...representing the Jews as considerable exporters of our woollen manufactures ; and recommending the proposed act " to permit persons professing the Jewish religion to be naturalized by parliament ;" as a measure that woutl make many rich foreign Jews come over to England with their effects { and...

...agitated the public mind. In the month of June, that year, the RoyVOL. II. B al al assent was given to an Act to ' permit persons ' professing the Jewish religion to be naturalized by ' Parliament ;' an act which raised such a clamour in the country, as induced the legislature to repeal it in the...

...exportation <t / § XXV. But this session was chiefly distinguished by an act for naturalizing Jews, and » bill for the better preventing clandestine marriages....merchants and manufacturers, who, upon examination, ap* peared to be Jews, or their dependents ; and countenanced by the ministry, who thought they foresaw,...

...distinguished by any other event than the passing of two bills which became extremely unpopular. One to permit persons professing the Jewish religion to be naturalized by parliament ; and another for preventing clandestine marriages. The former act was repealed during the ensuing session...

...an act of parliament was made and passed in the twenty-fifth year of his majesty's reign, intituled, An act to permit persons professing the Jewish religion,...parliament, and for other purposes therein mentioned; and whereas occasion has been taken, from the said act, to raise discontents, and disquiets in the...

..." Whereas an act of parliament was made and passed in the twenty-fifth year of his majesty's reign, entitled, An act to permit persons professing the...parliament, and for other purposes therein mentioned ; and whereas occasion has been taken from the said act to raise discontents and disquiets in the minds...

...marriages. The first of these, which passed without much opposition in the house of lords, from whence it descended to the commons, was entitled, " An act...who, upon examination, appeared to be Jews, or their depend* Several other bills were passed — one for regulating the number of public houses, and the...

...went to the House of Peers, and gave the royal assent to the following bills :— An act to repeal the act to permit persons professing the Jewish religion to be naturalized by Parliament. An act for Ihe better securing to conetables and others the expenses of conveying offenders to gaol,...

...interred the game night in the large vault of the chapel in the precincts of the Savoy. An act passed to permit persons professing the Jewish religion to be naturalized by parliament. An act for purchasing the museum of Sir Hans Sloane, and also the Harleian collection of MSS., and...

..." Whereas an act of parliament was made and passed in the twenty-fifth year of his majesty's reign, entitled, " An Act to permit persons professing the...naturalized by parliament, and for other purposes 1753. therein mentioned ; and whereas occasion has been taken, ' from the said act, to raise discontents...