Vosper family from Launceston - David Hillman4

From: Teri
Sent: Sunday, February 07, 2016 11:09 AM
To: 'davidhillman07@
Subject: RE: Re[6]: FW: Vosper family from Launceston

Bummer!  I appreciate you going to all that effort.  I can't deal with paper, myself.  That's why I put all the citations and documents on Ancestry.

I was wondering if you ever investigated either of the two institutions I've noted below, taken from http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/5764-england

THE EXCHEQUER OF THE JEWS:  On his return Richard determined to organize the Jewry in order to insure that he should no longer be defrauded, by any such outbreaks as those that occurred after his coronation, of his just dues as universal legatee of the Jewry. He accordingly decided, in 1194, that records should be kept by royal officials of all the transactions of the Jews, which without such record should not be legal. Every debt was to be entered upon a chirograph, one part of which was to be kept by the Jewish creditor, and the other preserved in a chest to which only special officials should have access. By this means the king could at any time ascertain the property of any Jew in the land; and no destruction of the bond held by the Jew could release the creditor from his indebtedness. This "Ordinance of the Jewry" was practically the beginning of the Exchequer of the Jews, which made all the transactions of the English Jewry liable to taxation by the King of England, who thus became a sleeping partner in all the transactions of Jewish usury. The king besides demanded two bezants in the pound, that is, 10 per cent, of all sums recovered by the Jews with the aid of his courts.

THE DOMUS CONVERSORUM:  Between the expulsion of the Jews in 1290 and their formal return in 1655 there is no official trace of Jews as such on English soil except in connection with the Domus Conversorum, which kept a considerable number of them within its precincts up to 1551 and even later. 

I'm thinking you probably haven't, as you had discounted the "Jewish" aspect of the family tree.

What about this reference:

The second highlight talks about a quartering of the Vosper arms with the Levelis family arms.  Have you come across that family?

Teri

From: davidhillman07@
Sent: Sunday, February 07, 2016 10:15 AM
To: Teri
Subject: Re[6]: FW: Vosper family from Launceston

Thank you. No I have not found the photocopy. I have searched through piles of ,aper in different drawers to no avail.