Decree of King John, Assize of Money, Winchester [Present-day England]: “If a Jew clips money, and if any…Jewish clipper be found, let all their chattels be taken and their bodies placed in our prison, and they shall be at our will to do justice on them.”
Rot. Lit. Pat. ed. Hardy, i. 54b, Researched and Translated by Joan Paez 1/14/2016