Note 213 — Chapter XL · A.D. 1700-1800. THE JEWS IN ENGLAND.

During the No Popery riots of 1780, the Jews in Houndsditch, fearing that the violence of the mob would be attracted to them, as it had so often been on occasions of popular tumult, wrote up each on his door front: ‘This is the house of a true Protestant.’ The father of Grimaldi, the clown, is said to have exercised a still more comprehensive caution, and to have inscribed on his door, not ‘No Popery,’ but ‘No Religion.’ Lord George Gordon, the leader of the riots, consummated his erratic career by professing the Jewish faith, in which he died.