[62] Levy: Don Joseph Nasi, Herzog von Naxos und seine Familie (Breslau, 1859). See also Graetz: Geschichte, vol. ix. passim.
[63] The text of the Sultan's letter is preserved in the rare Lettere di Principi (Venice, 1581), iii. 171.
[64] Graetz: Geschichte, ix. 361, and 571-572.
[65] Transactions, Jewish Historical Society, iv. 478 et seq. The plea has been revived during the present war, but with less success. It was largely used by Russian Jews in order to escape conscription under the Anglo-Russian Convention of 1916. (See Petition of Foreign Jews Protection Society, Herald, July 22 and 29, 1916.) See also the case of the prosecution of Henry Samuel, Times, September 19, 1918.
[66] Infra, p. 71.
[67] Brisac: Ce que les Israélites de la Suisse doivent à la France (Lausanne, 1916), pp. 9-13. Infra, pp. 71-72.
[68] Brisac: op. cit., pp. 14-15, 16-17.
[69] Jewish disabilities still existed in England, Germany, Austria, Russia, the Italian States, Spain and Portugal.
[70] May 28, 1841. A full report of the debate will be found in the Moniteur, May 29, 1841.
[71] Stroock: "Switzerland and American Jews," in Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society, xi. 7-8, 15.