[16] Romans xv:28.
[17] "Confessar la region cristian y bantizarse, o ser decalvados, azotados, lanzados del reino y conficados sus bienes." Codex Visigothorum xii., tit. iii.
[18] Lecky's Rationialism in Europe, (pages 270-271) vol. 2, chap. 6, and also the following from Prescott's Ferdinand and Isabella (p. 192), vol. 1:
"Under the Visigothic empire the Jews multiplied exceedingly in the country, and were permitted to acquire considerable power and wealth. But no sooner had their Arian masters embraced the orthodox faith, than they began to testify their zeal by pouring on the Jews the most pitiless storm of persecution. One of their laws alone condemned the whole race to slavery: and Montesquieu remarks, without much exaggeration, that to the Gothic code may be traced all the maxims of the modern Inquisition, the monks of the fifteenth century only copying, in reference to the Israelites, the bishops of the seventh."
[19] Council of Beziers, 1246 A. C.; Council of Alby, 1254: Faculty of Paris, 1301.
[20] For details see, Graetz's "Geschichte der Juden," volume 5 and 6; Jost's "Geschichte des Judenthums," volume 2 and 3, chapters xxiv-xxvii; Drapers' Intellectual Development of Europe, volume 2, chapter iv.
[21] For full information consult "History of Medicine," by J. F. Payne; "Geschichte der Arabischen Aerzte und Naturforscher," by Wustenfeld.
[22] In Germany and England not until the fifteenth century, and hence their backwardness till then.
[23] A copy of this Arabic work is preserved in the Bodleian library at Oxford, bearing a date of transcription corresponding to the year 1342.
[24] T. Moore's "Life of Sheridan," Vol. 2 Chap. iv.