The Faiths of the Peoples, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint)

Oppressed by severe laws, prevented from becoming members of trades or guilds, obliged to dwell in parts of cities set aside for and isolating them from their fellow-citizens, permitted to marry only under certain restrictions framed to limit their numbers, despised, insulted, robbed, the Jewish people suffered persecution from all nations with patience and waited with hope. Though crushed they could not be extinguished. Under Cromwell they met some degree of tolerance for the first time in England; but the liberty they received even then was not such as was granted to the great bulk of their fellow-men. As however it was greater than that extended to them in other countries, numbers of Jews came from Spain, Portugal, and A msterdam, and taking up their abode in London, leased a burial-ground at Stepney in February, 1657. VOL. I.
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