"What is very remarkable in this is, that the Jews, who
crucified the Son of God, by whom Kings reign, took then
occasion of the conjuncture which seemed favourable to them.
They presented a petition to the Council of War, who crucified
Him again in the person of the King, His Vicegerent in the
kingdoms over which God had set him. By their petition, they
requested that the act of their banishment might be repealed
and _that they might have St. Paul's Church for their
synagogue_, for which, _and the library of Oxford_, wherewith
they desired to begin their traffic again, they offered five
hundred thousand pounds, but the Council of War would have
eight."--Monteiths's _Hist. of the Troubles of Great Britain_,
p. 473.
I conclude that the author of the _Status of the Jews_, by omitting to
notice the alleged desire of the Jews to obtain St. Paul's Cathedral,
considered that the acrimonious statements of Monteith were not borne
out by accredited or unprejudiced authorities; for it is but justice
to state, it has been admitted by some of our most eminent critics,
that Mr. Egan's book on the Jews displays as dispassionate and
impartial a review of their condition in this country as it evinces a
profundity of historical and legal research.
"H.M.A.'s" second question I am unable to answer, not being
sufficiently versed in the religious dogmas of the Jews.