Henry III took a third of David of Oxford's estate in 1244 and held his widow Licoricia in the Tower until it was settled

Licoricia of Winchester was a Jewish moneylender. Her first husband, Abraham of Kent, died in 1234. In 1242 David of Oxford, one of the richest Jews in England, divorced his first wife, Muriel, to marry her. David died in 1244. The Crown took a share of every Jewish estate. David's levy was set at 5,000 marks (£3,333), a third of the estate and the third largest recorded. Licoricia was held in the Tower of London until it was settled. She was granted David's goods, but the king kept some of his books, including a Bible and a glossed psalter. Much of the money went to the rebuilding of Westminster Abbey. She went on lending to the court, and Henry III exempted her from some taxes on Jews. In 1258 she was jailed again, accused of stealing a ring meant for the king, and acquitted when her neighbour was proved the thief. In 1277 she and her Christian servant Alice of Bicton were stabbed to death in her Winchester house. Her daughter Belia found them. No one was convicted, though her sons pursued three men. Her son Benedict was hanged for coin-clipping in 1279. In 1290 Edward I expelled all Jews from England. A statue of Licoricia was unveiled in Winchester in 2022.