[171] M. Paris, _Chronica Majora_, IV. 608. [172] _Ibid._, V., 16. [173] _Annales Monastici_, IV. 278. [174] _Calendar of Patent Rolls from 1281 to 1292_, 128, 147, 173, 176, 213, 291, 451; _Chron. Ed. I._, I. 93; _Rotuli Parliamentorum_, I. 51a; Rymer, _Fœdera_, I., 570. [175] _Papers Anglo-Jewish Historical Exhibition_, 42–3. [176] Tovey, 211–13. [177] _Chronicles of Edward I. and Edward II._ (Rolls Series), I., 88; _Chronicon Petroburgense_ (Camden Society), 29. [178] “Whereas in the time of our ancestors, kings of England, loans at interest were wont and were allowed to be made by Jews of our kingdom, and much of such profits fell into the hands of those our ancestors, as the issues of our Jewry; and we, led on by the love of God, and wishing to follow more devoutly in the path of the Holy Church, did forbid unto all the Jews of our kingdom who had viciously lived from such loans, that none of them henceforth in any manner be guilty of resorting to loans at interest, but that they seek their living and sustain themselves by other legitimate work and merchandise, especially since by the favour of Holy Church they are suffered to sell and live among Christians. Nevertheless, afterwards, in a blind and evil spirit, turning to evil, under colour of merchandise and good contracts and covenants, what we established by rational thought, premeditating mischief anew, they do it with Christians by means of bonds and divers instruments, which remain with the Jews, and in which, on a given debt or contract, they put double, treble, or quadruple more than they lend to the Christians [this reads like an exaggeration], penally abusing the name of usury....” (_Papers Anglo-Jewish Historical Exhibition_, 225–6). [179] For Coining, see Ruding, _Annals of the Coinage_ I. 197; _Calendar of Patent Rolls from 1281 to 1292_, 97; _Abbreviatio Rotulorum Originalium_ (Record Commission), 49; Peckham, _Registrum Epistolarum_, I. 146. For Usury, _Forty-fourth Report of the Deputy-Keeper of the Public Records_, pp. 8 and 9; _Archæologia_, XXVIII., 227–9; Peckham, II., 542; and for a later period, _Rotuli Parliamentorum_, II. 332_a_, (VII.) 350_b_. [180] _Papers of Anglo-Jewish Historical Exhibition_, p. 192 (note 54) and p. 222. [181] _Papers of Anglo-Jewish Historical Exhibition_, pp. 224–9. [182] See the Decrees of the Third Lateran Council of 1179, Mansi, _Concilia_, XXII., 231. [183] St. Anselm, _Epistolæ_, III., 117 (Migne, _Patrologiæ Cursus Completus_, Vol. 159, columns 153–155); Gilbert of Westminster, _Disputatio Judaici cum Christiano_ (_Ibid._ 1005–1036).