ABSTRACT
An examination of the bishops, registers, monastic annals, public records, and other sources gives some idea as to the degree to which the programmes were carried out and reforms introduced among the parish clergy, in the episcopate itself, and in the religious orders. Taxation of the revenues of parish priests had originated in contributions for the Holy Land levied by the Pope. If the decree concerning secular taxation was strictly enforced by the clergy, even more zeal was shown in attempting to carry out the decrees concerning the jews, particularly that which declared that Jews who molested Christians should be shunned by all other Christians until they repented, and that princes should lend their assistance in this matter. The most interesting case, with regard to the relationship between secular and ecclesiastical authorities on the subject of the Jews, was that of 1240 when a boy was said to have been circumcised at Norwich.
