re: #112 Alouette

Yes it was. No Jews were permitted in England until Cromwell.

BTW Cromwell never really repealed the ban on Jews, he just failed to enforce it. IIRC the ban was not repealed until the mid 1800’s.

From Wiki:

Jews remained in England, albeit clandestinely. Henry VIII imported two great musical dynasties from Venice: the Bassanos and the Lupos. originally both these families had been expelled from Spain in 1492. Many members of the Bassano and Lupo were composers, musicians and instrument makers. Anthony Bassano, a direct descendant, is a professional musician in London today. Elizabeth I had a Jewish physician.

Toward the middle of the seventeenth century a considerable number of Marrano merchants settled in London and formed there a secret congregation, at the head of which was Antonio Fernandez Carvajal. Samuel Maylott, a French merchant, has many descendants in England. They conducted a large business with the Levant, East and West Indies, Canary Islands, and Brazil, and above all with the Netherlands, Spain, and Portugal.

See also History of the Marranos in England