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«The King, impelled more by love of military glory than by superstition, acted from the beginning of his reign, as if the sole purpose of his government had been the relief of the Holy Land, and the recovery of Jerusalem from the Saracens. This zeal against infidels being communicated to his subjects, broke out in London on the day of his coronation, and made them find a crusade less dangerous, and attended with more immediate profit. The prejudices of the age had made the lending of money on interest pass by the invidious name of usury: yet the necessity of the practice had still continued it, and the greater part of that kind of dealing fell every where into the hands of the Jews; who, being already infamous on account of their religion, had no honor to lose, and were apt to exercise a profession, odious in itself, by every kind of rigor, and even sometimes by rapine and extortion.
The industry of and frugality of this people had put them in possession of all the ready money which idleness and profusion, common to the English with other European nations, enabled them to lend at exorbitant and unequal interest. If the government of Henry had carefully protected this infidel race from all injuries and insults, the zeal of Richard afforded the populace pretence for venting their animosity against the Jews. The King has issued an edict, prohibiting their appearance at his coronation; but some of them bringing him large presents from their nation, presumed, in confidence of that merit, to approach the hall in which he dined: being discovered, they were exposed to the insults of the bystanders; they took to flight; the people pursued them; the rumor was spread, that the king had issued orders to massacre all the Jews; a command so agreeable was executed in an instant on such as fell into the hands of the populace; the people, moved by rapacity and zeal, broke into their houses, after they murdered their owners.
The usual licentiousness of London broke out with furry. The inhabitants of other cities of England, hearing of this slaughter of the Jews, imitated an example. In York, five hundred of that nation (Jews) murdered their own wives and children threw the dead bodies over the walls upon the populace; and then set a fire into their own houses. The gentry of the neighborhood, who were all indebted to the Jews, run to the cathedral, where their bonds were kept, and made a solemn bonfire of the papers before the altar. The compiler of the Annals of Waverley, in relating these events, blessed the Almighty for thus delivering over this impious race to destruction».
(The History of England, from the invasion of Julius Cesar to the revolution in 1688., In eight volumes. By David Hume, Esg. Published: Edinburgh, 1805. Volume II, pages: 3, 4).
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