Torquemada and the Spanish Inquisition: A HistorySabatini, Rafael
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Torquemada and the Spanish Inquisition: A History
Sabatini, Rafael
Inquisition -- Spain; Torquemada, Tomás, de, 1420-1498
VI. Any who cut the throats of animals or poultry that
are intended for food, first testing the knife on their
finger-nail, covering the blood with earth, and uttering
certain words that are customary among Jews.
VII. Any who eat meat in Lent and on other days on which it is
forbidden by Holy Church.
VIII. Any who keep the great fast of the Jews known by
different names, or the fast of _Chiphurim_ or _Quipur_ in the
tenth Hebrew month--whereof the proof shall be their having
gone barefoot during the period of the said fast, as is the
custom of the Jews, their having said Jewish prayers, or asked
pardon one of another, or fathers having laid hands upon the
heads of their children without making the sign of the Cross or
saying anything but “By God and by me be thou blessed.”
IX and X. Any who keep the fast of Queen Esther, which is
observed by the Jews in memory and imitation of what they
did in captivity in the reign of Ahasuerus, or the fast of
_Rebeaso_.
XI. Any who shall keep other fasts peculiar to the Jews, such
as those of Monday and Thursday, of which the proof shall be:
their not eating on such days until after the appearance of the
first evening star; their having abstained from meat; their
having washed on the previous day or cut their nails or the
points of their hair, keeping or burning these; their reciting
certain Jewish prayers, raising or lowering their heads with
their faces to the wall, after washing their hands in water or
in earth; their dressing themselves in sackcloth and girding
themselves with cords or strips of leather.
XII, XIII, and XIV concern any who keep the Paschal seasons;
which is to be discovered by their setting up green boughs,
inviting to table and sending presents of comestibles, and the
keeping of the feast of candles.
XV to XIX concern any who observe Hebrew table-customs: whether
they bless their viands according to the Jewish custom, whether
they drink “lawful” wine--_i.e._ wine that has been pressed by
Jews--and eat meat that has been slaughtered by Jews.
XX. Any who recite the Psalms of David without concluding with
the versicle “Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritu Sancto.”
XXI. Any woman who abstains from going to church for forty days
after delivery of child, out of reverence for the law of Moses.
XXII to XXVI concern any who circumcise their children, give
them Hebrew names, or after baptism cause their heads to be
shaven where anointed with the sacred oil, or any who cause
their children to be washed on the seventh day after birth in a
basin in which, in addition to the water, they have placed gold
and silver, pearls, wheat, barley, and other things.
XXVII. Any who are married in the Jewish manner.
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