Note 45 — Front matter

Especially irritating must have been the fact that the one restriction on the business of Jews, as money-lenders, was the order that forbade them to take in pledge the land of tenants on the royal demesne. W. Prynne, The Second Part of a Short Demurrer to the Jews’ long discontinued remitter, etc., London, 1656, p. 35; Norfolk Antiquarian Miscellany, I. 328.