This proposition is said
to have been made shortly before the elevation of Cromwell to the
Protectorate. The subject is an interesting one in these days, when
Jewish disabilities are under discussion.
I wish to offer two queries:--1. Is this story confirmed by any
contemporary writer? 2. Is it conceivable that the Jews would have
consented to worship in a _cruciform_ church, such as was old St.
Paul's, which was standing at the time this offer is supposed to have
been made?
H.M. AUSTEN.
St. Peter's, Thanet.
_The Complutensian MSS._--Has not there been an account of these MSS.
published in London in 1821? My authority for this Query is to be found
in a work of Dr. D. Antonio Puigblanch:--
"En el ano 1821 per encargo que hice desde Madrid _se imprimio
mio aca en Londres_, de que es falso este rumor[2], pues en la
biblioteca de la Universidad de Alcala quedaban pocos meses
antes en gue estune en ella siete manuscritos biblicos en
aquellas dos lenguas[3], que son sin duda los mismos siete de
que hace mencion en la Vida del Cardenal Cisneros, Alfonso de
Castro, doctor teologo de la misma Universidad, i escritor
contemporaneo o de poco tiempo despues, parte de los cuales
manuscritos, es a saber, los caldeos, son de letra de Alfonso de
Zamora, que es uno de los tres judios conversos editores de la
Complutense."--_Opusculos Gramatico-Satiricos del Dr. D. Antonio
Puigblanch_, Londres [1832], p.
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