Page "Pope Innocent XI" Paragraph 10

More controversially on 30 October 1682 he issued an edict by which all the money-lending activities carried out by the Roman Jews were to cease.

Such a move would incidentally have financially benefitted his own brothers who played a dominant role in European money-lending.

However ultimately convinced that such a measure would cause much misery in destroying livelihoods, the enforcement of the edict was twice delayed.