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A91270	The second part of a Short demurrer to the Ievves long discontinued remitter into England. Containing a brief chronological collection of the most material records in the reigns of King John, Henry 3. and Edward 1. relating the history, affaires, state, condition, priviledges, obligations, debts, legal proceedings, justices, taxes, misdemeanors, forfeitures, restraints, transactions, of the Jews in, and final banishment out of England, never formerly published in print: with some short usefull observations upon them. Worthy the knowledge of all lawyers, scholars, statists, and of such Jews who desire re-admission into England. / By VVilliam Prynne Esquire, a bencher of Lincolns-Inne.; Short demurrer to the Jewes long discontinued remitter into England. Part 2	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1656 (1656)	Wing P4073; Thomason E483_2; Thomason E872_1; ESTC R203286	147,465	222

malitious potent vexatious Adversaries will be utterly abolished by Salt Peters new Firework to burn all our old Records to ashes 4ly Whereas this Ignoramus in our Records the most whereof he never yet saw and cannot so much as read produceth this only reason for their burning that they are the monuments of Tyranny I would demand of rhis bold blind Bayard who judgeth of coulors he never yet saw how he can make good this notorious untruth The greatest part of our Records are the two great Charters of the Liberties of England and the Forrest or sundry subsequent confirmations of them in several Parliaments the good old Laws Statutes Ordinances made by our wisest Kings Nobles Commons upon long advise and serions debates in our English Parliaments for the Government Peace defence wellfare of the people The proceedings debates Judgements Resolutions of our sagest Parliaments Judges Courts of Justice in all matters cases publike private civil or criminal formerly debated or resolved in them Old Charters Commissions Patents Writs Concords Fines Recoveries Statutes Judgements Extents Indictments Offices Grants of Liberties Lands Franchises Fairs Offices Pardons to particular persons corporations all matters advancing the defence of the Realm by Land and Sea in times of danger war according to the ancient Laws and Customes of the Realm Negotiations Truces Leagues with Embassies Letters to from forain Stares All particulars concerning Merchants Merchandise Trade Coyn Bullion Measures weights wools Staples Ships and the like Now how all or any of these can be stiled Monuments of Tyranny let this Lindsy-Wolsy great Clerk demonstrate at his best leasure Besides I here averr ex certa scientia against this Imposture That most of our old Records especially in the Tower are so far from being monuments of Tyranny that on the contrary they are the chiefest badges the clearest evidendences of those good old English Liberties which our noble Ancestors claimed purchased and transmitted to us as our richest Birthrights yea the principal Bulworks Fences against all sorts of Tyrannical usurpations encroachments on the Peoples Liberties Rights Properties in any kind whatsoever To put this out of Controversie I shall appeal only to the many excellent old Records produced most insisted on by the Commons and others in the several Parliaments of 7 8 21 Jacobi and 3 4 17. Caroli against all Impositions Tunnage Poundage Customs Excises Loans Taxes demanded imposed and exacted from the Subject without common consent and Act of Parliament against imprisoning Subjects by King or Council Table without any legal cause expressed in the warrants and not bailing them in such cases against Shipmoney Court and Conductmoney the Bishops late Canons and Oath Commissions for executing martial Law in times of Peace impressing and billiting Souldiers the Commissions of Array with other late Grievances Monopolies and the arbitrary proceedings of Strafford Canterbury the old Council Table Star-chamber and High-commission printed in sundry Treatises in Sir Edw. Cooks 2 4 Institut Sir Robert Cottons Posthuma and in my Legal Historical Vindication and collection of the good old fundamental Liberties c. of England to which I shall refer the Reader and Hugh Peters who if he had St. Augustines ingenuity hath as much cause and more than he to write a book of Retractations especially of this his rash sentence passed against our old Records devoting them to the fire which his and others New-Modles better deserve than they Now that I may the better excite encourage all generous English Spirits especially Lawyers Statesmen Historians Heralds and Divines who have opportunity not only to the diligent preservation but inspection study perusal of our ancient over-much neglected sleighted Records so rashly devoted to the fire by Peters I shall in brief acquaint each of them what hidden Treasures and rare precious pearls are locked up in these old Parchment cabinets 1. All grounded Students and Professors of the Law upon diligent search may find in our old Records the several Writs of Summons for our Archbishops Bishops Abbots Priors Dukes Earls Viscounts Barons Citizens Burgesses Merchants and all other Members to our ancient English Parliaments Great Councils of State Synods Convocations with the several prorogations adjournments dissolutions of them for Knights and others wages The Speeches Proceedings Petitions Debates Consultations Orders Ordinances Statutes Judgements Pleas Demands Grants or Refusals of Aides Subsidies with all transactions resolves concerning peace War Government Trade Merchandise Bullion Coyn Weights Measure purviances Customes Tunnage poundage Imposts Fishing Shipping defence of King or Kingdom by Land or Sea Liberties priviledges properties regulation of abuses supplies of defects of Law Justice and all other matters formerly discussed in our English parliaments Which if faithfully transcribed and methodically digested into a Parliamentary Chronicle would for rare usefull matter Excellency certainty far exceed all Histories Statute-Books Law-Books Chronicles ever yet compiled rectifie many grosse mistakes in most of them and make more able knowing Lawyers Judges parlamentmen Statesmen than former ages have produced Besides the old Records in the respective Treasuries of the Tower Courts at Westminster and the Rolls faithfully relate at large the Institutions Jurisdictions procedings Judgements Writs Formalities Debates commissions Law-cases Judges Officers names customes Fees of all the great courts of Law Justice Equity civil Ecclesiastical Military Marine Justices Itinerant Justices of the Forrest Justices of Assize Oyer and Determiner of most other inferiour Courts and Commissioners both in England Wales Ireland Scotland Gascoyne Normandy Poyters the Isles of Man Gernsy Iersy Alder●y Serk Silly and other Isles the Stanneries in Cornwall and in most Corporations Counties Hundreds Honors Mannors in them Record all sorts of commissions charters Writs Warrants Instruments relating to Law Iustice Trade peace War The Courts Jurisdictions priviledges Mannors Lands Fees Rents exemptions Liberties Royalties Tenures Services customs Offices Successions pedigrees of the Kings Princes Queens Archbishops Bishops Deans Chapters cities corporations Fraternities Guilds Nobility Gentry Freeholders of England Ireland Wales Scotland and all Dominions Isles annexed to them with sundry other particulars necessary for an accomplished Lawyer out of which industrious Lawyers if countenanced by authority and encouraged by a a publike Salary might collect such a rare new Body and Systeme of the Laws customs courts and ancient legal proceedings in all the courts of Justice throughout our Dominions as would as far excell all other Abridgements collections Reports Institutes Registers Law-Books hitherto published for use excellency as the richest Diamond exceeds the basest pibble and bring more honour benefit to the English Nation than all the Shepheards Calenders and New-corps or Models of our old English Laws attempted by Hugh Peters Sword-men and some bold illiterate Ignoramusses of the Law who neuer yet perused any of our old Records nor read over half our English Law-books and yet will be reformers or deformers rather of what they never exactly knew not understood In brief the exact knowledge of our

mention In the same Roll and Membrana there is this ensuing record reciting the Kings authority to release or assign the Jews Debts at his pleasure and the Tallages imposed on them which were some times satisfied by Bills Rex Justiciariis suis ad Custodiam Judaeorum assignatis salutem Cum celebris memoriae Dominus Hen Pater noster dudum in recompensationem arreragiorum quae restabant reddenda Philippo de Arcy de annuo feodo viginti Librarum quod à dicto Patre nostro dudum recipere consuevit et quae idem Philipp●s dicto Patri nostro ex toto remisit pardonavit eidem Philippo quoddam debitum centum librarum quod debuit Magistro Elye fil Magist Mossei et Gamelino Judaeis London et quoddam debitum viginti librar quod debuit eisdem Iudaeis de annuo feodo et idem Pater noster vobis mandavit quod eundem Philippum de praedict debitis quietum esse et Cartas per quas dictis Iud●is tenebatur in debitis praedictis ei restitui et eisdem Judaeis in Tallagiis suis vel aliis debitis quae Dom. Patri nostro debuerunt praedicta debita allocari faceretis sicut per inspectionem Rotulorum Cancellariae praedict Patris nostri Nobis constat quaedam pecuniae summa de praedict feodo vigint librarum praedict Iudaeis adhuc restat allocanda Vobis mandamus sicut alias mandavimus quod eisdem Iudaeis id quod adhuc restat allocand in hac parte in Tallagio suo super ipsos assesso tempore nostro vel in debitis si quae nobis debent allocatis T. R. apud Estwode 13 die Julii William Middleton one of the chief Collectors of the Jews Taxes and Arrears in this Kings reign was so imployed in keping the Records of the Common-pleas this year that he could not well attend his Collectors office which occasioned these iusuing writs to discharge him from this Office and for others to execute it and for him to deliver up the keys writs and rolls of them and the Jews to others imployed therein Rex dilecto Clerico suo Wil de Middleton salutem Advertentes quod vos Officio Custodiae Rotulorum nostrorum coram Justiciariis nostris de Banco taliter estis onerati quod levationem arreragiorum Tallagii Judaismi nostri vel Vicessimae Nobis concessae commode vacare non potestis et volentes Breve exhonerationis in hac parte providere vos ab Officio levationis arreragiorum praedictorum tenore praesentium duximus absolvend In cujus c. T. R. apud Westm 23 die Julii Rex dilecto Clerico suo Wil de Middleton salutem Advertentes quod vos ex Custodia Rotulorum et Breuium nostrorum ac aliorum Instrumentorum placit Banci nostri Westmon tangentium quae vobis custodiend commissimus taliter estis onerati quod examinat collectionis vicessimae nostrae cum dilecto Clerico nostro Nicolao de Castro vel collect et levat Tallagii nostri Judaeorum Justiciariis nostris ad Custod Judaeorum assignatis diutius absque dampno vacare non potestis Nos vestri exonerationi volentes in hac parte provideri Vobis mandamus quod Claves quas de praedicta vicessima et de praedicto Tallagio penes vos habetis liberetis Baronibus nostris de Scaccario ut ipsi claves illas aliis qui de praedictis Officiis fideliter se intromittant committere possint prout ad opus nostrum viderint expedire In cujus c. T. Rege apud VVestmon 23 die Julii Manndatum est VVil de Middleton quod Rotulos Brevia Judaismi Regis liberet Ade de Wynton custodiend quamdiu Regi placuerit Et hoc nuslatenus omittat In cujus c. T. Rege apud VVestm 9 die Junii You have frequently heard before of the publick Chests of the Jews VVritings and Charters wherein they were all reserved for the searching of which for several ends either to ascertain the King of their estates or to deliver up stars and obligations in them that were really satisfied to the parties bound in them or to search for and take out their particular writings and debts upon every occasion we have several Presidents in sundry Rolls especially in this 4 year of King Edward the 1. three whereof I shall only recite Rex dilectis fideliibus suis Gregorio de Rokesly Barthol de Castello Radulpho de Broghton salutem Sciatis quod assignavimus vos ad Archas Cirograf Judaeorum nostrorum London scrutandas ad Cartas quas quietas inveneritis de hoc vobis veraciter constiterit ab eisdem Archis extrahendas in quadam alia cista per se ad alias Cartas nomine Christianorum bellicatas nondum quietatas in alia cista per se ad alias Cartas in quibus debita clara consistunt in tertia cista per se reponendas Ita quod cistae illae sigillis vestris sigillentur et salvo custodiantur donec aliud inde praeciperimus Et ideo vobis mandamus quod praedista faciatis in forma praedicta In cujus c. T. R. apud Odiham 6 die Augnsti Rex dilectis sibi in Christo Abbati de Colcest et Walt. de Essex salutem Sciatis quod assign vos ad Archas Cirograf Judaismi nostri Colcest et Suthbiry aperiend et ad scrutand examinand Cartas ad omnia debita in Archis illis inventa et ad omnia illa irrotulandae et ad plenum scrutinium inde faciend et ad omnia ea nobis aperte et distincte sub sigillis vestris referenda Et ideo vobis mandamus quod ad certos dies quos ad hoc provideritis Arch. praedict as aperiatis et Cartas et omnia debita in eis inventa diligenter scrutemini et facto scrutinio illo diligenter illa irrotuletis et Archis illis sic secure reclusis eas sigillis vestris sigilletis Ita quod non aperiantur donec aliud inde duxerimus Ordinandum Proviso insuper quod nullas Cartas extra easdem Archas existentes ponatis in easdem nec aliquas infra easdem Archas existentes ab eisdem extrahatis vel aliquo modo extrahi permittatis Et si quas ●artas in in anibus Cirografforum nostrorum inveneritis extra Archas illas eas per se irro●ulari et in securo loco reponi facia●is In cujus rei c. T. Rege apud Turr. Lond. 27 die Novembr Eodem modo assignatur Rogerus de Northwode una cum aliquo alio fideli Regis quem sibi associaverit ad aperiendas Archas Cirograf Judaismi Regis Cantuar. Eodem modo assign Robertus de Ludham et Willus Gerebert ad aperiendas Archas Cirograf Judaismi Regis VVinton Oxon. et de Devisis Eodem modo assign Nicholaus de Stapleton et Abbas sanctae Mariae Eborum ad aperiend Archas Cirograf Judaismi Regis de Ebor. Eodem modo assign Prior Sanctae

Katerinae extra Lincoln et Robertus de Blund ad aperiendas Archas Cirograf Judaismi Regis Lincoln Stainford Eodem modo assign Abbas Sancti Augustini Bristol et Bartholm le Ieovene Constabularius Castri de Bristol ad aperiend Archas Cirograf Judaismi Bristol Eodem modo assignatur Bartholomeus de Suthleye una cum aliquo alio fideli ad aperiend Arch. Cirograf Judaismi Wigorn. In cujus c. Teste ut supra Rex dilecto sibi in Christo Priori Norwici et dilecto Clerico suo VVillielm de Middleton salutem Sciatis quod assignavimus vos ad aperiend Archam Cirograf Judaismi nostri Norwici et ad scrutand et examinand Cartas et omnia debita in illa Archa inventa et omnia debita illa irrotulanda et ad plenum scrutinium inde faciend et ad omnia ea nobis distincte et aperte sub sigillis vestris referenda Et ideo vobis mandamus quod ad certum diem quem ad hoc provideatis Archam illam aperiatis et Cartas omnia debita in eadem inventa diligenter scutemini et facto scrutinio illo praemissa omnia irrotuletis et Archa illa secure reclusa eam sigillis vestris sigilletis Ita quod non aperiatur donec aliud inde duxerimus Ordinandum Proviso quod nullas Cartas extra eandem Archam existentes ponatis in eandem nec aliquas ibidem inventas ab eadem extrahatis vel aliquo modo extrahi permittatis Et si quas Cartas in manibus Cirograf nostrorum extra Archam illam inveneritis eas per se irrotulari et in securo loco reponi faciatis In cujus c. apud Turr. London 24 die Novembris Eodem modo assignatur Walt. de Helynn una cum aliquo alio fideli Regis quem sibi assignaverit ad aperiendas Archas Cirograf Judaismi Regis Hereford et Gloucester Eodem modo assignatur Iohannis Wigorn. et Roger de Evesham ad aperiend Arch. Cirograf Judaismi Regis Exon. et ad scrutand ut supra Eodem modo assignatur Hugo de Stapleford una cum aliquo alio fideli Regis quem sibi associau ad aperiendas Archas Cirograf Judaismi Regis Huntindon Bedford Northampt. Oxon. Eodem modo assignatur Prior de London et Willielmus de Stirkeslegh ad aperiend Archas Cirograf Judaismi Regis Lincoln et Stainford In cujus c. Tese ut supra I have rehearsed all these Patents and Commissions at large because they vary some thing from each other in form prescribe general and universal searches of the Jews common Chests and Writings and manifest how and where they were dispersed into most of the chief Cities and Towns of England and where they had Chests more exactly then most other Records This year there falling out some difference between the Jews and the Sheriff of Oxford who had the Custody and Regulation of the Oxford Jews thereupon at the Jews procurement there issued forth this Patent to the Mayor and Bayliffs of Oxford to keep the peace between the Sheriff and them and to have the Protection and Government of them till the next Parliament Rex Majori ad Ballivis suis Oxon. salutem Cum ad occasionem turbationis inter Vici nostrum Oxon. Judaeos nostros ejusdem Villae jam exortae sicut dicitur tollendam et ad pacem in Judaismo nostro ibidem quietius conservandam assignavimus vos ad Custod Judaeorum nostrorum ejusdem villae usque ad Parliament nostrum post instans fest Sancti Michaelis Vobis mandamus qnod sicut de vestra diligentia et fidelitate specialiter confidimus custodiae illi diligenter intendatis Ita quod Pax nostra in Iudaismo praedicto et in aliis quae statum ipsorum Judaeorum in eisdem partibus tangunt vestro mediante ●nvamime et Consilo bene et inviolabiter conservetur Mandavimus enim Vicecomiti nostro praedicto quod ad informationem status ipsorum Iudaeorum non praesumat aliquid attemptare nec de eisdem in aliquo interim se intromittat In cujus c. Teste Rege apud Windsore 31 die Julii King Edward the 1. in the 5 year of his reign appointed Commissioners to impose a Tax upon all the Commonalty of the Jews throughout England whose names and authority are thus expressed in a Commission granted to them for this end Rex dilectis et fidelibus suis Ioh. de Cobham et Phil. de Wileby et Wil. de Middl. salutem Sciatis quod dedimus vobis potestatem obligandi universos et singulos Judaeos regni nostri secundum quod vos vel duo vestrum videritis expedire Et ideo vobis mandamus quod vos omnes vel duo vestrum omnes predictos Judaeos tallietis secundum quod ad opus nostrum melius videritis expedire In cujus c. T. R. apud Windsore 30 die Maii. Hereupon all the Jews were summoned from all parts up to London to be taxed and thereupon all Inquisitions against them during their attendance there upon this occasion afterwards were suspended unless by special command of the King or his Justices for the Iews or these Commissioners and those to be made both by Christians and Iews as was anciently accustomed as this Writ doth evidence issued soon after Rex Vicecomiti Oxon. cum assignavimus quosdam fideles nostros London ad Tallagium super communitatem Judaeorum nostrorū Angliae assidend per quod oportet Iudaeos nostros Oxon ibidem interesse ad mandatū fidelium nostrorū praedictorum Tibi praecipimus quod Inquisitiones aliquas super dictos Iudaeos dum ibidem fuerint vel postquam inde redierint non facias sine mandaeto nostro vel dictorum fidelium nostrorum seu etiam Iusticiariorum nostrorum ad Custod Iudaeorum assignat hoc per Christianos Iudaeos sicut temporibus aliorum Vicecom ibidem fieri consuevit T. Rege apud Beckell 22 die Iunii These incessant heavy annual Taxes arbitrarily assessed on the Jews without intermission by Aegyptian Taxmasters so impoverished many of them that they were unable to pay them and thereupon all their goods and debts were seized to satisfie them so far as they would reach leaving them only a bare subsistance the residue respited to be annually paid as this record informs us Rex Insticiariis suis ad Custod Iudaeorum assignatis salutem Quia ex testimonio fide dignorum accepimus quod Mosseus de Clare Iudaeus tam pro Tallagio nostro super ipsum assesso quam pro aliis debitis quae nobis solvit post adventum nostrum in Angliam non sufficit ad residua debita in quibus nobis adhuc tenetur tam de tempore Domini Regis Henrici patris nostri quam nostro nobis ad praesens solvend Vobis mandamus quod scrutatis rotulis de Iudaismo nostr● de debitis in quibus Nobis tenetur ad Scacc Judaismi nostri praedicti de debitis

proved at large not in the 18 year of his reign as Sir Edward Cooke very grosly mistakes which I shall infallibly evidence by these two Records in 4 E. 1. the very next year after their enacting which I have formerly touched and shall here transcribe at large expresly citing these very Statutes and awarding execution according to their prescription and words Rex Justiciariis suis ad Custodiam Judaeorum assignatis salutem Ex parte Gamalielis de Oxon. Judaeo London Nobis est ostensum quod cum nuper Saero de Geregrave per diversas Cartas quandam pecuniae summam mutuasset et idem Saerus qui tunc temporis pro libero habebatur servilis conditionis nunc existens ut dicitur omnes terras et tenementa sua quae libere dare vendere potuit obligare ad voluntatem suam post confectionem praedictarum Cartarum in tantum vendidit diversis Christianis adhuc eadem tenentibus quod nihil penes ipsum remansit praeter quandam portionem terrae quam nunc tenet in Villenagio et quam vendere nece alicui obligare potuit per quod dictus Judaeus de praedicto debito suo minus juste elongatur Volentes igitur eidem Judaeo ad debitnm suum recuperandum pro ut justum fuerit subvenire ita quod in hac parte sibi non fiat injnria Vobis mandamus quod licet sic fuerit quod dictus Saerus terras et ten quae tempore confectionis praedict Cart. libere tenuit post illud tempus vendidit nunc servilis conditionis extiterit propter hoc non omittatis quin per Sacramentum 12 liberorum legalium hominum per quod rei veritas melius sciri poterit et qui nulla affinitate attingunt praedictum Saorum vel tenentes terras tenementa praedicta diligenter inquiri faciatis quas terras redditus tenementa dictus Saerus habuit tempore confectionis praedictarum Cartarum quae tunc aut postea libere dare vendere obligare potuit ad voluntarem suam qui praedictas terras reddit us tenementa quae sunt vadium praedict Judaei pro praedicto debito nunc tenent quantum valeant per annum quantum quilibet inde tenet Et tunc inspectis debitis dicti Judaei ad quantum videlicet se extendunt SECUNDUM STATUTA NOSTRA IUDAISMI omnes quos praedictarum terrarum reddit et tenementer quae idem Saerus libere 〈…〉 potui● tempore praedicto ut praedictum est et quae sunt vadium ipsius J●dai per praedictam Inquisitionem tenentes inveneritis in quorum manibus existant distringi faciatis viz. tam praefatum Saerum si aliquam liberam terram teneat quam alios singulatim pro portione ipsum de praedicto debito contingen●e eidem Judaeo solvend Et si idem Saerus aut aliquis Christianus de praedictis tenentibus aliquod Sta●rum acquietantiae vel recepti de praedicto Judaeo ostendere poterit illud eidem faciatis allocari T. R. apnd West 6. die Junii Rex Thesaurario et Baronibus suis de Scaccario et VVil●ielmo de Middleton salu●em Cùm Secundum Assisam et Statuta Iudaismi nostri Judaei nostri in Regno nostro habere debeant a Christianis debitoribus medietatem terrarum redituum et Catallorum suorum quousque debita sua perceperint ac Willielmus de Lascel de Oteringham qui Gamalieli de Oxon Judaeo per plures et diversas Cartas in centum et quinquaginta Libris et amplius tenetur non habeat terras aut tenementa in quibus distringi possit nisi viginti libras quas Johannes fil Mart. de Oteringham ei debet et centum solid●s et duodecim quarteria frumenti annui redditus percipiend à dicto Johanne ad terminum vitae ipsius Will. Volentes praefato Iudaeo ad debita sua praedicta recuperanda subvenire Vobis mandamus quod si ita est tunc praedicto Judaeo Secundum Statutum praedictum habere facias medietatem dictarum 20 librarum et medietatem dictorum centum solidorum et 12. quarter frumenti per annum quousque dictus Iudaeus Iuxta Statutum Nostrum de Iudaismo editum debitum suum perceperit antedictum Et nolumus quod praedict Willielmus possit dare vendere vel alienare medietatem dictarum 20 librarum nec medietatem dicti annui redditus quousque dict debitum praefato Judaeo plenarie per solvatur T. Rege apud Westm 14 die Maii. In these two memorable Records Anno 4 E. 1. wee have an expresse recital of the Statute de Iudaismo no less than 4 several times not only in words and substance but by name by these various stiles Statuta nostra Iudaismi Statuta Iudaismi nostri Secundum Statutum praedictum Juxta Statutum nostrum de Iudaismo editum Therefore beyond all contradiction this Statute could not be first made in the 18 year of King Edw the 1. as Sir Edw Cook most confidently affirms 3. or 4. several times in his slight Commentary upon it being 14 years after these Records which could not recite and command execution upon it so long before its making but in the 3d. year of his reign as I have fully evinced elsewhere both by Histories reasons and a brief touch of these Records which mistakes with others forecited I doubt not but himself would have publiquely retracted had he been living upon my clear discoveries of them which I now presume will henceforth mislead no persons since his decease as they have done most heretofore This stumbling block of his touching the true date of the Statute de Iudaismo being removed I shall proceed to other Records of the same year pertinent to my Subject Rex Iusticiariis suis ad Custodiam Iudaeorum assignatis salutem Quia accepimus quod Dominus Henricus Rex Pater noster habere solebat in Scaccario suo Iudaeorum quendam Iudaeum intendentem Officio Escaetariae de tenementis et catallis quae ad ipsum Patrem nostrum accidere debent per mortem vel transgressionem Iudaeorum vel quacunque alia ratione Et quod Nos nullum Iudaeum seu alium habemus nec habuimus post mortem ejusdem Patris nostri qui Officio praedicto intendat propter quod damnum non modicum hactenus sustinuimus ut accepimus Nos indempnitati nostrae prospici volentes in hac parte assignavimus Benedictum de Winton Iudaeum ad Officium praedictum exequendum in forma praedicta Et ideo vobis mandamus quod accepto ab eodem Sacramento corporali quod fideliter se habebit in Officio praedicto quamdiù steterit in eodem ipsum Benedictum ad Officium illud admittatis in forma praedicta T. Rege apud Westm. xix die Iulii In this Record we have both the Office Oath and imployment of the Kings Escheator of the Jews expressed to the full which no Histories or Law-books