A History of the Establishment and Residence of the Jews in England: With an Enquiry Into Their Civil Disabilities |
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act of parliament Acton Burnel aliis amongst Anglia authority banishment charters chattels Christian Chron church circumstance cities Claus commanded considered court crown Croyland Abbey debt debtor Declaration disabilities Edward Edward the Confessor effect enacted eorum estates etiam Exchequer faith feoffment following treatise force granted habeat Henry the Third Hist hold land Holinshed houses ipsis Jewish Jews Jews in England Judæi Judæo Judæorum Judæus Judeis justices king king's legislature letters patent London Lord Lord Coke lour marks Menasseh Ben Israel ment nobis nostris oath Oath of Abjuration occasion omnes omnibus opinion ordinances parliamentary edition passed payment persons possessions prædicti Prynne purchase quæ quibus quod Regis reign rents resided respect seisin sheriffs shew sicut statute statutum sunt synagogue take lands taken tallage tenements tion Tovey usury villeins vobis writs
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Page 33 - And if any one shall die indebted to the Jews, his wife shall have her dower and pay nothing of that debt...
Page 115 - Protestant Subjects dissenting from the Church of England from the Penalties of certain Laws...
Page 13 - I was one day at Galata, a suburb of Pera, where a great commotion was just excited. The child of a Greek merchant had disappeared, and no one could give any account of it. It was a beautiful boy, and it was imagined it had been taken by a Turk for a slave...
Page 14 - ... he concludes in the following words : — " When I was thirteen years old, my father revealed to me the mystery of the blood, and cursed me by all the elements of heaven and earth, if ever I should divulge the secret, even to my brethren ; and when I was married, and should even have ten sons, I should not discover it to all, but only to one, who should be the most prudent and learned, and, at the same time, firm and unmoved in the faith : but to a female I should never disclose it on any account....
Page 43 - God's sake, that he give us license and safe conduct to depart out of his kingdom, that we may seek a mansion in some other land, and under a prince who bears some bowels of mercy, and some stability of truth and faithfulness, and we will depart, never to return again, leaving our household stuff and houses behind us. But how can he...
Page 114 - That neither this act, nor any clause, article, or thing herein contained, shall extend or be construed to extend to give any ease, benefit or advantage to any papist or popish recusant whatsoever, or any person that shall deny in his preaching or writing the doctrine of the blessed Trinity, as it is declared in the aforesaid articles of religion.
Page 13 - Turk for a slave : after some time, however, the body was found in the Bosphorus ; its legs and arms were bound, and certain wounds on its side indicated that it had been put to death in some extraordinary manner, and for some extraordinary purpose. — Suspicion immediately fell upon the Jews ; and as it was just after their paschal feast, suspicion, people said, was confirmed to a certainty. Nothing could be discovered to give a clue to the perpetrators, but the story was universally talked of,...
Page 143 - Christian would be obliged to, without claiming any privilege. " Likewise all Jews shall be resident in such cities and boroughs as are the King's own, where the common chest of their indentures is wont to be kept. And every one of them that is past seven years of age shall wear a badge, in form of two tables of yellow taffety, six fingers long and three fingers broad, upon his upper garment...
Page 143 - Another act, 3 Edward I., forbade Jews from alienating in fee, either to Jew or Christian, any houses, rents, or tenements which they then had, or disposing of them in any way without the king's consent ; they were permitted to purchase houses and curtilages in the cities and boroughs where they then resided, provided they held them in chief of the king ; and they were further permitted to take lands to farm for any term not exceeding...
Page 33 - Jews, more or less, and die before the debt be satisfied, there shall be no interest paid for that debt, so long as the heir is under age. of whomsoever he may hold ; and if the debt fall into our hands we will only take the chattel mentioned in the deed.] [11.