Rex omnibus, &c. Cum Elyas episcopus Judæus noster London. pro transgressione quam fecit, tam nobis, quam dilecto fratri nostro Regi Almannorum a sacerdotio communitatis Judæorum Angliæ coram dilectis et fidelibus nostris Philippo Basset, Phillipo Lovel, Henrico de Bathonia, Simon Passelew, et cæteris justiciariis ad custodiam Judæorum assignatis, quos ad transgressionem illam convincendam justiciarios nostros assignavimus, per judicium eorundem ad scaccarium nostrum fuerit adjudicatus, et de ejusdem sacerdotii officio, et etiam de omnimodis aliis officiis, et Ballivis, quas a nobis prius obtinuit sit depositus, nos de consilio eorundem justiciariorum, concessimus prædictæ communitati Judæorum nostrorum Angliæ, per finem trium marcarum auri, quem Cresse et Haginus fratres ejusdem Judæi, nobis pro eadem communitate fecerunt, quod prædictus Elyas sacerdotium illud nunquam in posterum habeat, et recuperet: et quod nullus de communitate illa de cætero sit sacerdos, nisi per communem electionem communitatis ejusdem. Quodque ille communitas post decessum cujuslibet sacerdotis sic electi, alium eligendi quemcunque voluerint sacerdotem liberam habeat facultatem, ac ipsum nobis præsentandi, ut nostrum super hoc assensum obtineat et favorem. In cujus, &c. Teste Rege apud Wodestoke 20 die Julii.――_Rot. Pat._ 41, H. 3, m. 4, m. 6. N. “This very year (1252) there came out of the Holy Land a mandate from the king of France, that all the Jews should be expelled out of the realm of France, and condemned to perpetual exile, with this clause of moderation added thereto:――But he who desires to remain, let him be an artificer or handicraftsman, and apply himself to mechanical artifices. For it was scornfully objected to the said king by the Saracens, that we did little love or reverence our Lord Jesus Christ, who tolerated the murderers of him to live amongst us.”――_Prynne._ O. Bishop Percy, in his relics of “Antient English Poetry,” gives us the following ballad, in which he supposes that its composer “had an eye to the known story of Hugh of Lincoln, a child said to have been murthered by the Jews in the reign of Henry III. The conclusion of this ballad appears to be wanting; what it probably contained may be seen in Chaucer.” THE JEWS’ DAUGHTER. The rain rins doun through Mirry-land toune, Sae dois it doune the Pa: Sae dois the lads of Mirry-land toune, Quhan they play at the ba’. Than out and cam the Jewis dochter, Said, will ye cum in and dine? “I winnae cum in, I cannae cum in, Without my play-feres nine.” Scho powd an apple reid and white To intice the zong thing in: Scho powd an apple white and reid, And that the sweit bairne did win.