Exchequer of the Jews

English

Proper noun

the Exchequer of the Jews

  1. (historical) A division of the Court of Exchequer at Westminster that recorded and regulated the taxes and the law-cases of the Jews in England and Wales, operating from the late 1190s until the eventual expulsion of the Jews in 1290.
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