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(ANGLO-JUDAICA.) An Act to permit Persons professing the Jewish Religion, to be naturalized by Parliament; and for other Purposes therein mentioned.<> [2], 407-10 pages * An Act to repeal an Act of the Twenty sixth Year of His Majesty's Reign, intituled, An Act to permit Persons professing the Jewish Religion to be naturalized by Parliament.<> 4 pages. Together, 2 pamphlets. Folio, disbound, the second slightly torn along blank inner edges and browned along outer edges. London: Thomas Baskett and the Assigns of Robert Baskett, 1753; 1753
"In 1753 the introduction to Parliament of the Jewish Naturalization Bill ('The Jew Bill'), giving foreign-born Jews facilities for acquiring the privileges enjoyed by their native-born children, resulted in an anti-Jewish agitation so virulent that the government withdrew the measure; but it was not accompanied by physical violence"--EJ VI, 754-55.<
