Note 169 — Chapter XXX · A.D. 1500-1600. THE JEWS IN PORTUGAL, SPAIN, AND HOLLAND.
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In the account given at the time of their conversion (1497), it is said that the Inquisition was not to be introduced ‘for twenty years,’ viz., till 1517. But it is plain that there must have been another promise for a longer period, though no record has been preserved of it. The Pope, indeed, Paul III., plainly said as much.