Freemasonry: Quest for Immortality (The Spiritual Freemasonry series Book 3) by Earnshaw Christopher

Author:Earnshaw, Christopher [Earnshaw, Christopher]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-01-18T16:00:00+00:00

The Expulsion

When the next king, Edward I, returned from the Ninth Crusade, he found that many citizens had mortgaged their lands to Jews, and some had become destitute. He himself had become deeply in debt to Jewish moneylenders who had funded the Second Barons’ War and the Welsh Wars. So, in 1275 and again in 1290 Edward had all the Jews in England expelled, though at the time it is estimated that there were no more than 2,000 living in England. All debts payable to Jews reverted to the king, and it is said that the eviction was handled expeditiously and without violence. [172]

In the period of the Interregnum, a small group of Spanish Sephardic Jews approached Cromwell concerning his policy of religious freedom, asking for the right to live in England. They had entered England after the Reconquista and were accepted as Spanish citizens. The word Sephardim is Hebrew for “Spanish Jew,” one of the three Jewish ethnic communities that wore a distinctive dress with turbans. In 1656 Cromwell gave them permission to remain and allowed them to build a synagogue and a burial ground. Though their lives were safer, there was still widespread discrimination based on stories passed down from the Middle Ages, such as the Wandering Jew.

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