[120] Ch. 866.
[121] Von den Juden und Ihren Luegen (1544) is the title of one of these pamphlets. See H. Graetz, History of the Jews, vol. iv. pp. 583 fol.
[122] For the history of the Hamburg Jews, see M. Grunwald’s Hamburg’s Deutsche Juden, 1904.
[123] On Pfefferkorn and Reuchlin see two papers by S. A. Hirsch in A Book of Essays (Macmillan, 1905).
[124] See above, p. 175.
[125] Perhaps the most lucid and impartial estimate of Spinoza’s place in the world of thought, accessible to the English reader, is to be found in Sir Frederick Pollock’s Spinoza: His Life and Philosophy. This work also contains in an appendix a reprint of the English translation (1706) of the Dutch biography of Spinoza by his friend the Lutheran minister Johannes Colerus, published in 1705. The latest biography of Spinoza, based on new materials, is J. Freudenthal’s Spinoza, sein Leben und seine Lehre, Erster Band, Das Leben Spinozas (Stuttgart, 1904).
[126] Confessio Amantis, bk. vii.
[127] See above, p. 199.
[128] It was by some of these German miners whom the merchant venturers of Cornwall engaged in exploiting the Cornish mines, under a charter granted by Queen Elizabeth, that the “dowsing rod” (Schlagruthe, or striking-rod) was introduced into England for the purpose of discovering mineral veins. Professor W. F. Barrett, “Water-Finding,” in the Times, January 21, 1905.
[129] Essay, Of Usurie.