George Borrow (1803–1881) was a British author, adventurer, and agent of the Bible Society whose journeys in the mid-nineteenth century took him to both Russia and Spain. His The Bible in Spain, or, the Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonments of an Englishman in an Attempt to Circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula, published in London in 1914, contains a 19th century reference to Crypto-Judaism in Spain, as related in the following pages: