Kings and emperors naturally were more alive to the usefulness of subjects who could gather and yield money; but edicts issued to protect "the King's Jews" equally with the King's game from being harassed and hunted by the commonalty were only slight mitigations to the deplorable lot of a race held to be under the divine curse, and had little force after the Crusades began.
and that such an Edict would be a breach of your privileges!
With us, the edict formally abolishing Feudalism in 1870 was the signal to toll the knell of Bushido.
This edict, under Philip's own signature, is a tissue of invective and virulence.
His edicts were laws which could not be gainsaid or resisted.