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The Act to oblige Jews to maintain their Protestant children.
The de Breta case
Relaxation in favour of the Jews of the Act compelling land-
owners to take the oath of abjuration
Similar privileges given the Jews by other Acts of Parliament.
The Colonial Naturalization Act, 1740

Lord Hardwicke's Marriage Act, 1753.

The Jewish Naturalization Act, 1753.

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The Jews admitted to the benefit of the Toleration Act, 1845

and 1846. Till then they were protected only by the

Dispensing Power of the king

Resulting anomaly in the law as to the Registration of synagogues 173

Advantages of certifying a synagogue.

Summary of the foregoing account of the legal recognition of

The law of the land applied to the Jews on their return; but the
abolition of villenage exempted them from the operation
of the ancient statutes concerning the Judaei.

Right of a Jew to be a witness in a Court of law

Witnesses not sworn on the New Testament may be guilty of

A Jew may be sworn on the New Testament if he does not object 182

The Oaths Act, 1838

Arrangement of cause lists so that Jewish cases should not be
taken on the Jewish Sabbath or holidays.
Jewish religious scruples recognized by the law merchant.
A Jew excused from giving notice of dishonour of a bill
of exchange on a Jewish holiday

Capacity of Jews to bring actions

Coke's theory that infidels are perpetual enemies

The capacity of a Jew to sue admitted in 1684

Coke's theory overruled by the Courts.

Coke's theory not altogether groundless

Capacity of Jews to hold real property

Ordinance of 1271 forbidding Jews to hold land discovered by

The practice of administering the necessary oath upon the New
Testament the cause of the civil disabilities of the Jews. 198

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Jews excluded from the freedom of the city of London

Quakers in a better position than Jews in this respect

Jews and trade in the city of London. Not more than twelve

Admission of Jews as solicitors, 1770

The profession of schoolmasters and tutors.

Dissenters disabled from teaching in the public schools and

colleges

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Public schools

The obligation to take certain oaths the cause of Jewish

The oaths of allegiance and supremacy recast at the time of the

Revolution.

Former status and disabilities of aliens

The special taxation of aliens

Who are aliens by English law

The Roumanian Law as to aliens.

How aliens can acquire British nationality

The colonial trade closed to aliens by the Navigation Act of

Naturalization confined to Protestants by a statute of 1609

General Naturalization Acts

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Unsuccessful attempt to take away the right of Jews to be

Provision in the Ballot Act for voting on Saturday

Motives of the Corporation and Test Acts

Repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts

Declaration not to injure the Established Church substituted for

the Sacramental Test.

The Lords add the words "On the true faith of a Christian" to
the new Declaration

Effect of the new Declaration on the political status of the Jews
Relief given to Roman Catholics and Quakers in 1829 and 1837

Declaration to be taken by Sheriffs Act, 1835

Mr. Salomons refused admission to the office of Alderman

The Jewish Disabilities Removal Act of 1845

The Oaths Act and the Jewish Relief Act of 1858

Taking the insignia of office to a place of religious worship

Device of fining Dissenters for refusing to serve the office of

S. 3 of the Jewish Relief Act of 1858, disabling Jews from holding

certain high offices, repealed in 1871

A Jew may now be Lord Lieutenant of Ireland or Lord Chancellor
Ecclesiastical patronage attached to an office held by a Jew

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Mr. Robert Grant's Jews' Civil Disabilities Bill, 1830-36.

1836-47. Minor measures of relief from political disabilities

1847. Baron de Rothschild elected to represent the city of

London in Parliament

1847-8. Lord John Russell's Jewish Disabilities Bill.

1849. Lord John Russell's Parliamentary Oaths Bill.

1850. Baron de Rothschild having resigned and been re-elected

attempts to take his seat

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1851. Lord John Russell's Oath of Abjuration (Jew) Bill

Mr. Salomons purports to take the Oath of Abjuration without

pronouncing its final words

Mr. Salomons takes his seat in the House and refuses to withdraw 271

Subsequent proceedings in the House of Commons

The case of Miller v. Salomons

1854. Lord John Russell's Parliamentary Oaths Bill refused

a second reading by the House of Commons

1856. Mr. Milner Gibson's Oath of Abjuration Abolition Bill

1857. Lord Palmerston's Oaths Bill.

The opposition to Jewish Emancipation grows weaker

The Bill is rejected by the House of Lords.

1857. Lord John Russell's Oaths Validity Amendment Bill

Not receiving facilities from the Government the Bill

Baron de Rothschild again resigns and is re-elected

Select Committee appointed to consider whether a Statutory

Declaration might under the Act of 1835 be substituted

for Parliamentary Oath

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The autumn session of 1857: Lord John Russell's Oaths Bill 286

Fall of Lord Palmerston's Government, and the formation of

a Conservative Ministry under Lord Derby

The Oaths Bill read a third time in the Commons

The Bill in the Lords. The fifth clause, enabling Jews to omit

the final words of the oath, rejected in committee

Baron de Rothschild appointed a member of the Commons'

Committee for drawing up reasons for disagreeing with

The Lords' reasons for insisting on their amendments

The House of Commons and the compromise

Baron de Rothschild takes his seat in the House

The real character of the "compromise "

The settlement hastened by the fall of the Liberal Government
The exclusion of the subject from the arena of party conflict
a benefit to the Jews.

The praiseworthy conduct of Baron de Rothschild and Mr. Salo-

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An inconvenience arising from the form of the settlement
remedied by Act of Parliament.

The "compromise" upset by the Parliamentary Oaths Act of 1866 301

The power of the House of Lords to exclude Jews voluntarily

abandoned by the former opponents of Jewish emancipa-

tion .

Lord Rothschild created a peer in 1885

The Office and Oaths Act, 1867

The Promissory Oaths Act, 1868

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The Promissory Oaths Act, 1871, throws open to Jews the high

offices from which they were excluded by the Jewish

Relief Act of 1858

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