[102] _Chronicles Ed. I. and II._ (ed. Stubbs), Vol. I., p. C. Cf. _Forty-second Report of Deputy-Keeper of Public Records_, p. 479 (At the beginning of his reign Edward says, in his writs to the sheriffs, “Pecuniæ plurimum indigemus”). _Forty-third Report_, 419. [103] Muratori, _Antiquitates Italicæ Medii Aevi_ (Dissertatio XVI); Depping, _Les Juifs dans le Moyen Age_, 213–6; Rymer, _Foedera_, I., 644. [104] Macpherson, _Annals of Commerce_, I. 405, 6; and see Peruzzi, _Storia del Commercio e dei Banchieri di Firenze_, 170. [105] Peruzzi, 169; _Archaeologia_, xxviii. 218, 219. [106] Muratori, _Antiquitates Italicæ Medii Aevi_, I. 889. [107] _Archaeologia_, xxviii. 221; Cunningham, _Growth of English Industry and Commerce, Early and Middle Ages_, Appendix D; Peruzzi, _Storia del Commercio_, 70. [108] Rymer, _Foedera_, I. 660, 823, 905. [109] _Archaeologia_, xxviii. 261–272. [110] Rymer, _Foedera_, I. 644, 788. [111] Peruzzi, 174. [112] _Archaeologia_, xxviii. 244–5. [113] _Ibid._, 231, Note 1. [114] Peruzzi, 172–5. [115] _The Question whether a Jew_, etc. Appendix, § 18. Prynne, _A Short Demurrer_, 58. [116] Blunt, _Establishment and Residence_, etc., 139–144. [117] Thomas Aquinas, _Opusculum_, XXI. (_Ad Ducissam Brabantiae_ in Vol. XIX. of the Venice edition, 1775–88.) [118] M. Paris, _Chronica Majora_, V. 361, 2. [119] Blunt, _Establishment and Residence_, etc., 141. [120] This is the number of those who left the country in 1290. _Flores Historiarum_ (Rolls Series), iii. 70. Probably the number of those in the country in 1275 was about the same. [121] Gross, _The Gild Merchant_, I. 38. [122] _Ibid._, I., 39–40. [123] _Ibid._, II., 68, 138, 214, 243, 257. [124] One Jew alone is known to have become a member of a Gild during the residence of the Jews in England before 1290. He became a citizen at the same time. His election took place in 1268 (Kitchin’s _Winchester--Historic Towns Series_, p. 108). After 1275 it would have been illegal. [125] Gross, _The Gild Merchant_, I. 41. [126] Gross. _The Gild Merchant_, I. 45, 46, 47. [127] _Liber Custumarum_ (Rolls Series), 215. [128] Ochenkowski, _Englands Wirthschaftliche Entwickelung im Ausgange des Mittelalters_, 51–4. [129] _Liber Custumarum_ (Rolls Series) 80–81, 101–2, 121; _Liber Albus_ (Rolls Series), 726, 734. Riley, _Memorials of London_, 179. [130] Johnson, _Customs of Hereford_, 115–6. [131] _Liber Custumarum_, 418–425. [132] _Liber Custumarum_, 78, 81, 124. Riley, _Memorials of London_, 179, 216. [133] _Liber Custumarum_, 79, Ochenkowski, _Op. Cit._, 64. [134] Stubbs, _Select Charters_, 470. [135] Jacobs, 116. [136] Walsingham, _Historia Anglicana_ (Rolls Series), I. 30. [137] M. Paris, _Chronica Majora_, v. 56–8. [138] Ochenkowski, _Englands wirthschaftliche Entwickelung_, 157. [139] Cunningham, _Growth of English Industry and Commerce, Early and Middle Ages_, 175.