The Exchequer of the Jews (Latin: Scaccarium Judaeorum) was a division of the Court of Exchequer at Westminster which recorded and regulated the taxes...
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In the civil service of the United Kingdom, His Majesty's Exchequer, or just the Exchequer, is the accounting process of central government and the government's...
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The first Jews in England arrived after the Norman Conquest of the country by William the Conqueror (the future William I) in 1066, and the first written...
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The history of the Jews in England goes back to the reign of William the Conqueror. Although it is likely that there had been some Jewish presence in the...
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of Jews were wealthy because Jews were allowed to lend money at interest while the Church forbade Christians from doing so, which was regarded as the...
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for protection or defence. Exchequer of the Jews – the successor body to Aaron's Exchequer Chazan, Robert (2006). The Jews of Medieval Western Christendom...
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The resettlement of the Jews in England was an informal arrangement during the Commonwealth of England in the mid-1650s, which allowed Jews to practice...
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series of laws that placed male Jews in the United Kingdom on an equal legal footing with the kingdom's other emancipated males. When in 1829 the Roman...
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by the Vatican ordering that Jews live separate from Christians, that Christians were not to work for Jews, especially in their homes, and that Jews were...
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account of the murder of William of Norwich: In his time the Jews of Norwich bought a Christian child before Easter, and tortured him with all the same tortures...
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The Jewish Naturalisation Act 1753 was an Act of Parliament (26 Geo. 2. c. 26) which allowed Jews resident in Britain to become naturalised by application...
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kidnapped and ritually killed by Jews. In 1290, the entire Jewish community was expelled from England by Edward I, and the Jew's House is said to have been...
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inches. All Jews from the age of 12 on had to pay a special tax of three pence annually. Christians were forbidden to live among Jews. Jews were licensed...
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Tallage (redirect from Tallies of the exchequer)
upon Jews for relief, wardship, marriage, fines, law-proceedings, debts, licenses, amercements etc. and which Jews paid to the English exchequer, like...
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II of France ("Augustus"). Ordinance of the Jewry: Beginning of strict records of financial transactions by Jews liable to taxation. The Exchequer of the...
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Domus Conversorum (category Conversion of Jews to Christianity)
Jews who converted to Christianity forfeited their possessions to the Crown. It was established in 1232 by Henry III. With the expulsion of the Jews by...
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The History of Sephardic Jews in England consists of the Sephardic Jews' contribution and achievement in England. Sephardic Jews were Spanish and Portuguese...
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Harold of Gloucester (died 1168) was a supposed child martyr who was falsely claimed by Benedictine monks to have been ritually murdered by Jews in Gloucester...
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doodle depicted in the upper margin of the Exchequer Receipt Roll (English royal tax record) in 1233. It shows three demented-looking Jews inside a castle...
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Archa (document store) (category Medieval English Jews)
supervision of a representative of the newly established central authority that became known as the Exchequer of the Jews.[citation needed] The dictionary...
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Moyse's Hall (category Jews and Judaism in England)
corresponds to the period when the Jews of Bury St Edmunds were at the height of their prosperity. Fourthly, the 'ii' of the Latin rendering ad aulam Moysii...
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became known as the "starr-chamber" as a result, although this theory is dismissed by the Oxford English Dictionary. Exchequer of the Jews Star Chamber Henry...
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"Calendar of Documents Relating to Ireland" appears about 1286. After the 1290 Edict of Expulsion of Jews from England, Jews living in the English Pale...
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Mishlè Shu'alim (category 13th-century literature of England)
acquaintance of Moses ben Jacob of Coucy. One of the fables, "The Elephant and the Man of the Field", is to be read in the ongoing dispute between Jews and Christians...
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Francis Palgrave (redirect from The Ancient Kalendars and Inventories of the Treasury of His Majesty's Exchequer)
Caley as the Keeper of the Records in the chapter house of Westminster Abbey, in which were stored the ancient records of the Exchequer (including Domesday...
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evolved into the Exchequer of the Jews. After an initially peaceful start to John's reign, the king again began to extort money from the Jewish community...
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Christians of the era. Jews were prohibited from joining workmen's guilds, but were allowed to lend money at interest to non-Jews. The small number of Jews in...
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Sir Hugh (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia)
Jews for their insecurity. In the 1230s, some English towns expelled Jews, and organised violence against Jews took place in the 1260s. The death of Little...
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Nigel Lawson was the first BAME Chancellor of the Exchequer, as opposed to Sajid Javid. He also considers the potential use of the word Jew as a pejorative...
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church tithes were levied against Jews, and English Jews were forced to wear an identifying badge. The construction of new synagogues was also prevented...
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