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Lot #    12100
Auction End Date    11/1/2005 11:33:30 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Early instance Jewish involvement in English Soc'y
Title (Hebrew)    The Information of Francisco de Faria
Author    [First Ed.] Francisco de Faria
City    London
Publisher    John Bill, Thomas Newcomb, and Henry Hills
Publication Date    1680
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    First edition. [4], 12, [1 licence leaf] pp., 285:186 mm., wide margins, light age staining. A very good copy not bound.
          
Detailed
Description		    The work starts "The Information of Francisco de Faria, Born in America, a Jew, of St Giles in the.... Faria who was born in Brazil in 1653 and later lived in London as interpreter for the Portuguese Embassy. In 1680, at the time of the frenzy over the "Popish Plot", he came forward with some startling disclosures, accusing the Portuguese Ambassador of having attempted to bribe him to murder the Earl of Shaftesbury and others. In return for these revelations, made ... before the Privy Council, he received a government allowance... (Roth, A History of the Jews in England (3rd ed) 177-8 pp.

Title: The Information of Francisco de Faria, Delivered at the Bar of the House of Commons, Munday the First Day of November, in the Year of Our Lord 1680. Perused and signed to be printed, according to the Order of the House of Commons, By Me William Williams, Speaker... London, printed by the Assigns of John Bill, Thomas Newcomb, and Henry Hills ... 1680.

          
Reference
Description		    Wing F-425, Roth Magna B3, 1.
        
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Listing Classification
Period
17th Century:    Checked
  
Location
England:    Checked
  
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Language:    English
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica