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Jews. King. The Jewish community request remedy, stating that that a Jewish child...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/180/8966

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Reference
SC 8/180/8966
Date
[? c. 1290]
Description
Petitioners
Jews.
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
The Jewish community request remedy, stating that that a Jewish child had been abducted out of the Jewry and forcibly baptised, against the peace and the wishes of the father, and contrary to the laws of the church. They also request orders to the warden of London and the officials of the Bishop of London to provide a remedy.
Nature of endorsement
[Illegible.]
Places mentioned
London
Jewry, [London].
People mentioned
[John Pecham], Archbishop of Canterbury
[Richard Gravesend], Bishop of London.
Note
Associated in the guard note, and in PROME, with a summary of a petition on this matter on the roll for the parliament of Michaelmas 1290. However, that summary states that the baptism took place at the church of St Clement in the suburbs of London (presumably St Clement Danes), a detail not recorded in this petition, and thus the present document may not be the one summarised there, but an earlier petition on the same incident. However, the Michaelmas parliament took place after Edward I's edict expelling the Jews from England (18 July 1290), but before the deadline for leaving (1 November), and the references to the Jews' property belonging to the king may allude to the confiscations which accompanied the expulsion.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.46a (response to this or a similar petition)
  • The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), Roll 02, appendix, no.8 (full edition and translation)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9294834/

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