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Extract from the Great Roll of the Pipe for the thirteenth year of the reign of King John

Extract from a medieval document
Extract from a medieval document

Transcript

Idem redd[it] comp[otum] de cccc et xxx li. et xiiij s. et ob. de taillagio Judeorum facto apud Bristo’ quas ab eis receipt quod tallagium factum fuit in festo omnium sanctorum anni preteriti. Et de xvij li. et xviij s. et xj d. de Meir f. Samsonis de Stanford de eodem taillagio. Et de xx s. de Meir de Abbendon’ de eodem. Et de viij li. de tallagio Ysaac de Winton’. Et de M et ccc et xxxvj li. et ix s. et vj d. et ob. de fine Ysaac cyrograph’ et uxoris sue et puerorum suorum […] Et de xx li. de Peiteuin de Norwiz. Et de c et xxxix li. et xiij s. de Ysaac de Norwiz scilicet de catallis sui. Et de c m. de catallis Abraham f. Auigaie. Et de xxx li. de catallis Ysaac de Cantuar’ […] Et de xxviij li. et x s. (et vj d.) de domibus Judeorum Lond’ […] Summa MM et c et lix li. et xj s. In thes.

Translation

The same renders an account of 430 pounds and 14 shillings and a half pence of the tallage of the Jews made at Bristol […] on the feast of All Saints (1st November) of the past year. And of 17 pounds and 18 shillings and 11 pence from Meir, son of Sampson of Stanford of the same tallage. And of 20 shillings from Meir de Abbendon of the same (tallage). And of 8 pounds of the tallage [from] Isaac of Winchester. And of 1,336 pounds and 9 shillings and 6 and a half pence from Isaac the chirograph clerk (who was responsible for looking after records of Jewish loans in Winchester), his wife and his children […] And of 20 pounds from Peitevin of Norwich. And of 139 pounds and 8 shillings from Isaac of Norwich, namely of his chattels. And of 100 marks of the chattels of Abraham, son of Auigaie. And of 30 pounds of the chattels of Isaac of Canterbury […] And of 28 pounds and 10 shillings (and 6 pence) of the houses of the Jews of London […]  The sum of 2,159 pounds and 11 shillings. In the treasury.

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