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deposed , that no Jewish boy had been admitted into the writing-school since his appointment in 1814 ; that all the boys in his school were instructed in Christianity , read the Bible and New Testament , and learned the Church Catechism . There were also similar
affidavits by tlie masters of the . hospital and of the preparatory school . With regard to such regulations for the conduct of the school as rendered Jewish boys inadmissible , his Lordship remarked , that there was nothing
either in the charter or in the Acts of Parliament that prevented the Wardens and Fellows of New College , Oxford , who were the visitors , to make whatever regulations they might think conducive to the benefit of the
school : and he apprehended that if , in the exercise of their visitatorial authority , they made regulations that excluded Jews , their decision must be submitted to . K rested with this College to make what regulations it
pleased , and it was impossible for him to say they did wrong in making such as supposed a belief in Christianity , in tracing out a plan of education which would render persons eligible for entrance into the Universities ,
which was one of the objects of this Charity , an object impossible for a Jew to contemplate . If the school consisted partly of Jew boys and partly of Christians , he did not think it possible that two such systems could go en together . It was impossible that a Jew boy could comply
with the regulations made by the visitors for the purpose of carrying on the grammar-school in such a manner as to preserve the boni mores of the scholars , which the charter declared to be one of the principal objects of the school . " I am of opinion , " said his Lordship , " that the education to be carried on at this school is such
that the parents of Jewish children cannot comply with , if they wish their children to partake of its many benefits . I admire the Toleration Act , and I also admire the idea of every man being allowed to worship
his God according to the dictates of his ^ conscience . Yet philanthropy has it 3 bounds , and when I see by the affidavits , not only of the Gratmnar-&chool Master , but also of the other teachers , that the » on of Joseph was absent from prayers , and from reading
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the New Testament in the Latin and Greek language , and that Jie was told not to learn the Church Catechise ( when I say the Church Catech ism ^ I am to be understood as meaning the doctrines of the gospel , ) I say , when
I see such things , L am bound from the fully responsible situation which I hold , to say that he is not a proper object of this Charity ; that he cannot enteF into the mode of education prescribed , which is to be in 3 , Christian form , where the Christian Scriptures
Iare to be taught , and by a clergyman of the Christian establishment . may , indeed , carry the point further , and ask any of you who now hear me , as solicitors or as counsel , what
would be the effect resulting from Jewish and Christian boys being admitted participators in the same Charity without any discrimination of character or religious principle ?"
His Lordship then , at very great length , went into all the affidavits of the case , and observed as follows : — " I see that whatever boys are in the school , are to be there at a certain
hour . Surely the Jews will not say that their children can be always there , for they have stipulated that their children who enjoy the Charity shall be absent on all holidays , and never allowed to read the New Testament in
English , Greek or Latin . I have no hesitation in saying , that when the Jews who lived in Bedford granted their consent to their children to at * tend this school , they could not conscientiously ( as I believe they acted
in all this case ) permit their sons to attend the school at time of prayers , or reading of the New Testament . I admire the system of Christianity ; I look on all its ordinances with high delight and awful reverence ; and I look to its venerable founder as the
almighty Saviour of our degenerate race , and through him I hope for the amelioration of our species , by their truly penitent conduct . * lam , on the whole , decidedly of opinion that Jewish boys and girls cannot partake of this
* We give this passage as reported ifl the daily papers , but we rather doubt the accuracy of it and at any rate do not exactly see the connexion it has with pre * ceding * » nd subsequent sentences . These observations apply to two other passage * <" the same complexion below . Bp *
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58 $ InAdligenice . B ~ edford Charity .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1819, page 582, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1776/page/58/
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