Select pleas, starrs, and other records from the rolls of the Exchequer of the Jews, A.D. 1220-1284 / edited for the Selden Society by J.M. Rigg.

  • Great Britain. Court of Exchequer. Exchequer of the Jews
Date:
1902
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Credit: Select pleas, starrs, and other records from the rolls of the Exchequer of the Jews, A.D. 1220-1284 / edited for the Selden Society by J.M. Rigg. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    14 And William comes and says, that as to those debts he is not bound to answer them, because in the inquests made by Brother Geoffrey, and again by Thomas de Newark and Balph de Leicester, touching the chattels of the Jews, no mention was made, nor aught inrolled or found in the Chest, touching those debts. Wherefore, if they were true and good debts, they would belong to our Lord the King, and not to the Jews. He says, furthermore, that, inasmuch as in the said chirographs there is nothing in the nature of a gage for the said debts, except only a pledge of faith, he craves judgment whether he be bound to answer anyone thereon, or no. And because no mention was made in the said inquests, nor aught inrolled or found in the Chest, touching those debts, it is adjudged, that the said William do answer our Lord the King thereof, if he be bound to answer thereof. And the said chirographs are taken into the hand of our Lord the King, and are placed in the care of Thomas. And a day is given the said William, three weeks from the day of St. Hilary. Afterwards, on the same day, when the said William was gone, the said Jews produced a chirograph in which it is contained, that the said William de Warenne owes Abraham, son of Avegay, and Isaac the Chirographer 20 marks, of which the term of payment was, as to 10 marks thereof, the feast of St. Michael next after the death of William de Blois,1 Bishop of Lincoln, and, as to the other 10 marks, the Easter next following; in which chirograph there is nothing in the nature of a gage, except as above. Afterwards a day is given, a month after Easter, to hear their judgment. STAKES OF EASTEB TEEM IN THE THIETY-SEYENTTI YEAE. [a.d. 1253.] Elias, son of Master Moses, for himself and his wife Pucelle, acknowledged by his starr, that William, son of Philip de Kyme, and his heirs and ancestors, are quit as against them, their ancestors and children, of all debts, claims, demands and pledgeries, from the creation of the world to Pentecost in the 37th year, as well of debts which were owing to Leo of York, or Samuel, his son, as of debts