JUDAICA [Sadler John] Rights of the Kingdom; or Customs of

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(JUDAICA.) [Sadler, John.] Rights of the Kingdom; or, Customs of our Ancestors. Touching The Duty, Power, Election, or Succession of our Kings and Parliaments, our True Liberty, due Allegiance, three Estates, their Legislative Power, Original, Judicial, and Executive; with the Militia. Freely discussed through the British, Saxon, Norman Laws and Histories. [8], 4, 3-98, 97-200, 209-319, [1] pages. 4to, 19th-century calf gilt; occasional minor marginal foxing and soiling. 19th-century armorial bookplate of Edward Shipperdson. London: J. Kidgell, 1682

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Second edition of a treatise on constitutional government in England originally published in 1649, containing numerous passages concerning biblical and later Jewish history and customs. Pages 106-07 deal with the Diaspora and Jewish messianic beliefs, with a reference to the alleged discovery of Jews in South America by Antonio de Montezinos; pages 118-19 discuss the expulsion of the Jews from England under Edward I and their later readmission, praising Menasseh ben Israel and calling for justice and mercy toward Jews. Roth, Magna Bibliotheca Anglo-Judaica, page 204 (original edition); Wing S279 (this edition).