THE 146th paragraph of the “Canonical Excerptiones” of Archbishop
Ecgbright runs thus:――“_A Laodicean act._――That no Christian presume
to Judaize, or be present at Jewish feasts.” To which Johnson, in
his collection of ecclesiastical laws and canons, adds, “By this one
would suppose there were in this age Jews in the north of England.”
――_Johnson’s Collection of Ecclesiastical Laws._
The following is the 149th paragraph of the same “Canonical
Excerptiones:”――“A canon of the saints. If any Christian sell a
Christian into the hands of Jews or Gentiles, let him be anathema: for
it is written in Deuteronomy, ‘If any man be caught trafficking for
any of the stock of Israel, and takes a price for him, he shall die.’”
――_Johnson’s Collection of Ecclesiastical Laws._