Part 8 (1/2)

”Floreat aeternum Carthusiana Domus”

FOOTNOTES:

[60] _Statuta Ordinis Cartusiensis a doone Priore Cartusiense_ Edita Basle, 1510

[61] For an interesting and accurate account of the Carthusian order, see an article in the _Yorkshi+re Archaeological Journal_, vol xviii, pp 241-252, by the Rev H V Le Bas, Preacher of the London Charterhouse, to whom I am indebted for much valuable information

[62] For further details an article by Archdeacon Hale may be consulted

_Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society_, vol

iii, part x

[63] So on the London Charterhouse during this period may be found in _The London Charterhouse_, by Laurence Hendriks, himself a Carthusian Father

[64] _Historia aliquot Martyrulorum maxime octodecim Cartusianorued in _Letters and Papers_, vol viii, 566 Quoted by Hendriks, p 141

[66] See Hendriks in loc as against Froude, who asserts that the trial was concluded in one day

[67] Bearcroft, _An Historical Account of Thomas Sutton, Esq, and of his Foundation in Charterhouse_ In this work inal documents here quoted may be found _in extenso_

[68] Fuller's _Church History of Britain_, iv, 20, 21

[69] _Historical Account of Charterhouse_, by Tho Brown, _Charterhouse Past and Present_, p 144

GLIMPSES OF MEDIaeVAL LONDON

BY GEORGE CLINCH, FGS

Everything connected withfield for the author, the student, and the reader It reflects and epitomizes all that is land during what one may properly call its most picturesque period

The story of mediaeval London presents much roion and genuine piety, as well as superstition and narrowness of vision It would not, indeed, be difficult to write lengthy volumes on such a subject, but it will of course be quite understood that in the present brief chapter anything of the nature of minute detail will be ilimpses of mediaeval life in London from points of viehich may possibly be novel, or, at any rate, worthy of the consideration of those who desire to study the past in its hu more than mere bricks and mortar

THE JEWS IN LONDON

The association of the Jeith London for chapter of ancient history As has been justly pointed out,[71] the history of the Jews in England is divided into two marked sections by the dates 1290 and 1656; at the foran to be readland prior to the Norman Conquest Soon after the Conquest, however, the Jews came from Rouen by special invitation of William They were introduced as part of a financial experie sums of ready money such as the Jews, and the Jews only, could furnish was specially felt at this ti out of fashi+on, and s, too, were taking the place of those of wood, and the neorks involved a large outlay

Money-lending on interest a Christians was expressly forbidden by the canon law, and it was therefore froe sums of ready money could be obtained when required

The author of the interesting article just referred to writes:--

”Though it is a moot point how far the 's in the first instance, there is no doubt that the Exchequer treated theThere was a special Exchequer of the Jews, presided over by special Justices of the Jews, and all the deeds of the Jews had to be placed in charge of Exchequer officers, or else they ceased to be legal docue which first drained the country dry owing to the iven them by the canon law, and then were squeezed into the royal treasury”

Although the Jeere useful, and indeed, in the conditions of social life at that time, almost indispensable, they suffered many disabilities They were unable, frouilds founded on religious principles Si land, because their possession of would have put into their hands spiritual benefices

By the order of the Lateran Council of 1215 the Jeere coland this was made of cloth in the shape of the two tables of the law