The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-11-26
ALL SAINTS DAY---NOv. 1st.

Origin Of the FesfiYaI-ExDuI.
sion Of the Jews FROM England
Their Cruel Treatment at the
Hands OfChristiams--ThefP Re
turn Under Cromwell Etc.
This festival takes its origin from
the conversion, in the seventh century,
Of the Pantheon of Rome into Chris
tian place OF worship, and its dedica-
ton by Pope BOniface ". to the Vir-
gin and all the martyrs. The ami
versary Of this event was at first cele-
brated on the 1st of May, but the day
was subsequently altered TO the 1st Of
November, which was thenceforth, un-
der the designation of the Feast of
All Saints, set apart as a general COM
memoratiOn in their honor. The fes-
tival has been retained by the Episco-
pal Church.
Every Jew in the world has cause
to remember the 1st day of November;
because, 578 years ago this day, Ed
ward 1. expelled every Jew, over 49,
600 in all, from England. In Decem-
Der Of'that year, 1890, three daughters
Of the King were married, and the old
chrOniclers relate WOndrOus stories of
the prOdigal magni1cence of those
nuptials. Gifts were made of gold
chalices, worth immense sums each.
silver cups, diamonds, sapphires, en-
eralds and rubies, all sparkling among
every kind of gold and silver utensils.
The records of these valuables are 81
lent witnesses to q great crime-the
robbery and expulsion of the Jews,
proving the general barbarity and
want of civilization that then prevail
ed.
Just previous to this year Edward
was sick and made a solemn vow that
if God would restore him, he would
undertake another crusade: The King
recovered, but as Palestine was far
distant he compromised the vow by
driving the Jews out of one of his
French provinces, Guienne, and seiz-
ing the wealth and possessions of the
unfortunate Israelites.
The Jews first established them
selves in England soon after the Nor
man Conquest, William having prom
ised them his protection. Their treat
ment, however, was perfectly horrible.
In IvanhOe we get an idea of their
treatment. Everybody had become
debtors to the Jews, and when Ed
ward returned from despoiliDgs and
banishing them, his subjects asked
him to Danish them from England,
give their entire possessions to them,
and so sponge out all their debts. Ed
ward could not quite see it. He
thought if he wiped out the debt of
the clergy and laity they ought to pay
him we'll for it. So it was arranged
that the King was to Danish the Jews
and have all their possessions, declare
all debts due them null and void, and
the clergy was to give him a tenth of
their chattels, and the laity a fifteenth
Of their lands. So, on the 31st of
1890, Edward issued a prOcla-
nation commanding all persons of the
Jewish race, under penalty of death,
to leave England before the 1st of No
The Jews were permitted to
take with them a few mOvables, and
as much money as would pay travel
ing expenses. Certain ports were des-
ignated as places of embarkatiOn,
and safe-cOnduct passes were grant
ed to them who chose to pay for
them. The passes added more to the
royal Treasury than to the protection
Of the fugitives. The peOple-that is
to say, the Christians-rOse and rob
bed the Jews on all sides, without
paying the slightest respect to the dear
projections.
All the old historians relate a shock
ing instance of the treatment the Jews
when leaving England. HOl-
nshed thus quantity tells the story
"a sort of the richest of them being
shipped with their treasures in.mighty
tall ship which they had hired, when |
the same was under sail, and got
down the Thames, toward the mouth |
Of the river, the master mariner be-
thought him of vile, and caused his !
men to cast anchor, and so rode at
same, till the ship, by ebbing Of the
stream, remained on dry sand. The
master herewith enticed the Jews to /
walk out with him on land for recrea-
ton and at length, when he under
stood the tide to be. coming in, he got
him back to the ship, whittier he was
drawn up by a cord. Tine Jews made
not so much haste as he did, because
they were not aware of the danger
but when they perceived how the mat
ter stood, they cried to him for help, |
howbeit he told them that they ought /
to cry rather unto Moses, by whose
conduct their fathers passed through
the Red Sea. They cried, indeed, but
no succor appeared, and so they were
swallowed up in the water. The mas
ter returned with his ship, and told
the king how he had used the matter,
and had both thanks and rewards as
some have written"
Nearly all over the world this cruel
llSlUIy - LIdulllOlid4lJ AuOWu dAAOI5
the Jews, who add myth to it, name
ly: that the Almighty, in execratiOn
of the deed, has ever since caused a.
continual turmoil among the waters
over the fatal spot. The disturbance.
in the water caused by the fall, on
ebb-tide, at old London Bridge, was
said to be the spot and when foreign
Jews visited London, it was always
the first wonderful sight they were
taken to see. A writer, in 1851, says
that most of the old Jews still believe
in the legend regarding the troubled
waters.
The rolls of their estates show that
the king profited largely by driving
out the Jews. English commerce,
then in its infancy, received a
severe shock by the impolitic meas
IRE, nor did learning escape without