Quitclaim for Rent (Lincolnshire, England)

This receipt of a rent payment appears in Latin and Hebrew. The Latin version, translated here, identifies Aaron of Lincoln and Benedict Grossus as the recipients of a payment from the people of Barton, a town in Lincolnshire. The Hebrew version (not translated here) contains the same financial information, but its signatory, Berekhiah ben Elias, relates that he has accepted half of the payment on behalf of the nadiv (an honorific meaning “generous”) Isaac ben Joseph (likely the financier and philanthropist Isaac ben Rubigotsce, who did business with Aaron of Lincoln). It has been suggested that Berekhiah ben Elias and Benedict Grossus were the same person.