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ANCIENT ROOTS OF BRITISH-ISRAELISMFurther information is contained within Proposals for British and American World Union (last Appendix); The British Sense of Mission as a Ruling People (Appendix 6) and Where are the 'Lost' Tribes of Israel in the Modern World? (first Appendix). Other articles by Craig White on the tribes of Israel here.
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According to Brackney (2012) and Fine (2015), the French Huguenot magistrate
M. le Loyer's The Ten Lost Tribes,
published in 1590, provided one of the earliest expressions of the belief that
the Anglo-Saxon, Celtic, Scandinavian, Germanic,
and associated peoples are the direct descendants of the Old
Testament Israelites.[3][10]:176 Anglo-Israelism
has also been attributed to King James
VI and I,[10] who
believed he was the King of Israel.[3] Adriaan
van Schrieck (1560-1621),
who influenced Henry
Spelman (1562-1641) and John
Sadler (1615-74), wrote in the early 17th century about his ideas on
the origins of the Celtic and Saxon peoples. In 1649, Sadler published The
Rights of the Kingdom,
"which argues for an 'Israelite genealogy for the British people'".[10]:176
Aspects of British Israelism and its influences have also been traced to Richard Brothers, who published A Revealed Knowledge of the Prophecies and Times in 1794,[11]:1 John Wilson's Our Israelitish Origin (1844),[11]:6-9 and John Pym Yeatman's The Shemetic Origin of the Nations of Western Europe (1879).[12] :211