Excerpt from The Jewish Historical Society of England Transactions: Sessions 1902-1905 I have learned with much regret that a passage in my recent work, 'select Pleas, M., from the Rolls of the Exchequer Of the Jews, ' published under the auspices Of the Selden Society and this Society, has been interpreted in some quarters in a sense quite foreign to my intent, ale. As designed to countenance the ritual murder charge which from time to time has been, and in some parts Of Europe still is, falsely brought against people of the Jewish race. I entirely repu diate any such interpretation Of my meaning. I have never seen the remotest reason to credit the charge, and the misapprehension Of my meaning is to me the more surprising by reason OI the express, explicit, and emphatic manner in which I affirmed the intrinsic improbability Of the charge, an intrinsic improbability, which indeed I intimated, could hardly be exaggerated. But it now gives me pleasure to reiterate in the clearest terms my full conviction that the charge is false. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.