Chapter X: The Inquisition in Spain

Jewish Blood in the Veins of the Spanish Nobility--The
Marranos cling to Judaism and manifest Unconquerable Antipathy
to Christianity--Ferdinand and Isabella--The Dominicans,
Alfonso de Ojeda, Diego de Merlo, and Pedro de Solis--The
Catechism of the Marranos--A Polemical Work against the
Catholic Church and Despotism gives a Powerful Impulse to the
Inquisition--The Tribunal is established in 1480--Miguel
Morillo and Juan de San Martin are the first Inquisitors--
The Inquisition in Seville--The "Edict of Grace"--The
Procession and the Auto-da-fé--The Numbers of the Accused and
Condemned--Pope Sixtus IV and his Vacillating Policy with
Regard to the Inquisition--The Inquisition under the first
Inquisitor General, Thomas de Torquemada; its Constitutions
--The Marranos of Aragon--They are charged with the Death
of the Inquisitor Arbues--Persecutions and Victims--
Proceedings against two Bishops Favorable to the Jews,
De Avila and De Aranda _page 308._

1474-1483 C.E.

CHAPTER XI.

EXPULSION OF THE JEWS FROM SPAIN.

Friendship of Marranos and Jews--Torquemada demands of
the Rabbis of Toledo the Denunciation of Marranos--Judah
Ibn-Verga--Jewish Courtiers under Ferdinand and Isabella
--Isaac Abrabanel: his History and Writings--The Jews
of Portugal under Alfonso V--The Ibn-Yachya Brothers--
Abrabanel's Flight from Portugal to Spain--The Jews of
Granada: Isaac Hamon--Edict of Banishment promulgated by
Ferdinand and Isabella--Its Consequences--Departure from
Spain--Number of the Exiles--Decline in the Prosperity
of Spain after the Banishment of the Jews--Transformation
of Synagogues and Schools into Churches and Monasteries--
The Inquisition and the Marranos--Deza, the Successor of
Torquemada _page 334._

1483-1492 C.E.

CHAPTER XII.

EXPULSION OF THE JEWS FROM NAVARRE AND PORTUGAL.

The Exiles from Navarre--Migration to Naples--King
Ferdinand I of Naples and Abrabanel--Leon Abrabanel--
Misfortunes of the Jews in Fez, Genoa, Rome, and the Islands
of Greece--The Sultan Bajazet--Moses Kapsali--Spanish
Jews in Portugal--The Jewish Astronomers, Abraham Zacuto
and José Vecinho--The Jewish Travelers, Abraham de Beya and
Joseph Zapateiro--Outbreak of the Plague among the Spanish
Jews in Portugal--Sufferings of the Portuguese Exiles--
Judah Chayyat and his Fellow-Sufferers--Cruelty of João II--
Kindly Treatment by Manoel changed into Cruelty on his Marriage
--Forcible Baptism of Jewish Children--Levi ben Chabib and
Isaac Caro--Pope Alexander VI--Manoel's Efforts on Behalf
of the Portuguese Marranos--Death of Simon Maimi and Abraham
Saba _page 357._

1492-1498 C.E.