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Petition of Nathan Simpson, Samuel Levy and other Jews to be made denizens of Great Britain, April-May 1712.

(Catalogue reference: SP 34/37 folio 173)
  1. 291.
  2. To the Queen's most Excellent Majesty.
  3. may it please your Majesty.
  4. The humble Petition of Nathan Simpson and Samuel
  5. Levy of London Merchants in behalf of themselves
  6. and Moses Levy Moses Michalls Moses Hart and
  7. Mordica Nathan now liveing in New York in
  8. America Merchants.
  9. Humbly Sheweth
  10. That your Petitioners are of the Jewish Religion –
  11. Merchants resideing within your Majesty's Dominions and
  12. finding themselves lye under many difficultys in their
  13. Trades as Merchants for want of being free Denizons
  14. to your Majesty
  15. Your Petitioners therefore most humbly beseech
  16. your Majesty in behalf of themselves and the others
  17. above mentioned now living in New York that
  18. they may pertake of your Majestys Royall favour
  19. to be made Denizons of Great Britain and esteem[e]d
  20. as such within your Majesty's Dominions in
  21. such manner as your Royall Majesty shall
  22. think fitt.
  23. And your Petic[i]on[e]rs shall ever pray for your
  24. Royall Majesty as in Duty bound etc.
  25. Nathan Simson
  26. Samuell Levy
  27. The persons in the petition nott mentioned by my
  28. Lord Clarendon are very well known to severall of
  29. the best Jews in London & perticulerly to my self
  30. & well deserveing of her Majestys favour
  31. Joseph Levy

[Margin]

  1. Nathan Simpson, Samuell Levy,
  2. and Moses Levy, three of the
  3. Petitioners are Persons well
  4. known to me, they are of the
  5. Jewish Nation and were (and I
  6. suppose still are) considerable
  7. Traders in New York at the time
  8. I had the honour to serve her most
  9. Sacred Maiesty as Governor of that
  10. Province, and during that time
  11. behaved themselves as good Subiects
  12. ought to doe all which I most humbly
  13. certifie this 21st day of Aprill 1712.
  14. Clarendon

[Margin]

  1. At the Court at Kensington 9th May 1712
  2. Her Maj[es]ty is graciously pleased to referr this Petition to M[aste]r. Attorney or
  3. M[aste]r Sollicitor General to consider thereof & Report his Opinion what her Maj[es]ty
  4. may fitly do therein, whereupon her Maj[es]ty will declare her further pleasure
  5. H St John
 
 
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