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Written in Latin, paragraph 1189 refers to the massacre in Bury. Note C explains about the mix up of the date. During the peaceful reign of Henry II (1154-1189) the king protected and even encouraged the Jews and Jewish communities in the East of England grew and flourished in Norwich, Cambridge, Th...

Massacre of the Jews in Bury St Edmunds 1190

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Written in Latin, paragraph 1189 refers to the massacre in Bury. Note C explains about the mix up of the date. During the peaceful reign of Henry II (1154-1189) the king protected and even encouraged the Jews and Jewish communities in the East of England grew and flourished in Norwich, Cambridge, Thetford, Bungay and later in Bury, (Kings) Lynn and Ipswich. They were formally granted the privilege to practice their own Talmudic laws within their communities and despite laws which forbade it, Jewish financiers lent money to abbeys and monasteries with church silver and even relics as security. In Bury St Edmunds, a considerable Jewish community had grown up around the abbey walls. Hatter St was the Jewish Quarter, also known as Heathenmannis St. The Jews within the borough were an important and wealthy community and during the reign of Abbot Hugh (1173-1180) the abbey fell deeply into their debt. After Hugh's death, the new Abbot Samson wanted to free the abbey of debt and this coincided with the growth of anti-Jewish feeling in the town. A ritual murder accusation was made about a child Robert in 1181 and the day after the massacres in York, on Palm Sunday 1190, 57 Jews were killed in Bury. Abbot Samson then succeeded in getting royal authority to expel the survivors from Bury and they were escorted from the town under armed escort. Anyone who offered them hospitality would be excommunicated.
Memorials of St Edmund's Abbey vol. II ed. by Thomas Arnold 1892
S18.1 Suffolk Record Office

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7th Feb 2009

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Citizenship, Geography, History, ICT, PSHE

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Jews Bury St Edmunds abbot abbey massacre expulsion Henry II protection money lending debt anti-Jewish 12th century Suffolk Latin Annals Heathenmans St Hatters St

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