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
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Thorowgood, “Jews in America” (1650), pp. 129 _et seq._
Footnote 36:
The text of the letter has not been preserved, but its contents are
summarised in Holmes’s reply, printed in an appendix to Felgenhauer’s
_Bonum Nuncium Israeli_.
Footnote 37:
_Vindiciæ Judæorum_, _infra_, pp. 143–144.
Footnote 38:
Dury, “Epistolary Discourse.” For text of the letters, see _infra_, p.
lxxviii.
Footnote 39:
_Bonum Nuncium_, loc. cit.
Footnote 40:
This tract has been the source of a curious misunderstanding.
Kayserling, who apparently never examined more of it than the
title-page, on which the author is described as “E. S. Middlesex,”
ascribed it to “Lord Middlesex,” and regarded it as favourable to
Menasseh (_Misc. Heb. Lit._, ii. p. 33). Had he looked at the Latin
translation at the end he would have found the name of the author
given in full. Moreover, the writer, so far from being philo-Semitic,
expressly states that the object of his pamphlet was the “taking off
the scandall of our too great desire of entertayning the unbeleeving
Nation of the Jewes.” Kayserling’s errors have been adopted without
inquiry by Graetz, Adler, and other writers.
Footnote 41:
“Rights of the Kingdom,” p. 39.
Footnote 42:
“Pisgah-sight of Palestine,” Book V. pp. 194 _et seq._
Footnote 43:
“Good Work,” &c., _loc. cit._
Footnote 44:
Writing to Crawford in 1643, says: “The State, in choosing men to
serve it, takes no notice of their opinions; if they be willing
faithfully to serve it—that satisfies.... Bear with men of different
minds from yourself.” Carlyle, “Cromwell’s Letters and Speeches,” i.
p. 148.
Footnote 45:
Gardiner, “History of the Commonwealth,” vol. ii.
Footnote 46:
Carlyle, “Cromwell’s Letters and Speeches,” vol. iii. pp. 23, 25, 26.
Footnote 47:
_Trans. Jew. Hist. Soc._, vol. i. pp. 73–74; vol. ii. pp. 17–18; Wolf,
“Jewish Emancipation in the City” (_Jewish Chronicle_, Nov. 30, 1894);
Graetz, _Geschichte_, vol. x. p. 19.
Footnote 48:
Wolf, “Cromwell’s Jewish Intelligencers” (Lond., 1891).
Footnote 49:
S. R. Gardiner in the _Academy_, March 4, 1882.
Footnote 50:
_Vindiciæ Judæorum_, p. 5; _infra_, p. 111; “Humble Addresses,”
_infra_, p. 77.
Footnote 51:
Cal. State Papers, Dom. (1651), p. 472.
Footnote 52:
Cal. State Papers, Dom. (1651–52), p. 577; (1652–53), p. 38.
Footnote 53:
Thurloe State Papers, vol. i. p. 387; Clarendon State Papers, vol. ii.
p. 233.
Footnote 54:
_Supra_, p. xvii.
Footnote 55:
Wolf, “Resettlement of the Jews in England” (1888), p. 9.
Footnote 56:
For text of these petitions see _Trans. Jew. Hist. Soc._, vol. iii.
pp. 88–93.
Footnote 57:
State Papers, Dom. Interregnum, i. 75 (1654), pp. 596, 620.
Footnote 58:
Rawl. MSS., A 260, fol. 57. Text of this letter is given in _Trans.
Jew. Hist. Soc._, vol. iii. p. 93.
Footnote 59:
_Trans. Jew. Hist. Soc._, vol. ii. pp. 18, 45–46.
Footnote 60:
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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