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This Essay, to which the Arnold Prize in the University of Oxford
was awarded in 1894, has appeared in the _Jewish Quarterly Review_
for October, 1894, and January and April, 1895. I am indebted to the
Editors of the _Review_ for permission to republish it.
I wish to express my obligations to _Bibliotheca Anglo-Judaica: a
Bibliographical Guide to Anglo-Jewish History_, compiled by Messrs.
JOSEPH JACOBS and LUCIEN WOLF, and to _The Jews of Angevin England_,
by Mr. JOSEPH JACOBS. Nearly all the passages bearing on Anglo-Jewish
history, down to 1206, are contained in the latter book, and many of
the references in the earlier part of my essay might have been made
to its pages. I thought it better, however, to refer direct to the
original authorities, and have, as a rule, mentioned Mr. Jacobs’ book
only when using passages in it which have been nowhere else printed.
Some articles which I have contributed to Mr. R. H. I. PALGRAVE’S
_Dictionary of Political Economy_, to the First Volume of the
_Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England_, and to the
_Jewish Chronicle_ for April 26th, 1895, contain information bearing on
the subject of this Essay.