[Parliamentary Act]. An Act to Oblige the Jews to Maintain and Provide for their Protestant Children.
AUCTION 75 |
Thursday, March 08th,
2018 at 1:00 PM
Auction of Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Antiquities, Ceremonial Objects & Graphic Art
Lot 110
(ANGLO-JUDAICA).
[Parliamentary Act]. An Act to Oblige the Jews to Maintain and Provide for their Protestant Children.
London:
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
PRICE REALIZED $1,000
<<First Specifically Jewish Act of Parliament Post Re-Admission.>> This Act issued in the year of Queen Anne’s accession to the throne, prevents attempts by Jewish parents to force their apostate children to return to the Jewish fold. In such case that children born to Jewish parents convert to the majority religion of Protestantism, the parents are enjoined by English law to continue to support their children and may not disown them. The Act was precipitated by events in the life of the converted Jewess Mary Mendez de Breta and the subsequent relationship with her parents. See H.S.Q. Henriques, The Jews and the English Law (1908) pp. 167-69.