Abraham of Bristol, aka the Jew of Bristol, who refused to pay his quota of 10,000 marks, had, by order of the king, seven of his teeth extracted, one a day, until he was willing to pay. King John, having become indebted to the Jewish community while in Ireland, at first treated Jews with a show of forbearance. But with the loss of Normandy in 1205 a new spirit seems to have come over the attitude of John to the Jews and he demanded the sum of no less than £100,000 from the religious houses of England, and 66,000 marks from the Jews (1210).

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