[39] “Historia de los Judios en España,” vol. i. pp. 28, 29.
[40] A case is at present before the Russian law courts, arising out of a charge of this nature urged by an officer of police.
[41] Rios, “Hist. de los Judios,” i. cap. x.
[42] See also Torrejoncillo’s “Centinela contra Judios.”
[43] This engrossing subject is exhaustively treated with great force and suggestiveness by J. G. Frazer in “The Golden Bough,” bk. iii. cap. iii., and also by P. Wendland in “Jesus als Saturnalien-König.”
[44] The decree is quoted by Amador de los Rios in “Historia de los Judios de España y Portugal,” vol. ii. p. 571.
[45] See Ortiz de Zuñiga, “Anales de Sevilla,” under año 1391.
[46] See Rosseeuw St. Hilaire, “Hist. d’Espagne,” liv. xix. chap. I.
[47] “Chronica,” II. cap. lxxvi.
[48] See Gregorovius, “Geschichte der Stadt Rom,” bk. ix. cap. ii.