Though the Mohammedan dominion began to be on the wane, in Spain,
during this century, the Jews held still high offices and enjoyed great
privileges there. Even the Christian powers, at least the political
rulers, were sensible of the benefit which this people imparted to the
country, not only as teachers of science, physicians, and ministers of
finance, but also by the vigour they excited in foreign and domestic
trade. A Jew was, in this century, fiscal general and treasurer of the
kingdom, Jahudano by name. The sovereign entrusted him with almost all
state negociations.――_See Finn’s Sephardim_, chap. xviii.