1275-01-21, Clarendon

To the justices appointed for the custody of the Jews, and to brother Luke de Hemyngton and William de Middelton, deputed to collect the tallage lately assessed upon certain Jews of England. William de Leyburn, son and heir of Roger de Leyburn, has shown the king that the said justices and Luke and William exact from him 800/. by summons of the exchequer of the Jewry by reason of a charter made under the names of his said father and of Hagin son of Master Moses (Mossei), Jew of London, which sum he i3 not bound to pay to the king, as he says, wherefore he is prosecuting before the king by writ of Jewry to prove before the aforesaid justices that the charter is false and naught according to the custom of the Jewry aforesaid: the king therefore orders them to supersede the demand upon William until it be ascertained before the king whether William is bound in the said payment by reason of the charter or whether the charter is false, according to the consideration of the king's court, to do which they are to proceed without delay according to the law of the Jewry aforesaid.