The expulsion of the Jews from England in 1290Abrahams, Barnett Lionel
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The expulsion of the Jews from England in 1290
Abrahams, Barnett Lionel
Jews -- Great Britain -- History
[47] Thompson, _Leicester_, 72; Madox, _Hist. of Exchequer_, I. 260,
notes O and P; J. E. Blunt, _Establishment and Residence of Jews in
England_, 45; Papers Anglo-J. H. Ex. 190; Prynne, _The Second Part of
a Short Demurrer_, etc., p. 37; _Norfolk Antiquarian Miscellany_, I.
326, (De Judeis dicebant quod major multitudo manet in civitate sua
quam solebat, et quod Judei qui aliis locis dissainati (_sic_) fuerunt
venerunt ibidem manere ad dampnum civitatis).
[48] Prynne, _The Second Part of a Short Demurrer_, etc., p. 75; Madox,
_History of the Exchequer_, I. 249: Et quod nullus Judaeus receptetur
in aliqua villa sine speciali licentia Regis, nisi in villis illis in
quibus Judaei manere consueverunt.
[49] Jacobs, _Jews of Angevin England_, 269–271.
[50] M. Paris, _Chronica Majora_, V. 245. Cf. the article in the
Constitutions enacted by Walter de Cantilupe, Bishop of Worcester, at
his diocesan synod in 1240: Quia vero parum refert, an quis per se vel
per alium incidat in crimen usurarum, prohibemus ne quis Christianus
Judæo pecuniam committat, ut eam Judæus simulate suo nomine proprio
mutuet ad usuram. Wilkins, _Magnæ Britanniæ Concilia_, I. 675, 676.
Stubbs, _Select Charters_, 385–6.
[51] For the nature and duration of the earlier struggle between the
king and the barons, see Stubbs, _Constitutional History of England_
(Library Edition), II., 40, 44, 63, 67, 69–77. For the king’s acts of
extortion from the Jews, see Matthew Paris, _Chronica Majora_, III.,
194, 543; IV., 88; V., 114, 274, 441, 487; Madox, _History of the
Exchequer_, I., 224–5, 229; Prynne, _Second Part of a Short Demurrer_,
40, 48, 66, 70, 75, 57. For the appointment by the Council of one
Justice of the Jews, M. Paris, _Chronica Majora_, iv. 367.
[52] Stubbs, _Select Charters_, 385–6.
[53] _Annales Monastici_, II. 101, 363, 371, III. 230, IV. 141,
142, 145, 449, 450; _Liber de Antiquis Legibus_ (Camden Society),
62; _Chronicle of Pierre de Langtoft_ (R. S.), II., 151; _Chronicle
of William de Rishanger_ (Camden Society), 24, 25, 126; _Florentii
Wigorniensis Chronicon ex Chronicis_ (English Historical Society), II.
192.
[54] Tout, _Edward I._, 13, 39.
[55] Palgrave, _Rotuli Curiæ Regis_ (Record Commission), II., 62
(Judaei habeant seisinam); _Gesta abbatum Monasterii S. Albani_
(R. S.), I., 401; _Placitorum Abbreviatio_ (Record Commission), p. 58;
Jacobs, pp. 90, 234.
[56] _Chronicles of the Abbey of Melsa_ (Rolls Series), I., 173, 174,
306, 367, 374, 377; II., 55, 109, 116; _Archæological Journal_, vol.
38, pp. 189, 190, 191, 192.
[57] Blunt, _Establishment and Residence of the Jews in England_, 136;
Prynne, _Second Part of a Short Demurrer_, p. 105.
[58] A very long list of landowners indebted to the Jews could be
extracted from Madox, _History of Exchequer_, Vol. I., p. 227, _sq._
Cf. Prynne, _Second Part_, etc., pp. 96, 98, 106; _Calendar of Patent
Rolls from 1281 to 1292_, p. 25.
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