Menasseh ben Israel's Mission to Oliver Cromwell: Being a reprint of the pamphlets published by Menasseh ben Israel to promote the re-admission of the Jews to England, 1649-1656Manasseh ben Israel
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Menasseh ben Israel's Mission to Oliver Cromwell: Being a reprint of the pamphlets published by Menasseh ben Israel to promote the re-admission of the Jews to England, 1649-1656
Manasseh ben Israel
Jews -- Great Britain
3. The affording of Materials in great plenty for all Mechaniqs; as
Wooll, Leather, Wines; Jewels, as Diamants, Pearles, and such like
Merchandize.
4. The venting and exportation of so many kinds of Manifactures.
5. The Commerce and reciprocall Negotiation at Sea, which is the ground
of Peace between neighbour Nations, and of great profit to their own
Fellow-cittizens.
III. This reason is the more strengthened, when we see, that not onely
the Iewish Nation dwelling in Holland and Italy, trafficqs with their
own stock, but also with the riches of many others of their own Nation,
friends, kinds-men and acquaintance, which notwithstanding live in
Spaine, and send unto them their moneys and goods, which they hold in
their hands, and content themselves with a very small portion of their
estate, to the end they may be secure and free from danger that might
happen unto them, in case they should fall under the yoke of the
Inquisition; whence not onely their goods, but oftentimes also their
lives are endangered.
IV. The love that men ordinarily beare to their own Country and the
desire they have to end their lives, where they had their begining, is
the cause, that most strangers having gotten riches where they are in a
forain land, are commonly taken in a desire to returne to their native
soil, and there peaceably to enjoy their estate; so that as they were a
help to the places where they lived, and negotiated while they remained
there; so when they depart from thence, they carry all away, and spoile
them of their wealth: transporting all into their own native Country:
But with the Iews the case is farre different; for where the Iews are
once kindly receaved, they make a firm resolution never to depart from
thence, seeing they have no proper place of their own: and so they are
alwayes with their goods in the Cities where they live, a perpetuall
benefit to all payments. Which reasons do clearly proove, that it being
the property of Cittizens in populous and rich countries, to seeke their
rest and ease with buying lands and faire possession of which they live;
many of them hating commerce, aspire to Titles and Dignities: therefore
of all strangers, in whose hands ordinarily Trafique is found, there are
none so profitable and beneficiall to the place where they trade and
live, as is the Nation of the Iews. And seeing amongst the people of
Europ, the chiefest riches they possesse, som from Spain, those
neighbour Nations, where the Iews shall finde liberty to live according
to their own Iudaicall Laws, they shall most easily draw that benefit to
themselves by means of the industry of our Nation, and their mutuall
correspondance.
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