Judaica.- Prynne (William) A Short Demurrer to the Jewes Long Discontinued barred remitter into England, second edition, title within typographic border, short repair to upper corner of title, slight soiling and staining, later mottled calf, gilt, [Wing P4079], 4to, Printed for Edward Thomas, 1656.

⁂ William Prynne (1600-1669), was a Puritan leader whose outspoken criticism of the theatre landed him in the Tower of London for one year. In 1654 Prynne published an essay which argued for the observance of the Sabbath (albeit the Christian Sabbath, Sunday) from sundown to sundown in conformity with Biblical law. This positive predisposition to Judaic tradition did not prevent Prynne from publishing the present tract which, after surveying the annals of Anglo-Jewish history, launches into a tirade against the official readmission of the Jews to England. At the behest of the Amsterdam rabbi, Menasseh ben Israel, Oliver Cromwell largely brought about the readmission in 1656. A second part was published the same year.