Jews

Members of the Jewish community lived in their own quarter of the city (in the area fronting Dermatas Bay), and were mainly involved in trade and money lending.

(29^th March 1549)

I Stephanos Sakelaris, notary at the Grand Chancellery [secretariat of the Venetian administration], son of Mister Tomado, residing at Exoporto in Chandax, Crete, do declare that I received today from you, reb-Lazari Raso, a Jew, hyperpyra C, being one hundred... to be obliged at the first harvest coming, at my expense, to give you at your shop precisely three hundred mistata [1 mistato = 2 gallons] of Hebrew blended wine must, half of what I give being red and half white...

(Manolis G. Drakakis, Michail Maras, Notary at Chandax, Ledger 149, Vikelaia Municipal Library, deed no. 378 - in Greek)