_Publick Intelligencer_, loc. cit. Footnote 114: Spence’s “Anecdotes,” p. 77. Footnote 115: “A Short Demurrer,” Part I. The publication of the pamphlet was hurried to be in time for the Conference. It was written in seven days, and the preface is dated December 14, four days before the last meeting (_cf._ Preface to “Second Demurrer,” 1656). Footnote 116: _Jud. Memor._, p. 175; Burton, “Diary,” p. 309. Footnote 117: Burton, _loc. cit._ Footnote 118: Burton, _loc. cit._ Footnote 119: “Life of Henry Jessey,” pp. 67–68. Footnote 120: That Cromwell’s interposition took place under these circumstances is an inference of the present writer’s. The statements in Jessey’s “Life” clearly point to this conclusion. Footnote 121: These fragments of Cromwell’s speech are gathered from Jessey’s “Narrative,” Crouch’s _Judæorum Memorabilia_, pp. 175–176, and Spence’s “Anecdotes,” p. 77. Footnote 122: Testimony by Rycaut, who was present in the crowd (Spence’s “Anecdotes,” p. 77). Footnote 123: Writing to Henry Cromwell about the Conference a week later, Thurloe says, “I doe assure you that his highness is put to exercise every day with the peevishness and wroth of some persons heere” (State Papers, vol. iv. p. 343). Footnote 124: _Cf._ Conditions, ii., iii., iv., v., ix., xi., and xvii., in Barlow, “The Care of the Jews,” pp. 67, 68, 70, 71, and 73. Footnote 125: _Infra_, p. lxxxiv-lxxxv. Footnote 126: In the Calendar of State Papers, Dom. (1655–1656), p. 15, it is hypothetically dated November 13, the day on which Menasseh’s proposals were referred to the Committee. This date is absolutely impossible, as the Committee could not have ascertained the views it reported to the Council in the course of a single afternoon. If it was not drawn up on the 15th, it could not have been drawn up until the Conference was over, as the Conference was specifically summoned to advise the Committee. Footnote 127: I have to thank Dr. Gardiner for this ingenious conjecture. It entirely accords with all the known facts. Footnote 128: Edit. Bohn, vol. i. p. 327. Footnote 129: _Supra_, p. xvii. Footnote 130: Guildhall Archives. Remembrancia, vol. ix. No. 44, pp. 1–18. I printed the text of this petition in full in the _Jewish Chronicle_, November 15, 1899. Footnote 131: These grants are mentioned in a Jewish petition subsequently presented to Cromwell (_infra_, pp. lxxxv-lxxxvi). Footnote 132: Gardiner, “Hist. of the Commonwealth,” vol. i. pp. 396–97. Footnote 133: Graetz, _Geschichte der Juden_, vol. x. p. 122. Footnote 134: Cal. State Papers, Dom., 1655–56, p. 82. Footnote 135: