i,
castellan of the fortress of Matagrifone, and Micheletto--with those
who had taken refuge at Scaletta--subsequently surrendered, with all
their followers, on the terms granted to the Viceroy. The former,
having embarked on board a small vessel, set sail several times, but
was driven into port by contrary winds or adverse fate. The latter was
shut up in the castle, and his soldiers in the palace, to protect them
from the fury of the multitude. But these precautions availed not to
save them. On the 7th of May the galleys returned from Palermo,
bringing captive with them two of those of Amalfi which had
accompanied them in the expedition, and the crew, inflamed either by
example or indignation at the unnatural and useless attempt in which
they had been employed against their fellow-countrymen, loudly
demanded French blood to slake their thirst for vengeance. The
citizens, meanwhile, were no less exasperated by Herbert's breach of
faith; so that, as the galley of Natale Pancia, entering the port,
grazed the vessel of Theobald de Messi, the crew, on a signal from the
shore, sprang upon her deck, seized and bound the prisoners and flung
them overboard to perish.

On beholding this spectacle the former fury blazed up afresh within
the city; the mob, rushing to the palace, massacred the soldiers taken
at Scaletta; the alarm-bells rang; the few partisans of the French
concealed themselves in terror; the armed and bloodstained people
poured in torrents through the streets, even the rulers of the city
made no attempt to quell their fury; for Neocastro, who undoubtedly
shared in their counsels, writes that they, on the contrary, advanced
the more boldly in the path of revolution when they beheld the
multitude so inextricably engaged.

EXPULSION OF JEWS FROM ENGLAND

A.D. 1290

HENRY HART MILMAN

Long persecuted in so-called Christian lands, the people
without a country--the Jews--first appeared in England
during the latter half of the eleventh century, a colony, it
is said, having been taken from Rouen to London by William
the Conqueror. These first-comers were, we are told, special
favorites of William Rufus. Little is seen of them under
Henry I, but in the reign of Stephen they are found
established in most of the principal towns, but dwelling as
a people apart, not being members of the State, but chattels
of the King, and only to be meddled with, for good or