The Expulsion of Jews from England in 1290

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http://fugaziquo.com/directory/library/ ... n_1290.pdf

by Sir Barnett Lionel Abrahams

this site seems like it has some good material, just found it, maybe through DBS.

it's a book that was printed in the 1890's, digitized by Microsoft, every page has a Microsoft stamp.

"they rejected meat as unfit for themselves, but considered it good enough to be offered for sale to their Christian neighbors".  page 7 of the original book.

page 6 - "They brought with them money, but no skill in any occupation except that of lending it out at interest."

page 8 - "But, at the end of the eleventh century, there began to spread throught Europe a movement which, when it reached England, converted the vague popular dislike of the Jews into an active and violent hostility."

pages 18 and 19 go into deep detail about the adversarial relationship that grew up between the towns and the Jews.  The King protected the Jews, so when the Jews defaulted on a debt to one of the townspeople, they got some legal protection from the King.  which didn't make the Jews any more popular.

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long story short, in 1290 England kicked out a bunch of wealthy Jewish families.

Sir Abrahams wrote an 83 page book about it.  There was a copy at the Toronto Library.  Microsoft digitized it.  Then someone put the *.pdf on the Fugaziquo.com website.

it's a nice old book, i think a lot of TIU'ers would like it.

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more excerpts

"For the Jews could no longer support the crown in times of financial difficulty as they had been able to do in previous reigns.  The contraction of their business that was the result of their exclusion from many towns, and the losses they had suffered through the extortions of Henry III, and the plundering attacks of the barons, had very greatly diminished their revenue-paying capacities, and the legislation of 1270 must have affected them still more deeply."  page 34.

shades of the Federal Reserve !  Jewish Bankers loaning the government money, at interest.  Audit the Fed !

so that's been going on from 1270 to the establishment of the Fed Reserve in the 1910's, to the present - over 700 years.