THE FIRST JEWS IS BRITAIN

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2318, 2 January 1890, Page 3

THE FIRST JEWS IS BRITAIN

date when the Jews first pltohed ihelf^tents upon oar shores is one of tboee statemontr? ; o wrapped np tn the fog of history that rece^reeeatch has been unable to lift the mist snrroundlng it. j Whother the Jews visited Britain with the i Pfccealclacs or not, It Is yet certain that; rnaoy of them were livfeg there after, and even before the anlval of the BomartSa At one time a cordial alliance existed between the Hebrew and the Roman and many Jewa aprved as s All'era In the Roman army. It ta therefore probable, says Mir E«r*ld, Id his(Stndle] Reatudled,' that when the hosts of C»>ar landed open oar ocas'-, the Jawa were amcog thi invaders, and mtny ( finding the coontry to their liking, remained behind and took up their abode here. A onrloas d;scovery supports this aesettfon. Towards the close of tbe seventeenth oentory, while some men were d'ggtng i at' the foundation of a house Id Mart Lane (the place where the Re macs used to barter their goods now called Mark Lane), a strange Roman brick, the keyatone to the arch of a granary vaalt, was turned up. On one side the brick had a bas-relief representing Sumption driving the foxes into a field of earn. 1 How tbe story,' comments Leland, ' of Paragon should be known to the Romans, much less the Britons, to early after the propagation of tbe Gospel, seems to b« a great doubt, ezcept it should be said that tome Jewc, after the final destruction of Jerusalem, should wander into Britain; and London being even In Croaar's time a post or trading city, they might settle here, and in the arch of their granary record the famous etory of their deliverance from tbeir ce f iivity under tbe Philistines. 1