They might sell their effects and take the proceeds in merchandise or bills of exchange, but not in gold or silver.

Exiled thus suddenly from the land of their birth, the land of their ancestors for hundreds of years, they could not in the glutted market that arose sell what they possessed.

Nobody would purchase what could be got for nothing after July.

The Spanish clergy occupied themselves by preaching in the public squares sermons filled with denunciations against their victims, who, when the time for expatriation came, swarmed in the roads and filled the air with their cries of despair.

Even the Spanish onlookers wept at the scene of agony.
Torquemada, however, enforced the ordinance that no one should afford them any help.
Of the banished persons some made their way into Africa, some into Italy; the latter carried with them to Naples ship-fever, which destroyed not fewer than twenty thousand in that city, and devastated that peninsula; some reached Turkey, a few England.