The Jews in Great Britain: Being a Series of Six Lectures, Delivered in the Liverpool Collegiate Institution, on the Antiquities of the Jews in England.Margoliouth, Moses
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The Jews in Great Britain: Being a Series of Six Lectures, Delivered in the Liverpool Collegiate Institution, on the Antiquities of the Jews in England.
Margoliouth, Moses
Jews -- Great Britain -- History
“Provided nevertheless, that they may hereafter hold, as in times past
they were accustomed to hold, those houses in our cities, boroughs and
towns, which they themselves inhabit; and likewise that they may let
those houses to lease, which they now hold for that purpose, to Jews
only, but not to Christians.
“Yet nevertheless it is here provided, that it should not be lawful
for our Jews of London to purchase, or by any other method to acquire,
more houses than they now have in our said city of London; by which the
parochial churches of the said city, or their incumbents, may incur a
loss. However, it shall be lawful for the said Jews of London at their
pleasure to repair their houses, and even to rebuild and restore to
their former condition such of their old houses as have fallen down or
been demolished.
“We likewise, by and with the advice of our said council, provide and
enact, that with respect to the said houses so to be inhabited, or let
to lease as aforesaid, no Jew shall sue or be sued by our original writs
out of chancery, but before our justices appointed for taking care of
the Jews, and by the writs of Judaism hitherto used and accustomed.
“But with respect to those lands and tenures in which the Jews were
before _this statute_ infeoffed, and which they now hold, our will is,
that such infeoffments and grants shall be absolutely annulled; and
that the said lands and tenements shall return to the Christians who
granted the same; but upon condition that the said Christians shall make
satisfaction to the Jews, without usury, for the money or consideration
contained in the charters and writings, which was paid by the Jews
to the Christians, for the said feoffments or grants. And also
upon condition, that if the said Christians cannot make immediate
satisfaction for the same, it may be lawful for the said Jews to make
over the said tenements to other Christians, until the consideration
paid by them can, without usury, be raised out of the rents and
profits of the said estate, according to its true value by a reasonable
assessment; saving, however, to such Christians their subsistence; and
so as that the Jew may from thence receive the money or consideration
by the hands of some Christian, and not of any Jew, as aforesaid.
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