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in 1278 to widespread arrests and hangings, in many cases on<br />

the flimsiest pretexts.<br />

Edward may have contemplated a relaxation of the situation<br />

by permitting a resumption of usury but for a variety of<br />

economic and political reasons, and from sheer rapacity, he<br />

finally decided to resolve the problem drastically. On July 18,<br />

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Jewish settlement in Britain before the expulsion of 1290, and communities existing in the late 20th century.<br />

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1290, he issued an edict for the banishment of the Jews from<br />

England – the first of the great general expulsions of the Middle<br />

Ages – by All Saints’ Day (November 1). Most of the refugees<br />

made their way to France, Flanders, and Germany.<br />

The English Jews of the Middle Ages perhaps numbered<br />

fewer than 4,000, though contemporary chroniclers put the<br />

412 ENCYCLOPAEDIA <strong>JUDAICA</strong>, Second Edition, Volume 6

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