Chapter I

Si quis debitum mutuo acceperit aliquid a Judæis plus vel minus et moriatur antequam debitum illud persolverit, debitum illud non usuret quamdiu hæres fuerit infra ætatem, de quocunque tenet; et si debitum illud inciderit in manus nostras, nos non capiemus nisi catallum contentum in charta. Et si quis moriatur et debitum debuerit Judæis, uxor eius habeat dotem suam et nil reddat de debito illo. Et si liberi ipsius defuncti qui fuerunt infra ætatem remanserint, provindeantur eis necessaria secundum tenementum quod fuerit defuncti; et de residuo solvatur debitum; salvo tamen servitio Dominorum.

K.

Mathew Paris furnishes us with an idea of King John’s religious principles: he informs us that when John’s subjects saw no other way of treating him but by taking up arms against him, whilst the former appealed to the Pope, the latter appealed to Admirallus, King of Morocco, a Mahometan, promising to surrender his crown and kingdom to him, and hold them from him as his vassal; and likewise to renounce the Christian religion, as vain; and faithfully to adhere to the Mahometan religion. Admirallus rejected the offer with scorn. See also Prynne and Tovey.