Attitudes towards migrants: official and unofficial responses (OCR GCSE History A (Explaining the Modern World)): Flashcards

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Henry III's action on Jews (1250)

Retracted protection for Jews

Italian bankers (1250s)

Given privileges for loans; English resented this

Flemish cloth makers (1270)

Invited by Henry, expelled a month later

Reason for Jewish expulsion (1290)

No longer useful and were poor

Edward III & Flemish workers (1330)

Desperate for weavers/dyers/fullers; promised protection

Why Edward II arrested foreigners (1335)

Fearful of French invasion

Half-alien jury law introduced (year)

1354

Half-alien jury

Jury option provided for aliens on trial

Letters of denization introduced (when)

After 1370

Flemish immigrant requirements (1436)

Purchase licence & swear oath of allegiance

Hosting laws introduced (year)

1439

Who pressured for hosting laws (1439)

English guilds pressured Richard II

Alien (medieval England)

Name for migrants from foreign countries

Anti-Semitism

Prejudice towards people of Jewish faith

Peasantry

Farmers/agricultural labourers of low social class

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