To the cry against usury and the religious fanaticism which threatened them was now added the jealousy with which the nation that had grown up round the Charter regarded all exceptional jurisdictions or exemptions from the common law and the common burthens of the realm.

As Edward looked on the privileges of the Church or the baronage, so his people looked on the privileges of the Jews.

The growing weight of the Parliament told against them.

Statute after statute hemmed them in.

They were forbidden to hold real property, to employ Christian servants, to move through the streets without the two white tablets of wool on their breasts which distinguished their race.