[1] [2] [3] About the same time also,The Iewes constreined to helpe the king with monie. he caused the Iewes to giue vnto him a great portion of their goods, so that they were greatlie impouerished. There was one of them named Aaron borne in Yorke, the which since the kings last returne out of Gascoigne, had paied to the king the summe of thirtie thousand markes, Matth. Paris. ouer and besides two hundred marks which he had giuen to the quéene, as the same Aaron protested to Matthew Paris vpon his faith and truth which he bare to his law. In the Whitsunwéeke was a generall chapter holden of the friers preachers at London in Holborne,A generall chapter of ye friers prea|chers. where out of sundrie parts of the world were assembled aboue foure hundred of them, and they had meat and drinke found them of almesse, bi|cause they possessed nothing of their owne. On the first daie the king came into their chapter, that he might be partaker of their praiers, and found them meat and drinke that day, and dined there with them, to doo them the more honour. Another day the quéene likewise fed them, and afterwards the bishop of Lon|don, the abbats of Westminster, S. Albon, and Wal|tham, with others.