[1] As at Stamford (on the faire day in Lent) at Lin|colne, and at Yorke, Iohn Textor. in which citie after a number of them had béene besieged certeine daies within a [...] of the kings (whither they fled for succour) one of them learned gouernours caused foure hundred ofFive hundred saith Houeden and Textor. their companie to consent to haue their thro [...]s cut [page 122] one at an others hands, he himself cutting his wiues throt first, whose name was Anna, then his childrens, one after another, and last of all slue himselfe, onlie rather than he would fall into the hands of the chri|stians, that had thus long besieged them. The rest perceiuing what their great Rabbi had doone, set fire vpon all their goods and substance, which they had got|ten into the tower with them, and so consuming the same, would haue burnt also the residue of their fel|lowes which would not agrée to the Rabbies coun|sell, in the cruell murthering of themselues, if they had not taken a strong turret hard by within that tower, and defended themselues both from the fire and crueltie of their brethren, who had made awaie themselues in such manner as I haue said: and that to the number of foure hundred, or (as some write) fiue hundred at the least.