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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    suo, ut eum fhabeat] coram Judicibus Ecclesiasticis, et ipsi Judei remanent in prisona. The subsequent course of proceedings appears from the following writs, dated respectively 18 Jan. and 21 Feb. 1240 :— Rex Willelmo de Eboraco et sociis suis Justiciariis Itinerantibus in Comitatu Norwici salutem: Sciatis quod Mosse Mock et Aaron Henn, et quidam alii Judei nostri de Norwico, qui rettati sunt de circumcisione cujusdam pueri de Norwico, finem fecerunt per xx 1. ut deducantur coram vobis secundum Legem Judeorum, scilicet per Judeos et Christianos, et ideo vobis mandamus quod ita fieri faciatis, et quod non ponantur in defaltam in itinere vestro propter absentiam suam, quia ipsos hucusque retinuimus penes Nos. Teste, etc.— Rot. Lit. Claus. 24 Hen. III. m. 17. Rex Willelmo de Eboraco et sociis suis Justiciariis Itinerantibus in Comitatu Norwici salutem : Ex tenore literarum vestrarum didicimus quod circumventi fuimus per finem quem Judei de Norwico Nobiscum fecerunt, quibus imponebatur, quod circumcidisse debuissent1 quendam puerum Christianum apud Norwicum, ut ipsi deducerentur coram vobis secundum Legem Judeorum, scilicet per Judeos et Christianos, et quod istud nego- tium nulla racione debito modo coram vobis terminari poterit si Judei Christianis adjungantur; et ideo vobis mandamus quod, non obstante fine predicto quem predicti Judei Nobiscum fecerunt, celerem justiciam super circumcisione prefata, prout melius videritis expedire, faciatis. Teste, etc.5— Ib. m. 16. cision, the 1 ante ’ would be redundant; and it is evident from the sequel that they were not so understood. 1 Ante ’ would therefore seem to be here used in the sense of ‘ short of,’ unless the view is wrongly recorded. 1 A common idiom when it is intended to insinuate a doubt. - Four prisoners, probably all that were tried, were convicted and executed. Death is a heavy penalty for mayhem; but it must be borne in mind that the deed was believed to have been done in despectu Crucifixi et Christianitatis, i.e. as pre- liminary to a ritual murder, Rog. de Wendover (Rolls Ser.), iii. 101; Watt. Paris, Chron. Maj. (Rolls Ser.) iv. 30. C