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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    de Vipont. Given by the hand of Simon, Archdeacon of Wells, at Marlborough, on the tenth day of April in the second year of our reign. EXCHEQUER OF THE JEWS. PLEAS IN THE FOURTH YEAR OF THE REIGN OF KING HENRY SON OF KING JOHN. [a.d. 12.0.] Isaac of Norwich, Jew, demands from Gilbert, son of Walter of Thorpe, a debt of £14, with interest, by chirograph under the name of the said Walter. The said Gilbert comes and says, that the debt is demanded of him unlawfully, because, when all the debts due to the Jews were in the hand of the King after the arrest at Bristol,1 he, being distrained for the debt, came and said, that he was distrained therefor unlawfully, because Walter, his father, never borrowed the money, and he then put himself upon the inquest of the country, whether the said Walter, his father, borrowed the money, or no; and the inquest came and said, that the money was not borrowed by the said Walter, but by another Walter of Thorpe—so he says—and he still puts himself upon the inquest of the country. The said Isaac comes and demands the debt, which, he says, was a loan by him to the said Walter, father of the said Gilbert, by chirograph. He also says that after the arrest of the Jews at Bristol, when the debts due to them were in the hand of the King, the Justices for the time being were in doubt whether the debt was owing by the said Walter, father of the said Gilbert, or by the other Walter, of whom mention is made, and sent to him, Isaac, who was then a prisoner in the Tower of London, that they might know from his own mouth, whether the debt was owing by Walter, father of the said Gilbert, or by another Walter; and he said that the debt was a loan by him to the said Walter, Gilbert’s father, and that it was owing by the same Walter. And he says, that as to this he does not put himself upon an inquest touching his debt by chirograph. A day is given them, a month after Easter, to hear their judgment. And it is adjudged, that Gilbert of Thorpe answer Isaac of his debt, unless he say somewhat else than he has said. And this is so adjudged, because, before the general arrest of the Jews, Isaac always demanded the debt from Walter the father, See Introduction, p. xxiv.