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    The firBt mention tff the Jews in Spanish history , appears to be about the year 300 , when the Iliberitan Council * decreed that rip Christian woman should be allowed to marry a Jew , arid that the sacrament should be denied to those who had any intercourse with the Jewish people , t

    Under the Gothic monarchs the Jews had often to suffer the pillage and spoliation of their property , of which their rulers availed themselves whenever it suited their necessities ; but they were free from personal sufferings till the time of Sisebtit , who ,

    instigated by Heraclius , £ compelled immense numbers to recatit , and after confiscation of their goods , drove from his kingdom all who refused to be baptized . § Matay pretended to embrace Christianity , but relapsed as soon as the fear of immediate

    punishment was removed , and their faithlessness only subjected them to new and greater indignities . The huinanity of Siseriandus granted them a temporary respite from persecution ;|| but in the reign of his brother Chintila , the D fifth Council of Toledo , ^[ ( A . . 637 , ) decreed that no

    * Corona Gotica , I . 57 . Consult Notes t 6 the second voltmie of Mariana , ( fol . eel . ) 483—439 . f Not long ag-o an inscription of the fcrurtto century was found at Adra , ( anciently Abdera , ) referring to a colony of Jews there . Mariana , I . 360 .

    XHeraclius is said to have heen alartned by a prophecy directed really against the Saracena , but which he understood to refer to the Jews , that his crown and his people were in great danger fYom the circumcised . After driving the Jews from his own provinces , he induced Sisebtit to follow in his footsteps , and the latter Went far beyond him . Corona Got . II . 106 .

    § Among the laws of the Visig ' oths we find the following : Horum omnium transgressor o ; tiisquis ille repertus fuerit et centum nagella decalvatus suscipiat et debita uiultetur exilii pcena * res taiuen ejus ad principis potestateiri p ^ rtrneant . Leg-um Visigoth . Lib . xii . Sec . 3 .

    Isido ' re w ^ rote strongly against this lmibarotis decide , and' it was condemned by the fourth Toledo Council . Isld . Cr 6 n . Got- 651 ; Conci ! . T ^ l et . iv . Ca £ . # tf . (| tte ordered that ho Jew should be baptized by force . Mariana , Vt . v . 283 . % " ' * Vedanm el cottcfHd ToiedkhO tbitoar ' et c # trb al tL 6 f " iSa ^ tie ^ tl , mcro

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    > king should take possession of the tbrone , until he had sworn to shew no favour whatever to the Jews , and to permit none but Christians to livfe unmolested in his kingdom . * No decrees , no persecutions were success - ful in rooting out this all-enduring

    race 3 and but a few years after ( 65 S ) , Recesuintim applied to the "then assembled bishops , ( at Toledo , ) requesting their advice how to proceed against " the apofctatte Jews . " t Egica made another representation to the same body in 693 , entreating them to

    punish the perfidious Hebrews , whom he accused of plotting with the Moots the Subversion of his government * J In consequence , the Council ( after promising protection and patronage , earthly and heaveniy rewards to those who would consent to be converted ) commanded that the whole Jewidfr

    nation should be given up to pferpfetual slavery ; that all their goods should be confiscated , and their children torn from them , to be taught the principles of Christianity . % Wttiza , that enlightened , though calumniated prince , was a noble exception to the bigotry and ferocity of

    Limpiase el vefdfc&ero Trigo con pro pm rftano De la ci ^ ana vil que le suprirtife La Santa ley en la corona imprime . " h 6 pe de Vega . "~ * Or ^ enkr&h pbr decVeto particular que no se dUse la posesiort de \ rev no k nitiguho to

    antes qne . e % pr ^ samea j » ra « e qde no daria favor en maiieraal ^ rnna a los Judios , in aim pennitiria que alguno qae no fuera Christiano pudiese vivij en el reyno libremente . Mariana , VI . vi . 202 . See also Dialogue III . of * Amador Arraiz , 13 , and Cbncil . Tolet . vi . 3 .

    t Mariana , V . ix . Note , 309 . j Prttrsertim q « ia nuper fnrtenife ^ tis tOmfcssiontbiis intittbi ^ J > ercejii 6 ft iii 6 hos lit transmarifiis ^ ttrtlbns tlteb ^ eos alids Consul u isse ut unanimiter contra gentemChiistianain agercnt . Concil . Tolet . xvii .

    § The cstlnH krifi parent eiidtirance with Whioh the Je ^ S , that * P 0 V 0 pertinazio atltig-o ritoy" as CahitfettS ^ alIs them , submitted to- every species , ^ eeifts id Tiave excited Ae ttftt 6 Tfifihhtertt of all Catholic historians . " No le ba ^ ta ( says Faria y Sottzai ) no le bistk & eeta cente

    detvtenturadaei verse arastnid ^ e « cwrntetoi * ia > P * regtifotky tfeuptqGRm de hiknee y de honray ech&da en las brasas pava . disiinuJar ,. V fo ^ d tha ^ kU &fctoi £ I ^ tiiticmif » °

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1819, page 346, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1773/page/2/