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Medieval England's Coin-Clipping Scandal: The 1279 Mass Execution of Jews - Medievalists.net

King Edward I ordered mass arrests in 1278–79 accusing Jews and others of coin-clipping, provoking severe fiscal and political consequences for English Jewry.
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