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A56206	A short demurrer to the Jewes long discontinued barred remitter into England Comprising an exact chronological relation of their first admission into, their ill deportment, misdemeanors, condition, sufferings, oppressions, slaughters, plunders, by popular insurrections, and regal exactions in; and their total, final banishment by judgment and edict of Parliament, out of England, never to return again: collected out of the best historians and records. With a brief collection of such English laws, Scriptures, reasons as seem strongly to plead, and conclude against their readmission into England, especially at this season, and against the general calling of the Jewish nation. With an answer to the chief allegations for their introduction. / By William Prynne Esq; a bencher of Lincolnes-Inne.; Short demurrer to the Jewes long discontinued remitter into England. Part 1.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1656 (1656)	Wing P4079; ESTC R205682	263,888	373

not to be passionately zealous not to contend earnestly for the Faith against these ungodly men turning the Grace of our God into lasciviousness and denying the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ is in a great measure to deny and betray them together with our Church Nation at once unto these their inveterate enemies For whose Conversion not National but of the very small elect Remnant of them as I shall pray so I cannot but pray and write against their Re-admission amongst us on these or any other terms for the Reasons here humbly presented to thy view and Christian Consideration by Thy Christian Brother and Companion in tribulation and in the Kingdom Patience of Jesus Christ William Prynne Lincolnes-Inne 14 December 1655. A Short Demurrer to the Jews long discontinued Remitter into ENGLAND HOw the Nation of the Jews once Gods own beloved special chosen People after their malitious crucifying of our Saviour Jesus Christ and imprecation That his Bloud might be on them and their children were for this their crying sin especially made the saddest spectacles of divine Justice and humane Misery of all other Nations in the World being quite extirpated out of their owne Land almost totally deleted by the sword pestilence famine carried away Captives and dispersed like so many Vagabonds over the face of the whole Earth as the very off-scowring of the World and execration derision of all other people having no place City form of Government or Republike of their own in any corner of the Universe according to Gods Comminations against them Levit. 26.14 to 46. Deut. 28.15 to 68. Jer. 9.10 c. 13.24 Ezech. 5.2 to the end c. 12.15 c. 22.15 Mich. 1.21 Mat. 24. Or what banishments punishments oppositions restraints by penal Lawes suppressions of their Synagogues Ceremonies they have received in all ages from Christian Kings Princes Republikes in Forein parts for their implacable malice blasphemie against our Saviour Jesus Christ Christians Christian Religion and other Crimes and Misdemeanors to which they are most addicted is not the subject of my intended Brief Discourse and so fully related by Josephus Egesippus Eusebius Nicephorus Zonaras Paulus Diaconus Paul Eber the Magdeburgian Centuriators out of them and other Historians in their 2. to their 13 Centuries chap. 14 and 15. in Baronius his Annals and Heylins Microcosm p. 568 569 570. where all may peruse them that I shall not spend time to recite them but wholly confine my self to a Brief Relation of their first admission into their ill deportment misdemeanors sufferings popular insurrections against them in and their final banishment by Judgement and Edict of Parliament out of England never to return again collected out of the best Historians to which I shall subjoyn a taste only of such Laws Scriptures and Reasons as seem strongly to plead against their readmission into our Island especially at this season When the Jews came first into England appears not certainly by any Historians there being no mention of their being here in any of our British or Saxon Kings reigns to my remembrance Antoninus in his Chronicles Tit. 16. c. 5. records That William the Conqueror King of England translated the Jews from Rhoan to London and the Magdeburg Centuries out of him Cent. 11. cap. 14. col 686. adde thereto that it was OB NUMERATUM PRECIUM for a sum of money given to him by them which I find not in Antoninus Both these Authors intimate That this was their first arival in England yet in what year of this King they are silent With them concurs Raphael Holinshed Vol. 3. p. 15. where thus he writes Among other grievances which the English sustained by the hard dealings of the Conqueror this is to be remembred That he brought Jews into the Land from Rouen appointed them a place to inhabit and occupy reputing their very first introduction a Grievance to the English and hard dealing Which Iohn Stow in his Annals of England p. 103. and Survey of London printed 1633. p. 288. thus seconds King William FIRST brought the Iews from Rhoan here to inhabit in England and Sir Richard Baker in his Chronicle of the Kings of England London 1653. p. 39. This King was the FIRST that brought the Iews to inhabit here in England But this Law concerning the Jews inserted amongst the Laws in the Confessors time seems to prove their arival and settlement in England to be before this Normans reign unless mis-placed in point of time amongst his Laws by Hoveden being rather in my opinion a Declaration of the Jews servile condition under King William and Richard the first when Hoveden writ then any Law in King Edwards reign or before amongst whose Laws or the Conquerors it is not to be found in Abbot Ingulphus his Original copy published by Mr. Selden in his Notae Spicilegium ad Eadmerum p. 172 c. as the words themselves import De Judaeis in Regno consticutis SCiendum est quoque quod omnes Judaei ubicunque in Regno sunt sub tutela defensione Domini Regis sunt nec quilibet eorum alicui diviti se potest subdere sine Regis licentia Judaei omnia sua Regis sunt Quod si quispiam detinuerit eis pecuniam suam perquirat Rex tanquam suum proprium or detinuerit eos vel pecuniam eorum perquirat Rex si vult tanquam suum proprium as Sir Henry Spelman renders it This Law or Declaration being the first record making mention of their being and condition in England proves That as all the Jews when they came first into England were under the Kings protection and patronage where ever they resided so they were all under him only as his meer Vassals their persons and goods being his alone and that they could dispose of neither of them without his license Into which slavish condition they doubtless then put themselves being banished out of other Nations for their villanies only to avoid the fury of the common people to whom they were most detestable who else would have quickly murdered or ston'd them to death and stript them of all their wealth as the sequel will declare The next Passage in Historians concerning the Jews being and condition in England is that of William of Malmsbury in William Rufus his reign The Jews writes he in his time gave a testimony of their insolency Once at Rhoan endeavouring by gifts to perswade and revoke certain men to Judaism who had deserted their error Another time at London being animated to enter into a combate or dispute against our Bishops because the King in merriment as I believe had said That if they should overcome the Christians and confute them by open arguments he would then revolt to them and become one of their Sect Whereupon it was managed with great fear of the Bishops and Clergy and with pious solicitude of such who were afraid of the Christian Faiths miscarriage And from this

can find no syllable in any Domestick or foreign Historians or Writers whatsoever nor yet that they inhabited here or were here in the Briton Saxon or Danish Kings Reigns which if they had some of our Historians Synods Decrees and Laws in those ages would have mentioned it as well as the Gothish Spanish Histories Laws Councils and Constitutions where they resided in which there is not one syllable of them but only in the forecited Law foisted in amongst the Confessors to which doubtless it was puny but in William the Conquerours reign Together with their ill deportments misdemeanors sufferings massacres servile condition and manifold popular tumults against them during all the time of their residence in England and final banishment out of it never to my knowledge collected into one intire History before The serious consideration whereof will in my weake judgement sufficiently satisfie convince the whole English Nation that they have just grounds and reasons in point of piety of policy never to re-admit them more into our Island and likewise resolve the very Jewes themselves that they have little cause or reason at all to desire to re-plant themselves in England where their ancestors in times past susteined so many miseries massacres affronts oppressions fleecings upon all occasions themselves can expect little better usage for the future To this principal part of my undertaking for fuller satisfaction I shall hereunto subjoyn a Tast of such Laws Scriptures Reasons as seem strongly to plead yea conclude against their re-admission into England at least in that latitude and freedom as formerly they there enjoyed and now petition for As 1. To erect new Synagogues Temples amongst us or turn any of our Churches Chappels into Synagogues for the free publique exercise of their Judaism Jewish Worship Customs Religion diametrically contrary to the Gospel Person Kingdom Priesthood Offices Mediation Redemption of our Lord Jesus Christ which they thereby professedly deny renounce as false and fabulous 2ly To set up a Jewish Corporation or Fraternity amongst us in our Cities and Corporations distinct and separate from the English subject to their own immediate peculiar Officers and Judges as heretofore 3ly To purchase Houses Habitations Rents Lands exercise Merchandizes and all sorts of Trades and Manufactures amongst us as free Denizens or Merchants upon such terms and qualifications as shall be indulged to them 1. For our Laws and Statutes these following make directly or obliquely by way of necessary consequence against their re-admission 1. For their Jewish Synagogues Worship Sacraments Religion these ancient pious Laws of our Saxon and Danish Kings made in their great Parliaments and Councils before the Jews first coming into England strongly oppose their admission now As namely the Laws of King Alfred and Guthern Lex 1.2 of King Ethelred in the Council of Aenham c. 1.3.27 29 30. of Habam c. 1. with the Laws of King Knute the Dane Lex 1.27 28. All which enact That the only true God and our Lord be loved worshipped in all ages by all the people with all their might the one Christian holy Catholick faith orthodoxly kept and the Churches of God to be diligently frequented throughout the Realm That all Paganisme and false Religions be renounced both in words and deeds That who ever wickedly resisteth the Laws of Christ shall be grievously fined and put to death and that all men should diligently seek out by all means Ut recta Christi rel●gio maximè provehatur That the right religion of Christ might be most of all advanced obtesting all Ecclesiastical and secular persons again and again most earnestly to keep the sincere faith unanimously in the true God and the right Christian faith in a right manner diligently to hear the Teachers of Gods word studiously to follow their Doctrine and Precepts to maintain peace and tranquility in the Church of God and there diligently to pour forth their prayers All which particulars exclude all Jewish Synagogues and Judaisme and are of perpetual force being grounded on the very Law of God Moreover King Cnute his Ecclesiastical Lawes made by the advise of his wise men to be observed throughout all England prohibited That no Christian should be sold or sent out of the Realm or banished amongst those who had not as yet embraced the faith in Christ lest per adventure those Souls should perish at any time which our Lord Jesus Christ had redeemed with his own blood and life If Christians for this cause ought not to be sent sold or banished amongst Jews and Infidels much more then ought not Infidel Jews with their Jewish Synagogues Religion Ceremonies to be now introduced amongst us Christians to the hazard of many Christian Souls redeemed by Christs blood 2. All the Statutes concerning Uniformity of Common Se●vice and administration of the Sacraments as 1 Ed. 6. c. 1 2. 2 Ed. 6. c. 1. 6 Ed. 6. c. 1.1 Eliz. c. 2.23 Eliz. c. 1.35 Eliz. c. 1.2 most of them still in force being never legally repealed do fully and directly oppugne the introduction of any J●wish Synagogues Service Sacraments Worship Ceremonies with the use of them in any place within our Realm 3. The Statutes of 3. E. 6. c. 10.13 Eliz. c. 2.23 Eliz. c. 1.28 Eliz. c. 2.6 35 Eliz. c. 1.3 Jac. c. ● against Popish Recusants Seminary Priests Jesuites Friers Masse-Books Agnus Dei's Popish Books Superstitions for eventing the withdrawing of the Subjects of this Realm from the publique Ordinances Sacraments and Religion here established and for speedy banishing all Seminary Priests and Jesuites and keeping them perpetually out of the Realm upon this account amongst others though professing Christ Christian Religion and agreeing with us in all Articles of the Creed and most fundamental points of Christianity Must in Substance Law Reason in this regard much more perpetually exclude abolish all Jews Jewish Priests Rabbies Synagogues worship Ceremonies Superstitions out of our Dominions being far more dishonourable to Christ opposite to our Christian Religion and destructive to the peoples souls if once admitted then any Jesuites Seminary Priests Friers Popish Recusants or any Romish Masses Superstitions whatsoever And if the Jewish Priests Judaism and Jewish Ceremonies may be now set up and practised publiquely amongst us notwithstanding all these Statutes then much more Masse-Priests Masses Popery and Prelacy by the self-fame reason justice equity To these I might annex all the late Ordinances for the Directory The solemn League and Covenant and for Suppressing punishing of Heresy and Blasphemy therefore of Judaism which is both Heresy and Blasphemy and Jewish assemblies the very Synagogues of S●tan and Jews great blaspemers by Christs own resolution Rev. 2.9 c. 3.9 Acts 18.6 Rom. 2.21 With the late printed Instrument of Government which although it allows not only toleration but protection to all Sects and Religions professing faith in God through Jesus Christ though differing from the Doctrine and Discipline publickly held forth in the Nation

combate the Jews only brought away nothing besides confusion although they would many times boast that they were overcome not by argument or reason but by a faction Antoninus relating the story in the same words addes onely this That the Jews comming to this King on a certain Solemnity and offering him gifts after their removal from Rhoan to London he thereupon animated them to a conflict against the Christians swearing by St. Lukes face that if they overcame them he would revolt to their Sect as if he spake it in good earnest with whom the Magdeburg Centuries Iohn Stow in his Survey of London p. 288. and Sir Richard Baker in his Chronicle p. 51. accord By which we may observe That the Jews were no sooner transported and setled in Rhoan and London but th●y presently began to grow very insolent against the Christians 1. Endeavouring to pervert some of them by monies to Judaism 2ly Attempting to corrupt the King himself by gifts to side with them against the Bishops and Clergy and to become one of their Sect. 3ly By entring into open Disputations with the Bishops and Clergy against the Christian Faith to the great fear of the Professors and hazard of the Christian Religion 4ly By boasting frequently when they were overcome That it was only by power and faction not truth or disputation And will not this be their very practise now if re-admitted to the hazard of our Christian Religion and seduction of many simple unstable souls in this unsetled apostatizing age when not only the ignorant people but many great Professors turn Atheists Hereticks Seekers Apostates Blasphemers Ranters Quakers Antiscripturists and what not but real upright just and mortified self-denying Christians This History of William Rufus causing a disputation between the Christians and the Jews is related by Raphael Holinshed in his Chronicle Vol. 3. p. 27. who likewise records of him That he being at Rhoan on a time there came to him divers Jews who inhabited that City complaining to him that divers of that Nation had renounced their Jewish Religion and were become Christians wherefore they besought him that for a certain summe of money which they offered to give it might please him to constrain them to abjure Christianity and turn to the Jewish Law again He was content to satisfie their desires and so receiving the money called them before him and what with threats and putting them otherwise in fear he compelled divers of them to forsake Christ and to turn to their old errors Hereupon the Father of one Stephen a Jew converted to the Christian Faith being sore troubled for that his Son was turned a Christian and hearing what rhe King had done in such like matters presented to him 60 Marks of Silver conditionally That he should enforce his Son to return to his Jewish Religion whereupon the young man was brought before the King unto whom he said Sirra thy Father here complaineth that without his license thou art become a Christian If this be true I command thee to return again to the Religion of thy Nation without any more adoe To whom the Young man answered Your Grace as I guesse doth but ●est Wherewith the King being moved said What thou dunghill knave should I jest with thee Get thee hence quickly and fulfill my commandement or by St. Lukes face I shall cause thine eyes to be plucked out of thine head The young man nothing abashed thereat with a constant voice answered Truly I will not doe it but know for certain that if you were a good Christian you would never have uttered any such words for it is the part of a Christian to reduce them again to Christ which are departed from him and not to separate them from him which are joyned to him by Faith The King herewith confounded commanded the Jew to avant and get him out of his sight But his Father perceiving that the King could not perswade his Son to forsake the Christian Faith required to have his money again To whom the King said he had done so much as he promised to doe that was to perswade him so far as he might At length when he would have had the King to have dealt further in the matter the King to stop his mouth tendred back to him the one half of his money and reteined the other to himself All which encreased the suspition men had of his infidelity By this History we may perceive what a prevailing Engine the Jews money is both to serue them into Christian Kingdoms though the most bitter inveterate professed Enemies of Christ himself Christians and Christianity and how their money can induce even Christian Princes to perpetrate most unchristian and antichristian actions and enforce by threats and violence even converted Christian Jews to renounce their Christianity and apostatise to their former Jewish Errors which they had quite renounced And do not they still work even by the self-same Money Engine preferred by too many Christians before Christ himself and Christianity In the year of our Lord 1145. during the reign of King Stephen the Jews grew so presumptuous in England that they crucified a child called William in the city of Norwich in derision of Christian Religion as Mathew Westminster Flores Historiarum Ann. 1145. p. 36. and others ioyntly attest Not long after this Anno 1160. the 6 year of Henry the II. they crucified another child at Gloucester in contempt of Christ and his Passion as John Bromtons Chronicon col 1050. and others record And in the same Kings reign Anno 1181. upon the same account the Iews on the Feast of Easter martyred and crucified another child at St. Edmonds-bury called Robert who was honourably interred soon after in the Church of St. Edmunds and grew famous by miracles there wrought as Gervasius Dorobernensis in his Chronica col 1458. relates What punishments were then inflicted on them for these Murders and Insolencies I find not recorded perchance they purchased their peace with monies Yet I read That in the year 1168. King Henry the 2. wanting monies banished the wealthiest of the Jews out of England and fined the rest of them in 5000 Marks most likely for these their Misdemeanors John Stow in his Survey of London p. 288. writes That King Henry the 2. grievously punished the Jews for corrupting his coin which no other Historian mentions The Jews though there were a great multitude of them in England in every quarter of the Realm had only one Church-yard alotted them and that at London near Red-cross-street in which they were enforced to bury all their dead corps wheresoever they died which being a great trouble and annoyance to them thereupon in the year 1178. they petitioned King Henry the 2. being at Stanstede for a License to have church-yards without the Cities wherin they inhabited in convenient places where they could purchase them wherein to bury their dead which he then granted to them It seems the Jews

which being discovered many of them were burnt to death for it the rest grievously punished Anno 1252. they massacred and crucified a Christian Child at Wissinburgh At Prague in Bohemia the Jews on Good-Friday in the year 1283. shutting their gates crucified a Christian man having first of all done unto him in contempt what ever they had learned was done to Christ by their Ancestors which when the people had discovered running to their arms they raged cruelly against and slew many of these impious Murtherers The Jews Anno 1286. stole away cruelly tormented pricked with ponyards drew the blood and impiously crucified a Christian Child called Wernerus not far from the Rhene in Germany barbarously murthering him after sundry torments Anno 1287. they tormented and crucified another Christian Child at Bern called Rodolphus for which they were massacred and cruelly handled by the furious vulgar The Jews at Trent on Good-Friday in the year 1475. tortured whipped pierced and crucified to death a Christian child about 13 years old called Simeon in contempt of Christs passion and Christians kneeding their Paschal unleavened bread with his blood which History is as large related by the Marginal Historians for which many of them were tortured burnt slain put to death and others banished the City yet 6 years after An. 1480. they again perpetrated the like wickedness in crucifying and torturing a child at a Town called Motta near Friuli for which 3 of them were carried prisoners to Venice and there tortured and burnt to ashes And to instance in no more particulars Vincentius Beluacensis Speculum Hist. l. 29. c. 25. Gaguinus l. 6. de Francis Centur. Magd. 12 and 13 c. 14. Antonini Chron. p. 2 3. f 17. sect 8. Mat. Par. Mr. Fox and others record That the Jews in Paris elsewhere did every year steal some Christian child or other brought up in the Kings Court and carrying him to a secret house or vault did on Good-Friday or Easter-day in contempt and derision of Christ and Christian Religion crucify him on a Crosse as Christ was crucified and that they had been frequently apprehended persevering in this wickednesse for which upon Detection they were usually murthered stoned burned destroyed hanged by the furious multitudes violence or executed imprisoned banished by Christian Kings and Magistrates yet such was their malice to Christ that they would still persevere therein and act it over again upon every opportunity Which being so fully justified by these many particular presidents proofs authorities in several ages places sufficiently refutes Menasseh Ben Israel his bare-denial and poor shifts to evade it as false and scandalous How can or dare we then receive into our Christian Island such barbarous bloody obstinate murderers and inveterate incorrigible malicious enemies to and deriders despisers of our blessed Saviours death and passion formerly cast out by our Ancestors amongst other things for their bloody impieties and unchristian blasphemies of this nature unlesse we first renounce both our Christianity and Humanity at once and become as bad as the very worst of Jews 7. The Jews ever since their dispersions in all ages places to their power have been more bitter enemies to the Christians than the worst of Pagans bending all their studies forces wits endeavours to hinder oppugne blaspheme extirpate the Christian Religion and all professors of it out of the world stirred up many bloody persecutions against them upon all advantages confederating both with Julian the Apostate the Pagan Persians the Tartars Sarazens Turks to murder and delete them having a great hand in raising the 4th persecution and murdering stoning to death burning destroying even those of their own Nation yea poysoning their own Wives Children for imbracing Christianity Moreover they have raised up many seditions rebellions against Christian Princes poysoned destroyed some of them and their Nobles yea raised occasioned many great popular Tumults Commotions Seditions against them in all ages places as well as formerly here in England As you may read at large in Socrates Scholasticus Eccl. Hist l. 7. c. 13. Zonaras Tom. 3. Paulus Diaconus l. 16 17 18. Nicephorus Eccles Hist. l. 14. c. 14. l. 17. c. 6. Ambrose Epist l. 5. Epist 29. Jerom. in cap. 4. ad Galatas in Abdiam Sozomen Hist l. 1. c. 8. Mat. Paris Historia Angl. p. 564. Aventinus Annal. Boyorum l. 5. and 7. Abbas Uspergensis Paraleip p. 346. Cent. Magd. 4. c. 14 15. and c. 3. ●ol 85 86. Cent. 4 5 6 7 8 9 11 12 13. c. 3.14.15 Mr. Fox Acts and Monuments vol. 1. p. 56. Munsteri Cosmogr l. 3. c. 71. p. 482. l. 2. c. 71. p. 310. l. 3. c. 55. p. 583.707 with sundry others Upon this ground certain Christians on the contrary out of an over-furious zeal ha●e endeavoured to extirpate them all from under Heaven unlesse they would turn Christians Anno. 1101. Emicho a German Earl and the Inhabitants near the Rhine pillaged plundered banished slew and destroyed all the Jews in those parts w●o refused to turn Christians slaying no lesse than twelve thousand of them many of the Jews killing each other with their own hands to avoid their fury but the rest receiving baptisme and turning Christians only to save their lives relapsed to their Judaisme again when the storm was over In the year 1146. one Rudolphus a Monk out of a misguided bloody zeal stirred up many thousands of people in France and Germany near the Rhine to take up the Crosse for the holy wars exhorting them in his preaching that they should in the first place kill and destroy all the Jews remaining every where in the Cities and Towns as being the greatest enemies of Christ The seeds of which doctrine took such deep root in many Cities of France and Germany that in a tumultuous sedition and uproar they slew most of the Jews in those parts but such who fled into fenced Cities and Castles under the protection of the Emperor Fred. the 1 which bloody doctrine and proceeding was reprehended by St. Bernards Letters to these people informing them That the Jews for their excessive wickednesses were not to be slaughtered but dispersed In the year of Christ 1298. one Rindflaisch an Husbandman in Germany openly preached to the people That he was sent from heaven and specially chosen by God to root out the Jews in all places And proclaimed who ever will have the Christian Commonwealth to be safe let him follow me Whereupon the people flocking to him in great multitudes and chusing him for their Captain sought out the Jews in Wirtzburge Nurinburgh Rotenburgh Bambergh O●enberge and all other Towns and Villages in Franconia and Bavaria and slew many of them the greatest part of them in these places both men and women obstinately setting their own houses on fire and burning both them●elves wives children with their houses housholdstu●f and goods together that they might not fall into the Christians hands

Mahometan King of Africk Fesse and Spain pr●fe●i●g to surrend●r up his Crown and Kingdom to him and hold them under him as his Vassal and likewise To renounce the Christian Religion as vain and faithfully to Adhere to the Mahometan Religion For which he was much scorned and derided by this Mahometan Prince as the Dregs both of Kings and Men● He will soon turn a com●leat Turk who is become half a Jew These Liberties thus ratified by King Iohn drew many J●ws into England out of forraign parts with their w●a●th and treasure according to the old Proverb Histula dulec canit volueres dum decipit auceps but when these Decoyes had drawne them and their wea●th into the Net you may read how he plucked off their feathers and tormented their bodies to gain their monies in our Historians and my first Demurrer Amongst the Records in the Treasury of the Receiver of the Exchequer in the 4th year of King Iohn I find one ●●n●fand a Jew indicted at B●dford for gelding and cutt●●● o●f the yard of one Richard whereof upon his trial ●e was acqited as the Record it self will more fully 〈◊〉 in its own dialect 〈…〉 capta apud Bedeford a die Sacti Michaelis in 〈…〉 cor●m Simon de Pateshall Rich de Fau●●nb●ig Sociis suis Anno Regni Regis Johannis 4 to 〈◊〉 5. ●n dorse V●●●dr de C●ipton ●ob●rtus de Sutton appellat Bonefand Judaeum de Bede●o●● quod i●se in pat●r Domini Regis nequiter fecit ementulare Ricardum nepotem suum unde ipse obiit Ita quo● ipse fecit portare eum usque in terram suam de Hacton quam ipse habet in vadio ibi obiit et hoc offert probare Et tunc Bonefand venit et defendit totum offert Domino Regi 1 marc pro habenda Inquisitione utrum sit inde culpabilis vel non Et Iuratores inquisiti dicunt quod non est culpabilis inde et ideo Bonefand st quietus Robertus in misericordia pro falso appill● And in the Margin of the Roll cast diatur is written This is the first Indictment I find upon record against a Jew Not long after King Iohns Charters confirmed the Jews self to their usual trade of clipping and washing the current coyn of the Kingdom as is evident by this New Ordinance against this abuse and touching the Assise of moneys in the 6 year of King Iohn Assisum est de Moneta quod vetus moneta currat unde quelibet libra sit lacta ii s. vi d. ad plus libra quae plus lactaverit denarii qui plus lactaverint perforentur reddantur sicut alias provisum fuit Iudaei vero aurifabri mercatores forinici emant moneta ista victum et vestitum suum tantum sed non debent prestitum vel Merchandizas facere nisi de grossa et forti moneta quae sit de lege pondere denatiorum sterlingorum Et ad cognoscendum denar de praedicto lacco exeat a monetaria nostra I. Pempeis liberetur cui voluerit habere habendam usque ad Pentecosten Anno regni nostri 7. de lacco octavae partis denarii Item denarius qui de caetero fuerit scilicet post Natale Anno Regni nostri 6. inventus intonsus in alicujus manu perstietur et ille cujus manu captus fuerit capiatur ut lat Item prohibitum est quod nullus vetus de●arius reblangietur et qui eum reblangia●erit sit in misericordia nostra de toto catallo suo et ami●tat quod reblangiavit Item denarius debet omnis fabricari ita quod s●t de equa lege pondere habens circulum exteriorem et quo● nil sit extra illum circulum ubi aliter inventus fuerit fabricator et custos ejus sint in misericordia nostra de toto catallo suo Item si quis cambiaverit Denar vel argentum alibi quam ad Cambium nostrum salvo Cambio Domini Cantuariensis Archi Episcopi apud Cant. tam cambiens quam recipiens cum eo quod cambiaverint capiantur Et assisum est quod nullus capiat ad Cambium pro libra de sine et argento plus vel minus quam Denar de lege et quod nullus denarius exeat de Cambio nostro vel Dom Cantuar. nisi sit legalis de Victualorum Itē inquiratur per liberos et legales homines in Civitatibus Burgis Villis quis Christianus vel Judaeus denar retondit et qui inventus fuerit retonsor Christianus vel Judaeus capiantur omnia catalla sua et corpus suum mittatur in prisonam nostram et sit in potestate nostra de Justitia facienda Item si denarii qui non sint rationabiles de lege pondere inventi fuerint in manu Judaei aurifabri vel Mercatoris forinseci vel servientium eorum pro merchandisa vel prestito faciendo assisum est quod illi in quorum manu fuerint inventi nisi tantum ad victum vestitum suum emendo ut praedictum est capiantur T. me-ipso apud Winton 26 die Jan. The same year King Iohn granted this ensuing safe-conduct to one Hamechun a Jew to come and reside in England like other Jews Rex c. Iusticiariis c. Sciatis quod dedimus Hamichuno Judaeo nostro firmam pacem nostram ita quod concessit salvo venire et ibi stare sicut alii Iudaei nostri in terram nostram pro bono servicio suo quod nobis fecit in Castro Audel cum dilecto fideli nostro R. Constab Cestriae Et ideo vobis mandamus et firmiter praecipimus quod firmam pacem nostram sicut praedictum est habeat Teste me-ipso apud Westm 2 die Novembr The Jews by Capitula de Iudaeis enacted and published by Rich. the 1 recited at large in my former Demurrer were obliged to register all their Contracts Morgages Obligations Debts and to put them into a common Chest with 3 Locks and Keyes kept by certain Christians and Jewes specially designed for that purpose as you may there read at last This Chest was called Arca Cyrographica or Cyrographorum Iudaeorum and the Notaries or Registers of them stiled Cyrographi Christiani et Iudaei Arcae Cyrographicae London Oxon or other such City where such Chests were kept All their Deeds Obligations and Releases were usually called Stars and Starra Starrum Starr in our Latin Records from the Hebrew word SHETAR contracted by the omission of he which signifieth a Deed or Contract These Stars were written for the most part in Hebrew alone or else in Hebrew on the one side or top of the parchment and in Latin on the other side or bottom of the Deed after the Hebrew Some of these Stars were lately extant amongst the evidences and writings belonging to the Dean and Chapter of Westminster writ in very fair Hebrew Characters and one of them I have lately seen