Note 311 — Chapter III · THE JEWS AND THE CONVERSOS.
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Amador de los Rios, II, 338-9, 579-89.—We have seen the prohibition, in the imperial jurisprudence, to erect new synagogues, and this was sedulously preserved in the canon law.—Cap. 3, 8, Extra, V, vi.
The twenty-three synagogues evidently refer to all in the diocese of Seville. At the time of the outbreak there were but three in the city.