The story here to be recorded is taken, Torrejoncillo tells us, from the “Sermon de la Cruz” by Frey Felipe de Salazar.[230] On a Good Friday evening a youth who was in a street of Valencia observed several men entering a house. Considering this to be strange--although no suspicious circumstance is mentioned--he approached the door and listened. He heard them say, “There seems to be some one at the door.” Fearing that a brawl might be the result if he were discovered there when they opened, he drew his sword and fled. (How the drawing of his sword was calculated to assist his flight the author does not think it worth while to inform us.) As he was running he came upon a patrol, which seized him, demanding to know whither he was hurrying in this fashion with a naked sword in his hand. He related what he had witnessed, whereupon the officer, not only for the purpose of testing the truth of the story but also that he might ascertain to what end so many men should be assembling, went to the house and knocked. The door was opened by a Jew, who began to make obvious excuses to him. Suddenly the officer heard a child’s voice within the house, crying, “These men want to crucify me.” The Jews were taken, the house demolished, and on the site of it was built the Church of Santa Cruz. In this collection of lies and forgeries are included the “letter of Christ to Abgarus,” another letter of Pontius Pilate to Tiberius dilating upon the miracles of the Saviour, and a letter from the Jews of Constantinople to those of Toledo, which played an important part in this anti-semitic campaign. It was the Cardinal-Archbishop Juan Martinez Siliceo who was alleged to have discovered this letter in Toledo. We are to suppose that he also found in Toledo the letter to the Jews of Constantinople to which this is a reply, for the chroniclers are able to supply us with the texts of both,[231] a circumstance which no one at the time appears to have considered strange. The letter to Constantinople ran as follows: “THE JEWS OF SPAIN _to_ THE JEWS OF CONSTANTINOPLE “Honoured Jews, health and grace.--Know that the King of Spain compels us to become Christians, deprives us of property and of life, destroys our synagogues and otherwise oppresses us, so that we are uncertain what to do. “By the Law of Moses we beseech you to assemble, and to send us with all speed the declaration made in your assembly. “CHAMARRO, Prince of the Jews of Spain.” * * * * * To this the answer received from Constantinople was in the following terms: “THE JEWS OF CONSTANTINOPLE _to_ THE JEWS OF SPAIN