We have heard with displeasure, through the complaints of the Jews in your parts, that various ... towns, nobles, and powerful men among you, being jealous of the Jews and hostile to them, and blinded by hatred and envy, or, as is more probable, by greed, and wishing to have a pretext for depriving them of their goods, falsely charge them with slaying your children and drinking their blood, and committing many other horrible crimes specially directed against our faith. Thus they attempt to arouse the feelings of simple Christians against the Jews, and it often results that the Jews are not only robbed of their property, but are even murdered.
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A NOTABLE BIOGRAPHY
RECOLLECTIONS
PERSONAL AND LITERARY
BY
RICHARD HENRY STODDARD
(EDITED BY RIPLEY HITCHCOCK)