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22: 706: 1359: 479:, Johanna Cartwright and her son Ebenezer ("The Petition of the Jews for the Repealing of the Act of Parliament for Their Banishment out of England"); and suggestions looking to that end were made by men of the type of 1329: 347:
Sephardic Jews were Spanish and Portuguese Jews living in the Iberian Peninsula who converted or were forced to convert to Christianity during the Middle Ages, but continued to practice Judaism in secrecy.
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had been discovered in the American Indians of Ecuador, and England was the only country from which Jews were excluded. If England admitted them, the Messianic age might be expected.
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in London. Toward the middle of the 17th century a considerable number of Sephardic merchants settled in London and formed there a secret
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party for the readmission of the Jews into England. Petitions favouring readmission had been presented to the army as early as 1649 by two
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of 1290. In the following three centuries, Sephardic Jews communities established near the major European sea ports like
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sources writing about English Catholic ambassadors' repeated complaints of Jews from this community meeting to celebrate
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Documents suggest that, although small in number at the time, Sephardic Jews fleeing persecution from the
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movement for a sympathetic treatment of any proposal by the Judaizing sects among the extremists of the
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In the Style of Toleration: Bevis Marks and the Synagogue Architecture of Seventeenth-Century London
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world by the Sephardi or secret Jews (see Commerce). Their position enabled them to give
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Katz, David. The Jews in the History of England, 1485–1850. Oxford: Clarendon, 1994.
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Foundation for the Advancement of Sephardic Studies and Culture
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Meanwhile, public opinion in England had been prepared by the
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around the late 16th century, largely known from contemporary
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in 1701 become the first Jewish religious places since the
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reasons; and their views attracted the enthusiasm of
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History of the
Jews in England

Early history (1066–1290)
Exchequer of the Jews
Early literature
Fox Fables
Synod of Oxford (1222)
Domus Conversorum (est. 1232)
Statute of Jewry (1253)
Statute of the Jewry (1275)
Edict of Expulsion (1290)
William of Norwich, 1144
Harold of Gloucester 1168
Robert of Bury, 1181
Hugh of Lincoln, 1255
"Sir Hugh" ballad
Guildford Synagogue
Jew's House, Lincoln
Moyse's Hall
Resettlement (1655)
Marranos in England
Jewish Naturalisation Act 1753
Emancipation
Chuts
Whitechapel Boys
British Jews

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