A short demurrer to the Jewes long discontinued barred remitter into England Comprising an exact chronological relation of their first admission into, their ill deportment, misdemeanors, condition, sufferings, oppressions, slaughters, plunders, by popular insurrections, and regal exactions in; and their total, final banishment by judgment and edict of Parliament, out of England, never to return again: collected out of the best historians and records. With a brief collection of such English laws, Scriptures, reasons as seem strongly to plead, and conclude against their readmission into England, especially at this season, and against the general calling of the Jewish nation. With an answer to the chief allegations for their introduction. / By William Prynne Esq; a bencher of Lincolnes-Inne.

Title: A short demurrer to the Jewes long discontinued barred remitter into England Comprising an exact chronological relation of their first admission into, their ill deportment, misdemeanors, condition, sufferings, oppressions, slaughters, plunders, by popular insurrections, and regal exactions in; and their total, final banishment by judgment and edict of Parliament, out of England, never to return again: collected out of the best historians and records. With a brief collection of such English laws, Scriptures, reasons as seem strongly to plead, and conclude against their readmission into England, especially at this season, and against the general calling of the Jewish nation. With an answer to the chief allegations for their introduction. / By William Prynne Esq; a bencher of Lincolnes-Inne.

Author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669.

Collection: Early English Books Online

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Judaeus, cegnovit per Starrum suum, &c.In the 53 year of King Henry the 3. a certain Jew a∣betted by the other Jews, in high conempt of Christ crucified, in the solemn Procession at Oxford on A∣scention day, threw down and brake in peeces the Crosse that was carried before the University in Procession, and then fled. Wherupon by the Kings special command all the in Oxford were apprehended, and their goods secured, till they out of their own goods and chattels erected a new standing beautifull high Crose, adorned with guilt Pictures of Christ and our Lady, in the place where this wickednesse was perpetrated, and made another rich portable silver guilded Crosse, to be carried before the University of the Masters and Scholars of Oxford in their Processions, which were to be made by a time pre∣fixed, for the publike manifestation of the honour of God in this behalf, as these Records at large inform us, though not mentioned by any of our Historians.Claus. 53. H. 3. m. 12. De duabus Cruci∣bus de bonis et Catallis Jude∣orum Oxon. faciendis.Rex Vic. Oxon. salutem. Cum Judaei nostri Oxon. no∣bis adhuc non responderint de corpore illius Judei qui in vituperium crucifixi Crucem in solemni processione die Acentionis Domini prostra vit et fregit, per quod tibi pluries praecipimus, quod omnes Jueos praedictos sine dilatione caperes, et salvo custodires, et quod non permitteres eos aliquam administrationem habere de bonis et catallis eorum donec sufficientem tibi prestarent securitatem, quod sumptibus suis quandam Crucem mar∣moream pulchram et altam, bene et decenter incisam et pollitam cum imagine crucifixi in capite ex parte una, et cum Imagine beatae Virginis cum filio suo ex parte al∣tera, convenienter sitis, et auro depictis, una cum causa predicta manifeste superscripta, in loco ubi scelus prae∣dictum extitit perpetratum. Et quandam aliam Cru∣cem portatilem argenteam bene et subtiliter et decenter fabricatam, et deauratam, cum hasta sine baculo, ejusdem magnitudinls cum crucibus honorificis quas Archiepisco∣pi coram se faciunt deportari, deferend. ante Universita∣tem 0