Cum nimis absurdum (July 14th 1555) "As it is absurd and improper at the most degree that the Jews, which due to their guilt have been sentenced by God to eternal slavery, can, on the pretext of being protected by the Christian love and tolerated in their living together us, exhibit so much ingratitude for the Christian people to offend them for their mercy and to demand command instead of submission: and as we have heard that, in Rome and in other places submitted to the Sacred Roman Church, their impudence increased so much that they dare not only to live amongst the Christian people, but also in the neighbourhood of the churches without any difference of dressing, and even that they rent houses in the main streets and squares, buy and hold immovables, engage maids, nurses and other Christian servants, and commit other and numerous misdeeds with shame and contempt of the Christian name, we have been forced to take the following measures [...]".