[De communione et conversatione Iudaeorum et Christianorum]

end and effect, they abuse, and under that pretext commit many dishonest and foul things, from which the purity of the Christian religion and faith is not a little injured, and the minds of the Catholic faithful of Christ often suffer scandal. On account of which, by the predecessor of happy memory, Pope Eugenius IV, it was declared that such concessions, privileges, and indults granted to Jews living under any lords whatsoever, even in lands directly or indirectly subject to us and the Roman Church, as is premised, operate only to the limits of the common law, and extend no further by any pact, nor suffer or receive any interpretation other than that of the law itself. When, however, as we have perceived with great displeasure through truthful relation, although many wholesome constitutions, decretal epistles, have emanated from various Roman pontiffs, our predecessors, concerning Jews and Saracens, the aforementioned Jews and Saracens, nevertheless, living in the aforementioned provinces and places of Italy, leaning on their own affections and their ancient perfidy, when they do not have the legitimate sense of such constitutions, decrees, and decretal epistles according to their desires, so that they may be able to elude them, they bring forward an adulterine intellect, and do not fear to continue their old malice and rashness against the faithful of Christ, and to use the wickedness of the Jews more presumptuously, to the maximum vilipend of the Christian faith and likewise to the danger and loss of souls. We, so that the aforementioned Jews and Saracens and their impious Christian abettors may be terrified by the imposition of penalties, may fear to relapse hereafter into their pernicious uses, and may not have the faithful of Christ persisting in their fidelity to stumble on account of their perfidy, with the remedies that we can, as we are held by the debits of the pastoral office, pre-