Metadata: Exchequer of the Jews: Plea Rolls
Collection
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- The National Archives (UK)
- Holding institution (official language):
- The National Archives (UK)
- Postal address:
- KewRichmondLondonGreater LondonUnited KingdomTW9 4DU
- Phone number:
- Telephone: 020 8876 3444
- Web address:
- http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
- Reference number:
- E 9
- Title:
- Exchequer of the Jews: Plea Rolls
- Title (official language):
- Exchequer of the Jews: Plea Rolls
- Date(s):
- 1219/1286
- Language:
- English
- Extent:
- 70 roll(s)
- Scope and content:
- This series contains the surviving plea rolls of the Exchequer of the Jews from 1219 until 1286, four years before the Jews were expelled from England. All but five of these rolls date from the years between 1266 and 1286. Each is divided into several sections. Besides pleas, some rolls include essoins, appointments of attorneys, adjournments of litigation at the request of both parties, starrs (loan bonds), administrative memoranda, memoranda relating to Jewish tallages, and recognizances
- Archival history:
- Some records of the court are known to have been destroyed in a fire at Westminster on 29 March 1298, which affected the chapel of St Katherine in the infirmary of the abbey, where they were then stored. The survivors were removed to the Tower of London in the early 1320s, and some of them remained when the rest returned to Westminster, since they were still there in the mid-seventeenth century.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Justices of the Jews exercised jurisdiction, civil and criminal, in all affairs between Jews or the Jewish Community on the one hand and the Crown or Christians on the other. The pleas recorded in these rolls frequently relate to the contents of the archae or chests kept in certain specified towns in which were deposited the chirographs or counterparts of deeds recording loans made by Jews and Christians. The rolls also contain memoranda of proceedings with regard to the custody of these archae and to regulations respecting the Jews.
- Access points: locations:
- England
- Subject terms:
- Legal records
- Access, restrictions:
- UK public records, open for research unless otherwise stated in The National Archives' catalogue
- Finding aids:
-
More information is available in The National Archives' catalogue.
Research guidance is available on The National Archives' website.
- Yerusha Network member:
- AIM25