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A91270	The second part of a Short demurrer to the Ievves long discontinued remitter into England. Containing a brief chronological collection of the most material records in the reigns of King John, Henry 3. and Edward 1. relating the history, affaires, state, condition, priviledges, obligations, debts, legal proceedings, justices, taxes, misdemeanors, forfeitures, restraints, transactions, of the Jews in, and final banishment out of England, never formerly published in print: with some short usefull observations upon them. Worthy the knowledge of all lawyers, scholars, statists, and of such Jews who desire re-admission into England. / By VVilliam Prynne Esquire, a bencher of Lincolns-Inne.; Short demurrer to the Jewes long discontinued remitter into England. Part 2	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1656 (1656)	Wing P4073; Thomason E483_2; Thomason E872_1; ESTC R203286	147,465	222

malitious potent vexatious Adversaries will be utterly abolished by Salt Peters new Firework to burn all our old Records to ashes 4ly Whereas this Ignoramus in our Records the most whereof he never yet saw and cannot so much as read produceth this only reason for their burning that they are the monuments of Tyranny I would demand of rhis bold blind Bayard who judgeth of coulors he never yet saw how he can make good this notorious untruth The greatest part of our Records are the two great Charters of the Liberties of England and the Forrest or sundry subsequent confirmations of them in several Parliaments the good old Laws Statutes Ordinances made by our wisest Kings Nobles Commons upon long advise and serions debates in our English Parliaments for the Government Peace defence wellfare of the people The proceedings debates Judgements Resolutions of our sagest Parliaments Judges Courts of Justice in all matters cases publike private civil or criminal formerly debated or resolved in them Old Charters Commissions Patents Writs Concords Fines Recoveries Statutes Judgements Extents Indictments Offices Grants of Liberties Lands Franchises Fairs Offices Pardons to particular persons corporations all matters advancing the defence of the Realm by Land and Sea in times of danger war according to the ancient Laws and Customes of the Realm Negotiations Truces Leagues with Embassies Letters to from forain Stares All particulars concerning Merchants Merchandise Trade Coyn Bullion Measures weights wools Staples Ships and the like Now how all or any of these can be stiled Monuments of Tyranny let this Lindsy-Wolsy great Clerk demonstrate at his best leasure Besides I here averr ex certa scientia against this Imposture That most of our old Records especially in the Tower are so far from being monuments of Tyranny that on the contrary they are the chiefest badges the clearest evidendences of those good old English Liberties which our noble Ancestors claimed purchased and transmitted to us as our richest Birthrights yea the principal Bulworks Fences against all sorts of Tyrannical usurpations encroachments on the Peoples Liberties Rights Properties in any kind whatsoever To put this out of Controversie I shall appeal only to the many excellent old Records produced most insisted on by the Commons and others in the several Parliaments of 7 8 21 Jacobi and 3 4 17. Caroli against all Impositions Tunnage Poundage Customs Excises Loans Taxes demanded imposed and exacted from the Subject without common consent and Act of Parliament against imprisoning Subjects by King or Council Table without any legal cause expressed in the warrants and not bailing them in such cases against Shipmoney Court and Conductmoney the Bishops late Canons and Oath Commissions for executing martial Law in times of Peace impressing and billiting Souldiers the Commissions of Array with other late Grievances Monopolies and the arbitrary proceedings of Strafford Canterbury the old Council Table Star-chamber and High-commission printed in sundry Treatises in Sir Edw. Cooks 2 4 Institut Sir Robert Cottons Posthuma and in my Legal Historical Vindication and collection of the good old fundamental Liberties c. of England to which I shall refer the Reader and Hugh Peters who if he had St. Augustines ingenuity hath as much cause and more than he to write a book of Retractations especially of this his rash sentence passed against our old Records devoting them to the fire which his and others New-Modles better deserve than they Now that I may the better excite encourage all generous English Spirits especially Lawyers Statesmen Historians Heralds and Divines who have opportunity not only to the diligent preservation but inspection study perusal of our ancient over-much neglected sleighted Records so rashly devoted to the fire by Peters I shall in brief acquaint each of them what hidden Treasures and rare precious pearls are locked up in these old Parchment cabinets 1. All grounded Students and Professors of the Law upon diligent search may find in our old Records the several Writs of Summons for our Archbishops Bishops Abbots Priors Dukes Earls Viscounts Barons Citizens Burgesses Merchants and all other Members to our ancient English Parliaments Great Councils of State Synods Convocations with the several prorogations adjournments dissolutions of them for Knights and others wages The Speeches Proceedings Petitions Debates Consultations Orders Ordinances Statutes Judgements Pleas Demands Grants or Refusals of Aides Subsidies with all transactions resolves concerning peace War Government Trade Merchandise Bullion Coyn Weights Measure purviances Customes Tunnage poundage Imposts Fishing Shipping defence of King or Kingdom by Land or Sea Liberties priviledges properties regulation of abuses supplies of defects of Law Justice and all other matters formerly discussed in our English parliaments Which if faithfully transcribed and methodically digested into a Parliamentary Chronicle would for rare usefull matter Excellency certainty far exceed all Histories Statute-Books Law-Books Chronicles ever yet compiled rectifie many grosse mistakes in most of them and make more able knowing Lawyers Judges parlamentmen Statesmen than former ages have produced Besides the old Records in the respective Treasuries of the Tower Courts at Westminster and the Rolls faithfully relate at large the Institutions Jurisdictions procedings Judgements Writs Formalities Debates commissions Law-cases Judges Officers names customes Fees of all the great courts of Law Justice Equity civil Ecclesiastical Military Marine Justices Itinerant Justices of the Forrest Justices of Assize Oyer and Determiner of most other inferiour Courts and Commissioners both in England Wales Ireland Scotland Gascoyne Normandy Poyters the Isles of Man Gernsy Iersy Alder●y Serk Silly and other Isles the Stanneries in Cornwall and in most Corporations Counties Hundreds Honors Mannors in them Record all sorts of commissions charters Writs Warrants Instruments relating to Law Iustice Trade peace War The Courts Jurisdictions priviledges Mannors Lands Fees Rents exemptions Liberties Royalties Tenures Services customs Offices Successions pedigrees of the Kings Princes Queens Archbishops Bishops Deans Chapters cities corporations Fraternities Guilds Nobility Gentry Freeholders of England Ireland Wales Scotland and all Dominions Isles annexed to them with sundry other particulars necessary for an accomplished Lawyer out of which industrious Lawyers if countenanced by authority and encouraged by a a publike Salary might collect such a rare new Body and Systeme of the Laws customs courts and ancient legal proceedings in all the courts of Justice throughout our Dominions as would as far excell all other Abridgements collections Reports Institutes Registers Law-Books hitherto published for use excellency as the richest Diamond exceeds the basest pibble and bring more honour benefit to the English Nation than all the Shepheards Calenders and New-corps or Models of our old English Laws attempted by Hugh Peters Sword-men and some bold illiterate Ignoramusses of the Law who neuer yet perused any of our old Records nor read over half our English Law-books and yet will be reformers or deformers rather of what they never exactly knew not understood In brief the exact knowledge of our

Masters of their Law without the Kings special license 10. That the Iews usury was no ways countenanced nor approved but generally condemned and frequently released by our Kings long before the Statute de Judaismo which most infallibly appears to be made in 3 Ed. 1. not in 18. as Sir Edward Cook very grosly mistook And that the banishment of their Usury by it was not the cause of their voluntary banishment hence as he most fondly conceited 11. That the Presbyteratus Judeorum totius Angliae was not the High Priests spiritual function as Sir Edward Cook and others affirm but only a temporal office and Comptrolership in the Kings Exchequer of the Jews 12. That our Kings and Auncestors in times of Popery made and published sundry excellent Ordinances against the blasphemies abuses of the Jews and were very zealous industrious to convert them to Christianity and carefull to maintain support confirm and provide for them when converted in their Domus Conversorum That King Edward the first remitted his right to all the goods of convert Jews by an unchristian usage confiscated formerly to the Crowne by their very conversion allowing all Converts the moity of their estates to maintain them and granting the other moity of their Estates together with his Deodands and all forfeitures and Chevages of the Jews for the support of the Converts and their House Chappel Chaplains Yet very few of them were converted 13. That King Edward the 1 in the 18 year of his reign did by publike Edict of Parliam actually banish all the Jews out of England except the Converts by a set prefixed day beyond all contradiction much against the Jews good wills as I have undeniably proved by sundry Records forecited here and by multitudes of Historians in my first Demurrer against Sir Edw. Cooks grosse error A truth so clear that the very Jews themselves as I am informed by those best versed in their Manuscript Antiquities do make special mention of this their Banishment out of England in their Chronicles in Manasseh Ben-Israels custody taking their later computations of years from thence as a time very remarkable and ominous to their whole Nation And well might they do so seeing learned Mr. Edward Brerewood in his Enquiries touching the diversities of Languages and Religions throughout the chief parts of the world London 1614. c. 13. p. 92. assures us that The first Country of Christendom whence the Iews were expelled without hope of Return was our Country of England whence they were Banished Anno 1290. by King Edward the first By which example Not long after they were likewise banished France Anno 1307. by Philippus Pulcher Only of all the Countries of France in the Iurisdiction of Avignon the Popes State some are remaining Out of Spain An. 1492. by Ferdinand and shortly after out of Portugal Anno 1539. by Emanuel Out of the Kingdome of Naples and Sicilie Anno 1539. by Charls the V. as he there writes Out of which Sir Edward Cooke might have as well averred they only voluntarily banished themselves as that they voluntarily banished themselves out of England with ut any special Edict for their exile thence What other particulars of lester moment concerning the Jews occurre in these Records I have formerly touched in their respective places and shall here omit Having thus compleated my JUDAISMUS ANGLICANUS REDIVIVUS if I may so stile it or Chronological Collections of the Historical and Legal affairs of the English Jews out of the rich unknown Magazine of our generally neglected slighted precious old Records which Hugh Peters the great New-modeller Reformer of our former Lawes Liberties Government Kingdom Republike Church Religion Justice Law Merchandise Navy the Poor and what not but himself out of his rash fiery Zeal and transcendent ignorance would now make all new Martyrs but yet be none himself For which end in his Good Work for a good Magistrate London 1651. after his proposal of A short Model for the Law p. 28. c. he concludes with this advice as a Good Work fit for his good Magistrate p. 33. This being done It is very advisable to burn all the old Records yea even those in the Tower the Monuments of Tyranny that so his New Whimsies only might be known and adored for our English Lawes and Monuments in all succeeding ages I shall therefore crave Liberty to inform the World and this Ignoramus of the incomparable Excellency Utility Necessity of preserving these Records which he hath so brutishly devoted to the fire before he either knew their contents or worth which our Ancestors even in all former Wars Revolutions as well as times of peace and settlement preserved with much care and cost as the richest Pearls Treasures and Jewels of the Nation To which I answer 1. That all our wisest Kings Parliaments Ancestors Statesmen in former ages had ever a special care to record all businesses of publike or private ocncernment and to preserve our ancient Records as the choicest Treasures appointing special Treasuries places to preserve them in and Custodes R●tulorum Treasurers Chamberlains Registers Clerks to keep them safe from injury corrupting and embezelling and enacting many Statutes for this purpose witnesse not only the Chests Cyrographers Officers and others forementioned for keeping the Records and Charters of the Jews and their Rolls but also 13 E. 1. c. 25. 30. 1 E. 3. c. 4. 5 E. 3. c. 12. 9 E. 3. c. 5. 6 R 2. c. 4. 13 H. 4. c. 7. 2 H. 5. c. 8. 4 H. 6. c. 3. 8 H. 6. c. 12. 15. 10 H. 6. c. 4. 18 H. 6. c. 1. 9. 27 H. 8. c. 16. 32 H. 8. c. 28. 34 H. 8. c. 22. 28. 37 H. 8. c. 1. 2 E. 6. c. 10. 3 4 E. 6. c. 1. 1 2 Phil. Mar. c. 2. 23 Eliz. c. 3. 27 Eliz. c. 9. 31 Eliz. c. 3. 1 Jac. c. 6. with other Acts And must they now after all these Statutes be all made a burnt-of●ring unto Vulcan upon the crack-brain'd Motion of an Ignatian Incendiary 2. The Statute of 8 H. 6. c. 12. still in force Ordains That if any Record or parcel of the same writ retorn panel proces or warrant of Attorney in the Kings Courts of Chancery Eschequer the one Bench or other or in his Treasury be willingly stolen taken away withdrawn or avoided by any Clerk or other Person by cause whereof any Judgement be reversed th● such stealer taker away withdrawer and avoider their Procurers Counsellors and Abettors being thereof indicted and by process the●eupon made thereof duly convict by their own confession or by enquest to be taken by legal men whereof the one half shall be of the men of some Court of the same Courts and the other half of other shall be judged for Felons and shall incurre the pain of Felons And that the Iudges of the said Courts of the one Bench and of the other have power to hear and determine such

this pardon of a Jews debt which this King seised to his own use * Dominus Rex pardonavit Nicholao de Wancy 10 lib. quas ei debuit de debitis Iudaeorum mandatum est Baronibus de Scaccario quod ipsum Nich. de praedict 10 libr. quietum esse faciant T. apud Windsore 16 Julii In the 18 and last year of King Iohn I find his Writ to the Barons of the Exchequer to allow upon the account of Hubert de Burgo amongst other things Carnarium Judaeorum Iudaearum in castro de Lossins It seems some Jews of both Sexes were then strictly imprisoned either for their Taxes or some misdemeanors not mentioned in the Record These are the most material Records I have found in my search relating to the Jews affairs during the not long but unfortunate troublesome reign of King Iohn I proceed to those of Henry the 3 his Son and Successor which are more copious various and delightfull both for matter and rarity In the very first year of King Henry the 3. being then an Infant under the wardship of the Earl Marshal his Protect some Iews being formerly arested imprison'd there issued forth these Writs and Mandates for their release the cause of their imprisonment not appearing Mandatum est W. Marescai juniori quod sine dilatione deliberari faciat Cheram Iudaeam de Winton quam Galfred de Laurton et Frnnket servientes sui ceperunt et captam detinent et ut permittant ipsam Cheram sine impedimento venire usque Winton quia Dominus Rex plenam pacem suam ei concessit T. Com. to wit W. Earl Marshal then Protector apud VVinton 22 die Aprilis Anno reg Dom. Regis primo Et mandatum est praedictis G. et Franket quod ipsam Cheram sine dilatione deliberent et sine impedimento permittant venire ad VVinton T. eodem Rex Iosceo de Plugenap salutem Mandamus vobis firmiter precipientes quod sine dilatione et occasione aliqua deliberetis et quietum abire permittatis Ioppe fil Iocei de VVilton Iudaeum quem cepistis et captum tenetis Et in hujus rei testimonium c. T. Comite apud Winton 21 die Aprilis An. reg nostri primo Rex Rico fil Rog. salutem Mandamus vobis sicut alias mandavimus firmiter praecipientes quod sine dilatione et occasione aliqua deliberetis Isaac fil Solomonis Iudaeum quem cepistis apud Winton ipsumque mittatis quietum ad Comitem VV. Marescallum Rectorem nostrum et regni nostri apud VVinton In cujus rei testimonium c. Teste Com. apud VVinton 21 die April an reg nostr primo King Henry in the second year of his raign being informed by his Counsel what great advantage he might make by the Jews upon all occasions by the advice of his Counsel sent forth thse special Writs and Le●ters Parents to 24 Burgesses in each Town where the Jews resided to protect them and theirs from injury appointed special Justices for their custody and affaires and likewise confirmed all their former Liberries for protection of their persons and Estates from violence and exempting them from the Bishops Jurisdiction and all other Courts and Judicatures whatsoever but those Justices he specially appointed for their custody And likewise commanding all the Jews to wear two white Tables in their breasts that thereby they might be manifestly distinguished from Christians and the better known and secured from injury and violence by those their new Protectors Rex Constabulario et Praepositis Gloucest salutem Mandamus vobis quod sine dilatione liberetis Jud●●os nostros Gloucest 24. Burgensibus Gloucestriae custodiendos Nec permitta●is quod ipsi Iudaei ab aliquibus vexentur maxime de Cruce signatis vel aliis Nomina autem Burgensium quibus illos commiteritis custodiendos imbreviari faciatis Et ipsi c. T. Com. apud Glouc. x die Martii Anno reg nostri secundo Rex Vic Lincoln salutem Praecipimus tibi quod eligas 24. de meloribus et discretionibus Civibus Lincoln qui custodiant Iudaeos nostros Lincoln et qui non permittant quod aliquis eis malum vel injuriam faciat de Cruce signatis vel aliis qui c. T. Com. apud Oxon 30 die Marcii Rex omnibus Ballivis et fidelibus suis salutem Sciatis Nos de communi Consilio ●ostro attornasse dilectos et fideles nostros Ric de Doli Magist Alex. de Dorset Elyam de Suvinges ad Scaccarium Iudaeorum custodiend et ad omnia negocia nostra quae pertinent ad officium illud rectand per totam Angliam Et ideo vobis mandamus quod praedicto Ric Alex. et Elye ●itis intendentes in omnibus quae spectant ad officium illud sicut fieri solebat tempore Will de Wartun Thom. de Nevil Galfr. de Norwic. T. Com. apud West 8 die Maii. Not long after the same year there were several writs sent to the Sheriff of Hereford and others to protect the Jews persons and estates from violence which the people were prone to offer to them and to preserve them from all suits and arrests against them for contracts or other things both in the Bishops Ecclesiastical Court and before the Sheriffs or Kings ordinary Justices and Judges but only before the Justices specially designed for their custody as in the time of King Iohn which writs were all sent them in this form Rex Vicecomiti Hereford salutem Scias quod de communi Concilio nos●ro concessimus Judaeis nostris ut ipsi maneant in Hereford sicut solebant tempore Domini Johannis Regis Patris nostri quod talem habeant communionem qualem habere consueverant inter Christianos Et ideo tibi praecipimus quod eos custodias manuteneas protegas non eis in●etens vel inferri permittens aliquod gravamen vel molestiam si aliquis eis in aliquo forisfecerit id eis sine dilatione facias emendari Et clamari facias pertotam Ballivam tuam quod eis sirmam pacem nostram dedimus non obstante 〈◊〉 pro●i●itione inde facta ab Episcopo Hereford 〈◊〉 nihil ad ipsum pertinet de Judaeis nostris Et prohibemus tibi ne manus mittas in eos aut in Catalla eorum nec eos capias aut imprisones nec in Placitum trahas aut a Justiciariis nostris ab aliquo trahi permittas Set si aliquid fecerint quare poni debeant per vadium plegios tunc illos eorum excessus attachies quod sint coram Justiciariis nostris ad Custodiam Judaeorum attornatis inde responsuri hoc facias per visum legalium Christianorum Judaeorum Et non permittas quod placitentur in curia Christianitatis occasione alicujus debiti Et haec omnia fieri facias sicut fieri solebant tempore Johann Regis patris nostris Teste Com. apud Turrem London 19 die Junii

versus eos inde prosecuturus Et habeas ibi hoc breve T. R. apud Winton 12 die Julii An. 9. coram Justic In the 10 of H. 3. I find this Record conteini●g an agreement with some Jews concerning a Debt which the King commands to be observed because inrolled Mandat est Iustic ad custodiam Iudaeorum assignatis quod finem quem VVillus de Lancaster fecit coram eis pro Rogero de Leiburn cum Bonefaunt de Glou. Mirabile mater ejus Iudaei and 6 more Jews there named de debito quod ipse Roger eis debuit qui quidem finis irrotulatus est in Rotulo Scac. Iudaeorum ut dicitur sicut recordatus fuit coram ipsis Iusticiariis et irrotulatus teneri faciant T. R. apud Gaytington 17 die Julii Anno R. n. 10. Fines 10. H. 3. m. 9. Respite is given Benedicto Crespen aliis Iudaeis to pay a great debt annually to the King at certain terms by set sums and the Justices for the Jews to allow it And Ibid. Dors 4. Memorandum quod Dom. Rex pardonavit Roberto de VVolfraton 9 marc quas debet Leoni Iudaeo Linc. unde loquendum est ei cum eodem Iudaeo ad Scac. Dom. Reg. coram Iustic ad custod Iudaeorum assignatis et quod charta sine dilatione ei reddatur that so he might not sue him on it afterwards In the 11 of H. 3. one Augustine a Iew turning a Christian Convert at Canterbury the King commanded the Sheriff to restore him his house which was forfeited upon his conversion by this Precept Mandatum est Vic. Kant quod habere faciat Augustino converso quandam domum in Iudaismo in Cant. quae sua fuit antequam ad fidem converteretur non obstante eo quod conversus est T. Rege apud Red. 17. die Jan. Anno 14. H. 3. some Iews were sent up Prisoners to the Tower and ordered to be speedily tried for stealing of cloth and clipping of money as this Warrant manifests Mandatum est Constab Turris London quod Iudaeos subscriptos quos Rex ad eum mittit per Adam Custard Richard de Donne Servientes Vic. Salop Viuianum Bell uxor ejus Isaac Ann. uxor ejus et Aguinam Judaeam et Aaron rectatos de latrocinio panni et Tonsura Denariorum recipiat et ipsos in Turre London salvo custodiat quousque Stephanus de Sedgrave venerit London cui Rex mandavit quod in primo adventu suo usque London ipsos Judaeos coram se venire faciat et si ipsos inde culpabiles invenerit de ipsis fieri faciat quod secundum consuetudinem Angliae fuerit faciendum T. Rege apud Reading 3. die Martii Et mandatum est ipsi Stephano quod in primo adventu suo London loquelam illam audiat et de illis quos inde culpabiles invenerit fac judicium fieri secundum Legem et consuetudinem Regni non expectata super hoc praesentia Regis et de aliis qui non sunt culpabiles faciat quod viderit faciendum c. T. ut supra In the 15 of H. 3. the King sent this Writ to the Sheriff of Kent commanding him to summon 6. of the richest and potentest Jews of Canterbury and so many more of Rochester to appear before him at Westminster to hear his command and to bring up with them all their own and the other Jews arrerages of Canterbury and Rochester of the 8000 marks and likwise of the 6000 marks not long before imposed on them with the arrears of the 1000. marks promised to him by the Jews of England to respite their debts witness the Record it self Mandatum est Vicecom Kanc. quod sicut seipsum et omnia sua diligit venire faciat coram Rege apud Westm à die Pasche in 15 dies Sex de ditioribus et potentioribus Iudaeis villae Cantuariae et totidem de villa Roff. ad audiendum ibidem praeceptum Regis Ita quod ad eundem terminum habeant ibidem omnia arreragia sua propria sine omni dilatione similiter et arreragia omnium Iudaeorum praedictarum villarū quae Dom. Regi debent tam de Tallagio 8. millia marcarum quam de Tallagio 6 millia marcarum e● preterea id quod ad Iudaeos praedictarū villarum adhuc pertinet Regi reddendum de mille marcis quae Regi promissae fuerunt nomine omnium Iudaeorum Angliae pro respectu habendo debitis quae ab eis exigebantur Ea diligentia hoc praeceptum Regis executur ne pro defectu suo ad eum Rex se graviter capere debeat Et habeat ibi nomina illorum sex Iudaeorum et hoc breve T. Rege apud Clarendon 26 die Marcii Anno 16 H. 3. I find this Grant of a Jews house by the King Rex concessit Richo de Sancto Johanne Capell domum illam cum pertinentiis in vico de Pater noster Church London quae fuit Rici le Ailer et modo est in manu Jacobi Iudaei London et Floriae uxoris ejus habendum de dom Rege sibi et haeredibus suis vel ●ni●unque ea dare vendere vel aliter assignare voluerit Et mandatum est Justic ad custod Iudaeorum assignatis quod eidem Rico de domo praedicto cum pertinentiis plenam seisinam habere faciant sicut praedict est Teste Rege apud Westmonast xviii die Iulii Pro quibusdam Iudaeis to pay their fines and debts by certain portions at some terms In the 17 year of H. 3. the King imposed a Tax upon the Jews of 10000 marks which they being unable to pay presently had certain dayes assigned to pay it in by several sums mentioned in this record some special Jews excepted Rex concessit Judaeis Angliae exceptis Isaac de Norwic et Ursell et fratris sui haeredibus Ham. de Hereford quod de 10 mille marcis quas Regi debent de ultimo Tallagio solvant ad Scacc. Regis ad festum Sancti Michaelis An 17. 500 l. et ad Pasche prox sequent 500 l. si bene respondeant Regi de dictis mille libris ad praedict terminos et de aliis arreragiis quae Regi debent tunc solvant similiter de eisdem 10000 marcis anno proximo sequent 1000 l. ad eosdem terminos scil ad festum Sancti Michaelis Ann. 18. 500 l. et ad Pasch prox seqaen 500 l. et postea per annum 2000 marc ad eosdem terminos donec dictae 10000 marc sic Regi plene solvantur Concessit etiam Rex eisdem Judaeis praeter dictis Isaac et fratribus ejus quod interim quieti sint de Tallagio scil quousque dictae 10000 marc persolutae fuerint sicut praedict est Ita tamen quod illi Judaei qui manuceperunt pro omnibus Iudaeis Angliae Tallagium 8000 marc Regi plene respondeant de arreragiis ejusdem Tallagii quilibet Judaeus respondeat pro se de

qui aliquando ad fidem Catholicam conversi baptisati fuerunt et postmodum ad Iudaicam pravitatem perversi ab eadem fide Apostatare praesump●erint Volumus etiam quod Mulieres Iudeae de caetero portant signa in superiori veste sicut Iudaei Mares Et quod Iud●i de caetero nullos habeant servientes Christianos mares aut foeminas secum in quibuscunque obsequi●s commorantes nec in domibus propriis nec aliis in Civitatibus aut locis allis ubi morantur set ipsi Iudaei sibi invicem in omnibus sibi serviant et ministrent Et hoc ubique precipiatur tam Christianis quam Iudaeis sub gravi forisfactura nostra Volumus etiam quod omnes Christiani qui pignora sua inter bona Iudaeorum dampnatorum inventa redimere voluerint hujusmode pignora per testes fideles et bone famae probent esse sua et ea per certa signa et indicia describant hujusmodi Testibus eatenus credatur quatenus ipsis majoris vel minoris famae esse constiterit Et si fortè pignora illa sua esse per testes probare non possint eo quod testes defuncti vel absentes sunt ita quod eos habere non possint vel quia secrete et absque testimonio impignorata fuerunt tunc ad pignora illa recuperanda sufficiat tantummodo Sacramentum ipsorum quorum illa existunt dum tamen pignora illa certis signis et indiciis describant sicut praedictum est Et hoc propter lapsum anni a tempore impignorationis hujusmodi nullatenus omi●tatur Volumus insuper quod omnes illi qui per Testes fide dignos probare possint debita sua pro snis pignoribus persolvisse et pignora illa propter certam aliquam rationem per ipsos coram vobis ostendam aut propter maliciam ipsorum Iudaeorum ab eisdem Iudaeis non recipisse ad iteratam solutionem debitorum illorum faciendam nullatenus compellantur testibus illis credatur juxta famam personarum additis testibus aliis si necesse fuerit juxta discretionem vestram De libris autem apud Oxon impignoratis volumus quod nullum fiat judicium usque ad Festum omnium sanctorum prox futurum Volumus etiam quod per Civitates Burgos Villas mercatorias et alias publice proclametur ne quis bona Iudaeorum dampnatorū seu dam●nandorū recipiat seu jam recepta celet vel occultet sedea Nobis restituet citra Fest beati Petri ad vincula prox futur Alioquin Nos versus ipsos tanquam ad caelatores et occultatores Thesauri regni graviter capiemus Et ideo vobis mandamus quod omnia praedicta fieri et firmiter observari faciatis in forma praedicta T. Rege apud Westmon x. die Maii. Consimiles Literae diriguntur Barth de Sutlegh Will de beof Ade de Boteler Ioh de Fauconer Consimiles Literae Breve diriguntur Ioh. Beks Alex de Kirketon Ranulpho de Dacre Hugoni de Kendale In this 7th year of King Edw. the 1. as our Historians elsewhere cited record there was a Parliament held at London principally to inquire after the great clipping and falsifying of the Kings coin and prevent it for the future during this Parliament most of the Jews throughout England were apprehended and hundreds of them by several Inquests found guilty before the Justices mentioned in these VVrits specially appointed for that end for clipping counterfeiting and corrupting the Kings money whereof 294 Jews in London alone were convicted and soon after executed and multitudes more of them in other places throughout the Realm which occasioned these VVrits and Proclamations made most probably by advice of the Parliament and approved by it to be issued forth and put in execution for the just punishment of the blasphemous Jewish Malefactors and better discovery of their concealed confiscated estates for the Kings greater advantage and likewise for relief of such sub●ects who had any pawns or goods in the then condemned Iews possession As those Iews who were legally convicted for clipping and corrupting the Kings coyne were executed for it in all places so many more of them were accused imprisoned for the same crime much oppressed maligned generally by the people and inforced to make fines and ransomes to the King and the houses and estates of those who were executed sold strickt inquiry made after all concealments of their estates as the last these ensuing Records will at large inform us far better than any of our Historians I shall begin with that which is most large Rex dilectis et fidelibus suis Stephano de Pentecester Waltero de Helynn et Ioh. de Cobham Justiciariis ad placita Transgressionis Monerae audienda salutem Quia omnes Judaei nuper rectati et per certam suspicionem indictate de retonsura monetae nostrae inde convicti cum ultimo supplicio puniuntur quidam eorum eadem occasione omnia bona et catalla sua satisfecerunt et in prisona nostra liberantur in eadem ad voluntatem nostram detinendi Et cum accepimus quod plures Christiani ob odium Judaeor propter discrepantiam fidei christianae et ritus Judaeorum et diversa gravamina per ipsos Judaeos christianis hactenus illata quosdam Judaeos nondum rectatos in indictatos de transgressione monetae per leves et voluntarias accusationes accusare et indictare de die in diem nituntur et proponunt impouentes eis ad terrorem ipsorum quod de hujusmodi transgressione culpabiles existunt super ipsos Judaeos faciendae et sic per minas hujusmodi accusationis ipsis Iudaeos metu incutiant et pecuniam extorqueant ab eisdem Ita quod ipsi Judaei super hoc ad legem suam saepe ponuntur in vitae suae periculum manifestum Volumus quod omnes Iudaei qui ante primum diem Maii proxim praeterir indictati vel per certam suspicionem rectati non fuerunt de transgressione Monetae predictae et qui facere voluerint finem juxta discretionem vestram ad opus nostrum facere pro sic quod non occasionentur de hujusmodi transgressionibus factis ante primum diem Maii propter novas accusationes christianorum post eundem diem inde factas non molestentur sed pacem inde habeant in futurum Proviso quod Iudaei indictati vel per certam suspicionem rectati de hujusmodi transgressione ante praedictum diem Maii judicium subeant coram vobis juxta formam prius inde ordinatam provisam Et ideo vobis mandamus quod fines hujusmodi capiatis et praemissa fieri et observari faciatis in forma praedicta Teste Rege apud Cantuar. 8 die Maii. Consimiles Literae diriguntur Barthol de Sulley et Sociis suis justiciar ut supra T. Rege ut supra Consimiles Literae diriguntur Iohan. Beks et sociis suis Iusticiariis ut supra T. Rege

obedient to him as their Governor His Patent bearing date the 13 of Octob. This same year the Jews still persevering in their Trade of clipping and counterfeiting the Kings coin thereupon there issued out several Letters Patents and commissions to diverse Justices to make inquiry thereof and of all concealed goods and chattels of all the Jews forfeited to the King as this following commission of Association to pretermit all others will resolve us Rex dilecto ●sideli suo Hugoni de Cressingham salutem Qnia dilectus et fidelis noster Henricus le Waleys quem nuper cum dilectis et fidelibus nostris Solomone de Roff. Magistro Henrico de Bray assignavimus ad quasdem Inquisitiones faciendas de omnibus bonis catallis quorumcunque Judaeorum dampnatorum Nobis concelatis forisfactis etiam de Mercatoribus Judaeis invicem vendentibus ementibus seu cambientibus plateas argenteas falsas plateas de stagno alio metallo conflatas et exterius deargentatas de aliis circumstantiis negotium illud qualitercunque contingentibus prout in literis nostris Patentibus quos eisdem Solomoni Henrico Henrico inde fieri fecimus plenius continetur nobiscum in partibus transmarinis pro quibusdam negotiis nostris specialibus quibus ibidem intendit moram facit per quod idem Henricus le Waleys ad praemissa una cum prefatis Solomone Magistro Hen. facienda non potest intendere ad praesens vos loco ipsius H. le Waleyes ad praemissa una cum prefatis Magist Henrico ad praedictas Inquisitiones faciendas juxta tenorem literarum nostrarum patentium praedictarum Et ideo vobis mandamusquod ad praemissa facienda una cum praedictis Solomone Magistro Henrico intendatis in forma praedicta Mandamus enim eisdem Solomoni Magistro Henrico quod vos ad hoc in socium admittant sicut praedictum est In cujus rei c. Teste Ed. Comite Cornubii Consil Regis apud Westm. 26 die Jan. This year I find a strange case A Jew and his wife complained to the King that some had maliciously defamed the Wife in reporting that she had turned Christiand was baptized to their great prejudice and grievance when as it was a malitious scandal Whereupon they procured this Writ from the King to the Justices of the Jews to inquire the truth thereof by an Inquisition of Christians and Jews and to do them right if slandered Rex Justic suis ad custodiam Judaeorum assignatis salutem Monstraverint nobis Mosseus de Hornden Suetecota uxor ejus Judaei Lond. quod cum ipsa Suetecota christiana non sit ne aliquo tempore fu●rat baptizata quidam Emuli eorum maliciose confingentes ipsam Suetecotam baptizatam fuisse inter duo bella de Lewes Evesham eam super hocdefamarunt in ipsorum Mossei Suetecotae dampnum non modicum gravamen Et ideo vobis mandamus quod inquisita inde plenius veritate per Christianos Judaeos sicut mos est Si inveneritis praedicta Suetecota non fuit baptizata sicut sibi imponitur tunc eisdem Mosseo Suetecotae juxta officii vestri debitum pacem habere inde faciatis T Com. If the Jews deem it so great a scandal and grievance to them for others to reporr them to have been Christians and baptized there is little hopes of their real general conversion to Christianity now The Jews were such absolute slaves and villains to our Kings that they sometimes granted them with all their goods and chattels to others by their Charters as they did their other villanies as this memorable Record of 17 E. 1. will inform us Rex dilecto fideli suo Rado de Berners Constabul Tur. London salutem Cum Dom. H. Rex pater noster per Cartam suam ded●rit concesserit Edmundo fratri nostro carissimo Aaron fil Vynes Judeo London una cum omnibus bonis et catallis suis er omnibus quae ad ipsum patrem nostrum ratione ipsius Judaei quocunque modo possint pertinere et nos postmodum eandem donationem et concessionem continuari volentes ipsam prefato fratri nostro confirmavimus per nostras literas Patentes ac idem Frater noster manuceperit habere coram nobis e●ndem Aaron ad voluntatem nostram adstandum recte super omnibus quae ipsum Aaron contingunt quandocunque nos vel alii versus ipsum in aliquo loqui voluerimus per quod eidem fratri nostro per manucaptionem suam praedictam concessimus quod omnia negotia ipsum Aaron contingentia et quae examen judiciale requirunt coram nobis et eodem fratre nostro audiantur et prout justum fuerit terminentur Vobis mandamus quod de bonis et catallis ipsius Aaron aut aliquibus ipsum tangentibus vos in nullo intromittatis contra donationem concessionem et confirmationem supradictas nisi ex voluntate fratris nostri praedicti T. Edmund apud Westm. 24 die Maii. Eodem modo mandatum est Iohanni de Breton custodi civitatis London T. ut supra In the 18 year of King Edward the 1. I find this grant of his on the 12 day of Iune of all his Deodands to the House of the Converts for the better maintenance and support of the Convert Chapel and edifices thereof during his pleasure only Rex Iusticiariis omnibus aliis Ballivis et fidelus suis c. salutem Cum nos dudum concessimus Conversis Domus nostrae London ad sustentationem ipsorum Deodanda quae nobis accidere coram quibuscunque Iusticiariis nostris adjudicari contingent ad certum terminum jam transactum Nos concessionem illam intuitu Dei pradictis conversis convertendis coutinuare volentes concessimus eisdem conversis et convertendis ad sustentationem ipsorum et fabricam Capellae suae et aedificiorum suorum perficiendam omnia Deodanda quae Nobis ubicunque in Reg●o nostro Angliae accidere et coram quibuscunque Iusticiariis seu Ministris nostris adjudicari contingent Habenda percipienda quamdiu Nobis placuerit T. Rege apud Westm 12 die Iunii On the 17 day of the same month and year I find this special grant made by the King to Auntlera a Jewesse to sell the inheritance of a Garden in London to any Jew and his heirs and for them to purchase it of her without being questioned or molested for it by any of his Officers which without such license she could not sell nor he purchase of her without seisure or forfeiture Rex omnibus c. Sciatis quod de gratia nostra speciali Licentiam dedimus Auntlerae quae fuit uxor Vynes fil Magistri Mossei Judaei London quod quoddam Gardinum suum quod habet in Civitate nostra London in parochia sancti Laurentii in Cattestreet vendere possit cuicunque Judaeo Gardinum illud emere volenti

defaults before them and thereof to make due punishment as is aforesaid And now Hugh Peters if I may be thy Counsellor in sober sadnesse look to thy neck which as thou hast oft indangered forfeited by thy late Fire-works to blow up Kings Kingdoms Parliaments Lords our old fundamental Lawes Liberties Government as Straffords Canterburies late Impeachments Sentences with Mr. St. Iohns and others Arguments at their Attainders will resolve thee and thy open treasonable advising abetting the seising imprisoning of my self and above 40 more Members of Parliament in Hell on the bare boards Decemb. 6. 1648. whose names thou didst then list with an iron Sword under thy arme instead of the Sword of the Spirit So this thy Iesuitical Project to burn all our old Records whereby all former Judgement Titles Fines Recoveries c. will be nulled reversed which thou publickly abettest counsellest thy Magistrate to effect in Print proclaimes thee by thine own Confession without other evidence a Notorious Felon within this Act in the highest degree The burning avoiding of all our Records in general being a more transcendent Felony yea Treason to the whole Kingdom Nation than the embezelling only of one or two private Records or Writs relating but to one private person And if ever thou be brought to a legal Trial for it before such a Iury and such Iudges as this Act prescibes thou art sure to undergoe a Halter-Martyrdome at Tyburne which all will cry up according to thy Pamphlets Title for A good work of a good Magistrate and a short cut to great quiet for thy devoting all our old Records to a fiery Martyrdom in Smithfield which I trust they shall never undergo And that upon these ensuing weighty Considerations First these old Records which he would have burnt contain in them all the antient Rights Titles Evidences Charters Agreements Leagues Compacts of the Kings Kingdom Nation and people of England to all their pristine and present Dominions Jurisdictions Prerogatives Preheminences Priviledges Hereditaments and enjoyments both at home and abroad by Land and by Sea as they are a Kingdom Nation Republike body Politick in general and that both in relation to themselves and their own intrinsecal affairs at home as they have been owned reputed negotiated treated with upon special occasions as a Kingdom Nation Republike by any forraign Kings Princes Kingdoms States whose ancient undoubted Rights Titles to all or any of our Dominions Territories Jurisdictions Royalties cannot otherwise be legally cleared judicially evidenced upon any emergent occasion or controversie between our Kingdom Nation and other Forraign States and Realms or between our selves at home but by our old Records the only publike evidences of the whole Kingdom and English Nation as necessary to defend maintain justifie their common publick Rights Dominions Possessions Jurisdictions Claims priviledges upon all occasions as any private Noble or Gentlemans ancient Charters Records Writings are to defend manifest his right and Title to his private Inheritance and Injoyments witnesse the famous Letter of the King Parliament and Nobles of England written and sent to the Pope Anno 1302. to clear the subordination of Scotland to the Crown of England and the Homage of the Kings of Scotland made for their kingdom to the Kings of England as their superiour Lords from time to time manifested by the ancient Histories and Records of England beyond all contradiction Mr. Selden his Mare Clausum proving the Dominion and Jurisdiction of the Kings of England over the Narrow Seas by Records and Sir Robert Cottons Posthuma Therefore it must necessarily be as bad and mad a worke for a bad and mad Magistrate to burn all the publick Evidences and Records of the whole Kingdom and Nation upon the frantick motion of a Bedlam in this particular as for a Great landed Nobleman to burne all the old Charters Evidences of his Lands and Honors or for a rich Usurer to burn all his Bonds and Morgages which all wise men will repute an act of Frenzy and Hugh Peters too in his right senses 2. They contein in them all the great publike Charters Contracts Agreements Leagues formerly granted or made by the Kings of England to or with the Prelates Earles Barons Freemen Commons of England Ireland Scotland Wales Gernsey Iersy Man and all other Isles and Dominions belonging to the Crown of England in general all Charters Patents Grants Contracts Writs Releases Gifts Pardons Offices Honors Liberties Franchises Customs Priviledges Faires Markets Inheritances Rents Revenues Licences compositions formerly granted by our Kings to the respective Counties Cities Towns Burroughs Villages Hundreds Arch-bishops Bishops Deans Chapters Prebends Abbies Priories Nunneries Colledges Hospitals Free-schools Universities great Officers Chancellors Generals Admirals Marshals Justices Nobles Gentlemen Citizens Merchants Societies Fraternities most private persons both in England Ireland Wales Scotland all the British Isles and other Territories anciently belonging to England All whose particular patents grants evidences though under seal if alleged to be false forged sophisticated must be tryed only by their exemplifications or inrollments on record They likewise comprise all the Judgements Fines Common Recoveries Verdicts Trials Suits Statute Merchants and Staple Recognizances Inrolments yea in any of the private Conveyances Contracts between our Kings and private subjects and one subject another What a universal confusion subversion then disinherison destruction of all Rights Titles Interests Inheritances Priviledges the burning of all our old Records would immediatly bring upon all and every County City Corporation Nobleman Gentleman Inheriter Freeholder of the Realm of England and all the subordinate Dominions thereto annexed let this Short Cutter himself and all Wise men determine who hold or claim any thing by matter of Record their best and surest evidence 3ly All the good old Laws Statutes for the Governme●t Peace safety defence and wellfare of the Nation are originally conteined in our Records by which they must be tryed examined Yea all the perambulations and deafforestations of our forrests All the Limits Bounds Extents Contents Jurisdictions Customs Priviledges Tenures Rents Services of all Counties Cities Burroughs Ports Honors Mannors Parishes Courts of Justice Offices Officers Civil Military Ecclesiastical Marine all the Pedegree Discents Successions by which all Heirs Successors hold or claim their inheritances are for the most part defined ascertained evidenced proved in and by our Records alone wherein they are enrolled And if they should all be burnt together what ataxies confusions contentions oppressions suits quarrels frauds Disinherisons would thereupon immediatly ensue all wisemen may prognosticke The mighty Nymrods and Grandees of the times wil then soon question al mens Titles devour their lesse potent neighbours estates inheritances adjoyning near to theirs all potent Landlords will exact what services rents customs heriots releifes they please from their poor tenants all superiour inferiour Courts Officers Corporations claim exercise what extravagant Jurisdictions powers they think meet and all legal means of defending mens rights liberties inheritances against

but commonly 8000. 10000. marks or pounds by the year levyed with the greatest rigour which some of the richest Jews in all places were commonly engaged to see punctually paid in at the terms appointed and when any of them opposed or neglected to pay or levy them their persons wives children families infants were all distrained imprisoned their estates Debts seised confiscated some of them sent Prisoners into Ireland and frequently menaced with perpetual banishment hence and losse of their estates their taxes being levyed by the strictest menacing warrants and all rigorous violent ways the King and his instruments could possibly invent And are not their Taxes in case they will now return again like to be more high frequent oppressive since the very English themselves after all their late contests wars consultations and prodigal expences of their blood treasures estates are now brought under heavy uncessant monthly arbitrary Taxes Excises Imposts decimations levyed with the greatest rigour and such as dare oppose them out of conscience or defence of publike liberty though in a legal way imprisoned close imprisoned ruined yea threatned with perpetual banishment even by such who pretend themselves the Patrons Protectors of the English liberties franchises Properties from such Aegyptian and Jewish Bondage and greatest Antagonists against such arbitrary exorbitant Tyranny 4. That besides these constant annual Taxes our Kings upon all occasions enforced them by way of Loans to lend what sums they demanded under pain of imprisonment confiscation of their estates seisure of all their Debts Pawns Chests And frequently seised searched released granted sold all their gold silver chests debts houses fees annuities pawns and imprisoned their persons wives children to extort and raise monies upon all extraordinary necessities 5. That when they had fleeced them to their very skins and could expect no more moneys from them then they morgaged and sold their persons estates and the revenues proceeding from them unto others to advance present moneys before hand like so many Slaves and Villains And though many of them notwithstanding all their endlesse Taxes Extortions Squeezings fleecings grew rich again in a short time through usury broccage clipping and falsifying coyn plate frauds and extortions of all kinds and their base parsimony industry frugality yet their wives children heirs friends enjoyed little or no benefit at all by it but the King and his Officers commonly fleeced them of al they gained by one device or other So that England was little better than a second Aegypt and our Kings and their griping Officers nothing else but so many new Pharoahs and Aegyptian Tax-masters to them during all their continuance here they having no assurance of lives liberties estates under them by any Charters Grants protection Engagements which they made no conscience to revoke and violate at their pleasures as some of late have done even to their own Christian Brethren in as high a degree as they did to the Jews 6. That they were so exceeding execrable and detestable to the people in all places where they resided both for their infidelity blasphemies apostacies enmity to Christ and Christianity circumcising and crucifying Christian Children clipping of coin falsifying of Charters extortion brokage usury frauds unconscionable Jewish cut-throat dealing and discrepancy of maners from the English that many places and ports opposed their coming over other Towns as Newcastle Winchelse Wycombe Newbury Berkhamsted Suthampton other places purchased exemptions or removals of them And those Towns where they resided frequently rose up in a tumultuous maner against them burning their houses beating abusing kiling their persons pillaging their goods and forcing them to fly to the Kings Castles for Sanctuary notwithstanding all the Kings Charters Proclamations Provisions of all sorts for their protection and defence against violence and committing them to the protection of the Sheriffs Maiors Chief Officers and Burgesses of the places where they resided But especially they were above measure assaulted beaten slaughtered pillaged by the Cruce-signati and Saint-like Souldiers of that age who listed crossed themselves for the Holy-Wars and by the Barons Souldiers who took up arms against their Soveraigns under pretext only of defending the Great Charters Laws Liberties of the Church and Realm of England usually stiling themselves exercitus Dei et sanctae Ecclesiae in Anglia Neither were they free from violence plunder nor the common people satisfied till their universal final banishment hence which they oft sollicited their implacable enmity against them being such that the symptoms thereof yet continue amongst us in our proverbiall speeches I hate thee as I do a Jew I would not have done so to a Jew None but a Jew would have done so and the like 7. That notwithstanding all the Injuries Oppressions Indignities cruelties they here sustained both from our Kings their Officers the generality of the people by Gods just curse and vengeance on them for their sins yea notwithstanding all means used by our Kings Magistates Bishops preaching Friers and others both for their reformation and conversion to the Christian Faith yet the generality of them continued persevered still in their willfull obstinacy infidelity blindnesse enmity malice blasphemies despite against our crucified Saviour and Christianity which they manifested upon all occasions in publike and private by circumcising and crucifying chistian children breaking the Crucifix in Oxford and trampling it under foot in the midst of the Universities soleme Procession and otherwise expressed at large in the forementioned records as likewise in their extorsions clipping and falsifying moneys Charters usuries frauds rapes murders forgeries very few of them turning Christian converts and that either to save their lives or prevent some imminent dangers to their persons families estates and those of the poorer sort for the most part to get a present livelyhood from the Christians who frequently turned Apostates or flagi●ious malefactors to the scandal of religion 8. That the Jews here had their Synagogues Schools Pries●s Presbyter and Comptroller of their Exchequer Escheator Cofferers Cyrographers Attornies Bayliffs with their proper Judges and Court of Exchequer wherein only they were to be sued proceeded against and by whom they were Iudged their Prisons Attachers Tax-Masters Record-Keepers ordered in all things according as the King by his Writs and Letters directed All which Offices were appointed by the Kings special Patents Writs whose Names Powers Jurisdictions Salaries together with their legal trials and proceedings of all sorts civil criminal the forms of their Starrs Charters Extents of Lands assignments of Debts Releases Reliefs Fines with the names of the chiefest Jews are registred and most clearly fully related in the forecited Records and in no other printed History or Law-book whatsoever 9. That the Jews were exempt from all other Temporal and Ecclesiastical Courts and Jurisdictions but the Justices specially appointed for their custody and the Kings Exchequer for the Jews yea from all publike Taxes imposed on the English and could not be excommunicated by the