Note 254 — Chapter III · THE JEWS AND THE CONVERSOS.
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Amador de los Rios, II, 67.—Benavides, Memorias de Fernando IV, II, 331.
It indicates the independent position of Jews and Moors that they refused to pay tithes on lands acquired from Christians and their liability was enforced only after a vigorous and prolonged struggle.—See Cap. 18, Extra, Lib. v, Tit. xix (Concil. Lateran. IV).—Innocent. PP. III, Regest. VIII, 50; x, 61.—Concil Tarraconens. ann. 1291 (Aguirre, VI, 292).—Concil. Zamorens. ann. 1313, cap. x (Amador de los Rios, II, 564).—Memorial hist. español, I, 33, 160.—Fernández y González, pp. 348, 355, 380, 389.—Benavides, op. cit. II, 539, 541.