Jews of England
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Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John (English)
See John’s Charter to the Jews of 10th April, 1201, in Rotuli Chartarum, p.
in the texts
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
The Jewish community of medieval England, whose property and debts were, under the special rule discussed, treated as escheating to the Crown.
The Crown was the legal heir of all Jews (cf.
and finally they were fleeced and persecuted, this last stage ending with the ordinance of 1290, which banished Jews from England.
The Jews became the mere perquisites or chattels of the Crown, in much the same way as the villeins became the serfs or chattels of their lords.