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At Elias' death, an inquest made upon his estate declared him to be possessed of personal property to the value of 400 marks and of houses of the yearly rental of 100 shillings. His widow Fluria was permitted to retain on payment to the king of 400 marks. One of his houses appears to have been
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Elias remained one of the most important Jews of London in 1277, being one of the few who were granted permission to trade as merchants though they were not members of the
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for certain of the English nobles. In 1266, he was again treated as a Jew and compensation to the amount of £50 was granted him for losses he had incurred during the
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Jewish Encyclopedia bibliography: Prynne, Short Demurrer, part ii., sub annis; Jacobs, in Papers of the Anglo-Jew. Hist. Exh. pp. 22, 45, 49-51; M. Paris,
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Elias headed the deputation which asked the king's permission to leave the country in 1253. In 1255 he was imprisoned as a surety for the
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who lived from 1220-1284. Some of the below details, taken from the Jewish Encyclopedia article, may refer to Eliyahu Menachem.
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of the Jews, and two years later he was deposed from office, being succeeded by his brother,
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See A. Berliner, "Hebräische Poesien Meïrs aus Norwich," p. 3, London, 1887
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Select Pleas of the Jewish Exchequer, ed. Rigg, pp. 86 (London, 1902)
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in 1280, and he obtained permission to visit the count in that year.
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10,000, besides £100 a year for a period of four years.
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He appears to have been a 49: 7: 1389:Medical doctors from London 1379:13th-century English rabbis 1224:Isaiah di Trani the Younger 868:Judah ben Isaac Messer Leon 620:Levi ben Abraham ben Hayyim 488:Zerachiah ha-Levi of Girona 407:Meir ben Solomon Abi-Sahula 136:in 1290, it was granted to 10: 1420: 1124:Eliyahu Menachem of London 1016:Eliezer ben Isaac ha-Gadol 893:Elijah ben Menahem HaZaken 838:Samson ben Abraham of Sens 602:David ben Levi of Narbonne 156: 54:Elias of London succeeded 40:Eliyahu Menachem of London 1289: 1256:Moses ben Meir of Ferrara 1202: 1167: 1134:Jacob ben Judah of London 1099: 906: 873:Joseph ben Samuel Bonfils 678: 552: 450: 326: 277: 118:John II, Count of Holland 1333:Isaac ben Jacob ha-Lavan 1323:Isaac ben Samuel of Acre 843:Isaac ben Eliezer Halevi 773:Haim ben Hananel HaCohen 741:Moses ben Jacob of Coucy 665:Aaron ben Jacob ha-Kohen 313:Samuel ben Jacob ibn Jam 93:. 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Index

Presbyter Judaeorum
England
Eliyahu Menachem of London
Rishonim
Aaron of York
London
Jewish Parliament
Worcester
Abraham fil Aaron
Henry III of England
£
tallage
Hagin (Hayyim)
Matthew Paris
poison
First Barons' War
Gild Merchant
physician
John II, Count of Holland
Sporier Street
Tower of London
Edict of Expulsion
Chicksands Priory
halakha
The Mordechai
public domain
Richard Gottheil
Joseph Jacobs
"Elyas of London"
Singer, Isidore

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