One per cent. in interest, worse than two per cent. in customs; because ships pay the interest, not the customs.
Eight hundred thousand Jews chased from Spain by Ferdinand the Catholic.—Geddes.[129:1]
About 100,000 Moors condemned for apostacy, by the Inquisition, in forty years. 4000 burned.—Id.
Near a million of Moors expelled Spain.—Id.
The Commons of Castile, in taking arms against Charles the Fifth, among other things petition, that no sheep nor wool shall be allowed to go out of the kingdom.—Id.
The interest in Rome reduced to six per cent. under Tiberius.—Tacit.
The laws of Arragon required a public trial for the subjects: but allowed the king a kind of despotic power over his servants and ministers, in order to render the great men less fond of court preferment.—Geddes.
'Twould be more easy for the English liberties to recover themselves than the Roman, because of the mixed government. The transition is not so violent.
The farms were large among the ancients. The Leontine farms in Sicily contained 130,000 acres, and were farmed to eighty-three farmers.—Cicero in Verrem.
After the conquest of Egypt by Augustus, the prices of every thing doubled in Rome.