In order to assess the effects of Edward I's experiment it is now time to turn to an examination of several Jewish communities and to see how they fared during the closing decades of Jewish presence in England. Such a study will consider the social structure and financial resources of particular Jewries and the ability of their financiers to continue to provide credit for Christians. As has been shown, Edward I drew on the financial resources of his Jewish subjects, but he apparently did not consider them to be as financially important as had earlier kings: for instance although he taxed them he never mortgaged his Jewries. Edward placed different financial pressures on his Jews. An examination of what the Jewries rendered to the Crown in toto, especially during 1278 and 1279, has already shown how the Anglo-Jewish community suffered financially and was forced to pay a massive individual fine as a result of the coin-clipping allegations. It cannot therefore be denied that the Edwardian Jewri s were generally in decline and under much economic and social pressure. Yet some seem to have fared better than others. Indeed the impact of Edward I's reforms of the Jewry are best illustrated on a local level. Such an examination will naturally confirm the view that Edward I's reign was very clearly a time of changing fortunes for the English Jew.