st eminent of the Lincoln Jews were hung on a new gallows;
twenty more were imprisoned in the Tower awaiting the same fate. But
if the Jews of Lincoln were thus terribly chastised, the church of
Lincoln was enriched and made famous for centuries. The victim was
canonized; pilgrims crowded from all parts of the kingdom, even from
foreign lands, to pay their devotions at the shrine, to witness and to
receive benefit from the miracles which were wrought by the martyr of
eight years old. How deeply this legend sank into the popular mind may
be conceived from Chaucer's _Prioress' Tale_.

The rest of the reign of Henry III passed away with the same
unmitigated oppressions of the Jews; which the Jews, no doubt, in some
degree revenged by their extortions from the people. The contest
between the royal and ecclesiastical jurisdiction over the Jews was
arranged by certain constitutions, set forth by the King in council.
By these laws no Jew could reside in the kingdom but as king's serf.
Service was to be performed in the synagogue in a low tone, so as not
to offend the ears of Christians. The Jews were forbidden to have
Christian nurses for their children. The other clauses were similar to
those enacted in other countries: that the Jew should pay all dues to
the parson; no Jew should eat or buy meat during Lent; all disputes on
religion were forbidden; sexual intercourse between Jews and
Christians interdicted; no Jew might settle in any town where Jews
were not accustomed to reside, without special license from the King.

The barons' wars drew on, fatal to the Israelites as compelling the
King, by the hopeless state of his finances, to new extortions, and
tempting the barons to plunder and even murder them as wickedly and
unconstitutionally attached to the King. How they passed back from
Richard of Cornwall into the King's jurisdiction as property appears
not. It is not likely that the King redeemed the mortgage; but in 1261
they were again alienated to Prince Edward. The King's object was
apparently by this and other gifts to withdraw the Prince from his
alliance with the barons. The justiciaries of the Jews are now in
abeyance. The chancellor of the exchequer was to seal ail writs of
Judaism, and account to the attorneys of the Prince for the amount.
But this was not the worst of their sufferings or the bitterest
disgrace; the Prince, in his turn, mortgaged them to certain of their
dire enemies, the Caorsini, and the King ra