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7. Jewish Traders
7. Jewish Traders
1. Amsterdam City Archives (Stadsarchief Amsterdam, hereinafter re-
ferred to as SAA), Archives of the notaries with practice location in Amster-
dam (hereinafter referred to as Notaries), inv. no. 2238, fo. 5, 161.
2. Daniel Swetschinski, Reluctant Cosmopolitans: The Portuguese Jews
of Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam (London, 2000), 208.
3. A Description of Holland, with Some Necessary Directions for Such
as Intend to Travel Through the Province of Holland (London, 1691), 40.
Quoted in Jonathan I. Israel, “Jews and the Stock Exchange: The Amsterdam
Financial Crash of 1688,” in Diasporas Within a Diaspora: Jews, Crypto-
Jews, and the World Maritime Empires (1540–1740), ed. J. I. Israel (Leiden,
2002), 449–487, esp. 454.
4. J. G. van Dillen, Het oudste aandeelhoudersregister van de Kamer Am-
sterdam der Oost-Indische Compagnie (The Hague, 1958), 57.
5. J. G. van Dillen, “De economische positie en betekenis der joden in
de Republiek en in de Nederlandse koloniale wereld,” in Geschiedenis der
joden in Nederland, ed. H. Brugmans and A. Frank (Amsterdam, 1940),
561–616, esp. 564.
6. Archive of the VOC (Dutch East India Company, hereafter VOC), inv.
no. 7068. Swetschinski, Reluctant Cosmopolitans, 109.
7. H. de la Fontaine Verwey, et al., eds., Vier eeuwen Herengracht:
geveltekeningen van alle huizen aan de gracht, twee historische overzichten
en de beschrijving van elk pand met zijn eigenaars en bewoners (Amsterdam,
1976), 324–326.
8. Van Dillen, “De economische positie,” 564. The total number of
Portuguese Jews residing in Amsterdam in around 1685 has been established
at 4,500. This is just over 2 percent of a population of something like 200,000.
See Hubert P. H. Nusteling, ‘The Jews in the Republic of the United Provinces:
Origin, Numbers, and Dispersion,” in Dutch Jewry: Its History and Secu-
lar Culture (1500–2000), ed. Jonathan Israel and Reinier Salverda (Leiden,
2002), 51–52.
9. Johannes Cloppenburch, Christelijcke onderwijsinge van woecker,
interessen, coop van renten, ende allerleye winsten met gelt (Amsterdam,
1637), 20–21. Hugo de Groot, Inleidinge tot de Hollandsche rechts-geleerd-
heid (1631) i, ed. S. J. Fockema Andreae (Arnhem, 1939), vol. III, part 10,
§10, 140–142.
10. Penso de la Vega, Confusión, 28. See note 2 in chapter 1, above.
11. Cornelis Cau et al., Groot placaet-boeck, vervattende de placaten,
ordonnantien ende edicten van de . . . Staten Generael der Vereenighde
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