1277-05-28, Windsor

To the justices appointed for the custody of the Jews. Whereas the king learns from trustworthy testimony that Moses de Clare, a Jew, is not now sufficient for the king's tallage assessed upon him and for other debts that he paid to the king after the king's arrival in England, to pay at present the remainder of the debts that he still owes to the king for the late king's time and for the present king's time, the king orders the justices to search the rolls of his Jewry concerning the debts owing by Moses, and to take for the king's use from his debts to the total of the debts aforesaid, or to cause Moses to have terms according to the quantity of his chattels in the chest of the chirographers of the Jews at which he may pay the debts, saving to him and his household their maintenance, and to cause to be restored to him his chattels taken into the king's hands for this reason.