A wide range of entries of general interest provide details on matters as diverse as synagogues, ritual child murder, women, libraries and books, mikva'ot, Usury, herb gardens, bezant, community, treasure and laving stone.

Table of Contents

• List of Figures, Plans, Genealogies and Tables
• Preface
• Topographical, Biographical and General Entries
• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations
• Maps A-B The English medieval Jewry
• The English Medieval Jewry, c.1075-1290: An Introduction
• Dictionary of Medieval Anglo-Jewish History
• Statutory and other Key Documents
• c.1136-post1138, Leges Edwardi Confessoris, the Laws of Edward the Confessor
• 1164, Constitutions of Clarendon
• 1177, Jewish Provincial *Cemeteries authorised
• 1181, Assize of Arms
• Richard I's Charter of Liberties for the English and Norman Jewries
• 1194, Form of Proceeding in Pleas of the Crown
• 1201, John's Charters of Liberties
• 1210, General Captivity of the Jews and the Bristol Tallage
• 1215, Magna Carta
• 1218, The Re-establishment of the English Jewry by Henry III's Council of Regency
• 1233, Statute Concerning the Jews
• 1239, The ‘Third’, and Revised Legislation
• 1241, Worcester ‘Parliament’
• 1253, Statute Concerning the Jews
• 1258-59, Petition of the Barons and Provisions of Oxford and Westminster
• 1269, Provisions of the Jewry
• 1271, Statute Touching Lands and Fees of the Jews
• 1275, Statute of the Jewry
• Petition of the Community of the Jews in response to the 1275 Statute
• c.1276, Articles Touching the Jewry for Enquiry
• 1287, ‘Mini-Parliament’
• 1290, *Expulsion Writ and its Context
• Topographical, Biographical and General Entries
• Aaron
• Abigail
• Abraham
• Alfonsi Petrus (fl. 1106-26)
• Archa(e)
• Archaeology
• Archpresbyter:‘Presbyter omnium Judæorum totius Angliæ’
• Arundel
• Astrology
• Attorney
• Badge
• Ban
• Bedford
• Bedford Belia of, d. after 1276, and sons
• Benedict
• Benjamin Master
• Berechiah
• Berkhamsted Abraham of, d. after 1272
• Bet Din, ‘House of Judgment’
• Bet Tohorah, ‘House of Purification’ and Little House for Washing the Corpse
• Bezant and ‘the royal ten per cent’
• Blood Libel
• Blund
• Bodleian Bowl
• Bolton
• Bonamy
• Bridgnorth
• Bristol
• Bristol Tallage
• Bungay
• Burton-upon-Trent
• Bury St Edmunds
• Caerleon
• Cahorsins
• Cambridge
• The Thirteenth Century
• The Jewry
• Cambridge, Rabbi Benjamin of, d. after 1204
• Canisters
• Canterbury
• Canterbury Benjamin of
• Caricatures
• Castle Rising
• Cemeteries
• Chard
• Chepstow
• Chera
• Chests
• Chevage
• Chichester and Sussex
• Chirographs and Chirographers
• Clare Gilbert de
• Clare, Moses de
• Coin Hoards and Hoard Canisters
• Coinage and Coin-Clipping Crises, 1238-47 and 1276-79
• Cok Hagin
• Colchester
• Community
• Conversionary Sermons, 1280
• Converts, House of
• Cornwall Richard earl of
• Court
• Court Jews
• Coventry, Warwickshire
• Crespin Family
• Cricklade Lumbard and Bonefei of
• Crossbowmen, balistarii, and serjeants-at-arms, servientes ad arma
• Curia ludeorum
• Darkhei ha-Nikkud ve-ha-Neginot
• Demography
• Derby
• Dernegate Sir Henry de
• Disinherited, The, 1265-67
• Domus Conversorum
• Dorchester/Dorset
• Elijah Menahem
• Etz Hayyim
• Exchanges/Exchanging
• Exchequer of the Jews
• Exchequer of the Jews, Plea Rolls of
• Exclusion Clauses in borough charters
• Excommunication
• Exeter
• Expulsion, General of *1290
• Expulsions and Exclusions, Local, 1231-83
• Expulsions from the Queen Mother's Dower Towns, 1275
• Families: Size and Relationships
• Fine
• Garden
• Gloucester
• Gloucester, Vives son of Bonenfaunt of
• Grandisson
• Hagin
• Hamo
• Hatcham
• Herb Gardens
• Hereford
• Hereford Aaron II le Blund, d. after 1290
• Herem
• Herem ha-Yishuv
• Hertford
• Hoards
• Hortus Judeorum
• House of Converts
• Houses and other Buildings, Medieval Jewish
• Hugh of Kendal
• Ibn Ezra Abraham (c.1089-c.1164) and his years in England
• In soltis
• Interest
• Ipswich
• Ireland
• Isaac
• Jacob
• Jacob le Prestre
• Jacobs, Joseph
• Jew, personal
• Jewesses
• Jewish Court
• Jewish Historical Society of England, and its role in the history of the medieval Jewry
• Jews and the Court
• Jews’ Garden
• Josce
• Joseph
• Jurnet
• Justices of the Jews
• Kehillah
• Ketubah
• Kiddush ha-Shem, sanctification of the name of God: England
• King's Lynn
• Legislation and related matters concerning the Jewry
• Leicester
• Leper House, Jewish
• Lewes
• Libraries and Books
• Licences for Residence, Royal
• Licoricia
• Lincoln Aaron of, d.1186
• Lincoln Joseph of
• Lincoln Master Benedict of
• Loans, Inter-Jewish
• London, Aaron son of Vives
• London, Abigail and Family of
• London, le Blund Family of
• London, Constable of the Tower of
• London, Crespin Benedict of
• London, Hagin son of Master Moses
• London, Master Elias (Elijah Menahem), d.1284
• London, Master Moses of, d.c.1268
• London, Moses ben Isaac ha-Nessiah of
• London, Rabbi Josce (Rubi Gotsce) and sons, Isaac d.1199, and Abraham
• Lyme Regis
• Madox Thomas, 1666-1727
• Magna scola
• Mark
• Marlborough
• Masters of the Law
• Melcombe Regis
• Mikva'ot
• Mints
• Monasteries and Abbeys, Jewish relations with
• Moneylending
• Montfort Simon de (1208-65) and the English Jewry
• Moses
• Newbury
• Newcastle-upon-Tyne
• Newton in Purbeck
• Nicole
• Northampton
• Norwich
• Norwich, Jurnet of, c.1130-97
• Norwich, ben ElijahMeir of
• Nottingham
• Oboli and Denarii de Musc’
• Oxford
• Oxford, David of, d.1244
• Oxford, Jacob, son of Master Moses, d.1277
• ‘Parliament’
• Physicians and Surgeons
• Pipe Rolls and Related Sources
• Plea Rolls
• Poll Tax
• Population Size
• Presbyter of the Jews
• Promissum of 1194
• Provincial Jewries, Origins of, c.1135-54
• Queen's Gold
• Ramsey Abbey, a major centre of Hebrew Studies, and a unique trilingual Dictionary
• Rashi
• Recognised community
• Relief
• Responsum, pl. Responsa
• Rising
• Ritual bath
• Ritual-Child-Murder Accusations
• Ritual Crucifixion
• Robert of Reading
• Roches Peter des
• Rochester
• Romsey
• Rouen
• Rubi Gotsce
• Scola
• Seaford
• Seals, Hebrew
• Sepher Etz Hayyim
• Sepher ha-Shoham
• Sepher ha-Tenaim
• Serjeants-at-arms
• Sherborne
• Sheriffs
• Shohet
• Sources
• Southampton
• Southwark
• Speenhamland
• Stamford
• Starr
• Stockport
• Sudbury, Moses de Clare of and the ‘Red Earl’
• Surgeons
• Surrey
• Sussex
• Synagoga and Ecclesia
• Synagogues
• Tabulas
• Tallages
• Tally Sticks
• Tombstones
• Tovey d'Blossiers
• Tower of London
• Two Tables
• Wales, The Marches of, and Ireland
• Wallingford
• Westminster Abbey Muniments
• Wilton
• Wiltshire
• Winchelsea
• Winchester, Belia of
• Winchester Chera of, d.1221, and Family
• Winchester Henry de
• Windsor
• Wine
• Women of the Medieval Anglo-Jewry
• Worcester
• Worcester Sampson son of Isaac of
• Worcester Parliament
• Wycombe
• York Aaron of, d.1268, and Family
• York, Benedict
• York Josce, d.1190 and Benedict, d.1189, of
• Appendix: Contributions of individual Jewish communities to the tallages of 1194, 1221 and 1239-42
• Bibliography