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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    Norf. the said Jews crave judgment touching the default of the said Bichard and Joice, in that they vouched to warranty the said John for the acquittance of the said debt, and do not proceed against their warrantor. And because the said Eichard and Joice, who vouched to warranty the said John, have not come and proceeded against their warrantor ; therefore it is adjudged, that the said Jews do recover the said 25 marks against the said Eichard and Joice according to the Assize and Custom of Jewry, and that the said Eichard and Joice be in mercy. And the Sheriff is commanded, that he cause the said Samuel and Genta to have seisin of the moiety of the lands and tenements which belonged to the said William, whereof the said Eichard and Joice now have seisin, and also seisin of the moiety of the chattels found on the said lands, to the value of the said 25 marks, and them etc. until etc.1 PLEAS OF THE OCTAVE OF ST. IIILAEY IN THE SIXTH YEAE. [a.d. 1278.] Joce, son of Deulecresse, and Leo, son of Bonenfaunt, attached to answer John FitzLIervey, touching a plea of trespass, whereof he complains, that the said Joce, having of late brought to the Sheriff of Norfolk a writ of the King, to have the moiety of the chattels of him, John, for a debt which the said Jew claimed of him, the said Joce with Leo, son of Bonenfaunt, Jew, on the Thursday next after the feast of the Nativity of Blessed Mary in the fifth year of the reign of King Edward, took and carried off chattels of the said John, being at Hempstead, to the value of 60s., besides the moiety aforesaid, against the Assize and Provision 2 made touching the Jewry, and to his damage, 100s. The said Joce, by his attorney, and Leo, son of Bonenfaunt, make defence to the force etc. and acknowledge for sure, that the said Joce did get 100 shillings’ worth of the goods and chattels of him, John ; but they say, that he got them by consent and good pleasure of him, John, for that when the said Joce had brought the writ of the King to the said Sheriff, and when the said Jews had come with the bailiff of the King, to wit, John de Wytendon, to have the moiety of the chattels of the said John for the debt aforesaid, the said John did not suffer his 1 Pursuant to the Statute of Jewry, 2 The statute mentioned in the pre- 3 Ed. I., 1274-5. Cf. the next case and In- ceding note, troduction, p. xxviii.