1275-01-21, Clarendon

Order to enquire cautiously whether any merchant-usurers are found in the city of London or elsewhere in the realm, and to cause the bodies and goods and chattels of any such to be arrested and kept safely until otherwise ordered, conducting themselves so cireumspectly and diligently in this matter that the king may commend their diligence, as the king lately caused proclamation to be made that all merchant-usurers dwelling within the city and realm should quit the realm before a certain day now past under pain of grievous forfeiture, and the king learns that some of them dwell in the city and elsewhere in the realm contrary to the inhibition. ; ;