An Act to provide for the Relief of Her Majesty's Subjects professing the Jewish Religion / An Act to substitute One Oath for the Oaths of Allegiance, Supremacy, and Abjuration; and for the Relief of Her Majesty's Subjects professing the Jewish Religion

Estimate: $600–$900
Hammer price: $1,000

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(ANGLO-JUDAICA)

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George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 23rd July

Place

London

Publication

1858

Description

Two fascicles

summary

It was this Act of Parliament during the reign of Queen Victoria that finally enabled Lord Lionel Rothschild to take his seat in Parliament, the first Jew to be priviliged thus. It was necessary to substitute an alternative version of the long-standing Parliamentary oath which would omit the phrase "upon the true Faith of a Christian." See T.M. Endelman, The Jews of Britain 1650 to 2000 (2000), p. 107.

pp. 385-6, (2 integral blanks); 381-384. Disbound. Sm. folio

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