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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    Surr. and Suss, Oxford. determining of those pleas according to the Law and Custom of Jewry. We have also granted to the said Jew that by license of our said son he be at liberty to give and sell debts owing to him to whomsoever he will, and that all the world be at liberty to buy them, notwithstanding the recent Provision, that no Jew he at liberty to sell debts owing to him to any Christians, nor any Christian to buy them, without our license and authority. In witness whereof etc. Witness Myself at Westminster on the — day of January in the fifty-fifth year of our reign. EASTER MONTH. Nicholas Le Gras, tenant of part of the lands which belonged to William Mauduit, of Terling,1 who vouched to warranty Cecilia Le Gras against Samuel of Lohum,2 Jew, touching a plea, that she acquit him against Samuel of 40s. with interest thereon arisen, in respect of the lands etc.,3 which the said Samuel demanded from him, in respect of the lands etc., on account of a debt of Aaron, son of Jacob, Jew, by a charter for £7 and i mark, which is in the London Chiro- graph-Chest, neither came nor had his warrantor at court, and has made default in prosecution according to the Custom of Jewry: therefore it is adjudged, that the said Samuel have his recovery against the said Nicholas of the said 40s. with interest. And the Sheriff of Essex is commanded, that he command the said Nicholas, that without delay he render to the said Samuel the said 40s. with interest, and if he make default, seisin etc. of gage etc. Thereafter the said Samuel came and granted that the said Nicholas have his plea against his warrantor, and withdrew himself from the said judgment. THE OCTAVE AND MORROW OE ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST IN THE FIFTY-SIXTH YEAR, [a.d. 1272.] Bonevie of Oxford, Jew, caused Ralph LeWalle to come to answer him touching a plea of unlawful detinue of chattels, whereof he 1 In Essex. Domesday Book both as Lena and as Lun. - Elsewhere spelt Loliun and Loun; a I.e. by virtue of his tenure, the debt perhaps for Lynn, which appears in running with the land. Cf. p. 53, supra.