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CARVAJAL, ANTONIO FERNANDEZ

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CARVAJAL, See also:ANTONIO See also:FERNANDEZ •(d. 1659), a Portuguese See also:Marano (q.v.) or Crypto-See also:Jew, who came to See also:England in the reign of See also:Charles I. He was the first " endenizened " Jew in England, and by his extensive See also:trade with the See also:West Indies rendered considerable services to the See also:Commonwealth. Besides his commercial value to See also:Cromwell, Carvajal was politically useful also, for he acted as " intelligences." When See also:Manasseh See also:ben See also:Israel in 1655 petitioned for the return of the See also:Jews who had been expelled by See also:Edward I., Carvajal took See also:part in the agitation and boldly avowed his Judaism. Carvajal may be termed the founder of the Anglo-Jewish community. He died in 1659. See Lucien See also:Wolf, " The First See also:English Jew," Trans. Jewish See also:Historical Society, ii. 14.

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