“Order” of Emperor Maximilian II addressed to the Old-Town Prague [Present-day Czech Republic; Kingdom of Bohemia/House of Habsburg/Holy Roman Empire]: “[Emperor Maximilian commands Old-Town Prague (‘Altstadt Prag’) to order Jews to submit the thirtieth penny (1/30) of each sold good as per the parliamentary decision (‘Landtagsbeschlusse’); the imperial judges are to collect any fines for non-payment of such taxes as determined by the parliament (‘Landtag’). […]” [Researcher’s note: Document was signed in Vienna. The above is a translation of a German summary of the Czech text both of which can be found in the cited source.]
Zur Geschichte der Juden in Böhmen, Mähren und Schlesien von 906 bis 1620. Herausgegeben von Gottlieb Bondy, em. Präsidenten der Handels- und Gewerbekammer in Prag. Zur Herausgabe vorbereitet und ergänzt von Franz Dworsky, em. Director des Landesarchives des Königreiches Böhmens. I. 1577 bis 1620. (Prag; 1906); (Regarding the history of Jews in Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia from 906 to 1620. Published by Gottlieb Bondy, fo[rmer] President of the Trade and Commerce and Industry in Prague. Prepared for publication and supplemented by Franz Dworsky, fo[rmer] Director of the National Archives of the Kingdom of Bohemia. I. 1577 to 1620.) (Prague; 1906); Researched and Translated by Ziba Shadjaani 7/24/2019