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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

this pardon of a Jews debt which this King seised to his own use * Dominus Rex pardonavit Nicholao de Wancy 10 lib. quas ei debuit de debitis Iudaeorum mandatum est Baronibus de Scaccario quod ipsum Nich. de praedict 10 libr. quietum esse faciant T. apud Windsore 16 Julii In the 18 and last year of King Iohn I find his Writ to the Barons of the Exchequer to allow upon the account of Hubert de Burgo amongst other things Carnarium Judaeorum Iudaearum in castro de Lossins It seems some Jews of both Sexes were then strictly imprisoned either for their Taxes or some misdemeanors not mentioned in the Record These are the most material Records I have found in my search relating to the Jews affairs during the not long but unfortunate troublesome reign of King Iohn I proceed to those of Henry the 3 his Son and Successor which are more copious various and delightfull both for matter and rarity In the very first year of King Henry the 3. being then an Infant under the wardship of the Earl Marshal his Protect some Iews being formerly arested imprison'd there issued forth these Writs and Mandates for their release the cause of their imprisonment not appearing Mandatum est W. Marescai juniori quod sine dilatione deliberari faciat Cheram Iudaeam de Winton quam Galfred de Laurton et Frnnket servientes sui ceperunt et captam detinent et ut permittant ipsam Cheram sine impedimento venire usque Winton quia Dominus Rex plenam pacem suam ei concessit T. Com. to wit W. Earl Marshal then Protector apud VVinton 22 die Aprilis Anno reg Dom. Regis primo Et mandatum est praedictis G. et Franket quod ipsam Cheram sine dilatione deliberent et sine impedimento permittant venire ad VVinton T. eodem Rex Iosceo de Plugenap salutem Mandamus vobis firmiter precipientes quod sine dilatione et occasione aliqua deliberetis et quietum abire permittatis Ioppe fil Iocei de VVilton Iudaeum quem cepistis et captum tenetis Et in hujus rei testimonium c. T. Comite apud Winton 21 die Aprilis An. reg nostri primo Rex Rico fil Rog. salutem Mandamus vobis sicut alias mandavimus firmiter praecipientes quod sine dilatione et occasione aliqua deliberetis Isaac fil Solomonis Iudaeum quem cepistis apud Winton ipsumque mittatis quietum ad Comitem VV. Marescallum Rectorem nostrum et regni nostri apud VVinton In cujus rei testimonium c. Teste Com. apud VVinton 21 die April an reg nostr primo King Henry in the second year of his raign being informed by his Counsel what great advantage he might make by the Jews upon all occasions by the advice of his Counsel sent forth thse special Writs and Le●ters Parents to 24 Burgesses in each Town where the Jews resided to protect them and theirs from injury appointed special Justices for their custody and affaires and likewise confirmed all their former Liberries for protection of their persons and Estates from violence and exempting them from the Bishops Jurisdiction and all other Courts and Judicatures whatsoever but those Justices he specially appointed for their custody And likewise commanding all the Jews to wear two white Tables in their breasts that thereby they might be manifestly distinguished from Christians and the better known and secured from injury and violence by those their new Protectors Rex Constabulario et Praepositis Gloucest salutem Mandamus vobis quod sine dilatione liberetis Jud●●os nostros Gloucest 24. Burgensibus Gloucestriae custodiendos Nec permitta●is quod ipsi Iudaei ab aliquibus vexentur maxime de Cruce signatis vel aliis Nomina autem Burgensium quibus illos commiteritis custodiendos imbreviari faciatis Et ipsi c. T. Com. apud Glouc. x die Martii Anno reg nostri secundo Rex Vic Lincoln salutem Praecipimus tibi quod eligas 24. de meloribus et discretionibus Civibus Lincoln qui custodiant Iudaeos nostros Lincoln et qui non permittant quod aliquis eis malum vel injuriam faciat de Cruce signatis vel aliis qui c. T. Com. apud Oxon 30 die Marcii Rex omnibus Ballivis et fidelibus suis salutem Sciatis Nos de communi Consilio ●ostro attornasse dilectos et fideles nostros Ric de Doli Magist Alex. de Dorset Elyam de Suvinges ad Scaccarium Iudaeorum custodiend et ad omnia negocia nostra quae pertinent ad officium illud rectand per totam Angliam Et ideo vobis mandamus quod praedicto Ric Alex. et Elye ●itis intendentes in omnibus quae spectant ad officium illud sicut fieri solebat tempore Will de Wartun Thom. de Nevil Galfr. de Norwic. T. Com. apud West 8 die Maii. Not long after the same year there were several writs sent to the Sheriff of Hereford and others to protect the Jews persons and estates from violence which the people were prone to offer to them and to preserve them from all suits and arrests against them for contracts or other things both in the Bishops Ecclesiastical Court and before the Sheriffs or Kings ordinary Justices and Judges but only before the Justices specially designed for their custody as in the time of King Iohn which writs were all sent them in this form Rex Vicecomiti Hereford salutem Scias quod de communi Concilio nos●ro concessimus Judaeis nostris ut ipsi maneant in Hereford sicut solebant tempore Domini Johannis Regis Patris nostri quod talem habeant communionem qualem habere consueverant inter Christianos Et ideo tibi praecipimus quod eos custodias manuteneas protegas non eis in●etens vel inferri permittens aliquod gravamen vel molestiam si aliquis eis in aliquo forisfecerit id eis sine dilatione facias emendari Et clamari facias pertotam Ballivam tuam quod eis sirmam pacem nostram dedimus non obstante 〈◊〉 pro●i●itione inde facta ab Episcopo Hereford 〈◊〉 nihil ad ipsum pertinet de Judaeis nostris Et prohibemus tibi ne manus mittas in eos aut in Catalla eorum nec eos capias aut imprisones nec in Placitum trahas aut a Justiciariis nostris ab aliquo trahi permittas Set si aliquid fecerint quare poni debeant per vadium plegios tunc illos eorum excessus attachies quod sint coram Justiciariis nostris ad Custodiam Judaeorum attornatis inde responsuri hoc facias per visum legalium Christianorum Judaeorum Et non permittas quod placitentur in curia Christianitatis occasione alicujus debiti Et haec omnia fieri facias sicut fieri solebant tempore Johann Regis patris nostris Teste Com. apud Turrem London 19 die Junii

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

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

c. Quia accepimus per Inquisitionem quam per Constab Turris nostrae London et Majorem Vicecomites nostros London fieri fecimus quod Domus illa cum pertinentiis in Vico de Melchstreet in Civit nostra London quae fuerunt Cress fil Mag. Mossei quondam Iudei London non sunt nec esse possunt Eschaeta nostra per mortem illius Cress quod nunquam in vitae sua in aliquo deliquit contra nos sed tanquam bonus et fidelis Iudeus bene et fidelitermore Judeorum vixit et testamentum suum secundum consuetudinem Judaismi nostri fecit et domos praedict cum omnibus pertinentiis suis Cok. fil suo legavit in testamento praedicto Nos eidem Cok. domos praedict cum pertinentiis quantum ad nos pertinet concessimus et reddidimus tenend et habend in forma Testamenti supradicti salvo jure cujuslibet In cujus c. T. R apud Winds 29 die Sept. This year some Jews of Winchester fearing an assault upon them by reason of some differences between them and the Citizens the King granted this new special protection and committed them to the custody of sundry Citizens thereof to protect them from violence and damage Rex dilecto sibi in Christo Simoni le Draper and to 25 others there named salutem Quia per quandam contentionis materiam inter quosdam de Civibus nostris ejusdem villae et Benedictum fil Abrah Iudeum nostrum illius villae nuper habitam multi homines de dicta villa praedicto Benedicto aliis Judeis nostris in eadem villa commorantibus de corporibus suis manifeste minati sunt ut accepimus Nos volentes dictorum nostrorum Judeorum indempnitati prospicere ipsos homines terras domos res redditus et omnes possessiones eorundem in nostram protectionem et defensionem suscepimus specialem vos ad corum majorem tuitionem et securitatem custodes et Protectores suos assignantes Et ideo vobis mandamus firmiter injungentes quod per totam Civitatem nostram praedict publice clamari faciatis Ne quis sub periculo vitae membrorum praedict Judeis in personis vel rebus suis dampnum inferet vel gravamen Et vos ipsi praedict Judeos familias suas terras domos res redditus et omnes possessiones eorum tam infra dictam Civitatem quam extra quantum in vobis est manuteneatis protegatis et defendatis Non inferentes eis vel inferri permittentes injuriam molestiam dampnum vel gravame● Et si quid eis forisfactum fuerit id ●is sine dilatione faciatis emendari Volentes etiam quod praetextu istius mandati in nullo vos intromittatis de placitis quaerilis aut aliis ipsos Iudeos tangentibus quae ad Constab Castri nostri Winton pertinent hactenus pertinere consueverunt In cujus T. R. apud Westm 26 die Decemb. Patents 54. H. 3. m. 24. The King grants to Benedict a Iew that he will not prorogue release pardon or extend any debts due unto him for 5 years space and by his Charter confitms a grant of an Annuity in see made by two Jews Alardo de Hermigsham et haeredibus suis In the 55 year of H. 3. I find two Prohibitions to the Iustices itinerant in Sussex and Kent to hold pleas of the Jews in Sussex or Kent or concerning Iudaismum nostrum contra legem consuetudinem Iudaismi suprapraedicti T. R. apud Winds 28 die Sept. Also a Pardon of all usury and penalties due to Jewes by some poore Debtors A grant of 30 l. to one Martin out of the debts of Jews A Writ of respite of fines not paid by some Jews out of meer poverty at the times appointed them to the Justices of the Jews quatenus termiuos suos praedictos taliter admensuretis quod salvo contenemento suo possint nobis de eo quod aretro est de fine praedicto satisfacere etiam Tallagio nostro simul cum aliis Iudeis contribuere ne per defectum mendicare T. R. apud Westm 26 die April Some other particulars concerning the fines of Iews are in this Roll. In the Patent Rolls of this year there are divers releases of the King of the debts usuries and penalties due to Jews and confirmations of grants of Houses and Debts assigned by Jews to others Licenses for sundry Jews to sell their debts according to the forementioned Ordinance of 53 H. 3. all running in the fame fotm with that already cited And a grant to some Jews not to pardon respite nor extend their debts But the more special things therein are these two First this License to a Jew to dwell where he pleased amongst any Jews in what Burrough of England he listed Rex omnibus c. salutem Sciatis quod ad instantiam Edwardi fil nostri carissimi concedimus Aaroni fil Vynes Iudeo quod in quocunque Burgo Regni nostri voluerit ubi alii Judei habitant morari possit pro voluntate sua sine contradictione nostra vel Ballivorum nostrorum quorumcunque Dum tamen tanquam bonus et fidelis Judeus se gerat et habeat in eodem In cujus c. T. R. apud Winds 30 die Octob. An. 55. Next this morgage of Judaisme for payment of 2000 marks to Richard King of Almain Rex omnibus c. salutem Cum ante recessum cariss fil Edwardi primogeniti nostri versus terram sanctam dederimus eidem Edw. 6000 marc de Judaismo nosto in subsidium peregrinationis sux de quibus 6000 marc 4000 marc exceptis quibusdam arreragiis solvuntur eidem Ita quod 2000 marc et eadem arreragia adhuc sibi reddenda supersunt ipse filius noster moram saciens in terra sancta non mediocriter pecunia indigeat ad expensas suas propter quod car fr. fid n. Ricus Rex Alemani illustris illa 2000 mar quae aretro sunt c. fil nostro credidit ad partes nostras Nos eidem Rico. pro praedicta Curialitate dict fil n. facta concessimus quod ipse vel executores vel assign sui habeant et teneant Judaismum nostrum et Judaeos nostros Angliae a Festo sancti Michis An. 1271. usque ad Festum sancti Michis prox sequent per unum An. completum pro praed 2000. marc dicto fil n. creditis Ita Scil. quod Iudei nostri Angl. illa 2000 marc dict fratri nostro terminis subscriptis solvant infra praedict An. Then he limits the time for she Iews to pay it by several summes Et si pretextu nostro vel mandatorum nostrorum huic concessioni nostrae contradictorum dictus frater noster fuerit impeditus quo minus dictam pecuniam dictis terminis levare possit tunc liceat ei tam diu Judaismum nostrum in manu sua tenere donec super principale debito et paena praedict fuerit sibi

but commonly 8000. 10000. marks or pounds by the year levyed with the greatest rigour which some of the richest Jews in all places were commonly engaged to see punctually paid in at the terms appointed and when any of them opposed or neglected to pay or levy them their persons wives children families infants were all distrained imprisoned their estates Debts seised confiscated some of them sent Prisoners into Ireland and frequently menaced with perpetual banishment hence and losse of their estates their taxes being levyed by the strictest menacing warrants and all rigorous violent ways the King and his instruments could possibly invent And are not their Taxes in case they will now return again like to be more high frequent oppressive since the very English themselves after all their late contests wars consultations and prodigal expences of their blood treasures estates are now brought under heavy uncessant monthly arbitrary Taxes Excises Imposts decimations levyed with the greatest rigour and such as dare oppose them out of conscience or defence of publike liberty though in a legal way imprisoned close imprisoned ruined yea threatned with perpetual banishment even by such who pretend themselves the Patrons Protectors of the English liberties franchises Properties from such Aegyptian and Jewish Bondage and greatest Antagonists against such arbitrary exorbitant Tyranny 4. That besides these constant annual Taxes our Kings upon all occasions enforced them by way of Loans to lend what sums they demanded under pain of imprisonment confiscation of their estates seisure of all their Debts Pawns Chests And frequently seised searched released granted sold all their gold silver chests debts houses fees annuities pawns and imprisoned their persons wives children to extort and raise monies upon all extraordinary necessities 5. That when they had fleeced them to their very skins and could expect no more moneys from them then they morgaged and sold their persons estates and the revenues proceeding from them unto others to advance present moneys before hand like so many Slaves and Villains And though many of them notwithstanding all their endlesse Taxes Extortions Squeezings fleecings grew rich again in a short time through usury broccage clipping and falsifying coyn plate frauds and extortions of all kinds and their base parsimony industry frugality yet their wives children heirs friends enjoyed little or no benefit at all by it but the King and his Officers commonly fleeced them of al they gained by one device or other So that England was little better than a second Aegypt and our Kings and their griping Officers nothing else but so many new Pharoahs and Aegyptian Tax-masters to them during all their continuance here they having no assurance of lives liberties estates under them by any Charters Grants protection Engagements which they made no conscience to revoke and violate at their pleasures as some of late have done even to their own Christian Brethren in as high a degree as they did to the Jews 6. That they were so exceeding execrable and detestable to the people in all places where they resided both for their infidelity blasphemies apostacies enmity to Christ and Christianity circumcising and crucifying Christian Children clipping of coin falsifying of Charters extortion brokage usury frauds unconscionable Jewish cut-throat dealing and discrepancy of maners from the English that many places and ports opposed their coming over other Towns as Newcastle Winchelse Wycombe Newbury Berkhamsted Suthampton other places purchased exemptions or removals of them And those Towns where they resided frequently rose up in a tumultuous maner against them burning their houses beating abusing kiling their persons pillaging their goods and forcing them to fly to the Kings Castles for Sanctuary notwithstanding all the Kings Charters Proclamations Provisions of all sorts for their protection and defence against violence and committing them to the protection of the Sheriffs Maiors Chief Officers and Burgesses of the places where they resided But especially they were above measure assaulted beaten slaughtered pillaged by the Cruce-signati and Saint-like Souldiers of that age who listed crossed themselves for the Holy-Wars and by the Barons Souldiers who took up arms against their Soveraigns under pretext only of defending the Great Charters Laws Liberties of the Church and Realm of England usually stiling themselves exercitus Dei et sanctae Ecclesiae in Anglia Neither were they free from violence plunder nor the common people satisfied till their universal final banishment hence which they oft sollicited their implacable enmity against them being such that the symptoms thereof yet continue amongst us in our proverbiall speeches I hate thee as I do a Jew I would not have done so to a Jew None but a Jew would have done so and the like 7. That notwithstanding all the Injuries Oppressions Indignities cruelties they here sustained both from our Kings their Officers the generality of the people by Gods just curse and vengeance on them for their sins yea notwithstanding all means used by our Kings Magistates Bishops preaching Friers and others both for their reformation and conversion to the Christian Faith yet the generality of them continued persevered still in their willfull obstinacy infidelity blindnesse enmity malice blasphemies despite against our crucified Saviour and Christianity which they manifested upon all occasions in publike and private by circumcising and crucifying chistian children breaking the Crucifix in Oxford and trampling it under foot in the midst of the Universities soleme Procession and otherwise expressed at large in the forementioned records as likewise in their extorsions clipping and falsifying moneys Charters usuries frauds rapes murders forgeries very few of them turning Christian converts and that either to save their lives or prevent some imminent dangers to their persons families estates and those of the poorer sort for the most part to get a present livelyhood from the Christians who frequently turned Apostates or flagi●ious malefactors to the scandal of religion 8. That the Jews here had their Synagogues Schools Pries●s Presbyter and Comptroller of their Exchequer Escheator Cofferers Cyrographers Attornies Bayliffs with their proper Judges and Court of Exchequer wherein only they were to be sued proceeded against and by whom they were Iudged their Prisons Attachers Tax-Masters Record-Keepers ordered in all things according as the King by his Writs and Letters directed All which Offices were appointed by the Kings special Patents Writs whose Names Powers Jurisdictions Salaries together with their legal trials and proceedings of all sorts civil criminal the forms of their Starrs Charters Extents of Lands assignments of Debts Releases Reliefs Fines with the names of the chiefest Jews are registred and most clearly fully related in the forecited Records and in no other printed History or Law-book whatsoever 9. That the Jews were exempt from all other Temporal and Ecclesiastical Courts and Jurisdictions but the Justices specially appointed for their custody and the Kings Exchequer for the Jews yea from all publike Taxes imposed on the English and could not be excommunicated by the

defaults before them and thereof to make due punishment as is aforesaid And now Hugh Peters if I may be thy Counsellor in sober sadnesse look to thy neck which as thou hast oft indangered forfeited by thy late Fire-works to blow up Kings Kingdoms Parliaments Lords our old fundamental Lawes Liberties Government as Straffords Canterburies late Impeachments Sentences with Mr. St. Iohns and others Arguments at their Attainders will resolve thee and thy open treasonable advising abetting the seising imprisoning of my self and above 40 more Members of Parliament in Hell on the bare boards Decemb. 6. 1648. whose names thou didst then list with an iron Sword under thy arme instead of the Sword of the Spirit So this thy Iesuitical Project to burn all our old Records whereby all former Judgement Titles Fines Recoveries c. will be nulled reversed which thou publickly abettest counsellest thy Magistrate to effect in Print proclaimes thee by thine own Confession without other evidence a Notorious Felon within this Act in the highest degree The burning avoiding of all our Records in general being a more transcendent Felony yea Treason to the whole Kingdom Nation than the embezelling only of one or two private Records or Writs relating but to one private person And if ever thou be brought to a legal Trial for it before such a Iury and such Iudges as this Act prescibes thou art sure to undergoe a Halter-Martyrdome at Tyburne which all will cry up according to thy Pamphlets Title for A good work of a good Magistrate and a short cut to great quiet for thy devoting all our old Records to a fiery Martyrdom in Smithfield which I trust they shall never undergo And that upon these ensuing weighty Considerations First these old Records which he would have burnt contain in them all the antient Rights Titles Evidences Charters Agreements Leagues Compacts of the Kings Kingdom Nation and people of England to all their pristine and present Dominions Jurisdictions Prerogatives Preheminences Priviledges Hereditaments and enjoyments both at home and abroad by Land and by Sea as they are a Kingdom Nation Republike body Politick in general and that both in relation to themselves and their own intrinsecal affairs at home as they have been owned reputed negotiated treated with upon special occasions as a Kingdom Nation Republike by any forraign Kings Princes Kingdoms States whose ancient undoubted Rights Titles to all or any of our Dominions Territories Jurisdictions Royalties cannot otherwise be legally cleared judicially evidenced upon any emergent occasion or controversie between our Kingdom Nation and other Forraign States and Realms or between our selves at home but by our old Records the only publike evidences of the whole Kingdom and English Nation as necessary to defend maintain justifie their common publick Rights Dominions Possessions Jurisdictions Claims priviledges upon all occasions as any private Noble or Gentlemans ancient Charters Records Writings are to defend manifest his right and Title to his private Inheritance and Injoyments witnesse the famous Letter of the King Parliament and Nobles of England written and sent to the Pope Anno 1302. to clear the subordination of Scotland to the Crown of England and the Homage of the Kings of Scotland made for their kingdom to the Kings of England as their superiour Lords from time to time manifested by the ancient Histories and Records of England beyond all contradiction Mr. Selden his Mare Clausum proving the Dominion and Jurisdiction of the Kings of England over the Narrow Seas by Records and Sir Robert Cottons Posthuma Therefore it must necessarily be as bad and mad a worke for a bad and mad Magistrate to burn all the publick Evidences and Records of the whole Kingdom and Nation upon the frantick motion of a Bedlam in this particular as for a Great landed Nobleman to burne all the old Charters Evidences of his Lands and Honors or for a rich Usurer to burn all his Bonds and Morgages which all wise men will repute an act of Frenzy and Hugh Peters too in his right senses 2. They contein in them all the great publike Charters Contracts Agreements Leagues formerly granted or made by the Kings of England to or with the Prelates Earles Barons Freemen Commons of England Ireland Scotland Wales Gernsey Iersy Man and all other Isles and Dominions belonging to the Crown of England in general all Charters Patents Grants Contracts Writs Releases Gifts Pardons Offices Honors Liberties Franchises Customs Priviledges Faires Markets Inheritances Rents Revenues Licences compositions formerly granted by our Kings to the respective Counties Cities Towns Burroughs Villages Hundreds Arch-bishops Bishops Deans Chapters Prebends Abbies Priories Nunneries Colledges Hospitals Free-schools Universities great Officers Chancellors Generals Admirals Marshals Justices Nobles Gentlemen Citizens Merchants Societies Fraternities most private persons both in England Ireland Wales Scotland all the British Isles and other Territories anciently belonging to England All whose particular patents grants evidences though under seal if alleged to be false forged sophisticated must be tryed only by their exemplifications or inrollments on record They likewise comprise all the Judgements Fines Common Recoveries Verdicts Trials Suits Statute Merchants and Staple Recognizances Inrolments yea in any of the private Conveyances Contracts between our Kings and private subjects and one subject another What a universal confusion subversion then disinherison destruction of all Rights Titles Interests Inheritances Priviledges the burning of all our old Records would immediatly bring upon all and every County City Corporation Nobleman Gentleman Inheriter Freeholder of the Realm of England and all the subordinate Dominions thereto annexed let this Short Cutter himself and all Wise men determine who hold or claim any thing by matter of Record their best and surest evidence 3ly All the good old Laws Statutes for the Governme●t Peace safety defence and wellfare of the Nation are originally conteined in our Records by which they must be tryed examined Yea all the perambulations and deafforestations of our forrests All the Limits Bounds Extents Contents Jurisdictions Customs Priviledges Tenures Rents Services of all Counties Cities Burroughs Ports Honors Mannors Parishes Courts of Justice Offices Officers Civil Military Ecclesiastical Marine all the Pedegree Discents Successions by which all Heirs Successors hold or claim their inheritances are for the most part defined ascertained evidenced proved in and by our Records alone wherein they are enrolled And if they should all be burnt together what ataxies confusions contentions oppressions suits quarrels frauds Disinherisons would thereupon immediatly ensue all wisemen may prognosticke The mighty Nymrods and Grandees of the times wil then soon question al mens Titles devour their lesse potent neighbours estates inheritances adjoyning near to theirs all potent Landlords will exact what services rents customs heriots releifes they please from their poor tenants all superiour inferiour Courts Officers Corporations claim exercise what extravagant Jurisdictions powers they think meet and all legal means of defending mens rights liberties inheritances against