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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    demise and grant which Gamaliel, our Jew, of London, has made to our dear liege, Baldwin Wake, of a debt of £37 10s., in which Reginald d’Evennue was bound to the said Jew by his charter, to have to the said Baldwin and his heirs or assigns, We for Ourself and our heirs do, as far as in Us lies, grant and confirm the same, as the writing made between them reasonably testifies. In witness whereof We have caused to be made these our letters patent. Witness Myself at Westminster on the 28th day of January in the fifty-second year of our reign. Hagin of Lincoln acknowledged by his starr, that if Sir Richard de Staines pay £56, to wit, one moiety at Pentecost in the fifty-second year, and one moiety at Martinmas next following, then the said Hagin is bound to pay the said Sir Richard £20 of fee, with arrears, on a certain fee of £100 ; and that fee shall he in a place certain, and shall be a sufficient gage for the said £20 with arrears; and the said Jew took upon himself to give full effect to this covenant before Pentecost, if the said Jew be able to find sufficient gage for the said debt. EASTER TERM IN THE EIETY-SECOND YEAR. [a.d. 1268.] Kortl1- Jacob, son of Peitevin, and Benedict, son of Peitevin, of Bedford, Jews, come before etc., and acknowledge die underwritten starr to this effect:—I, whose seal is below, acknowledge for myself and witness for my mother, Belle, of Bedford, late wife of Peitevin, son of Isaac, of Bedford, that we have leased and sold to the Honourable Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester, and his heirs and assigns, all the right and claim, right of recovery, obligation, and all other the power which we had, or might have, upon all the debts of William de Whiston, or any of his ancestors, owing to the said Peitevin, my father, or any of his ancestors, from the beginning of the world to the day when this starr was made; to wit, four debts, one of £20 in the names of the said William de Whiston and Peitevin, my father, of which the term was Epiphany in the forty-second year of the reign of our Lord King Henry, son of King John, and a debt of £20 in the names of the said William and Peitevin, of which the term of H