The Moyse's Hall a rare example of English Norman domestic architecture it
holds secrets that we would like to forget. there was a Jewish community in
Bury St Edmunds for about fifty years until 1190. On Palm Sunday 1190,
fifty-seven Jews were killed in the town, and later that year Abbot Samson
expelled the Jewish community from the town. Christians in that period were
forbidden to lend money at interest, but they often needed to borrow it and
turned to the, Jewish community to provide it. Some Jews grew wealthy by
lending money, wealthy enough to build stone houses. It has been suggested
that the name Moyse comes from Moses. There is a tradition, first recorded
in 1771, that Moyse's Hall was built by a Jew however, Mose and Moyse are
common Suffolk names18 March 1190 Crusaders including two Sinclairs robbed
and murdered 57 Jews in Bury St Edmonds England. If we are to tell the
story let us together with deeds victorious and pages glorious look at the
whole cloth. There is no word that admits of more varied signification, and
has made more varied impressions on the human mind, than that of liberty.
We continually present to ourselves the difference between independence
and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit.
The knights had the power, in the name of God, to loot and pillage but the
Liberty they took was not that of Christian charity or independence. As
proud as we are of the acts of Knights and our family involvement with
them, this action was independent of any liberty that ever existed.It is a
blot, and grave on the honour of Crusaders, You will never build up an
organisation by tearing the breath from another man. You can not honour your
God by denying his creations life.
Sinclair
-----Original Message-----
From: John S. Quarterman <jsq@matrix.net>
To: sinclair@matrix.net <sinclair@matrix.net>
Date: 19 March 2001 02:06
Subject: administrativia
>
>Cousins,
>
>To address several recent topics,
>
>1) The URL for how to get on or off the list appears in each and every
>message posted to the list:
> http://www.mids.org/sinclair/list.html
>
>That's the same URL to use to ch ange your address.
>
>2) Sometimes a list member accidentally posts a message to the list
>that was intended as private correspondence. Any of us can make a
>mistake, and many of us have.
>
>3) There is no rule requiring anyone to post their genealogy to the list.
>There is only the same request on the web form that has been there for
years:
> "When you su bscribe, please also post a message to the list describing
> your relation to Sinclair or a related family."
>
>4) Some of you may have noticed the little campaign for a more tidy
>list that Gary and I have been conducting. It mostly takes the form
>of a message with text like that appended. The list software is currently
>set to bounce messages longer than 5,000 bytes. When I get to it, I
usually
>send back to the submitter a message with text similar to that below.
>
>Thus far, pretty much everyone who has received one has been most
cooperative.
>Thanks for all your help in making the list more usable.
>
>John S. Quarterman <jsq@matrix.net>
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>Example trim message:
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>Hi-
>
>Please trim your message and repost.
>Please remove excess quoted materials.
>
>Why do this? Because we've had more people leave the list
>over excess quotations than for any other reason.
>
>Also, please turn off HTML and send mail in plain text alone:
> http://sinclair.mids.org/sinclair/mail/index.html
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>Thanks for your cooperation.
>
>John S. Quarterman <jsq@matrix.net>
>
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