ships it should be conuenient for him to take with him and furnish into
Asia: and herewith he did command them also to obeie Robert earle of
Leicester, whome he appointed to remaine amongst them as his lieutenant
or vicegerent of those parts during his absence.

¶ But here to leaue king Richard in consultation for matters
appertaining to his iournie, and shew brieflie what happened (by the
waie) to the Jewes, [Sidenote: _W. Paruus._] which as then dwelt heere
in England, after that king Richard was passed ouer into Normandie: ye
haue heard how after the riot against them at London, when the king was
crowned, he tooke order that they should remaine in peace vnder his
protection, and commanded that no person should in anie wise molest
them. But now after that he was gone ouer, and that the souldiers (which
prepared themselues to follow him) began to assemble in routs, the heads
of the common people began to wax wild and faine would they haue had
some occasion of raising a new tumult against the Jewes, [Sidenote: The
hatred borne to the Jewes.] whome (for their vnmercifull vsurie
practised to the vndooing of manie an honest man) they most deadlie
hated, wishing most earnestlie their expulsion out of England. Hervpon
by reason of a riot committed latelie against them, at the towne of Lin
in Norfolke, where manie of them were slaine, other people in other
parts of the realme, taking occasion hereat, as if they had béene called
vp by the sound of a bell or trumpet, arose against them in those townes
where they had any habitations, and robbed and bet them after a
disordered and most riotous maner.

[Sidenote: _Iohn Textor._] As at Stamford (on the faire day in Lent); at
Lincolne and at Yorke, in which citie after a number of them had béene
besieged certeine daies within a towre of the kings (whither they fled
for succour) one of their learned gouernours caused foure hundred of