St. Thomas's Hospital, from its foundation to 1553 : chiefly from a manuscript book in the library of the Earl of Ashburnham, now in the British Museum / by W. Rendle.
- William Rendle
- Date:
- [1882?]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: St. Thomas's Hospital, from its foundation to 1553 : chiefly from a manuscript book in the library of the Earl of Ashburnham, now in the British Museum / by W. Rendle. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![pecial property of the king—my Jews,” as was ■ften in a sinister way said. About this very time the Aws were actually assigned as security for a loan to he king, and not long after were with much cruelty •anished the realm ; true they were to receive just :alue for their possessions, when they went away— rot often, I suppose carried out in good faith. It is ^sorted that Jews could not hold lands, but in this cook of Lord Ashburnham’s are instances to the outrary : they dealt in land and held mortgages. Certainly there are charters in which it is provided i;at the land so chartered shall not be sold to a Jew to a man of religion : e.g., William Bellamy is not sell or pawn to any house of religion or to Jews, r.t was to offer it back again to the Prior of Ber- nndsey, to tbeir advantage in the amount of a gold izant.^® ]Isaac was the son of Samuel of Southwark, whose Ife Thippe, Cypore, or Zipporah (^.e., the Dove, a ■■'ourite Jewish name) had property of her own, tfeited to Edward I on the expulsion. John Wycliffe Ioears to have had this property of Thippe’s in 130 : it was, apparently, a doubtful transaction, t.ctioned by the rather cruel and unjust ways of time. Much temptation favouring conversion was / in the way of the Jews : in 1213 a house for cou- nts, presumably for Jewish converts, and children, i.icated to the favourite saint, Thomas, was built rr the almery of Bermondsey Priory, by Prior I hard, and was, as we might expect from the persis- I b cruel treatment of the Jews, soon filled. Bishop I-A gold byzant was in value £15, but this refers, I believe, to coin luch less value. C](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22369533_0021.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
