St. Mary’s Guild, Lincoln.
THE JEWS
This story is referred to by Chaucer, who wrote a hundred years later in “The Prioress’ Tale”:—
“O younge Hew of Lincoln sleyn also
With cursed Jewes, as it is notable,
For it nis but a litel whyle ago.”
His story makes the murdered boy reveal himself by singing “O alma Redemptoris Mater” “loude and clere,” although, as he says—
“My throte is cut unto my nekke-bon.”