Edict of Expulsion (1290) — Jews from England
event
In 1290 England ordered every Jew to leave the country or be killed — a state turning a whole group into a scapegoat.
Who they are
King Edward I's 1290 Edict of Expulsion, issued July 18, 1290.
What they do
It commanded all Jews to leave England by November 1 on pain of death, with no legal return until 1656 under Cromwell.
How it works
The documented facts: the English Crown wrote the order, and the Jewish population was its target — a nationwide example of a ruler carving out a group to punish.
Why it matters
The engine catalogs this as one instance of a repeating pattern where states scapegoat a group, but it deliberately does not claim any hidden hand or deeper meaning — it holds those readings open and records only the documented event.
The engine's record — word for word
[in-scope 1200-2040; new instance] Edward I; edict 18 Jul 1290, all Jews to depart by All Saints' Day (1 Nov) on pain of death; de-facto readmission only 1656 under Cromwell. Structural class: exemption-against instance of the exemption fork (#100) at sovereign-statutory scale; state-scale instance of scapegoat_mechanism_pharmakos. DOCUMENTED FACT: author-of-record = the English Crown; target = the Jewish population (the object the edict is written about). Readings HELD, not asserted: any screen/decoy, rotation, or apex reading is held in superposition; record documents the instance only. Sibling: expulsion_france_1306, alhambra_decree_1492. Tier-1 (UK National Archives).
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