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"The first instances of the practice recorded in modern history," he observes, "occur in 1560, in consequence of the extensive wool trade between England and the Netherlands; though it was probably in use before that period, and seems to have been introduced by the Jews in 1182." "It is treated of in the laws of Oleron, relating to sea affairs, as early as the year 1194."
They offered the emperor 80,000 marks, to keep him until the Michaelmas of 1194; or L1000 a month for each month that he was detained; or 150,000 marks, if he would hold him in prison for a year, or give him up to them.
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