Dean Tucker, in his _Second Letter to a Friend concerning
Naturalisation_, says (p. 29.):--

"The Jews having departed out of the realm in the year 1290,
or being expelled by the authority of parliament (it matters
not which), made no efforts to return till the Protectorship
of Oliver Cromwell; but this negotiation is known to have
proved unsuccessful. However, the affair was not dropped, for
the next application was to King Charles himself, then in his
exile at Bruges, as appears by a copy of a commission dated
the 24th of September, 1656, granted to Lt.-Gen. Middleton, to
treat with the Jews of Amsterdam:--'That whereas the Lt.-Gen.
had represented to his Majesty their good affection to him,
and disowned the application lately made to Cromwell in their
behalf by some persons of their nation, as absolutely without
their consent, the king empowers the Lt.-Gen. to treat with
them. That if in that conjunction they shall assist his
Majesty by any money, arms, or ammunition, they shall find,
when God should restore him, that he would extend that
protection to them which they could reasonably expect, and
abate that rigour of the law which was against them in his
several dominions, and repay them."

This paper, Dean Tucker says, was found among the original papers of
Sir Edward Nicholas, Secretary of State to King Charles I. and II.,
and was communicated to him by a learned and worthy friend. The Dean
goes on to remark, that the restoration of the royal family of the
Stuarts was attended with the return of the Jews into Great Britain;
and that Lord Chancellor Clarendon granted to many of them letters of