denization under the great seal.

From another pamphlet in the same collection, entitled, _An Answer
to a Pamphlet entitled Considerations on the Bill to permit Persons
professing the Jewish Religion to be naturalized_, the following, is
an extract:--

"There is a curious anecdote of this affair," (about the Jews
thinking Oliver Cromwell to be the Messiah,) "in Raguenet's
_Histoire d'Oliver Cromwell_, which I will give the reader
at length. About the time Rabbi Manasseh Ben Israel came to
England to solicit the Jews' admission, the Asiatic Jews sent
hither the noted Rabbi Jacob Ben Azahel, with several others
of his nation, to make private inquiry whether Cromwell was
not that Messiah, whom they had so long expected. (Page 33.--I
leave the reader to judge what an accomplished villain he will
then be.) Which deputies upon their arrival pretending other
business, were several times indulging the favour of a private
audience from him, and at one of them proposed buying Hebrew
books and MSS. belonging to the University of _Cambridge_[4],
in order to have an opportunity, under pretence of viewing
them, to inquire amongst his relations, in Huntingdonshire,
where he was born, whether any of his ancestors could be
proved of Jewish extract. This project of theirs was very
readily agreed to (the University at that time being under a
cloud, on account of their former loyalty to the King), and
accordingly the ambassadors set forwards upon their journey.
But discovering by their much longer continuance at Huntingdon
than at Cambridge, that their business at the last place was
not such as was pretended, and by not making their enquiries