"They [the Jews] hold that the Jews of Italy, Germany and the Levant are of Benjamin's tribe ... But the tribe of Judah whence they expected their Messias ... they say is settled in Portugal; where they give out to have thousands of their race, whom they dispense withal to make a semblance of Christianity even to Church-decrees.This makes them breed up their children in the Lusitanian language; which makes the Spaniard have an odd saying, that El Portuguez se crio del pedo de un Judio; a Portuguese was engendered of a Jew's --- : As the Mahometans have a passage in their Alchoran, that a cat was made of a Lion's breath."'Epistolae Ho-Elianae: Familiar Letters of James Howell' (to Lord Clifford, June 3rd, 1633).