Expulsion; drowning of passengers by a captain

Édouard Iᵉʳ ordered all the Jews of England to leave the kingdom before All Saints' Day. This is the first general and definitive expulsion from a Western state, and it became the model for those that followed.

The English communities had been methodically ruined: the Statute of the Jewry had forbidden them to lend at interest without opening any other trade to them, royal levies had absorbed their reserves, and trials for coin-clipping had stripped the condemned of their assets. All that remained was to confiscate their bonds and their houses, which the Crown duly did.

The departure took place through the ports of the East. The chronicles report that one captain, having dropped anchor on a sandbank in the Thames at low tide, invited his passengers to stretch their legs, went back aboard alone, and left them to drown with the rising tide; he was tried and hanged, which is noted only because it was exceptional.

No Jewish community was tolerated in England for three and a half centuries, until the approaches made by Menasseh ben Israël to Cromwell.