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† Caorsin Obs. (exc. Hist.)
Also 4 kauersin.
[a. Of. caorsin, caoursin, coursin, etc., in med.L. caorcini, cadurcini, caturcini, in Matt. Paris caursini, an inhabitant of Cahors, L. Cadurcum, in Languedoc, a famous seat of Italian money-changers and financiers in the Middle Ages; hence, banker, usurer, money-lender. Commonly mentioned along with Lombards and Jews. See Godefroy and Du Cange.]
A banker or money-dealer from Cahors: usurer.
The Caorsins were expelled from England by Henry III in 1240, readmitted on the intervention of the Pope in 1250, and again proscribed and imprisoned ‘on account of their unbounded and detestable usury’ in 1251.
[a1259Matt. Paris Chron. an. 1235 (Rolls Ser.) III. 328 Caursinorum pestis abominanda. Ibid. an. 1255 V. 519 Qui [Judæi] si forte ab aliquibus Christianis plangerentur, ab æmulis eorum Cahursinis siccis lacrimis deplorabantur. ]1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 5555 Okerers, ande kauersyns, As wykkede þey are as sarasyns. 1340Ayenb. 35 Þe heȝe men..þet hyealdeþ and sosteneþ Iewes and þe Caorsins, þet leneþ and destruiþ þe contraye. |