Note 101 — Chapter XIV · A.D. 980-1100. THE JEWS IN SPAIN.—IN ENGLAND.—THE CRUSADES.

There appears, indeed, to have been at that time an amount of toleration which may well surprise us. One Mossey, a Jew of Wallingford, was wont, we are told, openly to ridicule the miracles of St. Frideswide. He would crook his fingers as if they were paralysed, and presently straighten them, or limp like a cripple, and then suddenly leap or dance, crying out ‘A miracle!’ This was a calm on the edge of a storm such as has rarely been seen!—‘Rise, Fall, and Future Restoration of Jews,’ ch. iii.