands, uſurping the Natives trades, and becomming ſuch intolerrable grievances to them, that they were never quiet till they were baniſhed, as their greateſt Annoyance, and purchaſed their Exiles even with publick Subſidies granted to their Kings to be quit of them; as the **Here p. 33. 34. 38. to 46. 74, 75. John Stowes Survey of London 1633. p. 288. 289.premiſes abundantly evidence. 6ly. The Trade of this Nation flouriſhed more after their baniſhment hence, then ever it did before; and their introduction now, will but ſupplant, p. 102undoe our Engliſh Merchants and other Natives, to enrich them, and ſome few other Grandees, who ſhall ſhare with them in their ſpoils and unrighteous gains: 7ly, The taking off all long continued, unceſſant new, illegal Taxes, Exciſes, Impoſts **See my Legal & Hiſtorical Vindication, of the Fundamental Laws & Liberties of England, part. 1. p. 60, 61, &c. part 2. p. 65. to 80. Si quis Mercatores novis Thelon…orum, & Pedagiorum exactionibus moleſtare tenta verit Chriſtiana communione car… at, donec ſatisfecerit, Gratian Cauſ. 24. q. 3. Vincen…ii Spec. Doctrin. l. 10, c. 163.impoſed without common conſent in Parliament on the Nation, ingroſſing, anticipating moſt of the current Monies of the Land, which are the nerves and wheels of Trade, eating up all the Merchants, Peoples gains and labors, and overclogging all or moſt Commodities imported or exported. The disbanding of all unneceſſary mercenary Forces and Garriſons, who have devoured moſt of the publike and private wealth of our three Kingdoms, and extraordinarily impoveriſhed them, only to enrich and advance themſelves; and ſetting up the old unmercinary Trained Bands and Legal Militia of the Realm in their ſteads: The encouraging of Merchants to bring in gold and ſilver Bullion, to ſet the Mint on work, which hath lain for the moſt part idle near 15 years: the ſuppreſſing of the ſuperfluous making, wearing, uſe of gold and ſilver lace, wyre, gilding, which conſume many thouſand pounds of current coyne every year: The inhibiting of the exceſſive uſe of that late intoxicating ſmoke of Tobacco, cauſing ſuch a prodigal expence of money, time, and hindring more neceſſary, uſefull, ſtaple merchandizes and plantations. The regulating of the groſs abuſes of Letters of Mart, now little better than commiſſioned open pyracies, occaſioning the ruine of Trade and Merchandize by way of Repriſal: The ordering according to Law, Iuſtice, Conſcience, that all prizes taken from any foraign Enemy, or other who pillage or damage the Engliſh, by the States Ships, and men of War, ſet out by the Merchants Cuſtoms, Tonnage, Poundage, Impoſts, and therewith maintained for their defence, (which therfore uuQui ſentit onus, ſ…ntire debet & commodum; is, and o…ght to be Law in this caſe.ſhould be equally diſtributed to our Engliſh Merchants that are damnified, undon by them, towards the reparation of their loſſes, who maintain them, to enable and encourage them in their trading, eſpecially when much impoveriſhed or undone by their loſſes) p. 103and not all converted to the uſe of that ſome ſtile, the Admiralty and State, or Mariners who take them; (at whoſe coſt they are not maintained:) The binding of all Captains of all States men of war, **See 5 R. 2. Stat. 2. ch. 3.to make good all the Engliſh Merchants, and their Allies loſſes, ſuſteined by their default or negligence: The **See My Hiſtorical Vindication, part 1. p. 64.reſuming of all the late alienated ancient Lands, rents, revenues of the Crown, got into private hands, which ought to defray the conſtant expence of the Government, now extorted for the moſt part by arbitrary new devices, out of the exhauſted peoples purſes. The ſpeedy preventing of the late unparalleld waſts in all places of Engliſh Timber, for ſhipping, of which there is like to be ſuch ſcarcity ere long, as will both deſtroy our Navy, and Fiſhing Trade. All theſe, and every of them will far more advance the Trade and Traffique of the Nation, and the publike wealth, and give all the people far better content and ſatisfaction ten thouſand fold, then this New diſtaſtefull pernicious project of bringing in the Iews: againſt which I ſhall only diſcharge this ancient xxSurius Concil. Tom. 2. p. 734, 735.Canon of the 4th Council of Toledo in Spain, under their moſt religious King Syſenandus in the year of our Lord 681. which thus batters all eccleſiaſtical and temporal promoters of this allegation for filthy Lucres ſake with this direfull thunderbolt; So great is certain mens lucre of money, that ſome coveting after it, according to the Apoſtles ſaying, have erred from the faith. For many hitherto of the Priests and Laity receiving gifts from the Iews, foſter their perfidiouſneſſe (or infidelity) by their patronage; who not undeſervedly are known to be of the body of Antichriſt, becauſe they act againſt Chriſt: Therefore whatſoever Biſhop or Clergy m…n, or ſecular perſon ſhall from henceforth give his ſuffrage to them against the Chriſtian faith. Either For reward or favour, being (as prophane & ſacrilegious) really made accurſed, let him be reputed, excommunicated from the Catholick Church and Kingdom of God; becauſe he is worthy to be ſeparated from the Body of Chriſt, who is made a p. 104Patron or Protector to the enemies of Chriſt.

I ſhall cloſe up all with the memorable appoſite Hiſtory (y) Ambroſii Epiſt. l. 5. Epiſt. 29. Ag…bardus de Judaicis ſuperſtitionibus. …bl. Pa rum, Tom 9. p. 516. Tripart. …iſt. l. 3. c. 1. l. 9. c. 1. Zonares Tom. 3. Cent. Magd. 4. col. 1165. 1166.and words, of that famous ancient Biſhop of Millain St. Ambroſe (z) The Eaſtern Chriſtians, out of Chriſtian zeal, burnt down a Synagogue of the Iews in the Caſtle of Callinico, by their Biſhops inſtigation and command, for which the Emperour Theod…ſius being much incenſed againſt them by the Jews and their Inſtruments, commanded his Lieutenant of the Eaſt to puniſh the people, and the Biſhop to re-edify the Synagogue for the Iews at his own coſts: Of which St. Ambroſe being informed, and unable to go to the Emperour, writ an Epiſtle to him, wherein he moſt boldly pleads the cauſe both of the Biſhop and people, proving by evident arguments; The burning of this Synagogue of impiety to be juſt, and that the Emperour ſhould ſin both againſt his own and his Kingdoms ſafety if he ſhould do any thing ſeverely againſt the Biſhop or …ople for it; Adding, that he himſelf was prepared ra… to ſuffer death in this cauſe, than that he ſhould by … diſſimulation make the Emperour a Prevaricator, who … commanded ſuch an unjuſt thing againſt the Church. …er which the Emperour coming to Millain, & St. Amb. …aring that the Iews had built a Synagogue in the Market … Conſtantinople: he publikely preached againſt it, & juſtified the peoples burning of the other Synagogue in his Sermon before the Emperor and people: wherein amongſt other paſſages, he uſed this Speech to the Emperor himſelf in …he perſon of Chriſt. O Theodoſius! I have made thee of an obſcure private perſon, an Emperor, committing my flock unto thee: I have adorned thy formerly ſqualid head with a Crown: I have delivered the forces of thine Enemie unto thee, I have reduced thine Enemy under thy power, I have made thee triumph without labour; and doſt thou make mine Enemies to triumph over me? and offer contumely unto me, by preferring thoſe whom I have rejected, before thoſe by whom I am worſhipped? by offering violence unto them, and ſuffering a Synagogue p. 105to be built in the midſt of that City, wherein I am worſhipped, and my Croſſe adored, by thoſe who have been my Murderers? When St. Ambroſe came forth of the Pulpit, the Emperor ſaying to him: O Biſhop, you have this day preached againſt us. He thereunto replyed; He had not ſpoken againſt him, but for him. To which the Emperor ſubjoyning, O Biſhop, will you have the people in a well governed Commonwealth, to have licenſe raſhly and impudently to do what they pleaſe? St. Ambroſe thereto rejoyned: Neither is this verily to be granted, That the Iews ſhould have Synagogues in the midſt of a Chriſtian City, and offend the ears of the Godly with blaſphemous Prayers: Nor oughteſt thou to Decrée this, moſt holy Emperor; Whereupon the Emperor being quite ſilenced and convinced of his error, forthwith gave his faith and promiſe to St. Ambroſe, to reverſe his former decree for re-building the Iews Synagogue, before he went to the Altar to receive the Sacrament at his hands. I wiſh this my Demurrer may produce the like effects.

Gal. 5. 2, 3, 4.

Behold I Paul ſay unto you, that if **As every Jew is.ye be circumciſed, Chriſt ſhall profit you nothing; For I teſtifie again to every man that is circumciſed, that he is a debtor to do the whole Law: Chriſt is become of no effect unto you; whoſoever of you are juſtified by the Law, ye are fallen from Grace.

1 Joh 4. 3.

Every Spirit that **The Caſe of every Jewiſh Spirit.confeſſeth not that Ieſus Chriſt is come in the fleſh, is not of God, and THIS IS THE SPIRIT OF ANTICHRIST, wherof ye have heard that it ſhould come, and even now already is in the world.

FINIS.

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