[211] Fernández y González, p. 109.
[212] Constitt. Valentin. (Aguirre, V, 206).
[213] Cap. 1 Clementin. Lib. V, Tit. ii.
[214] Concil. Tarraconens. ann. 1329 (Aguirre, VI, 370).
[215] Concil. Dertusan. ann. 1429, cap. xx (Aguirre, V, 340).—Raynald. Annal. ann. 1483, n. 45.
In 1370 the Carta Pueblo, granted by Buenaventura de Arborea to the Moors of Chelva specifically allowed their alfaquíes to cry Alá Zalá as was their wont in the time of Pedro, her late husband.—Fernández y González, p. 386.
[216] Cap. 1 Clementin. Lib. II, Tit. viii; Lib. V, Tit. v.
[217] Although the acts of the council of Zamora were fully confirmed by the Córtes of Palencia in 1313 (Córtes de los antiguos Reinos, I, 227, 240-1), it seemed impossible to enforce them. In 1331 the Córtes of Madrid ineffectually petitioned that Christians denying debts to Jews could offer another Christian as a witness and not be obliged to have a Jew. The Fuero Viejo de Castiella, as revised in 1356, however, grants the privilege (Lib. III, Tit. iv, ley 19). The editors of the Fuero, Asso and Manuel (Ed. 1847, p. 83) say that the practice varied, and that Henry III, in the Córtes of Madrid, in 1405, again granted the privilege. As early as 1263 Alfonso X had enacted that in mixed suits a Jew could not demand that his opponent should produce as witnesses a Christian and a Jew, but that the evidence of two good Christians should suffice.—Memorial histórico español, I, 207. The point has interest as an evidence of the desire to protect Jews from imposition.
[218] Amador de los Rios, II, 561-5.
[219] Concil. Vallisolet. ann. 1322, cap. xxii (Aguirre, V, 250).