The guilds of Lubbock have continued to…
May 1699 CE
The guilds of Lubbock have continued to demand of the council the expulsion of all Jews, and finally see their wishes fulfilled on March 4, 1699.
The Thirty Years' war and, perhaps, the Chmielnicki persecutions in Poland seem to have caused a number of Jews to go to Lübeck.
The guild of the goldsmiths had complained in 1658 that "many Jews and other suspicious characters sneak daily into the city to deal in precious metals"; and the council had decreed on April 15, 1677, that no Jew should be permitted to stay in the city overnight without the express permission of the senate, which was rarely given.
Two "Schutzjuden" of the senate in 1680, Samuel Frank and Nathan Siemssens, are mentioned, but when the senate accepted Siemssen's son-in-law, Nathan Goldschmidt, as "Schutzjude," the citizens had objected, and wherever he rented a house the neighbors had protested to the senate.
It was, perhaps, due to an intrigue that Goldschmidt on February 15, 1694, had been accused of having received stolen goods; the trial drags on for at least five years, and its result is not known.
In spite of this victory by the guilds, Jews not only continue to make brief visits to the city, but the council will permit, as early as 1701, one Jew to remain legally as "Schutzjude" in consideration of an annual payment of three hundred marks (eighty-forty dollars). (”Lübeck”, 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia)