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PIUS V. AND THE JEWS. 339<br />

must within three months leave <strong>the</strong> whole <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Papal States,<br />

with <strong>the</strong> exception <strong>of</strong> Rome and Ancona ; if any <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>m,<br />

after that period, were found within Papal territory, <strong>the</strong>y were<br />

to forfeit <strong>the</strong>ir possessions and become <strong>the</strong> serfs <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Roman<br />

Church. <strong>The</strong> Jews left <strong>the</strong> Papal States in May, and went for<br />

<strong>the</strong> most part to Asia Minor. ^<br />

Feliciano, <strong>the</strong> Archbishop <strong>of</strong> Avignon, had <strong>the</strong> courage, in a<br />

letter <strong>of</strong> April 6th, 1569, to intercede for <strong>the</strong> Jews in his diocese,<br />

on <strong>the</strong> ground that <strong>the</strong>y had lent money to <strong>the</strong> Catholics in<br />

<strong>the</strong> war against <strong>the</strong> Huguenots, and that <strong>the</strong>ir exile would lead<br />

to disturbances. <strong>The</strong> Pope repHed that, according to <strong>the</strong><br />

testimony <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Bishop <strong>of</strong> Carpentras, no decree had given<br />

so much satisfaction in <strong>the</strong> Venaissin for many years as <strong>the</strong><br />

bull against <strong>the</strong> Jews.^ At <strong>the</strong> request <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> syndics, how-<br />

ever, he extended <strong>the</strong> time fixed for <strong>the</strong>ir departure until<br />

1 Erler, loc. cit. 54. RiEGER, III., 168. According to <strong>the</strong><br />

*Avviso di Roma <strong>of</strong> March 19, 1569, <strong>the</strong>y asked for a delay in<br />

<strong>the</strong>ir departure in order that <strong>the</strong>y might collect <strong>the</strong> debts owing<br />

to <strong>the</strong>m (Urb. 1041, p. i8b, Vatican Library'). In various places<br />

<strong>the</strong> bull was ei<strong>the</strong>r not obeyed at all or only for a short time ;<br />

Fabretti, Sulla condizione degli ebrei in Perugia, Turin, 1891,<br />

9 seqq. Of <strong>the</strong> Jews in Rome it is stated in May, 1569 : *" Si<br />

dice che S.S. vuole che li Hebrei vadino ad habitare al Coliseo,<br />

onde per le quotidiane restrintioni questi poveri se ne vanno piii<br />

tosto che obligarsi a cosi dure novita " (*Avviso di Roma <strong>of</strong> May<br />

ij\, 1569, loc. cit. 76). At Bologna, where <strong>the</strong> Jews were en<strong>close</strong>d<br />

in <strong>the</strong> Ghetto in 1566 (Giudicini, Miscell. Bologn., 56), several<br />

pious foundations were trying to get <strong>the</strong> house <strong>of</strong> catechumens<br />

left to <strong>the</strong>m, on <strong>the</strong> ground that with <strong>the</strong> departure <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Jews<br />

<strong>the</strong>re was no longer any need for it ; against this <strong>the</strong> governing<br />

body <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> house pointed out in a *petition on April 13, 1569,<br />

that it was just <strong>the</strong> time when many Jews would be converted<br />

(Cod. Vatic, lat. 6184, p. 82, Vatican Library). In a *brief <strong>of</strong><br />

March 26, 1568, Pius V. had given <strong>the</strong> catechumens <strong>of</strong> Bologna a<br />

synagogue which had come into <strong>the</strong> possession <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Apostolic<br />

Camera. Archives <strong>of</strong> Briefs, Rome.<br />

- Brief <strong>of</strong> May 3, 1569, in Laderchi, 1569, n. 187. In this brief<br />

we read : " Scimus perversissimam banc gentem omnium fere<br />

haeresum causam seminariumque semper fuisse."<br />

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