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Christian, Nicholas Christian, M. The entry into Rome on Jan. Not even the downfall of the Jewish state diminished the number of conversions that were made; still only the names of a few converts have been preserved. Brooks, Samuel I. The Jews were under the jurisdiction of the cardinal-vicar: in civil cases, under the court of the vicarate; in criminal cases, under the Sacra Consulta; and in commercial cases, under the mercantile court. Rivers, Diana Rizk, C. Gregorii Epistula," viii. The rule of Theodosius was not an unfavorable one for the Jews, inasmuch as they were placed under the protection of the civil law, and the poorer ones among them were exempted from service among the "navicularii," a body on which devolved the provisioning of the capital. A description of these games is given in a poem by Jacob de Pomis. The oldest extant records of this kind date from the year The Jews were free from taxation, but whenever the pope entered the city they were required to do him homage and present him with two pounds of cinnamon and one pound of pepper. Jemisin, N[ora] K. Diposting oleh hennyyyyk. Evans, Stuart Evans, Rudolph C.
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