79.  If the original operations were directed, as might be presumed,
    against the ancient capital, we should infer that the city here
    spoken of was Ozaka, situated at the mouth of the river upon
    which, at some distance from the coast, Kioto stands, and which is
    known to have been formerly much frequented by Chinese shipping. 
    But, according to P. Gaubil, the island was that of Firando, near
    the city of Nagasaki, not then a place of so much importance as it
    has since become.

80.  There is here a manifest error in the date, which instead of 1264
    should rather be 1284.  In the early Venice epitome it is 1269, as
    well as in the early texts printed by the Paris Geographical
    Society; and in the Basel edition, 1289.  Polo cannot be made
    accountable for these contradictions among his transcribers.

81.  No clew presents itself by which to discover the island meant by
    the name of Zorza or—­allowing for the Venetian
    pronunciation—­Jorja.  Some suppose it to be in one of the lakes of
    Tartary.

82.  Translated and edited by Francis Egerton, Earl of Ellesmere.

83.  In his charter to the city, King Henry exempts his Jews, who were
    to remain the exclusive property of himself and his successors.

84.  The remarkable letter of Robert Grostete, then Archdeacon of
    Leicester, afterward the famous Bishop of Lincoln, to the Countess
    on this subject, shows the feelings of the most enlightened
    churchman in those times toward the Jews.  His mercy, if it was
    mercy, would spare their lives.  “As murderers of the Lord, as
    still blaspheming Christ and mocking his Passion, they were to be
    in captivity to the princes of the earth.  As they have the brand
    of Cain, and are condemned to wander over the face of the earth,
    so were they to have the privilege of Cain, that no one was to
    kill them.  But those who favored or harbored them were to take
    care that they did not oppress Christian subjects by usury.  It was
    for this reason that Simon de Montfort had expelled them from
    Leicester.  Whoever protected them might share in the guilt of
    their usuries.”

85.  This act, translated from the Norman French, is remarkable in that
    the King admits that they (the Jews) are, and have been, very
    profitable to him and his ancestors.

86.  The act for the expulsion of the Jews has not come down to us; we
    know not, therefore, the reasons alleged for the measure.  Of the
    fact there can be no doubt (see Report on the Dignity of a Peer,
    p. 180), and there are many documents relating to the event, as
    writs to the authorities in Gloucester and York, to grant them
    safe-conduct to the ports where they were to embark.

87.  “Great,” writes the author of Anglia Judaica, “were the spoils
    they left behind them.  Whole rolls, full of patents relating to
    their estates, are still remaining in the Tower, which, together
    with their rents in fee and their mortgages, all escheated to the
    King.”