Menasseh ben Israel's Mission to Oliver Cromwell / Being a reprint of the pamphlets published by Menasseh ben Israel to promote the re-admission of the Jews to England, 1649-1656

by Manasseh ben Israel

[137]. State Papers, Domestic. Interregnum, cxxv., No. 38, i. 76, p. 604; i. 112, p. 289; cxxvi., No. 105.

[138]. Ibid., cxxvi., No. 105, iv.

[139]. Ibid., cxxvi., No. 105.

[140]. Trans. Jew. Hist. Soc., vol. i. p. 63.

[141]. State Papers, Dom. Interregnum, cxxv., 58. Infra, p. lxxxv.

[142]. See endorsement of the petition. Infra, p. lxxxvi.

[143]. Infra, p. 107. The hypothesis that John Sadler was the author of the letter which gave rise to the Vindiciæ Judæorum is based on the facts that he was at the time the go-between in the negotiations with Cromwell, that he was an intimate friend of Menasseh, and that he had already given some thought to the blood accusation and other charges against the Jews (“Rights of the Kingdom,” p. 74).

[144]. State Papers, Dom. Inter., i. 77, April 1, 1656; cxxvi., No. 105, xi.

[145]. Carlyle, “Cromwell’s Letters and Speeches,” vol. ii. p. 161.

[146]. State Papers, Dom. Inter., cxxvi., No. 105, i.; i. 77, No. 11.