Sarah's husband's,
and there it was roasted.
After dinner my wife and I, by Mr. Rawlinson's conduct, to the
Jewish Synagogue: where the men and boys In their vayles, and
the women behind a lettice out of sight; and some things stand
up, which I believe is their law, in a press to which all coming
in do bow; and at the putting on their vayles do say something,
to which others that hear the Priest do cry Amen, and the party
do kiss his vayle. Their service all in a singing way, and in
Hebrew. And anon their Laws that they take out of the press are
carried by several men, four or five several burthens in all, and
they do relieve one another; and whether it is that every one
desires to have the carrying of it, thus they carried it round
about the room while such a service is singing. And in the end
they had a prayer for the King, in which they pronounced his name
in Portugall; but the prayer, like the rest, in Hebrew. But,
Lord! to see the disorder, laughing, sporting, and no attention,
but confusion in all their service, more like brutes than people
knowing the true God, would make a man forswear ever seeing them
more: and indeed I never did see so much, or could have imagined
there had been any religion in the whole world so absurdly
performed as this.
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