(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

London

1753

WEBB (PHILIP CARTERET). The Question Whether a Jew Born within the British Dominions, was, before the Making the Late Act of Parliament, a Person Capable by Law, to Purchase and Hold Lands to him and his Heirs, Fairly Stated and Considered. * With: Appendix Containing Copies of Public Records Relating to the Jews.

To resolve the question raised by the title of this work, Webb examines the history of the rights of the Jews in England from the earliest times until the passing of the Jew Bill of 1753. The author notes the anomalous situation whereby Jews residing in America, a British Colony, enjoyed more rights than those Jews residing in England itself: "In 1739, an Act of Parliament passed, whereby foreign Jews residing for seven years in any of His Majesty's Anerican Colonies are, by express words, permitted to be naturalized, without their taking the Sacrament…omitting out of the Oath of Abjuration, the words upon the true faith of a Christian, when taken by a Jew" (pp. 46-47). ( See previous Lot).