Proposals for Special Taxation of the Jews after the Revolution. Presidential Address (1918)

[Presidential Address (1918) by H. S. Q. Henriques, MA., B.C.L., K.C.]

(I.)

The Three Periods Of The History Of The Jews In England.

I have in the first place to thank you for the honour you have done me in electing me your President?an honour which involves the duty of delivering an address for which I am ill qualified. I propose to-day to add a short supplement to a lecture I delivered before your Society nearly eighteen years ago at the request of my old friend and pre? decessor, Mr. Frederick Mocatta, and to conclude by placing before you a document of great historic interest relating to the early days of the Resettlement of the Jews in this country. The lecture I refer to was not published in your Transactions, but a summary of it may be found in the Jewish Chronicle of April 19, 1901. In that lecture I

Written by

H. S. Q. Henriques

Published in

Volume 9

1918

Other articles within the volume

• THE JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND
• Tallies and Receipt Rolls
• Some Medieval Notes
• Racial Origins of Jewish Types. Presidential Address (1920)
• Perkin Warbeck and His Jewish Master
• Reflections on the History of the Anglo-Jewish Community. Presidential Address (1920)
• Hebrew Loyalty under the First Four Georges
• Ephraim Luzzatto (1729—1792)
• The Legal Position of the Jews in pre-expulsion England, as shown by the Plea Rolls of the Jewish Exchequer
• Special Taxation of the Jews
• Proposals for Special Taxation of the Jews after the Revolution. Presidential Address (1918)
• The Peace Banquet
• PREFACE.