After the ceremony was performed in the cathedral, he
was received with great fplendour in his palace, by his
mother, his late wife,, and all the nobility. He was a
rigid perfecutor o f the Jews, whom he not only inveighed
againft in his writings, but ufed all his endeavours
to ftrip of their privileges ; if he did not always
fucceed, he obliged them however to dwell by them-
felves, in particular parts o f the town, and his pupil,
King John, drove them out of his kingdom (a) ; amongil
the many treatifes publiihed againft them by the biftiop
o f Buraros, the moft remarkable was one intitled “ Scru- . O 7
tinium fcripturarum,” reprinted at Burgos in folio, in
1591. At laft, this venerable prelate, worn out with
old age and infirmity, was named Patriarch o f Aquileia,
and had the fatisfacftfon to fee his fon Alfonfo, dean o f
St. Jago fucceed to him in the fee of Burgos, and then
clofed his career in the eighty-third year o f his age.
Alfonfo was equal to his father in virtue and learning.
He went ambaffador to Portugal, to treat about a peace
with Caftile, and was afterwards fent in the fame character
to the Emperor Albert. He finiihed the beautiful
fpires of the cathedral of Burgos, and iEneas Sylvius
(a) England was the firft country that expelled the Jews (in 1281, the 19th of Edward ill.)
They had a fimilar fate in France much about that time; Spain banifhed them next, and afterwards
Portugal. Oliver Cromwell permitted them to return to England, and the generality
of Chriftians now treat them with more moderation. The popes receive them in
Rome, and they fleep in tranquility clofe to the ihrine o f St. Peter; but the Spaniards and
Portuguese ftill look on that difperfed people with an univerfal and national abhorrence.
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