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The article reports on the Jews' effort to attain rights in the British Atlantic port towns. The legal writers and Parliamentarians in the seventeenth century like Sir Edward Coke and William Prynne were troubled by the potential inclusion of Jews seeing them as a threat to England's established constitutional order. The 1740 Naturalization Act in Britain's trans-Atlantic colonies allowed Jews to obtain rights to naturalization without forswearing Judaism.