I've handled some of the papers written by Menasseh b Israel, who is credited with convincing Cromwell to let the Jews return to England. Not the actual relevant letter, but documents by the same guy, when I was doing a summer job in Merton library :-)
Miscellaneous. Eclectic. Random. Perhaps markedly literate, or at least suffering from the compulsion to read any text that presents itself, including cereal boxes.
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Date: 2013-05-14 12:53 pm (UTC)