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Thread #123266 Message #2712695
Posted By: Paul Burke
31-Aug-09 - 03:54 AM
Thread Name: BS: A nation founded on injustice?
Subject: RE: BS: A nation founded on injustice?
The only references to Jews in Magna Carta concerned debts due to them:
10. If one who has borrowed from the Jews any sum, great or small, die before that loan be repaid, the debt shall not bear interest while the heir is under age, of whomsoever he may hold; and if the debt fall into our hands, we will not take anything except the principal sum contained in the bond.
11. And if anyone die indebted to the Jews, his wife shall have her dower and pay nothing of that debt; and if any children of the deceased are left under age, necessaries shall be provided for them in keeping with the holding of the deceased; and out of the residue the debt shall be paid, reserving, however, service due to feudal lords; in like manner let it be done touching debts due to others than Jews.
The Jews were expelled by King Edward I in 1290.
There are no references to whiskey in Magna Carta.