[20] Jacobs, _Jews of Angevin England_, pp. 91–6; Gervase of Canterbury (R.S.) I. 422. [21] Enormous wealth was possessed by Abraham fil Rabbi, Jurnet of Norwich and Aaron of Lincoln. Jacobs, _Op. Cit._, 44, 64, 84, 90, 91. [22] Rymer, _Fœdera_ I. 51. [23] _Chronica Rogeri de Hoveden_ (R.S.), III. 266–7. [24] _Chronicon Johannis Brompton_ in Twysden’s _Historiæ Anglicanæ Scriptores_ X., col. 1258. [25] _Rotuli Chartarum_ (Record Commission), p. 93. [26] Tovey, _Anglia Judaica_, 81. [27] _Gesta Henrici II. et Ricard. I._ (R.S.), II. 218; M. Paris, _Chronica Majora_ (R.S.) II. 381, and Jacobs, 162–4. [28] Jacobs, 222, 228–30, 239–40. [29] _Ibid._, 328. [30] Jacobs, 222. [31] M. Paris, _Chronica Majora_ (R.S.) II. 528; _Annales Monastici_ (R.S.) I. 29, II. 264, III. 32, 451; _Chronicles of Lanercost_ (Maitland Club), p. 7. [32] M. Paris, _Chronica Majora_ II., 528. [33] Depping, _Les Juifs dans le Moyen Age_, 185. [34] Bouquet, _Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France_, xvii. 9. [35] Depping, _Les Juifs dans le Moyen Age_, 59, 60, 185, 194. Cf. _Rotuli Chartarum_, I. 75 (_Carta Willielmi Marescalli, de quodam Judaeo apud Cambay_). [36] Tovey, _Anglia Judaica_, 78–9. [37] Stamford was an exception in this respect, Madox, _Firma Burgi_ p. 182. [38] Et Judæi non intrabunt in placitum nisi coram nobis aut coram illis, qui turres nostras custodierint in quorum ballivis Judæi manserint, _Rot. Chart._, 93. [39] Cutts, _Colchester_, 123; Tovey, _Anglia J._, 50; _Forty-Seventh Report of Deputy-Keeper of Public Records_, 306; Lyte, _History of the University of Oxford_, 59; _Papers of Anglo-Jewish Historical Exhibition_, 35–6; _De Antiquis Legibus Liber_ (Camden Soc.), p. 16, (A.D. 1249, Nam rex concessit quod Judei qui antea warantizati fuerunt per breve de scaccario, de cetero placitassent coram civibus de tenementis suis in Londoniis). _Chronica Jocelini de Brakelonda_ (Camden Soc.), p. 2, (Venit Judeus portans literas domini regis de debito sacristæ). [40] Cp. _Chronica Monasterii de Melsa_ (R.S.), I., 177. Interea mortuus est Aaron Judæus Lincolniæ, de quo jam dictum est, et compulsi sumus, regis edicto totum quod illi debuimus pro Willielmo Fossard infra breve tempus domino regi persolvere. [41] Rymer, _Fœdera_, I., 89. [42] _Calendar of Patent Rolls from 1281 to 1292_, p. 15; Tovey, _Anglia Judaica_, 77, 78, 79. [43] Tovey, 101; _Norfolk Antiquarian Miscellany_, I., 326. [44] _Annales Monastici_ (Rolls Series), iv. 91. [45] Especially irritating must have been the fact that the one restriction on the business of Jews, as money-lenders, was the order that forbade them to take in pledge the land of tenants on the royal demesne. W. Prynne, _The Second Part of a Short Demurrer to the Jews’ long discontinued remitter_, etc., London, 1656, p. 35; _Norfolk Antiquarian Miscellany_, I. 328. [46] _Chronica Jocelini de Brakelonda_ (Camden Society), p. 33.