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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

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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
irrotulari faciant et ea quae ibid. invenient Regi constare faciant In cujus c. T. R. apud Westm 5. die Nov. Anno 44 H. 3. Cok and his Brother two Jews having four years before made a fine of 2000 marks in silver for the goods of their Father except the Chattels the Queen would take for her gold c. The King granted them for a fine to pay the arears of the 2000 mark at certain times and in the mean time to be freed from all Taxes unless only for their own proper goods as appears by a special Patent part of which monyes they were to pay and paid in gold into the Wardrobe This year there issued a Precept to seize and levy all the Jews Debts Mandatum est Justic ad custod Iud. assignatis quod omnia debita tam ea quae sunt in Thesaur Judaismi Regis quā ea quae manent in summonitione contenta in rotulis Scacc. Iudeorum quae scil debita excedunt 20 mar liberent sine dilatione The saurario et Baronibus de Scac. ponend in summonitionem ibidem retentis tamen penes ipsis Iustic transcriptis eorundem T. R. apud S. Paulum London 9. die Maii Per H. le Bygod Anno 45 H. 3. The King at the Queens Petition granted Solomon Eveske of London to be free from all Taxes for two years he also issued forth these Letters Patents to search inroll and inqui●e after all Jews debts pawns estates c. Rex Vic. Constabular Castrorum Majoribus Ballivis Cirographr et omnibus Ministris suis de Wilton Merleberge Glouc. Bristol Exon et omnibus aliis presentes Literas inspecturis salutem Sciatis quod assignavimus Magist Robert de Meleel et Radul de Hocest ad Archas Citogr Judaeorum aperiendas et scrutandas et ad omnia debita in eisdem inventa irrotulanda et ad inquirend omnibus modis quibus melius viderint expedire de bonis et catallis praed Judeorum mobilibus et immobilibus extra Archas viz. quantum singuli habeant in auro et argento vadiis jocalibus terris redditibus et omnibus rebus aliis in quorum manibus vel custodiis fuerint et devenerint tam in Civitatibus Villis domibus religiosis quam ab omnibus locis aliis ut de predict debitis et catallis et eorum quantitate certificari possumus Et ideo vobis mandamus quod ad omnia praedicta exequenda et expedienda predicto Roberto et Radul sit is intendentes consulentes et auxiliantes in omni forma quam vobis dicent et injungent ex parte nostra In cujus c. T. R. apud Turr. London 16 die Iulii Consimiles Literas Pat. habet Simon Passelewe Archis Winton Oxon. Bed Northam Georgius de Dover Willielmus Hamselbech apud Cant. Essex Norff Suff. et Canteb Roger de la Lye apud Stanford Lincoln Not et Ebor. de Hereford Warwicke Wigorn. This year the King granted this Patent of Safe conduct for a time to Solomon a Jew who had abjured the realm to return for a season for his special service Rex omnibus c. salutem Licet Solomon le Eveske Judeus abj●ravit regnum nostrum tamen quia inter homines terrae pro quibusdam negotiis nos specialiter tangentibus in Angl revertat concessimus ei quod salvo et secure venire possit in regnum nostrum Et ideo vobis mandamus quod eidem Judeo in veniendo morando ceu recedendo malum non inferatis vel inferri permittatis impedimentum dampnum vel gravamen Et si quid c. In cujus c. Duratatur usque ad Festum Sancti Trin. prox futur T. R. apud Turrim London 16 die April This year the Wardens and Constable of the Tower of London claimed this priviledge by prescription that they ought to have the atachment imprisonment of all Jews Jewesses of London and other places and of all Christians and Jews that were to be attached or imprisoned by the judgement of the Justices and Exchequer of the Iews for any matters concerning Judaisme and likewise to hold Plea in the Tower of all Debts of Iews under 40 s. which priviledge the King allowed and commanded to be observed by this Writ Rex Justic suis ad custod Iud. assign salutem Quia Custodes et Constab Turris nostrae London semper habere consueverunt omnia attachiamenta tam Iudeorum quam Iudearum L●ndon quam aliorum Iud nostrorum forinsecorum et etiam imprisonamentum tam Christianorum quam Iudeorum quos occasione Iudaismi Prisonae nostrae contigerit adjudicari vel per preceptum nostrum vel per considerationem Scac. nostri Judeorum Quia etiam predicti Custodes et Constab tenere consueverunt placita inter Christianos et Iudeos de vadiis usque ad summam 40 s. Providimus volumus quod de cetero sic fiet in omnibus Et ideo vobis mandamus quod omnes tam Christianos quam Judeos quos contigerit per preceptum nostrum vel considerationem praedicti Scac. nostri Iudeorum ca●cerali custodia ratione Judaismi quoquo modo committi eos liberari faciatis Constab Turris nostrae et per ipsos et Ministros suos praedict faciatis attachiamenta de Judeis et placita vadiorum teneri sicut praedict est Ita quod nullus nisi Constabularius predict Turris nostrae de caetero se intromittat de hujusmodi attachiamentis vel imprisonamentis vel placitis vadiorum praedict Et hoc faciatis firmiter teneri et observari T. R. apud Sanctum Paulum London 26 die Maii. Which record fully sets forth the Iurisdiction of the Keepers and Constable of the Tower of London over the Jews persons and affairs in that age Rex Iustic ad Custod c. Monstravit nobis Cresse Iudeus de Wilton qui decimo anno preterito finem vobiscum fecisset per aurum ad opus nostrum ut sine occasione implacitare posset coram vobis Galf. de Winelesford de debitis quae ei debet extra Archam Judaeorū quod idem Galf. recognovisset coram vobis se debere praefato Iudeo X. libr attamen quidam prefat Iudeo invidentes ipsum super dicto debito fraudulenter et maliciose inquietare et molestare nituntur Et ideo vobis mandamus quod si scrutatis rotulis Scac. nostri Judeorum inveneritis ipsum Judeum finem predict fecisse tunc finem illum secundum irrotulat praedict et consuetudinem Judaismi nostri remanere fac sine occasione T. R. apud Windes 5. die Febr. The King wanting present moneys this year sent forth this writ Quia Rex plurimum indiget ad praesens pecunia Mandat est Justic ad custod Iudeorum assignat quod omnes denarios de Judaismo regis quos reservant ad aurum inde emend ad opus Regis sine dilatione liberent in Garderoba Regis Aberico de