The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain. Including: An Act to Provide for the Relief of Her Majesty’s Subjects Professing the Jewish Religion. 21 & 22 Vic., cap. 49 (pp. 151-2).

(ANGLO-JUDAICA).

Eyre and Spottiswoode

London

1858

Empowers Parliament to modify the form of oath, so as to enable a Jew to sit and vote. 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.” It was this Act of Parliament during the reign of Queen Victoria that finally enabled Lord Lionel Rothschild to take his seat in the British Parliament, the first Jew to be privileged thus. See T.M. Endelman, The Jews of Britain 1650 to 2000 (2000), p. 107.