e account of my father, William Taylor,
Whiter, Big Ben, etc. etc." (Knapp, ii. 5). But he barely mentions
Whiter in chap. xxiv. of _Lavengro_. In the _Gypsy Lore Journal_ (i.
1888, pp. 102-4) I had an article on Whiter. That on Whiter by Mr.
Courtney, in vol. lxi. of the _Dictionary of National Biography_ (1900),
shows that he was writing on the Gypsy language in 1800 and 1811.

{169b} Fighter.

{170a} Husband.

{170b} Gentleman.

{170c} London.

{170d} Song.

{178} Borrow's _Wild Wales_ gives a full account of his Welsh studies at
this period.

{180} He was articled on 30th March 1819 to Messrs. Simpson & Rackham
solicitors, for five years.

{198} Klopstock. (B.)

{199} John Crome, "Old Crome" (1768-1811), the great landscape-painter
of the "Norwich School."

{208} Lodowick Muggleton (1609-98), a London Puritan tailor, founded his
sect about 1651.

{211} William Taylor (1765-1836), "of Norwich," introduced German
literature to English readers, and corresponded with Southey, Scott,
Godwin, etc. He seems to have made an infidel of Borrow by 1824 (Knapp,
ii. 261-2). See Life of Taylor by Robberds (1843).

{225a} Samuel Parr (1747-1825).

{225b} See note on p. 169.

{230} John Thurtell (_c._ 1791-1824), the son of a Norwich alderman, was
hanged at Hertford for the brutal murder in Gill's Hill Lane of a fellow-
swindler, William Weare. He figures also in Hazlitt's "Prize-fight," and
Sir Walter Scott visited the scene of Weare's murder.

{233} Spinoza.

{239} Rather shaky Romany. _Chivios_ and _rovel_ should be _chido si_
and _rovenna_.

{240} Enough.

{249} Absolutely meaningless to any English Gypsy that ever walked.
Borrow seems to have fancied it was Hungarian Romany, but it isn't.

{264} Anglo-Hanoverian victory over the French, 1759.

{265} 2nd April 1824.

{270} Sir Richard Phillips (1767-1840), schoolmaster, hosier, stationer,
publisher, author, Radical, vegetarian, etc., removed from Leicester to
London in 1795, was knighted in 1808, and finally retired to Brighton.

{278} By the Rev. Legh Richmond (1772-1827). Elizabeth Wallbridge, the
dairyman's daughter, is buried at Arreton, in the Isle of Wight; and
2,000,000 copies of the tract, which was written in 1809, are said to
have been sold in the author's lifetime.

{287} _The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the famous Moll Flanders_, by
Daniel Defoe, appeared on 27th January 1722.

{293} Quite incredible.