CLIFFORD’S TOWER, YORK

Among the many memories that cluster round York, none is sadder than the calamity which befel the York Jewry in 1190. Clifford’s Tower, the scene of the terrible incident, is not among the spots usually visited by sightseers. Of the many thousands who halt in York for hours, to visit the splendid Cathedral, or the small but interesting churches; to walk on the fine old walls, all round the city; to visit the bars and gates and inspect the many fine old houses, the beautiful grounds of the Philosophical Society, with the Museum filled with relics of the Roman occupation;?few ever think of seeing Clifford’s TowTer in the Castle grounds, or trouble to gain access to it.

York is indeed a place where several days may be well spent with profit and pleasure to those interested in the past history of England. Here may be seen what I believe is

Written by

Frank Haes

Published in

Volume 4

1899

Other articles within the volume

• THE JEW BILL OF 1753
• JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND. 1902–1903
• BYE-LAWS
• LAWS
• CLIFFORD’S TOWER, YORK
• THE JEWS OF AMSTERDAM IN 1655. A TRANSCRIPT AND TRANSLATION FROM THE ORIGINAL STATE PAPERS IN THE POSSESSION OF E. N. ADLER
• THE JEWISH MONARCH AND QUEEN ELIZABETH
• THE CANTERBURY SYNAGOGUE
• EXTRACTS FROM THE CLOSE ROLLS
• SOME HISTORICAL NOTES, 1648–1680
• STATUS OF THE JEWS IN ENGLAND AFTER THE RE-SETTLEMENT
• SIR I. L. GOLDSMID AND THE ADMISSION OF THE JEWS OF ENGLAND TO PARLIAMENT
• PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
• THE EARLIEST JEWISH PRAYERS FOR THE SOVEREIGN
• JOACHIM GAUNSE: A MINING INCIDENT IN THE REIGN OF QUEEN ELIZABETH
• JOHN DURY AND THE ENGLISH JEWRY
• HISTORY OF THE “DOMUS CONVERSORUM” FROM 1290 TO 1891
• NATION OR RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY? PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
• The Chazanim of the Great Synagogue, London
• English Students of Maimonides
• The Jews in the English Universities
• The Prayer-book of Joseph Messias, 5481
• The Jewish Obituaries in the “Gentleman’s Magazine”
• The Beginnings of Anglo-Jewish Biblical Exegesis and Bible Translation
• Anglo-Jewish Travellers to Palestine in the Nineteenth Century
• Benedict the Gildsman of Winchester
• PREFACE.
• FOREWORD TO THE ADVANCE FASCICULE