Exchequer of the Jews information

The Exchequer of the Jews (Latin: Scaccarium Judaeorum) was a division of the Court of Exchequer at Westminster which recorded and regulated the taxes...

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...

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...

whims; the monarch who could tax or imprison Jews as he wished, without reference to anyone else. A very small number of Jews were wealthy because Jews were...

for protection or defence. Exchequer of the Jews – the successor body to Aaron's Exchequer Chazan, Robert (2006). The Jews of Medieval Western Christendom...

The resettlement of the Jews in England was an informal arrangement during the Commonwealth of England in the mid-1650s, which allowed Jews to practise...

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...

Chronicle, contains an account of the murder of William of Norwich which dates it to c. 1137: In his time the Jews of Norwich bought a Christian child...

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...

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...

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...

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...

"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...

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...

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...

Synagogue Ashkenazi Jews Sephardi Jews History of the Jews in the Netherlands Jewish ethnic diversity 19th Century Dutch Jews in London and The Rag Man's Children...

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...

II of France ("Augustus"). Ordinance of the Jewry: Beginning of strict records of financial transactions by Jews liable to taxation. The Exchequer of the...

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...

the incumbent either resigned or was dismissed. Prynne argues that the Presbyter Judaeorum was merely a secular officer in the Exchequer of the Jews to...

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...

upon Jews for relief, wardship, marriage, fines, law-proceedings, debts, licenses, amercements etc. and which Jews paid to the English exchequer, like...

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...