N.
“This very year (1252) there came out of the Holy Land a mandate from the king of France, that all the Jews should be expelled out of the realm of France, and condemned to perpetual exile, with this clause of moderation added thereto:—But he who desires to remain, let him be an artificer or handicraftsman, and apply himself to mechanical artifices. For it was scornfully objected to the said king by the Saracens, that we did little love or reverence our Lord Jesus Christ, who tolerated the murderers of him to live amongst us.”—Prynne.
O.
Bishop Percy, in his relics of “Antient English Poetry,” gives us the following ballad, in which he supposes that its composer “had an eye to the known story of Hugh of Lincoln, a child said to have been murthered by the Jews in the reign of Henry III. The conclusion of this ballad appears to be wanting; what it probably contained may be seen in Chaucer.”
THE JEWS’ DAUGHTER.
The rain rins doun through Mirry-land toune,
Sae dois it doune the Pa:
Sae dois the lads of Mirry-land toune,