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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    Kent. his assigns, against all those who may make claim thereto through my father, Peitevin, or through us. Ancl as to all the lands, rents and tenements which the said William de Whiston has sold, to whom- soever he has sold them, to wit, from the day when the said four debts were made, we and our heirs are bound to cause them come to plea, whenever the said Honourable Earl shall he so minded, to wit, at his expense, to answer him according to the Custom and Usage of Jewry, for the several portions of the debts resting upon each of them, according to the price and value of the lands, rents and tenements which they shall have purchased since our said debts were made. And for this sale, warranty, and defence aforesaid wre have bound our lands, rents and chattels, movable and immovable. And for myself and my mother, Belle, aforesaid, I warrant and witness that the four said debts under the names of William de Whiston and Peitevin, aforesaid, were enrolled in the rolls of Simon Passelewe, when he went to enroll the contents of some of the Chirograph- Chests of England, and were liquidated in the time 1 of John de Caux, Abbot of Peterborough, then Treasurer of the Exchequer. And we, and our heirs and our assigns, are bound to the said Honourable Earl, and his heirs and his assigns, to keep all the said covenants unbroken and unimpaired, and all the said covenants I have made and sealed for myself and my mother, Belle, and for our heirs, and for our assigns. This starr wTas made on the morrow of Hokeday in the fifty-second year of the reign of King Henry, son of King John. And that which I have granted I have sealed for myself and witnessed for my mother, Belle. BEFORE OUR LORD THE KING ON THE OCTAVE OP THE PURIFICATION OF BLESSED MARY IN THE FIFTY- FOURTH YEAR ETC. [a.d. 1270.] Our Lord the King commands his Justices assigned to the pleas of the Jews to send hither on this day the plea and record, touching an acquittance of 10 marks, had before them between Thomas Male- meyns, plaintiff, and Mabel Malemeyns and William de Ponton and Peter de Ponton, executors of the will of Henry Malemeyns. On which day the said Justices sent the said plea and record. Afterwards came the said Thomas Malemeyns, and craved leave to make tine with the said Mabel and others. Let him have it at the instance of our Lady the Queen. And the fine is so, that the said Thomas released 1 45-47 Hen. III., 1260-2. Madox, ii. 319.