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his fucceflor Henry the third took advan- 
tage of, by felling licences for fuch a dif- 
penfation. Petyt. M.S. vol. vii. p. 261, 
263. 
HoweELt in his Londinopolis relates a 
circumftance which happened to a Jew in 
the reign of Henry III. He had by ac- 
cident fallen into a privy on his /abéath, 
and would not fuffer any one to take him 
out, though rather a mecefary work. ‘The 
Eai! of Gloucefter not only fuffered him 
to continue in this Althy fituation his own 
fabbath (Saturday), but would not permit 
any perfon to take him out on the Sunday, 
being the fabbath of the Chrifiians: the 
Jew, by this cruel joke, was fuffo- 
cated. 
Some centuries afterwards, when more 
humanity might have been expected, Srr 
Epwarp COKE mentions a great num- 
ber of Jews, who were permitted by the 
matter of a fhip to take a walk on the fea 
fhore while the tide was coming in, which 
he repreiented to ebb, and by this horrid 
deceit, were furrounded by the fea, and 
drowned. The only reflection which the 
lord chief juftice of England made upon 
this is, ** Thus perithed thefe infidel 
Jews.” 
By the Speculum Suevicum, * Ifa Chrif- 
tian man had a connexion with a Jewefs, 
ora Jew with a Chriftian woman, the 
parties fo offending were to be laid upon 
one another and both burnt to death. 
A fimilar punifhment was infliéted in 
France for the fame offence ; ‘* becaufe,”’ 
fays an author, a worthy pupil of thefe 
ignorant ages, “* to defile one’s felt with 
a Jew, is equal to the crime of bef- 
tiality.”” 
A law of Venice, made in the -year 
1443, was comparatively mild :—* It a 
Jew lie with a common proftitute who 
happens to be a Chriftian, he fhall fuffer 
an impriionment of fix months.” 
In France, in the reign of Louis IX. 
when Jews gave evidence again{ft Chrif- 
tians, they were obliged to {wear by God’s 
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ten names, with a ftring of terrible impre- 
cations if they {wore tallely.—** May the 
Lord (faid the clerk of the court), fend 
you both the ague and fever, if you fwear 
fallfely ; may he deftroy you in his wrath; 
you, your family, and all your fubftance : 
may your enemies feizeon your poffeilions, 
and abufe your wives ; may the {word of 
death, may fear and trouble haunt you 
every where; may the earth fwallow you 
up like Dathan and Abiram ; may all the 
trefpafles of your fathers, and all the 
curfes contained in the law of Mofes, fall 
on your head.”—To all which thefe mi- 
ferable objects of the public execration, 
an{wered three times, ** fo be it.”” 
GEMELLI, who was at the fiege of 
Buda, in 1686, fays, that the Jews, jound 
in that town, were immediately fold by 
the imperial army as flaves. Sir THo- 
MAS SMIrH alfo obferves, that in his - 
time they were confidered as flaves in 
all parts of Europe. ** Commonzvealth of 
England,” p. 123. 
Henry VIII. tenacious as he was, exe. 
preflly gave up the title of Kizg of France, 
by his own mouth, at the celebrated 
meeting between him and Francis 1, 
near Ardres ; ‘* il commenga a parler, je 
Henri roi, il vouloit dire de France et 
d’ Angleterre ; mais il laiffa le titre, et 
dit au roi, je ne le mettrai point, puifque 
vous etes ici; car, je mentirat, ct dit, je 
Henri, roi d’ Angleterre.” Mout/aucon’s 
Antiq. de la Monarchie Francaife, tom. iv. 
Pp» 197. 

In Brapy’s hiftory there is a particu- 
lar account of the pay of Edward the 
third’s army, in the twentieth year of his 
reign.” The Black Prince’s pay was 
20 thillings per day: the fum total for 
which an army and fleet of 31,294 men 
was to be paid and fublifted for pxteenx 
months, is 12,7201. 28. gd.; a fum which 
would not laft a modern fleet and army of 
the fame ftrength five days. 

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