Trinity, that, in case a single transgressor should be found among our
people, he shall be burned, or stoned to death, either by ourselves, or
by our sons. And should Your Majesty graciously grant such culprit his
life, he shall at once be deprived of his freedom, so that Your Majesty
may deliver him to be forever a slave to anyone whom Your Majesty may
select; and Your Majesty shall have full authority to make whatever
disposition of him and his property as may seem expedient; not only on
account of the power attached to your royal office, but also by the
authority granted by this our memorial. Made, in the name of God, at
Toledo, on the Kalends of March, in the sixth year of Your Majesty’s
happy reign.
=XVII. Concerning Judaizing Christians.=
As the crime of hypocrisy should be deplored by all Christians;
for the same reason it should be evident, that no person, under
any circumstances, is deserving of pardon, who is proved to have
renounced a good religion for a bad one. Therefore, because a cruel
and astounding act of presumption should be expiated by a still more
cruel punishment, we declare, by the following edict: that, whenever
it has been proved that a Christian, of either sex, and especially one
born of Christian parents, has practised circumcision, or any other
Jewish rite, or anything else forbidden by God, he shall be put to an
ignominious death by the zeal and co-operation of Catholics, under the
most ingenious and excruciating tortures that can be inflicted; that
he may learn how horrible and detestable that offence is, which he has
so infamously perpetrated. All the property of such a person shall
be confiscated for the benefit of the royal treasury, in order that
his heirs and relatives may not, through consenting to his errors, be
contaminated by them.
=XVIII. Concerning the Perfidy of the Jews.=
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