The following particulars, as registered by Prynne, evidently show that
there were many wealthy persons who, in spite of losing all, embraced
Christianity:――
“This year, a Jew’s wife proving a convert Christian, her husband
was attached for her goods, by the king, as belonging to him upon her
conversion; who thereupon paid a fine to have this new case judicially
determined in the Jews’ Exchequer, as this record attests.”
“Cum _Abraham Batekot_ Judeus attachiatus esset ad respondend. regi
de catallis _Amiciæ_ Judeæ, quæ fuit uxor sua, quæ quidem catalla post
conversionem suam ad regem pertinebant, ut dicitur. Idem Judeus finem
fecit cum rege pro dimid. marc. auri quam regi solvit, ut secundum legem
et consuetudinem Judaismi ad scaccarium Judæorum super hoc deducatur.
Et mandatum est justic. ad custod. jud. assignatis, quod citra festum S.
_And._ ad scaccarium Judæorum, quod justum fuerit de catallis prædictis
fieri faciant, sicut prædict. est T. per R. de Essington.”