The Senator of the city used annually to administer to them an official kick in the seat of honour: which token of respect they acknowledged by a payment of 800 scudi.

At every accession of a Pope, they were obliged to range themselves under the Arch of Titus, and to offer the new Pontiff a Bible, in return for which he addressed to them an insulting observation.

They paid a perpetual annuity of 450 scudi to the heirs of a renegade who had abused them.

They paid the salary of a preacher charged to work at their conversion every Saturday, and if they stayed away from the sermon they were fined.

But they paid no taxes in the strict sense of the word, because they were not citizens.