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worthy , indeedt of that tribunal which boasted that the blood of more than 3 O 0 , d 60 Victims , * hed in les § than three centuries , * had attested its glorious triumphs * There are few events in history whose details are so distressing as those connected with the expatriation of the Spanish Jews . f- More than
500 , 000 1 yvretches were pursued by fire and sword and famine and pestilence , whom it was made felony to assist with shelter , food or clothing . § Some fled to the mountains , where they perished by the hand of assassins , or the less merciful , but no less fatal
attacks of hunger . Thousands committed themselves to frail and faithless barks , and were swallowed up , with all they possessed , by the unpitying ocean . Some who reached Naples , brought With them calamities not less frightful than those they left behind ,
and 20 , 000 died of the plague , which they introduced into that city . Tens of thousands purchased a temporary protection from John II . of Portugal ; and when the truce expired , those whom suffering and disease had spared were landed on the coast of
Africawhere the Moors gave them so cruel a reception , )] that they hurried back to the inhospitable lands from whence ^ mm ^_^_ ^_^^_^ l j _^_^__ 1 U—IT m ¦ " TT H r 1 ¦ n ' n 1 r 1 1 r Inquisicion instituida por aquellos esclarecidos , felicissimos y enternamente venerables reyes con qae enpenada la libertad de la conciencia vivis quietos , hutnildea y paeificos al yugo de la Roman a Yglesia . V . 91 .
Llorente calculates that the Inquisition has caused the total destruction of 500 , 000 families , and that Spain has lost twelve millions of inhabitants by its devastating decrees . Hist , de V In . IV . 242 . ¦ f For a list of learned Jews driven from Spain , see Inquisition Unmasked , II . 75 .
X Mariana says 800 , 000 fled from Castille and Aragon alone ; but I conclude this is an exaggeration . VII . 336 . § Bernalden , a contemporary historian , declares that he saw Jews giving- a house in exchange for an ass , and a vineyard for a small piece of cloth .
|| Os Moiros os affront ^ rain , os roub&-rain , os escarnice ' ram e a vista dos pais e dos maridos dormiam com as molher $ s e as filtas . A os consentidos espancavam , ao « vozos tiravam as cabegas , aos indiffe rentes carregavam de © pprobios . Lemon JFari& e Castro , VIII . 208 .
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they had been driven , * wh ^ re they apostatized and mingled with the people , f Some were so happy as to reach the more liberal regions of the north , and the works written by them and their descendants , prove that the love of literature could not be extinguished by the terrors of persecution , nor the ravages of death . X B .
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352 Extract front a Letter an the Trinity .
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Sir , May SO , 1819 . BEG leave to introduce myself to I you as a zealous Unitarian , whose lot in life is cast more among Trimtarians at the west fend of the metropolls , than among those of my own faith ; but wherever I find an opening , either by conversation or the loan of bpok » , to introduce a glimmering of the truth , I do not neglect to work with all diligence . And in consequence of my having lately lent two of our many able controversial tracts to a man of rank and fashion , with an inquiring mind , who has always been more a thinker than a reader , I
re-* Many particulars of these sufferings may be found in " Consolagam as Tribu ? lagoens de Israel , " a book written to console the Jews under their trials , by Samuel Usque , an expatriated Portuguese Jew . \ Many must hare been overlooked by John , for in 1496 Ferdinand applied to 1
Manuel of Portugal , urginghim to extirpate the infidel race of Jews and Mahommedans , whom , in consequence , he collected together in Lisbon , and ordered them to embark for Africa , after tearing * from them their children under 14 years old . Those who could not embark were
sold as slaves . " Nos e nossos avos ( says a Portuguese historian ) vemos o fructe desta acgam tam pouco justa . " The Jews were treated with infinitely greater severity than the Moors , which Damiam de 6 oes accounts for , by saying * , that the latter might have retaliated on their Christian slaves , while the former were as helpless as miserable .
X He who wishes to obtain information respecting the writings of the Spanish Jews , may consult the first volume of Castro ' s Biblioteca Espanola . The best account of the Portuguese literary Jews is
to be found in the papers written by An to . Ribo . dos Santos , and printed by the Lisbon Academy of Sciences . Barrios als <* published , in Amsterdam , an Account of the ToeiM and Authors among the Pews of his nation . ' r . ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ . '•'• • • ' *¦ ' i ; ' ' ; V '
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1819, page 352, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1773/page/8/
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