A similar course had been taken with regard to Protestant refugees in the city on November 13, 1655. (Guildhall Archives: Rep. lxiv. fol. 8^b.) Footnote 154: Some of these restrictions are clearly indicated by Menasseh’s disappointment at the settlement. The prohibition of proselytising has always been remembered as one of the conditions of the Readmission, and it was religiously observed until the Rabbinate of the present ecclesiastical chief of the Anglo-Jewish community. In 1752, when certain Ashkenazi Jews were making proselytes in London, the Parnassim of the Portuguese synagogue wrote to the authorities of the German congregation, calling their attention to this condition, and the proselytisers were ordered to desist from “pursuing such unlawful practices.” In 1760 a Jew was expelled from the synagogue and deprived of his burial rights for this offence. (Minute Books of the Duke’s Place Synagogue, 1752, 1760.) Footnote 155: Violet, “The Petition Against the Jews” (1661), p. 2: “Cromwell and his Council did give a toleration and dispensation to a great number of Jews to come and live here in London, and to this day they do keep _public worship_ in the City of London, to the great dishonour of Christianity and public scandal of the true Protestant religion.” Footnote 156: Abstract of lease in _Jewish Chronicle_, November 26, 1880, communicated by Mr. Israel Davis. Footnote 157: Guildhall Archives, Rep. lxxiii. fol. 213. Footnote 158: Menasseh had assured Nieupoort that he did “not desire anything for the Jews in Holland” (Thurloe, iv. p. 333). The negotiations with Charles II. are recorded in Brit. Mus. Add. MSS. 4106, fol. 253. Footnote 159: _Infra_, p. lxxxvi. Footnote 160: Hist. MSS. Com. Rep., viii. pp. 94–95. Fifth Rep. of Dep. Keeper of Public Records, App. ii. p. 253. Footnote 161: _Infra_, p. lxxxviii. Footnote 162: _Ibid._, p. lxxxvii. Footnote 163: _Ibid._ Hist. MSS. Com. Rep., viii. p. 95. Footnote 164: Compare frontispiece with portrait at p. 105. Footnote 165: Kayserling, “Menasseh ben Israel.” (Misc. of Hebrew Literature, Series ii. pp. 68, 93.) Footnote 166: For the condition of the Ashkenazi Jews at this epoch see Graetz’s _Geschichte_, vol. x. pp. 52–82. Footnote 167: [Richard Baker], “The Marchants Humble Petition and Remonstrance” (London, 1659). p. 17. Footnote 168: Guildhall Archives: Remembrancia, vol. ix. No. 44, pp. 1–18. Footnote 169: Violet, “A Petition against the Jews” (London, 1661). Footnote 170: State Papers, Dom., Charles II., vol. xxi. p. 140. Footnote 171: “Petition,” p. 2. Footnote 172: _Trans. Jew. Hist. Soc._, vol. i. pp. 71, 74–75. Footnote 173: Brit. Mus. Add. MSS. 4106, f. 253. Footnote 174: Journal of the House of Commons, December 17, 1660. Footnote 175: State Papers, Dom., Chas. II., Entry Book xviii. (1664), fol. 79. Footnote 176: