Note 51 — Front matter
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For the nature and duration of the earlier struggle between the king and the barons, see Stubbs, Constitutional History of England (Library Edition), II., 40, 44, 63, 67, 69–77. For the king’s acts of extortion from the Jews, see Matthew Paris, Chronica Majora, III., 194, 543; IV., 88; V., 114, 274, 441, 487; Madox, History of the Exchequer, I., 224–5, 229; Prynne, Second Part of a Short Demurrer, 40, 48, 66, 70, 75, 57. For the appointment by the Council of one Justice of the Jews, M. Paris, Chronica Majora, iv. 367.