obliging. In religion divided, between Papists and Jews. The people
generally not handsome. They have many religious houses, and
bishopricks of great revenue; and the religious of both sexes are for
the most part very strict.

Their fruits of all kinds are extraordinary good and fair; their wine
rough for the most part, but very wholesome; their corn dark and
gritty; water bad, except some few springs far from the city. Their
flesh of all kinds indifferent; their mules and asses extraordinary
good and large, but their horses few and naught. They have little wood
and less grass.

At my coming away I visited several nunneries, in one whereof I was
told, that the last year there was a girl of fourteen years of age
burnt for a Jew. She was taken from her mother as soon as she was
born, in prison, her mother being condemned, and brought up in the
Esperanca; although she never heard, as they did to me affirm, what a
Jew was, she did daily scratch and whip the crucifixes, and run pins
into them in private; and when discovered confessed it, and said she
would never adore that God.

On Thursday, August 25th, 1663,[Footnote: The 25th of August, 1663,
fell on a Tuesday.] we set sail for England. On the 4th of September,
our style, being Friday, we landed at Deal, all in good health, God be
praised!

Saturday 5th, we went to Canterbury, and there tarried Sunday, where
we went to church, and very many of the gentlemen of Kent came to
welcome us into England.