On St. Denis’s Day all the Jews of London started on their journey to the sea-coast.[230] The treatment that they met with was not so merciful as the king had wished. Many of the richer among them embarked with all their property at London. At the mouth of the Thames, the master cast anchor during the ebb-tide, so that his vessel grounded on the sands, and invited his passengers to walk on the shore till it was again afloat. He led them to a great distance, so that they did not get back to the river-side till the tide was again full. Then he ran into the water, climbed into the ship by means of a rope, and bade them, if they needed help, call on their Prophet Moses. They followed him into the water, and most of them were drowned. The sailors appropriated all that the Jews had left on board. But subsequently the master and his accomplices were indicted, convicted of murder, and hanged.[231] One body of the exiles set sail for France. During their voyage fierce storms swept the sea. Many were drowned. Many were cast destitute on the coast that they were seeking, and were allowed by the King to live for a time in Amiens.[232] This act of mercy, however, called forth the censure of the Pope, and the _Parlement de la Chandeleur_, which met in the same year, decreed that all the Jews from England and Gascony who had taken refuge in the French king’s dominions should leave the country by the middle of the next Lent.[233] Another body, numbering 1,335, and consisting, to a great extent, of the poor, went to Flanders.[234] The only known fact that we have to guide our conjectures as to the ultimate place of settlement of any of those who left England is that, in a list of the inhabitants of the Paris Jewry, made four years after the Expulsion, there appear certain names with the additions of _l’Englische_ or _l’Englais_.[235] It may well be that many Jews from England, speaking the French language, were able, in spite of the Act of the _Parlement de la Chandeleur_, to become merged in the general body of the Jews of France, who were many times as numerous as those of England had been.[236] Many, too, may have thrown in their lot with their 850,000 coreligionists of Spain.[237]