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29. A Bosome Opened to the Jewes
Beyond Jewish and Hebrew texts, there are other aspects of the collection in Marsh’s Library which show that Archbishop Marsh and his successors were aware of issues relating to Judaism and Jewish people in the seventeenth century. One such example is a broadside published in London in 1656 by the Quaker William Tomlinson, entitled ‘A bosome opened to the Jewes holding forth to others some reasons for our receiving them into our nation’. Tomlinson argues that Jews should be re-admitted to England, and this assertion was made on both theological and patriotic grounds. Jews had been expelled from England beginning in the 13th century, an edict that was only overturned in 1657. This broadside was published during Marsh’s time as a student in Oxford.
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29. A Bosome Opened to the Jewes,
Marsh's Library Exhibits,
accessed April 18, 2024,
https://www.marshlibrary.ie/digi/items/show/553