Footnotes
[133]
See Aristotle, "Politics," lib. i, cap. 9 and 10.
[134]
See in "Marca Hispanica," the constitutions of Aragon, in the
years 1228 and 1231; and in Brussel, the agreement, in the year 1206,
between the King, the Countess of Champagne, and Guy of Dampierre.
[135]
Stow, "Survey of London," Book iii, p. 54.
[136]
The edict passed at Baville, 4th of April, 1392.
[137]
In France the Jews were slaves in mortmain, and the lords their
successors. Mr. Brussel mentions an agreement made in the year 1206,
between the King and Thibaut, Count of Champagne, by which it was agreed
that the Jews of the one should not lend in the lands of the other.
[138]
It is known that under Philip Augustus and Philip the Long, the
Jews who were chased from France took refuge in Lombardy, and that there
they gave to foreign merchants and travellers secret letters, drawn upon
those to whom they had entrusted their effects in France, which were
accepted.
[139]
See Nov. 83 of the Emperor Leo, which revokes the law of Basil
his father. This law of Basil is in Hermenopulus, under the name of Leo, lib.
iii, tit. 7, section 27.
