I saw my mother 's face across the candle flame , and I said , `` I will come with thee to Bury . Maybe my Kingdom shall be there . '' ` So I sailed with Elias to the darkness and the cruelty of Bury in England , where there are no learned men . How can a man be wise if he hate ? At Bury I kept his accounts for Elias , and I saw men kill Jews there by the tower . No -- none laid hands on Elias . He lent money to the King , and the King 's favour was about him . A King will not take the life so long as there is any gold . This King -- yes , John -- oppressed his people bitterly because they would not give him money . Yet his land was a good land . If he had only given it rest he might have cropped it as a Christian crops his beard . But even that little he did not know , for God had deprived him of all understanding , and had multiplied pestilence , and famine , and despair upon the people . Therefore his people turned against us Jews , who are all people 's dogs . Why not ? Lastly the Barons and the people rose together against the King because of his cruelties . Nay -- nay -- the Barons did not love the people , but they saw that if the King cut up and destroyed the common people , he would presently destroy the Barons . They joined then , as cats and pigs will join to slay a snake . I kept the accounts , and I watched all these things , for I remembered the Prophecy . ' A great gathering of Barons -LRB- to most of whom we had lent money -RRB- came to Bury , and there , after much talk and a thousand runnings-about , they made a roll of the New Laws that they would force on the King . If he swore to keep those Laws , they would allow him a little money .
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