‘You have achieved in one day what the Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt failed to do’, commented one contemporary chronicler on the occasion of Edward I's Expulsion of the Jews from England. In 1272 Edward I became king; in 1290 he expelled the Jews from England. On his accession, Edward styled himself ‘Edwardus, dei gratia, Rex Angliae, dominus Hiberniae, et dux Aquitaniae’. He subsequently received such titles and historical epithets as the Hammer of the Scots, the English Justinian, the Conqueror of the Welsh, but rarely has he been considered as the instigator of one of the earliest European expulsions of the Jews. During his reign the Anglo-Jews were indeed, as contemporaries noted, ‘condemned to wander the earth and to be cut off’. The English Exodus has subsequently received comparatively little attention. It is mentioned by contemporary chroniclers in just a few curt lines. Perhaps typical of the type of comment was the observation made by John of Oxnead, who noted that: