5 & 6 Will. IV, c. 28 (Sheriffs' Declaration Act, 1835) 5 & 6 Will. IV, c. 36 (The Parliamentary Elections Act, 1835) 5 & 6 Will. IV, c. 50 (The Highway Act, 1835) 5 PAGE 253 Addenda, 247 n. & 6 Will. IV, c. 62 (The Statutory Declarations Act, 1835) 6 & 7 Will. IV, c. 11 (The Registration of Aliens Act, 1836) 1 & 2 Vict., c. 5 (Quakers' Relief Act, 1837) 1 & 2 Vict., c. 15 (Quakers' further Relief Act, 1838) . 1 & 2 Vict., c. 105 (The Oaths Act, 1838) 182, 271, 275 3 & 4 Vict., c. 77 (The Grammar Schools Act, 1840) 213 III n., 245 7 & 8 Vict., c. 102 (To repeal certain penal enactments made against Roman Catholics) . 3, 77 n., 162 8 & 9 Vict., c. 52 (Jewish Disabilities Removal Act, 1845) 9 & 10 Vict., c. 59 (The Religious Disabilities Act, 1846) 9, 23, 27, 65, 77 n., 163, 174, 208 11 & 12 Vict., c. 20 (Removal of Aliens Act, 1848) 21 & 22 Vict., c. 49 (The Jewish Relief Act, 1858) . 236, 228 n., 256 23 & 24 Vict., c. 11 (The Endowed Schools Act, 1860) 23 & 24 Vict., c. 63 (Jewish Relief Act Amendment Act, 1860). 301 25 & 26 Vict., c. 43 (The Poor Law (Certified Schools) Act, 1862) 26 & 27 Vict., c. 125 (The Statute Law Revision Act, 1873) 29 & 30 Vict., c. 19 (The Parliamentary Oaths Act, 1866). 29 & 30 Vict., c. 22 (The Qualification for Offices Abolition Act, 1866). 29 & 30 Vict., c. 117 (The Reformatory Schools Act, 1866). 30 & 31 Vict., c. 88 (The Indemnity Act, 1867) . 252 n. 304-5, 228 n., 252 n. 31 & 32 Vict., c. 118 (The Public Schools Act, 1868). 212 PAGE 213, 214 212 174 32 & 33 Vict., c. 56 (The Endowed Schools Act, 1869) 32 & 33 Vict., c. 58 (The Public Schools Act, 1869) 32 & 33 Vict., c. 110 (The Charitable Trusts Act, 1869) 33 & 34 Vict., c. 14 (The Naturalization Act, 1870) 111n., 170n., 245 33 & 34 Vict., c. 52 (The Extradition Act, 1870). 233n. 33 & 34 Vict., c. 75 (The Elementary Education Act, 1870) 215-17 33 & 34 Vict., c. 77 (The Juries Act, 1870). Addenda, 175 n. 208, 210-II 34 & 35 Vict., c. 26 (The Universities Tests Act, 1871) 34 & 35 Vict., c. 48 (The Promissory Oaths Act, 1871) 305, 129 n., 228 n., 256 n., 262, 294 34 & 35 Vict., c. 60 (The Public Schools Act, 1871) 36 & 37 Vict., c. 41 (The Public Schools (Harrow) Act, 1873) 5 Edw. VII, c. 13 (The Aliens Act, 1905) 213, 215 n. 213, 215 n. 185 n. 217, 218 THE JEWS AND THE ENGLISH LAW it I. WHEN in 1655 Menasseh Ben Israel presented his famous memorial to Cromwell praying that the Jews might be received in England and permitted to exercise their religion, the Lord Protector summoned an assembly to declare their opinions on the matter. Two judges, the Lord Chief Justice Glyn and the Lord Chief Baron Steel, were members of that assembly, and they delivered their joint opinion that "There was no law which forbids the Jews' return into England." The assembly was ultimately dissolved without coming to any definite decision respecting the memorial, but shortly afterwards Jews in everincreasing numbers settled in this country, and as we know, for a long period laboured under many disabilities; may be not uninteresting to show by the evidence of the statute book and the law reports-in truth the only authentic means of proof-that the opinion of the judges was well founded, even if taken in its broadest meaning, namely, that the law of England imposed no burden or disability upon Jews as such. In an age of intolerance no doubt Jews felt the effects of intolerance, but these effects were also felt by all who did not conform to the religion as by law established; and if some of these effects pressed more heavily upon Jews than upon others, this was in all cases a mere accident, though it in fact made it more difficult for Jews than others to obtain absolute equality before the law. The courts of law, though they have, as in duty bound, enforced the provisions of the statute book, have always shown great tolerance and impartiality towards the Jew, and have, so far as is consistent with B century m the proceedings Ir Sanders' Or a strigment:—( 1 x sa Larons preferred & p a sa af Marcus M massaar af religion a Je La. As manner that he co a, sn.. ir al other resp ahne snd in trav mat shalt to the degre ATOMOS MAT why has a niontiful YLE IN NAH a the City of Li SARP & Nw a 28 g of twent V DU ZILI A „h he said the arts of the other Érem si. Arvola sad tem a ivy in it mercies through Jesus Christ van Savicer wibort worldly views but on the contrary w inn he should thereby beccome the laced and seem e parents and relations who are all Jews and with was before in great esteem, and be east ad from his pa notwithstanding all those discouragemens, emine Christian religion, the only true one, and bath been hap therein, and is become & Protestant of the Cere England as by law established. That by means of petitioner's conversion to the Christian faith and beet a Protestant (as he before well knew he should be himself hated and scorned by his parents and cast of |