Dublin: Printed by EDWARD BULL, 6, Bachelor’s-walk. TO THE RIGHT REVEREND JOHN BIRD SUMNER, D.D., LORD BISHOP OF CHESTER, AND VISITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION, These Lectures, ON THE ANTIQUITIES OF THE JEWS IN ENGLAND, ARE, BY KIND PERMISSION, INSCRIBED, WITH FEELINGS OF PROFOUND RESPECT AND ESTEEM, BY HIS LORDSHIP’S MOST HUMBLE AND OBEDIENT SERVANT, THE AUTHOR. THE following Lectures form a complete History of the Jews in Great Britain, with reference to their literary, religious, political, and civil constitution, up to the eighteenth year of Edward I., A.D. 1290. They are published in deference to, and compliance with, the strong wishes of many who heard them delivered. CONTENTS. LECTURE I. INTRODUCTION.――Lecturer’s Disadvantages.――Importance of Jewish History.――the Antiquity of the Jews.――The intense Interest now taken in this Subject.――Subject of these Lectures.――Deficiency of Information on the Subject.――The Literary Character of the Jews.――The Dilemma of the Jewish Historian.――Reasons for Historical Deficiency.――The Jews visited Britain before the Norman Conquest.――Jews trained to be a wandering Nation. ――A maritime Nation.――The Renown of Solomon’s Fame.――the Phœnicians’ Marine Expeditions.――Ezekiel’s Description of the same.――The Meaning of Tarshish.――Wealth of Spain and of Solomon.――Two Monuments found in Spain.――their Inscriptions. ――Villalpando institutes an Inquiry.――Adoniram’s tomb-stone. ――Decyphered not by Jewish but by Christian Divines.――The same Monument noticed by a Jewish Traveller.――Villalpando’s Conclusion not premature.――Britain a compound Hebrew Word. ――Striking Affinity between the Hebrew and Cornish Languages. ――Whole Sentences alike in both Languages.――the Jews Fathers in Literature.――Britain one of “the Isles afar off”.――The Terms of the Alliance between the Jews and the Romans.――Augustus’s Edict in Favour of the Jews in Britain.――A curious ancient Brick found.――Richard Waller’s Conjecture respecting it.――St. Peter may have visited Britain for the sake of the Jews.――The Success a Missionary meets with among unprejudiced Jews.――Wolff’s Success in Bokhara, and Stern’s in Persia.――St. Paul’s Visit to Britain fully established by Bishop Burgess and many other learned Divines.――The British Church established by Jews. ――APPENDIX A. A Letter from Mr. Holdsworth, Governor of Dartmouth.――B.