Joannis Seldeni jurisconsulti opera omnia, tam edita quam inedtia : in tribus voluminibusCollegit ac recensuit; vitam auctoris, praefationes, & indices adjecit . ver yeclearn) truc, as I havc exprelfed them for 1 am moft ibrry (and fo fliould have been,though I had never been queftioned) that anyoccafion is taken out of them in any kind ofprejudice to the clergy. The whole body of ittherefore, with the caufe of writing it, and thecourfe I took in compofing it, together wich thecircumftances ofpubliftoing //^,thus briefly hither-to opened, fufficiently (as l truft) fliew, that myend z
Joannis Seldeni jurisconsulti opera omnia, tam edita quam inedtia : in tribus voluminibusCollegit ac recensuit; vitam auctoris, praefationes, & indices adjecit . ver yeclearn) truc, as I havc exprelfed them for 1 am moft ibrry (and fo fliould have been,though I had never been queftioned) that anyoccafion is taken out of them in any kind ofprejudice to the clergy. The whole body of ittherefore, with the caufe of writing it, and thecourfe I took in compofing it, together wich thecircumftances ofpubliftoing //^,thus briefly hither-to opened, fufficiently (as l truft) fliew, that myend zxidi purpofe in it, was fb far from calling inqueftion the divine right, or any other right oftythes, that it was on the contrary fide, whollyto leave that queftion oidivine right to whom it properly pertains, and to coIle(3:here all fuch teftimony of fecular laws andhiftory (which have been the objecSfs of myftudies) as might at one face difcover, whathath been from antienteft time, till this day^praBifed, held, or ordained, touching tythes ;which whofbever examines it, will find, that Ihave, although unfortunately, yet moft faith-fully OF Hi9 1460 Ofthe JEW Sfometimes living //^ENGL AN D. OF the Jews firft coming to this land, isuncertain. It feems that fome littlenotice was taken of them before theconquefl: ; after which vve have diversteftimonies, and befides others, the ftatute deju-daifmo. Both before and after, their ftate andcondition was very lervile, as appeareth in le-gib. Confejf. cap. 29. Judaei iS omniafua regisfnnt, (S^c. The Jews and all they had, was thekings. What they fufFered in fiicceeding ages,our common ftories difcover. There was oneamongft them which had the ofEce oi presby-teratus omnium Judaeortm totitis Angliae(which I take to be their chief priefthood, intheir fynagogues; for if it had fignified a meerlay-elderfliip, I guefs I fliould have met with itinthe pleas of their exchequer) and this lay inthe kings granr, as by ^Mx^Johns,
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