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

[157]. Guildhall Archives, Rep. lxxiii. fol. 213.

[158]. Menasseh had assured Nieupoort that he did “not desire anything for the Jews in Holland” (Thurloe, iv. p. 333). The negotiations with Charles II. are recorded in Brit. Mus. Add. MSS. 4106, fol. 253.

[159]. Infra, p. lxxxvi.

[160]. Hist. MSS. Com. Rep., viii. pp. 94–95. Fifth Rep. of Dep. Keeper of Public Records, App. ii. p. 253.

[161]. Infra, p. lxxxviii.

[162]. Ibid., p. lxxxvii.

[163]. Ibid. Hist. MSS. Com. Rep., viii. p. 95.

[164]. Compare frontispiece with portrait at p. 105.

[165]. Kayserling, “Menasseh ben Israel.” (Misc. of Hebrew Literature, Series ii. pp. 68, 93.)

[166]. For the condition of the Ashkenazi Jews at this epoch see Graetz’s Geschichte, vol. x. pp. 52–82.