the Wensum.

{134} Horatio, Viscount Nelson (1758-1805), was born at Burnham-Thorpe
Rectory, Norfolk, near Wells.

{140} Borrow clean omits his two years (1816-18) at Norwich Grammar
School, under Edward Valpy (1764-1832), headmaster 1810-29. This was
probably because, horsed on James Martineau's back, he was flogged for
running away to turn smuggler or freebooter. Sir James Brooke was
another schoolfellow.

{142} The Rev. Thomas D'Eterville, a Norman _emigre_.

{146} The Yare.

{147} Earlham Hall.

{148} Joseph John Gurney (1788-1847), Quaker banker of Norwich, and
philanthropist, a brother of Mrs. Fry. See A. J. C. Hare's _The Gurneys
of Earlham_ (2 vols., 1895).

{152} Tombland Fair, on Norwich Castle Hill, the day before Good Friday.

{154} _Cf._ Introduction, p. xxv.

{156} Snake-charmer.

{157} Monschold (pron. _Muzzle_) Heath, near Norwich.

{158} Better _Tarno Tikno_, little baby.

{161} _Petulengro_, farrier, the esoteric Romany name of the Smith
family. It is derived from the Modern Greek _petalon_, horse-shoe, if
that, indeed, is not borrowed from the Romany.

{162a} Truth, brother.

{162b} Book.

{162c} Hill.

{163a} Passing bad money.

{163b} Gypsies.

{163c} Better _gaujoes_, non-Gypsies or Gentiles.

{164a} Yes.

{164b} Magistrate of the town.

{165a} Child.

{165b} In the town, telling fortunes.

{166a} House.

{166b} Going.

{169a} In Vol. i. p. 320 of _Etymologicon Universale_ (3 vols., 1822-
25), by the Rev. Walter Whiter (1758-1832), from 1797 rector of
Hardingham, near Wymondham, occurs this suggestion: "It will perhaps be
discovered by some future inquirer that from a horde of vagrant _Gipseys_
once issued that band of sturdy robbers, the companions of Romulus and of
Remus, who laid the foundations of the _Eternal City_ on the banks of the
Tibur." This sounds truly Borrovian; and scattered through the amazing
_Etymologicon_ are twenty-six Romany words, very correctly spelt, which I
used to think Whiter must have learnt from George Borrow. But there are
words that Borrow does not seem to have known--_poshe_, near; _kam_, sun;
_ria_, sir (vocative), and _petalles_, horse-shoe (accusative). Whiter
appears to have known Romany better than Borrow. Borrow certainly meant
to write a good deal about Whiter, for in a letter to John Murray of 1st
December 1842 he sketches _Lavengro_: "Capital subject--early life;
studies and adventures; som