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Rishonim
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Year 5179 of the Jewish calendar.

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In the year 5179, in the land of Etov and Patib and Britannia, more than 3,000 were killed for the sanctification of HaShem, and more than 400 converted. In the city of Loviras they accused the Jews of drowning a pregnant woman, and under the force of torture they confessed and most of the inhabitants of Provence were killed. Rabbi Shem Tov ibn Shem Tov wrote that in the days of King Don Enrique the youth, many communities were killed with a great blow the likes of which was not heard in Seville and Cordoba and Aziza and Old Castile, that is Andalusia, and Magrei and Teshkash and Onki and Guaiti and Kasilemba and Monien and Turikash and Escalona, and many converted.

And in the days of Don Juan ben Enrique they decreed upon the Anusim that they should not engage in usury, nor in commerce of food matters, nor should the physicians heal, and that they should not buy houses or inheritances, and that they should bear a sign [(there)]:

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