The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-04-17
Oppression.

The people of the South can draw hone
from the following article, and che bloody
minded Radicals learn the lesson that un-
just tyranny is vain. The Jews, SO poor,
SO despised, SO oppressed, III,
have now Cabinet Minister in the same
Government, and their fnanciers hold
greater control over the welfare of the
British nation than the Crown itself.
The following disabilities were imposed
on Jews, in the reign Of Edward I, of En-
gland
l. No Jew shall come to or depart from
England without a license, on pain of death.
2. No Jew shall walk or ride without a
yellow badge upon his or her outward or
upper garments, on pain of death.
3. No jew shall condemn Jesus Christ
nor blaspheme His Divinity, on pain Of
being burned.
4. No Jew shall stir out of bis house or
lodging on Good Friday.
S. No Jew shall strike a Christian on
pain of having his right arm cut off.
6. No Jew shall kill a Christian, on pain
that he be hanged alive on gibbet, and be
fed daily with bread and water, till he dies
on the same gibbet.
| I. Ifany Jew snail cheat a Christian and
escape, all the rest of the Jews shall make
satisfaction to the Christian SO cheated.
| s. All the synagogues Of the Jews shall
be suppressed, and if any of their Rabbis
or Jewish Priests shall teach or preach
against the Christian religion hereafter in
England, all such teachers and preachers
shall be burnt.
9. No Jew, on pain Of hanging, shall
transport any bullion or coin beyond the
seas, nor deface or melt down any Chris
tian coin.
10. The kings judges shall not hear the
testimony of a Jew against Christian.
| IL. No Jew shall be sworn upon the
Evangelists.
II. The Jews shall have four Judges, two
whereof Christians and the Others Jews,
who shall try and determine all causes be-
tween Jews and Christians.
Is. All the children of the Jews, as soon
as horn, the rector or vicar of the parish
shall take from them. put such to nurses
and breed them up in the Christian reli.
gion, for which all the Jews must pay all
the charges. A
! IA. In the exhequer appointed for the
Jews, there shall be half Christians and
half Jews and both shall have equal pow
er and different locks and keys to prevent
fraud
Is. The Jews shall account for all the
money they lay out, and for the profits, and
return before the judiciaries over the Jews
as soon as they shall be required.
I l6. If any Jew shall be converted to the
Christian faith, all his usurious acquisi
tions to be converted to ,pious and charita
BILE uses, but oil his goods, estate and NOV
ables shall be his own, and not the Kings
as formerly accustomed.
II. The Jews shall go to hear Christian
doctrine once week, and as many En-
glish Jews as turn Christians shall be az
free of England as if they were born o
Christian parents.
ls. No Jew shall cohabit with Chris
tian woman.
10. No Jew shall be buried in conse
Grated ground.
20. No Jew shall correspond with an,
of the enemies Of England.
81. No Jews widow shall have any RICH
of administration, but after the disease o
her husband all the Jews effects and nova
bles shall be vested in the King, and tn
King shall be executor and administrato
to all the Jews in England.
f %. No Jew shall sue for his own debts
but in the name ofthe King and with tn
: Kings license and if any Jew defraud
: the King of his customs or other rights, b
: shall forfeit his all to the King.
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