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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ...permission to meet privately for the purposes of devotion at the petitioners' own houses; nor, on the other hand, did it ask for the establishment or consecration of a cemetery, but merely for a licence to bury the dead in a convenient place outside the city "with the Proprietor's leave." The Jews in England were at this time classed with Popish Eecusants, and therefore such a licence was necessary, for the Act to prevent and avoid dangers which may grow by Popish Recusants (3 Jas. I, c. 5, s. 15) imposed a penalty of twenty pounds upon persons causing a Popish Recusant to be buried in any place other than in the church or churchyard, according to the ecclesiastical laws of the realm. The request was merely to exercise a right which, had it not been for the statute, could not have been denied. However, since the outbreak of the war with Spain and the decision of the Robles case, the Jews here no longer lived as Spanish subjects in close touch with the Embassy and regularly attending the mass held there; accordingly they may have been no longer considered as Popish Recusants, and so liable to the penalties of the statute. As stated above, they probably at this time attended some Protestant place of worship. And so if they buried their dead in private ground without any religious ceremony they did nothing illegal, and if Jewish religious rites were performed, the strictest secrecy was observed. When all the circumstances are taken into consideration, it can hardly be maintained that the fact that a few Jews were buried in a garden at Mile End without F yeares of a house for the habitation of a merchant stranger being an alien, whose king is in league with ours, and a lease for yeares of lands, meadows, pastures, woods and the like. For if...
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