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    them , treason . He who protected a Jew was f ) rttiish ^ d as a rebel ; ft ' e who insulted or plundered him was deetned a meritorious patriot . * 7 It would , ho ^ ev ^ r , be doitig great injustice to Alotizo el Sabio , Wot to

    select his name From among the Spanish monarchs , as a distinguished patron of Hebrew literature . The Alphoimne Tables were drawn up under his immediate direction , by Hazan , a Jew of Toledo . To this illustrious prince we owe one of the earliest translations of the Bible into

    the vulgar tongue . It Was reserved for the Fifth Ferdinand ( the splendour of whdse feign was derived from others , while its infamy is most truly Jits divii ) , to close " this strange evenifbl history . " In

    intolerable incredulity . See a curious account of the preaching * 6 f St . Vincent Ferrer , at Tortosta , where the Jews were commanded to assemble , hi Zdslfa's A hales de A rag-on . Consult also the Bulls of Benedict XIII . ( Sol . Ben Virg . Hist . J ^ jd . 226 . ) A favourite decree of the Spanish moriarchs was issued by Cleiiient V . ^ obliging

    all Jews to bear sermons ihrrce a-year , prbrirtg- that Messtas is come , and that unbelievers deserve everySort < Vf piinishinent hfere , and eternal datamation hereafter . Lope de V 6 g& expresses his astonishment * t their pertiriattfty , when it was only required that tftejr should surrender their judgment to those who ItrieW tiiore about the matter than themselves : Proseguen el camino , Catolico , sagrado Y rinden ya su entendifiriiento , Vencidos de tan facil argumento . Tv > holjr Mother Church it is mdit fit * ) The stub both dnders ' tondiitg- to Submit y V And that ' s an easy Way of Settling it . J

    The same remedy has been recommended to the obstinate in our days , under anew name , prostration of the understanding andthewilL " * Why Quevedo has neglected the Jews among the different inhabitants of hell , whom he visited , in his Suenos de los niuertos , I cannot divine , especially as he savs he heard the cries and clamours of Jewesses

    confined in cares beneath the ground . He has not spared them elsewhere . < c Siempre la hypopresia faiandiilera fu ^ sola * r >« ga en los Judios . Btiscan la hooestidad P&ra desverguetiza la religion para inrpie * - ^ Mes ^ , log genero 8 Oft para vilenas j automan ia maldad con el pretexto venerable . ' HI . 89 . r

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    14 ^ S c ^^ i * $ | Wat p ¥ 6 c ® tfi& be instituted a ^ itos * h ^ i-egy , krid ^ aVfe to the ii ^ qiaisi tcWs pi-fevfodfc d&tfffii for whate ^ ef they sliouM tfb . Id tfefe

    exertion of such unlimited ^ 6 ^ 1 r tfefey littte scruple ^ to pass the botthdiiies vvhicti prudence would fr&vie m ^ rkeA out itt a country ^ hose forms df tivil freedofti have excited thfe admfratioh even of bur days . * Th 6 Arrag ^^ felt how much their lifreffiek iVferfe

    lnsulteU by the delegatioti of feueh ^ ri intoterable authority , aM t itehy 6 $ thetn made c 6 iiiWiola cause Wfth the Jews in opposing tlie tyratttiifeai proceedings of the Inquisitors . Great and continued tumults were

    thecbttsequerice , and an ecclesiastie , ( Ai-bii £ s , } one of th 6 most active ageftts of piersecution , was murdered at the fo 6 t' 6 f the altar , f 1 'his evetit , no dbubt , hastened those merciless measured , which from that hour to this have severed the Penirisular J ^ Ws ffoth thfe land of their &ncestbr& . In $ l&rt \ i

    1492 the decree of Ferdinand ;« rW ifesued , commanding every Jevv to qxiit Spain feeforfe the Following jiuly , 6 h pain of death . T ^ he order W&s sigh ed by the iSrst Inquisitor-general , aid was one of his earliest public aets , t

    * . The declaration ( for instance ) of the Arragone ^ e , before they cbhferred the regal dignity , speaks in the best and boldest spirit of liberty . * Ma , ny interfestingr circumstariee ^ , connected with the old Spanish constitutions , may be found in the Teoria de las Cortes , a work written by Marina , and published in Madrid , during the short era of liberty .

    f This fellow was sainted by Aleiiatfaeir VII . in 1064 . Ferdinand arid Isabella erected to his memory a magnificent tomb * whose virtues Wrought innumerable miracles . One virtue it claimed was scarcely miraculouSy u __ . fortissimus lapis , Qui arcet virtute cunctos k se Jiid ' ae 6 ' s . ^ J Lope d $ Vegfa says of the Inquisition , ( it would be liard to say whether equivocally or not , ) " Esta santa y venerable

    * El Juisticia cle Ara ^ on decia al Hey en nombre de las Cortes y cle la Naci 6 n—~ u Nosotros que valemos cada uho ( antp

    como vos y q ' tte todos juntos som ^ ai mas poderosos qi * e vos , prornctemos oo ^ Secef a vuestro gobierno si matiteneis nuestVos derechos , fuerosy privilegios y si n&h , lion . "

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1819, page 351, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1773/page/7/