The earliest appearance of the Jewish Question in international European politics--or rather the earliest reference to it in the British State Papers--happened in 1498, shortly after the great expulsion of the Jews from Spain. In that year Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain sent a mission to England on business connected with Prince Arthur's marriage. The mission was apparently instructed to deal with the Jewish Question. The envoys expressed to the King their sorrow that, while Spain had been purged of infidelity, Flanders and England were infested by that scourge. Thereupon, according to a dispatch from the chief of the mission, Henry VII, laying both hands on his breast, swore that he would persecute without mercy any Jew or heretic that the King or Queen of Spain might point out in his dominions. DOCUMENT. * * * * * _De Carta del soprior de Santa Cruza Sus Alts. (Sub-Prior of Santa Cruz to Ferdinand and Isabella, July 18, 1498). Extract._ * * * * * Acabada nuestra embasada hable al Rey de Inglaterra solo.... Al otro cabo que le dixe que en su Reyno y en Flandes estaban muchos conversos de los Reynos de V.A. y algunos fuydos por miedo de la Inquisicion y quan firmes V.A. estaban en su amistad y hermandad y que los sobredichos siempre procuraban el contrario que le avisaban dello, holgo mucho de tal avis y dixo la mano puesta en los pechos que por la fe de su coraçon que no decia el de marranos mas del mejor de su Reyno si contra lo que yo le decia algo le dixiese, no le oiria ni le ternia por suyo, y que si S.A. le mandaien airsar si en su tierra hay algun judio o herege que por la fe de su corazon et los castigaria bien. Fue esta habla larga y por ser nuevo oficial abrevie, huelga mucho el Rey de Inglaterra en fablar de la Princesa de Gales.... (Record Office: "Spanish Transcripts," Series I, vol. I, B. 205.) * * * * * INDEX. Abdul Medjid, Sultan of Turkey, 96 Aberdeen, Earl of, 18, 123 Adler, Cyrus, 67, 70, 71 Agreement, Anglo-Prussian (1841), 106 Alexander I, Tsar, 12, 15 Alexander II, Tsar, 78 Alexander III, Tsar, 55 Alexander, Bishop, 106 Alexander, D. L., 51, 52, 54 Algeciras, Conference of (1906), 54, 88; Protocols, 98-99 Allenby, General, 104 Alliance Israélite, 59, 60, 89 Almodovar del Rio, Duc de, 98 American-Jewish Committee, 89 American House of Representatives, Resolution, 79 American Senate, Resolution, 79-80 American-Swiss Treaty (1855), 74 "Anabaptisticum et Enthusiasticum Pantheon," 103 Anarchists, 57 Ancona, Jews of, 63 Andrássy, Count, 30, 93 Anglo-French Entente, 56 Anglo-Jewish Association, 45, 51, 69, 89 Anglo-Moorish Treaty (1856), 78, 83, 87 Anglo-Prussian Agreement (1841), 106 Anglo-Russian Treaty (1859), 80 Anglo-Swiss Treaty (1855), 73 Anglo-Turkish Treaty (1809), 84 Anti-Semitic Triple Alliance, 57-62 Appleton, John, 75 Austria, 64, 65 Austrian Instruction (1815), 71