Note 239 — Front matter (continued 2)

Johnson, Customs of Hereford, p. 100; Madox, Firma Burgi, 12, 19, 23. I am not at all confident of the accuracy of Mr. Johnson’s statement, on which the latter half of this sentence is founded. Certainly some of the houses of the Jews of Hereford, Winchester, and Ipswich, were granted away by the king (Lansdowne MSS., British Museum, Vol. 826, part 5, Transcript 4), Rotuli Originalium (Record Commission), I., 73b–76a.