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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    ESS3X. right of action. And if this may not avail them, they are ready to verify by whatever etc., that the said chattels were stolen and taken away from them; and touching this they put themselves upon the country. The said Isaac and Ivetta say, that they never sent the said key of the said casket to the said Hugh and Sarah, and touching this they are ready to do whatever etc. a Jew ought to do against a Christian. They also crave judgment, for that the said Hugh and Sarah acknowledge, that they received for safe keeping the said vesture and casket, and say, that they were stolen -and taken away from them, and all their own goods untouched. And touching this they have a day from day to day until the Monday next before the feast of St. Margaret. On which day the said Hugh and Sarah come, and the said Jews, often summoned, do not come. It is therefore adjudged, that the said Hugh and Sarah go thereof without day, and the said Jews are in mercy. HILARY TERM IN THE FIFTY-SECOND YEAR OF THE REIGN OF KING HENRY, [a.d. 1268.] Cresse, son of Genta, offered himself on the fourth day against Richard de Culworth touching a plea, that during the war in our Lord the King's realm, our Lord the King’s London Jewry being then de- stroyed, Robert de Culworth, who commanded the Tower of London for Hugh Le Despenser, did from the London Chirograph-Chest, which was then in the said Tower, cause to be taken a certain charter con- taining £40 of fee-rent, made under the names of Richard de Culworth, the said Robert’s brother, and him, Cresse, and did also against bis, the Jew’s, will cause the charter, in which it was contained, that the said Richard v'as bound to the said Jew in £40, to be delivered to the said Richard de Culworth quit by his starr, and afterwards, at the instance of the said Richard, did so constrain him, the said Jew, that in fear of death he delivered to him his part of the charter, together with the starr of acquittance of the said debt. And he, Richard, did not come ; and the Sheriff was commanded to cause him to come. And the Sheriff sends word, that Richard Bregeman, of Machinges,1 and John Trestel, of the same place, mainperned the said Richard, and have him not. Therefore in mercy. Judgment, that he be distrained by lands Perhaps Matching, Essex.