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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    Bristol. said Cok and his heirs, or to whomsoever, one or several, he may at any time be minded to give, sell, devise, or in any other manner assign the same, of me and my heirs, freely, quietly, in entirety, well, and in peace, in fee and inheritance for ever ; rendering therefor yearly to me and my heirs a clove of gillyflower at Easter, and doing also, for me and my heirs, to the capital lords of the fee the services due and wonted therefor, in discharge of all secular services, customs, and all things exacted and demanded. And I, the said Robert, and my heirs will for the said services warrant, defend, and acquit the said lands, with the houses and other their appurtenances, to the said Jew, his heirs and assigns, against all men, Christians and Jews, for ever. For which grant, warranty, defence, and acquittance, thus confirmed by this my present charter, the said Jew has given me a term, to wit, of nine years, which he had on the day when the present charter was made, in the farm of the manor of Ganges Munteny, in the County of Essex, on the same conditions on which the said Jew received the said manor from Sir Robert de Munteny, knight, with £100 sterling by way of fine. In witness whereof I have set my seal to the present charter. Witness : Sir Ha mo Hauteyn and Sir Robert de Ludham, then Justices of the Jews ; Sir Benedict Le Waleys, then Mayor of London; William Le Mazeliner and Richard de Chigwell, then Sheriffs of London ; John Skip and Robert Herun, Chirographers of the London Chirograph-Chest; Henry de Frowick, Geoffrey de Rokesley, John Horn, Thomas de Basinge, William de Dunolm, William de Farndon, Nicholas de Winton, Ralph Le Blunt, Robert de Melde- burn, Richard de Montpelier, Walter de Watford, William de Red, and John de Shoreditch, Christians ; Master Elias, son of Master Moses, Aaron, son of Yives, Manser, son of Aaron, Cresse, son of Genta, Jacob Le Clere, Cresse, son of Cresse, Isaac, son of Cresse, Benedict Bateman, Jews, and others. MICHAELMAS TERM IN THE TENTH AND THE BEGINNING OF THE ELEVENTH YEAR, [a.d. 1282-3.] The Constable was commanded, that, if Aaron of Ireland, Jew, whom he detained in prison at Bristol Castle, find mainpernors for his presence before etc. on this Michaelmas quindene, to stand to right at the suit of all who have complaint to make against him, then he discharge him from prison, unless he had been arrested by special command of our Lord the King, or for talliage, or some matter against a