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It could have been worse, and for the Jews of England, it was. The Welsh wars cost ten times the King' s annual revenue, and the price of victory and castle building had so exhaustively bled the Jews the usual source of loans and taxation so they had nothing left to yield, and so could be dispensed with altogether. Early in his reign, Edward, perhaps acting from religious conviction, outlawed money lending, and so put most of England' s Jews out of business. He then forced them to wear yellow felt badges of identification and so be recognised as the subspecies of humanity he undoubtedly believed they were. A year after his first Welsh invasion, Edward arrested all the heads of the Jewish households and hanged nearly 300 in the Tower. |
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rú guǒ shuō hái yǒu shuí bǐ zhè gèng bù xìng, nà jiù shì yīng gé lán de yóu tài rén. wēi ěr shì zhàn zhēng de fèi yòng shì quán guó yī nián zǒng shōu rù de shí bèi, wéi chí zhàn zhēng hé xiū jiàn chéng bǎo de zī jīn chóu mù, zhà gàn le yóu tài rén de quán bù cái chǎn. ér tā men zhèng shì dài kuǎn hé fù shuì de zhǔ yào lái yuán, zài shī qù lì yòng jià zhí hòu, tā men bèi chè dǐ pāo qì, wú yī xìng miǎn. zài tǒng zhì de zǎo qī, ài dé huá, huò xǔ shì gēn jù jiào huì de cái dìng, jìn zhǐ le zī jīn jiè dài, dǎo zhì dà bù fèn yīng gé lán de yóu tài rén pò chǎn. suí hòu tā qiǎng pò yóu tài rén pèi dài huáng sè máo zhān huī zhāng yǐ biāo shí shēn fèn, yóu tài rén bèi jiè dìng wéi xià děng mín zú, ài dé huá duì zhè yì diǎn què xìn wú yí. zài tā rù qīn wēi ěr shì yī nián zhī hòu, ài dé huá zhuā bǔ le suǒ yǒu yóu tài jiā tíng de hù zhǔ, bìng zài lún dūn tǎ shàng diào sǐ le qí zhōng jiàng jìn 300 rén. |