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1. Full Date of Act	Sep. 21, 1338
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)	“Official Agreement” between Raugrave Rupert and Count John of Sponheim
3. Geography of Act	Present-day Germany
4. Text of Act	Raugrave Ruprecht (‘Rupprecht der rugraffe’) promises his uncle, John of Sponheim (‘Johann von Spanheym’), lords of Kreuznach (‘Crutzenmachen’), to quickly comply with a set of specified obligations, among which to build a town outside of the village Ebernburg (‘Ebirburg’) as well as a permanent house in the town and a castle above it on hutteberge which... if we come to an agreement, we will own together, [and] we shall keep Jews together in the city and also protect them, [and] they (the Jews) shall serve us together. […]
5. Source	Regesten des Archivs der Grafen von Sponheim 1, Nr. 698, S. 427 f. [Original]; (“Regesta of the Archives of the Count of Sponheim 1, No. 698, p. 427 f.”); Medieval Ashkenaz: Corpus der Quellen zur Geschichte der Juden in Spätmittelalterlichen Reich; Quellen zur Geschichte der Juden in Erzbistum Mainz (1273-1347); ("Corpus of the Sources on the History of the Jews in the Late Middle Ages; Sources on the History of Jews in Archbishopric of Mainz (1273-1347)"
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8. Notes	Researcher The above official agreement between Raugrave Rupert and Count John of Sponheim has been partially paraphrased in an effort to abbreviate the very long original text.

1. Full Date of Act	Oct. 15, 1338
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)	Writ/letter of Duke Henry of Landshut given to the citizens of Deggendorf
3. Geography of Act	Present-day Germany
4. Text of Act	We, Henry (‘Heinrich’), Count-Palatine (‘Pfalzgraf’) of Rhine and Duke in Bavaria, announce publicly with this letter […] to all who see and read this […] that we bestow our grace on Conrad the Freiberger, our knight, the [city] council, and the citizens […] of our city Deggerndorf [and absolve them from any blame/liability …] for having burnt and ruined our Jews in Deggendorf. Furthermore, we wish that everything that they have taken from these Jews or that which came into their possession - publicly or secretly - they are to keep. Any money which they owed to Jews or any [notes] of debt […] is done/expired (and void) […]. In these three matters, they are to remain unpaid […] and [this matter is] to remain unaddressed and indisputable [and no complaint/lawsuit can be brought forth in this matter] against our officers/authorities (‘Amtteuten’) or our heir/successors. […]
5. Source	Höxter, Julius: Quellentexte zur jüdischen Geschichte und Literatur. (Sources pertaining to Jewish history and literature.); (Wiesbaden; 2009)
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1. Full Date of Act	Dec. 8, 1338
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)	“Mandate” of Archbishop Henry (Heinrich) of Mainz
3. Geography of Act	Present-day Germany; Free Imperial City of Mainz/Electorate of Mainz
4. Text of Act	We, Heinrich (Henry), Archbishop of Mainz by the grace of God, and Arch-Chancellor of the Holy Roman Empire, announce to those who see or hear [or] read this letter, that we want to bestowed a special grace upon our citizens of Miltenberg, and that we do not want any Jew who live here or anywhere else in our domain to asks/requests/collect debt which he has previously given up/renounced while being beaten/hit. […] This we certify with this letter, sealed with our seal, which is issued in Aschaffenburg […].
5. Source	Amorbach, Fürstlich Leiningensches Archiv, Urk. 1338 Dezember 8, Orig., dt., Perg. (“Amorbach, Princely Leningen Archives, [Official] Document 1338 December 8, Orig[inal], German, [on] Parchment Paper”)
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1. Full Date of Act	Mar. 15, 1339
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)	Writ of Holy Roman Emperor, Louis IV
3. Geography of Act	Present-day Holland
4. Text of Act	Louis, the Bavarian, permits Duke Reinald von Gelcern to keep Jews in his castles, cities, and villages […] and to collect from them the common levies.
5. Source	Regesten zur Geschichte der Juden in Deutschland während des Mittelalters. Bearbeitet von Dr. M. Wiener. Erster Teil. (Regesta regarding the history of Jews in Germany during the Middle Ages. First Part.); (Hannover; 1862)
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8. Notes	Researcher The above is a translation of a German summary of the old Latin text, which can be found in Niyhoff’s Gedenkwaardighede uit de Geschiedenis van Gelderland (Memories from the history of Gelderland); Volume 1.

1. Full Date of Act	Dec. 10, 1339
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)	Writ of Holy Roman Emperor, Louis IV
3. Geography of Act	Present-day Germany
4. Text of Act	Louis, the Bavarian, sells/pledges the Jews of Speyer to the Elector/Count Palatine Rupert [I.] (‘Pfalzgraf Ruprecht’) for his debt of 2,000 Pound (‘Pfund’) Heller - with the consent of Bishop Gerhard of Speyer, to whom they (the Jews of Speyer) were pledged before for the same amount.
5. Source	Regesten zur Geschichte der Juden in Deutschland während des Mittelalters. Bearbeitet von Dr. M. Wiener. Erster Teil. (Regesta regarding the history of Jews in Germany during the Middle Ages. First Part.); (Hannover; 1862)
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1. Full Date of Act	Jan. 17, 1340
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)	Writ of Holy Roman Emperor, Louis IV
3. Geography of Act	Present-day Hungary [Provisional]
4. Text of Act	“Emperor Louis forgives/absolves the Cistercian cloister in Waldsassen of all of their debts which they owed to the Jews near/at Eger.”
5. Source	Regesta Imperii. Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz. [RI VII] Ludwig der Bayer (1314-1347) - [RI VII] H. 9 (Academie for the Sciences and Literature of Mainz. [RI VII] Louis, the Bavaria (1314-1347) - [RI VII] H. 9); http://www.regesta-imperii.de; Accessed online;
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8. Notes	Researcher The above is a translation of a German summary of a copy of the original Latin text, which has been lost. However, the pertinent excerpts were discovered in a book from the 15th Century, and can also be found in the cited source. Experts place the date of this writ somewhere between January 17 and November 24.

1. Full Date of Act	Jan. 24, 1340
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)	“Official Announcement” made by the Knight and Mayor of Frankfurt Rudolf of Sachsenhausen and his wife Christine
3. Geography of Act	Present-day Germany; Free Imperial City of Frankfurt
4. Text of Act	Rudolf of Sachsenhausen, knight and Mayor of Frankfurt and his wife Christine announce that they have purchased the royal pledge set on the Jews of Frankfort for an annual payment of 25 Mark from Gottfried of Eppenstein. […] Gottfried and his heirs can buy back this pledge for 450 Pounds Heller at any time. […]
5. Source	Wiesbaden, HStA, 3002 XIII, 2.1, fol. 162v, Abschr., dt. Papier. (“Main City Archive of Wiesbaden, 3002 XIII, 2.1, fol. 162v, Copy, German, [on] Paper”);
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1. Full Date of Act	May 23, 1340
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)	Writ of Holy Roman Emperor, Louis IV
3. Geography of Act	Present-day Germany
4. Text of Act	Emperor Louis transfers all rights (and jurisdiction) over Jews in Ingolstadt, his dear chamber-servants, to the judge, [city] council, and [citizens-] community of Ingolstadt […] and orders that [the aforementioned Jews] may not take more than two pennies per pound of pennies from citizens and [no more than] 3 pennies from outsiders/foreigners.
5. Source	Regesten zur Geschichte der Juden in Deutschland während des Mittelalters. Bearbeitet von Dr. M. Wiener. Erster Teil. (Regesta regarding the history of Jews in Germany during the Middle Ages. First Part.); (Hannover; 1862)
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8. Notes	Researcher The above is a translation of a German summary of the original text which can be found in Mederer’s Geschichte von Ingolstadt (History of Ingolstadt).

1. Full Date of Act	Jun. 4, 1340
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)	Writ announced by the Notary Heinrich on behalf of Duke Albert II of Austria
3. Geography of Act	Austria; Duchy of Austria
4. Text of Act	[…] Albrecht II, Duke of Austria, Steyr, and Carinthia, due to the great harm and related disputes that often arise from the wickedness of Jews for forging seals and documents […] and after following the advice of his nobility to eradicate this evil […] he has found a solution in the interest of his Christian and Jewish subjects by employing two public notaries, namely Heinrich himself and Eckhard, to help write down all [current] debts in the possession of Jews in a book created for them and to have such [deeds] registered in the future as well.
5. Source	Brugger, Eveline and Brigit Wiedl: Regesten zur Geschichte der Juden in Österreich im Mittelalter. Band 2: 1339-1365. (Innsbruck/Wien/Bozen; 2010); (Regesta pertaining to the history of Jews in Austria during the Middle Ages. Volume 2: 1339-1365); (Innsbruck/Vienna/Bolzano; 2010)
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1. Full Date of Act	Jul. 25, 1340
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)	“Mandate” issued by the Imperial City of Rothenburg
3. Geography of Act	Present-day Germany
4. Text of Act	[…] 64) it is also right/lawful and done (determined) that should a Jew allow his claim for a debt in court lapse more than two years, during which [two years] he does not submit a new written claim, he should lose his claim over the main debt and interests, and one is to no longer owe him anything. […]
5. Source	Rothenburg o. d. T., StadtA, B 9a, fol. 5r, Orig., dt., Pap. (“Rothenburg over the Tauber City Archive, B 9a, fol. 5r, Orig[inal], German, [on] Paper”);
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1. Full Date of Act	Sep. 11, 1340
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)	Writ of Holy Roman Emperor, Louis IV
3. Geography of Act	Present-day Germany
4. Text of Act	We, Louis (‘Ludewig’), Roman Emperor by the grace of God, announce publicly with this letter/writ, that the nobleman Gottfried von Eppstein (‘Gottfrid von Eppinstein’), our dear loyal [subject] has sold the 25 Mark of Cologne Pfennige [currency] which have been placed on [taxed from] the Jews in Frankfurt, who have been given by Us and Our empire as loan for 250 Mark Cologne Pennies and three (‘drittehalp* hundert Marche kolnscher Pennige, dry’) Heller to Rudolph von Sachsenhusen (‘Rudolffen von Sassenhuffen’), our dear Schultheissen in Frankfurt […] and that the aforementioned Gotffrid von Eppinstein or his heirs can repurchase these for the same 25 Mark of good currency whenever they wish […]" refers to 2.5 and is an old unit of measurement in which full units plus their half could be understood. A Schultheiss/Schultheiß was the head of the municipality in medieval Germany.]
5. Source	Senckenberg von, Heinrich Christian: Selecta Iuris et historiarum tum anecdote, tum jam edita, sed Rariora. Quorum Tomus I. Francofurti ad Moenum; MDCCXXXIV. (Selection of laws and of already but rarely issued stories and anecdotes. Volume I.); (Frankfurt a. M.; 1734)
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8. Notes	Researcher *Dritthalb [old: drittehalp

1. Full Date of Act	Oct. 23, 1340
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)	“Order” of Count Walram of Sponheim-Kreuznach
3. Geography of Act	Present-day Germany; House of Sponheim
4. Text of Act	[…] 5) Count [Sponheim-Keuznach] orders the Jews - who belong to him - to be led out of Kirchberg at night, while Jews (‘Erbjuden’), who have settled there under the protection of Archbishop Balduins and all other Jews who live there, to be killed. […]
5. Source	Koblenz, LHA, 1 A 5042, Orig., dt., Perg. [Original Text]; Medieval Ashkenaz: Corpus der Quellen zur Geschichte der Juden in Spätmittelalterlichen Reich; Quellen zur Geschichte der Juden in Erzbistum Mainz (1273-1347); (Corpus of the Sources on the History of the Jews in the Late Middle Ages; Sources on the History of Jews in Archbishopric of Mainz (1273-1347) [Summary of Text]);
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8. Notes	Researcher This deplorable massacre was ordered by Count Sponheim with the intention of wiping out the debt he owed to Jews and in order to appropriate their entire property. It is said that Count Sponheim’s servant went from door to door to lay claim to the belonging of the Jews of Sponheim. Also, this passage - originally written in old German - has been paraphrased in an effort to abbreviate the very long original text.

1. Full Date of Act	1341 C.E.
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)	“Legislation” in the Second Oath Book of the City of Cologne
3. Geography of Act	Electorate of Cologne; Present-day Germany [Provisional]
4. Text of Act	“[…] the [City] Council no longer permits a Jew or a Jewess or anyone else on their behalf to purchase any items of inheritance (inherited estates) from Christians, except with the explicit authorization of the City Council. […]”
5. Source	Akten zur Geschichte der Verfassung und Verwaltung 1, Nr. 20, S. 31 f.; Zwei Cölner Eidbücher, S. 100; Quellen zur Geschichte der Stadt Köln 1, S. 19 (“Records on the History and Constitution and Administration 1, No. 20, p. 31 f.; Two Oath Book of Cologne, p. 100; Sources on the History of the City of Cologne 1, p. 19”);
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1. Full Date of Act	Apr. 3, 1341
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)	“Official Announcement” issued by the Bailiff Gottfried von Eppenstein and his Wife Lorette
3. Geography of Act	Present-day Germany; Free Imperial City of Frankfurt and Wetterau
4. Text of Act	[The Bailiff] Gottfried V. von Eppenstein and his wife Lorette announce the transfer of the Jews of Frankfurt worth 108 Pounds Heller to Count Engelbrecht von Zeigenhain Jr. [among other things] to settle their debt to him and their daughter. […]
5. Source	Wiesbaden, HStA, Abt. 331 Nr. 54, Abschr., dt. Papier (“Main City Archive of Wiesbaden, Department 331 No. 54, Copy, German, [on] Paper”);
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1. Full Date of Act	Apr. 18, 1341
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)	“Writ” of John of Bohemia
3. Geography of Act	Europe (multi-countries)
4. Text of Act	King John permits the citizens/townsmen of the city of [Budweis] to accept two Jews in their city who are to pay a tribute/tax for the maintenance and building of the city walls. […].
5. Source	Zur Geschichte der Juden in Böhmen, Mähren und Schlesien von 906 bis 1620. Herausgegeben von Gottlieb Bondy, em. Präsidenten der Handels - und Gewerbekammer in Prag. Zur Herausgabe vorbereitet und ergänzt von Franz Dworsky, em. Director des Landesarchives des Königreiches Böhmens. I. 1577 bis 1620. (Prag; 1906); (Regarding the history of Jews in Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia from 906 to 1620. Published by Gottlieb Bondy, fo[rmer] President of the Trade and Commerce and Industry in Prague. Prepared for publication and supplemented by Franz Dworsky, fo[rmer] Director of the National Archives of the Kingdom of Bohemia. I. 1577 to 1620.); (Prague; 1906)
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8. Notes	Editor Present-day Czech Republic, Germany, Poland; Kingdom of Bohemia Researcher While this writ may appear pro-Jewish in nature, it did in fact limit the number of Jews that could settle in [Budweis]. In a second royal letter, King John permits the city to allow two more Jews to settle in the same city.

1. Full Date of Act	May 3, 1341
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)	“Writ” issued by King John of Bohemia
3. Geography of Act	Kingdom of Bohemia
4. Text of Act	[As] John, by the grace of God, King of Bohemia, […We give] the Abby and Convent to the Cloister in Waldsassen salvation with an abundance of good [will]! Since you have fallen into great poverty due to the interests charged by the Eger Jews, and have become very poor under such pressure, […] We wish to graciously pardon you and place favor on you, so that you […] may and shall legally sue each one of those Jews for all interests which they have received from you or the cloister […and assure you] that by doing so, you’re not violating that which is Ours. We also promise you and the lords not to stand in your way when you take them [interests] back, but to rather assist you […]. That is why we deign to place our seal on this letter as witness. […].
5. Source	Geschichte des Egerlandes (bis 1437) von Heinrich Gradl. Mit Unterstützung der Gesellschaft zur Förderung deutscher Wissenschaft, Kunst und Literatur in Böhmen. (Prag;1893); (History of Egerland* (until 1437) by Heinrich Gradl. With the support the Society for the Promotion of German Science, Art and Literature in Bohemia.); (Prague; 1893)
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8. Notes	Researcher The letter was drafted and signed in Prague.

1. Full Date of Act	Oct. 16, 1341
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)	“Writ” of King John of Bohemia
3. Geography of Act	Kingdom of Bohemia; Present-day Germany
4. Text of Act	King John of Bohemia gifts the citizens of Neumark in Silesia an annual revenue of 5 mark Prague groschen for 10 years which they may raise from the local Jews in order to fortify/secure the city with a proper wall.
5. Source	Zur Geschichte der Juden in Böhmen, Mähren und Schlesien von 906 bis 1620. Herausgegeben von Gottlieb Bondy, em. Präsidenten der Handels- und Gewerbekammer in Prag. Zur Herausgabe vorbereitet und ergänzt von Franz Dworsky, em. Director des Landesarchives des Königreiches Böhmens. I. 1577 bis 1620. (Prag; 1906); (Regarding the history of Jews in Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia from 906 to 1620. Published by Gottlieb Bondy, fo[rmer] President of the Trade and Commerce and Industry in Prague. Prepared for publication and supplemented by Franz Dworsky, fo[rmer] Director of the National Archives of the Kingdom of Bohemia. I. 1577 to 1620.) (Prague; 1906)
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8. Notes	Researcher The above is a translation of a German summary of the original Latin text.

1. Full Date of Act	1342 C.E.
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)	“Regulation” issued by the Councilmen of Salzwedel
3. Geography of Act	Hanseatic League; Present-day Germany [Provisional]
4. Text of Act	“[…] Jews residing in Salzwedel shall only slaughter [animals] between Walburgistag (May 1) and Martinstag/Saint Martin’s Day (November 11) which they may only do for their own use, but not for foreign Jews or for the sale at the markets. […] between Gall’s day (October 16) and St. Martin’s Day, they can slaughter [anything] and sell whatever they cannot use. [After November 11, however] no slaughtering may be done as per the guidelines of the city. Any unlawfully slaughtered [animal] shall be confiscated and sent to the sick; Jews, who act in violation of this provision, will be persecuted in court. […]”
5. Source	Salzwedel, StadtA (Salzwedel, City Archive), Rep. II, C, I, Nr/No. 6, XIII, [Innenseite des Einbands (Inside of the Cover)], Stadtbucheintrag (City-book entry), Latin.
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1. Full Date of Act	Feb. 2, 1342
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)	Writ of Holy Roman Emperor, Louis IV
3. Geography of Act	Present-day Germany
4. Text of Act	[Emperor Louis confirms via this writ] that - in good council - We have come to an agreement with the Jewry in the empire in that each Jew and Jewess, who is a widow, and above the age of twelve, and holds assets worth more than twenty Gulden, is to give annually one Gulden as a body-tax (‘Zinß Von iren Leib’) [… and orders the city of Rotenburg to dutifully help him with the (worth-) estimation of the local Jews …]
5. Source	Historische Untersuchungen über die ehemalige Reichsstadt Rotenburg oder die Geschichte der deutschen Gemeinde aus urkundlichen Quellen bearbeitet von Dr. Heinrich Wilhelm Bensen. (Nürnberg; 1837); (Historical examination regarding the Imperial City of Rotenburg or the history of the German community from official sources/writs compiled/edited by Heinrich Wilhelm Bensen, PhD.) (Nuremberg; 1837)
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1. Full Date of Act	Feb. 3, 1342
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)	Order issued by Ludwig the Bavarian
3. Geography of Act	Germany
4. Text of Act	[…] we came to an agreement with the Jews in the kingdom, that every Jew and every Jewish woman, who is a widow, those who are of the age 12 and older and also have twenty florins, have to give us a florin every year […]. Muenchen 1342
5. Source	Bensen, Heinrich, Historische Untersuchungen über die ehemalige Reichsstadt Rotenburg, Nürnberg 1837, page 179f. Accessed online
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1. Full Date of Act	Jun. 20, 1342
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)	Writ of Holy Roman Emperor Louis IV
3. Geography of Act	Present-day Germany
4. Text of Act	Emperor Louis, the Bavarian, orders the following […] in order that the Jews and Christians in the Imperial City of Nördlingen can live in peace together […] 1) The Jews who live in Nördlingen are to have two or three of their own meat-banks […] called Jewish-banks (‘Juden bench’) […]. Jews may only sell the meat butchered in their meat-banks among themselves but not to Christians. No one may sell any meat Jews have butchered to the meat-banks of Christians, neither publicly nor secretly. Anyone who violates this order is to pay for each cattle one Pound (‘Pfund’) Heller and for each calf 60 Heller [and for each] sheep or goat the same as fine to the Christian community […].
5. Source	Medieval Ashkenaz: Corpus der Quellen zur Geschichte der Juden im Spätmittlealterlichen Reich (Corpus of the Sources on the History of Jews in the Late Middles Ages); (Sources regarding the history of the Jews in the Swabian imperial towns Esslingen - Ulm - Nördlingen. 1, Nr. 47.); www.medieval-ashkenaz.org.
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8. Notes	Researcher The above writ has been abbreviated to fit the allocated space and also contains some rescission of earlier restriction. For instance, Louis permits Jews to purchase cattle in the city at any time of the day. The original writ is located in the City Archive of Nördlingen.

1. Full Date of Act	Dec. 10, 1342
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)	"Privilege" issued by Holy Roman Emperor Louis IV and addressed to the city of Hall
3. Geography of Act	Present-day Germany
4. Text of Act	We, Louis, Roman Emperor by the grace of God […] announce publicly and order that we have bestowed great grace upon the people, the Schultheiß*, and the [City] Council together in that we wish that the Jews of Hall, who are already there or who may come there in the future, are to loan the Pound (‘Pfund’) Heller for two Heller per week, and that they are not to request or pressure anyone to give more […] this We command from these [aforementioned] Jews, Our chamber-servants […]
5. Source	Lünig, Johann Christian: Das Deutschen Reichs-Archiv. Band 13. (Leipzig; 1714); (The German Imperial Archive. Volume 13.) (Leipzig; 1714)
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8. Notes	Researcher *A Schultheiss/Schultheiß was the head of the municipality in medieval Germany.

1. Full Date of Act	1343 C.E.
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)	“Regulation” of Altstadt (“Old District/City”) of Salzwedel
3. Geography of Act	Hanseatic League; Present-day Germany [Provisional]
4. Text of Act	“[…] that the Jews who reside in our city may only slaughter [animals] for their own use starting on “Dionysiustag (October 16) for four weeks but not for foreign Jews.”
5. Source	Salzwedel, StadtA (“Salzwedel, City Archive”), Rep. II, I, C, Nr./No. 3, fol. 52 v, Stadtbucheintrag (City-book entry), Latin.
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1. Full Date of Act	Feb. 5, 1343
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)	Order issued by Ludwig the Bavarian
3. Geography of Act	Germany
4. Text of Act	[…]We confide with this letter that we relieve Johann Burggraf and his heirs from all his debts. […] For the above-mentioned Jews, as well as other Jews, belong to us and the kingdom. And we can do with their lives and property what we want and whatever we wish.
5. Source	Spiess, Philipp, Archivische Nebenarbeiten und Nachrichten vermischten Inhalts mit Urkunden 1, 1783, page 118f, Accessed online
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1. Full Date of Act	Apr. 7, 1343
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)	“Regulation” of the Councilmen of the ancient city of Berlin (new and old)
3. Geography of Act	Present-day Germany; Margraviate of Brandenburg
4. Text of Act	[…] Jews of Berlin are not permitted to move in across/next door to Christian cattle traders or at the markets […] they are only to purchase healthy and young – but no too young – cattle at the markets in return for an annual fee. […] Jews are not permitted to sell the meat in pieces smaller than a quarter of the animal. Buyers of the meat are only permitted to purchase such meat for their own use.
5. Source	Regesten der Urkunden zur Geschichte von Berlin/Cölln (“Registry of the Documents/Certificates Regarding the History of Berlin/Cologne”), Nr./No. 42, S./p. 69 f.; Urkundenbestand des Stadtarchivs Berlin (Certificate Stock of the City Archive of Berlin), Nr./No. 54, S./p. 103; Zum Codex diplomaticus, S./p. 22; Fidicin, Chronik (1868), Sp./Column 80.
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8. Notes	Researcher The City of Berlin permitted Jews to slaughter and sell cattle meat publically in return for an annual interest (to be paid to the city). However, to ensure that this permission did not damage the business of the Christian bone-hewers (who were protected by their guilds) this new regulation was issued.