1277-05-12, Westminster

To the justices, etc., appointed for the custody of the Jews. Whereas Thomas de Bereyvill is indebted to Dencanus Crispini, a Jew of York, by his charter in the treasury and in another debt to Isaac Gabay, a Jew of Lincoln, deceased, by another charter, which charter the king caused to be delivered to Solomon Bunting, a Jew of London, for a debt due from him to Solomon, as the king learns from Thomas: the king, wishing to show favour to Thomas because he constantly adhered to the faith of the late king and of the king in the time of the disturbance in the realm and sustained divers losses through his fidelity, orders the justices to examine the said charters and to cause Thomas to be acquitted of the usuries and pains of the debts aforesaid, and to cause him to have terms for payment of the principal debt received by him from the said Jews at which he may pay the debt saving his contenement, according to the law and custom of the king's Jewry and the provision made by the king's council concerning Christians indebted in his Jewry, and to cause this to be so done and enrolled. ' Tothe same. Whereas Benedict, a Jew of Winchester, demanded before them for himself and the Jew Swetman son of Licoricia against Stephen de Eddeworth certain debts due to them by reason of certain lands of Stephen, and it was at length agreed between them that Stephen should pay to Benedict 120 marks and 20 quarters of wheat at terms not yet past, and that Benedict should acquit Stephen against Swetman and other Jews . 387 of the realm of the said money and of other debts whatsoever be exacted from him by reason of the said lands; and whereas cannot keep the said terms, which are enrolled before the justices, sale or alienation of his lands, as the king learns, the king, in conof Stephen's praiseworthy service to the late king, has granted to he shall pay to the aforesaid Jew ten marks and two quarters of yearly until the 120 marks and 20 quarters be paid in full: the king the justices to cause Stephen to have the said terms, and to cause this done and enrolled. Thomas de Normanyil], the king's steward. Order to cause Roger and Gilbert le Marescall of Aston to have each seisin of a of a messuage and half a virgate of land in Lenedal that William son who was outlawed for felony, held, as the king learns by inquisition by the sheriff of Stafford that the messuage and half virgate have been king's hands for a year and aday, and that they are still in his bands, William held a moiety thereof of Roger and the other moiety of and that William de Lenedal ought to answer to the king for the day thereof. Craddok, imprisoned at York for the death of Richard son of le Lavander, wherewith he is charged, has letters to the sheriff of to bail him. the sheriff of Nottingham.