29 July 2015 à 02:23
There was for a few years a Sephardic community in Dublin. This broadsheet, now in Trinity University Library recounts an event that caused a stir in 1723. An English servant of Solomon de Castro returned to Dublin to find his wife pregnant by the Jewish servant David Cohen Henriks (Henriques?). The couple obviously tried to plead that she had been raped, but the court were not convinced despite the relationship being quite volatile. Henricks was acquitted to the "great mortification of the poor dissatisfied Cuckold, and the Strumpet his wife,but to the general satisfaction of the whole Tribe of Swine haters that were present"
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