The Open court . his son, the cruel treatmentand plundering of the Jewsreached its height. On the coro-nation day of King Richard I.(1189), when they came to paytheir homage, the populationplundered and murdered them awhole day and night in bad example of Londonwas followed at Stamford, Nor-wich, and more especially atYork. Under King John (1199)all kinds of liberties and priv-ileges were granted to the Jews, but he soon showed he caredmore for their money than for their persons. Henry III. (i 217-1272) followed the same policy, and when the Jews petitioned theking to allow them to
The Open court . his son, the cruel treatmentand plundering of the Jewsreached its height. On the coro-nation day of King Richard I.(1189), when they came to paytheir homage, the populationplundered and murdered them awhole day and night in bad example of Londonwas followed at Stamford, Nor-wich, and more especially atYork. Under King John (1199)all kinds of liberties and priv-ileges were granted to the Jews, but he soon showed he caredmore for their money than for their persons. Henry III. (i 217-1272) followed the same policy, and when the Jews petitioned theking to allow them to leave the country their request was notgranted. Under Edward I. they were banished in 1290, and onlyin 1635 Cromwell permitted them again to settle in England. In Germany, Jews were found as early as the fourth cen tury,especially at Cologne, where they soon became numerous and p ros-perous. But the commencement of the Middle Ages in Germ any,a s elsewhere, put an end to their favorable position. It is true that. Jerusalem Jews. 278 THE OPEN COURT. the Emperor of Germany regarded the Jews as his Kammerknechte,or servants of the imperial chamber, and as such they enjoyedthe emperors protection, but the scores of violent deeds, whichare recorded, show that even the protection of the emperor couldnot prevent the popular rage from breaking out and marking itscourse by bloodshed and desolation. The least cause was suffi-cient to massacre the Jews. When in 1348 an epidemic malady,known as the black death, visited half of Europe, the Jews wereblamed for it because they were said to have poisoned the wellsand rivers. A general massacre took place, in spite of the remon-
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