Note 65 — Chapter IX · THE JEWS IN ENGLAND
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The notorious legend of Hugh of Lincoln is placed by the chronicler, Matthew Paris, in the year 1255. The prolific nature of monkish imagination on this subject is shown by the subjoined facts due to Tyrwhitt’s researches: “In the first four months of the Acta Sanctorum by Bollandus, I find the following names of children canonized, as having been murdered by Jews:
XXV. Mart. Willielmus Norvicensis, 1144;
Richardus, Parisiis, 1179;
XVII. Apr. Rudolphus, Bernae, 1287;
Wernerus, Wesaliae, anno eodem;
Albertus, Poloniae, 1598.
I suppose the remaining eight months would furnish at least as many more.” Quoted by Dr. W. W. Skeat, Chaucer, Intr., p. xxiii.