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If any are found among them, let liberty be served to them. But those who are in their possessions, although they are free by the district of the laws, nonetheless because they have adhered longer to the cultivation of their fields, as if owing to the condition of the place to cultivate the fields, they remain providing the accustomed payments to the aforementioned men. They follow everything that is ordained regarding the colonizers and originaries, and nothing of burden is indicated to them beyond this. If any of the Jews should wish to transfer someone from these to another place, or to retain them for another service, he should blame himself, because he has condemned the colonial law and the right of the master according to the severity of the law. Look at the gloss, which interprets those terms, which I pass over for the sake of brevity. And many wish that these denarii will be gold ones; others that they will be solidi of the usual currency of that place. Likewise, if a master is unwilling to circumcise him or to impress the mark of another sect, then also for the injury of the body he is freed without price. The Council of Toledo says this, as is held in the canon, 54th distinction, chapter "Nulla officia." Likewise, the redeemed servant shall restore the price to the buyer, and if he does not have it, by begging, or he shall serve him for that time which the service would owe with the price; unless he was bought for the sake of piety, then he is not bound to return anything or serve, because that which is given for piety, the law prohibits it to be sought back, rather it is presumed to have been given, unless the contrary has been proven and the parties stand. Likewise, if no buyer appears, nevertheless he will be free and will provide the price or work for free, and if there are many who care to buy, the Bishop of the place shall choose the more suitable one. But if the master has not exposed him for sale within three months, afterward if he wishes to become a Christian, he will be freed without price, because it is presumed that he bought him to serve, says the chapter "Fraternitatem" at the end.
Tenth. No public office is to be entrusted by Christians to any Jew, so that he may not have the occasion to behave cruelly toward Christians. It is clear from the Fourth Council of Toledo, and it is placed in the canon, 54th distinction, chapter "Nulla officia publica Iudaeis iniungantur," by which occasion is given to them to inflict punishment on Christians. If any Christians have been stained by them in the Judaic rite, or even circumcised, let them return to liberty and the Christian religion without price returned. This appeared above in the chapter "Suo Episcopo." Similarly, it is placed regarding the mind of the same...