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THE JEW'S HOUSE
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The Jew's House, Lincoln.
doorway, with a chimney-breast starting from above the doorway arch, and showing that the upper floor had a fireplace. On either side the door now are modern shop windows. Between the stringcourses are two double light windows, with a plain tympanum under a round arch. Belaset of Wallingford, a Jewess, lived here in the reign of Edward I. She was hanged for clipping coin in 1290, the year of the Jews' Expulsion. At the bottom of the street, No. 333, is another charming old structure called "White Friars' House" with a projecting timbered front, and a passage round one end like that at the old
