“Official Announcement” of Archbishop Henry [Heinrich] of Cologne [Present-day Germany; Electorate of Cologne]: “[…] Jews who move into the city at a later date must negotiate an annual annuity (‘annua persiona’) with the Archbishop or his officials [which are] to be paid to the Archbishop. […]”
Medieval Ashkenaz: Corpus der Quellen zur Geschichte der Juden im Spätmittlealterlichen Reich; Quellen zur Geschichte der Juden in der Stadt Köln Nr. 135 (“Corpus of the Sources on the History of Jews in the Late Middles Ages; Sources on the History of the Jews in the City of Cologne, No. 135”); Accessed online; Researched and Translated by Ziba Shadjaani 5/26/2017