three years before Borrow went a-gypsying.
Still, I believe there is something in it.

{114} A thing done oftener in books than in reality.

{121} Richard Hurrell Froude in a letter of 1831 brands Dissenters as
"the promoters of damnable heresy."

{139} A branch of the great Gypsy family of Boswell have contracted the
surname to Boss.

{142} At Tamworth in May 1812 (Knapp, i. 105).

{156} The Gypsy lass
And the Gypsy lad
Shall go to-morrow
To poison the pig
And bewitch the horse
Of the farmer gentleman.

{160} The Gypsy lass
And the Gypsy lad
Love stealing
And fortune-telling,
And lying,
And every _-pen_
But goodness
And truth.

{161} Dog. Better, _jukel_.

{165a} By my God; not Anglo-Romany.

{165b} Coppersmith.

{167} Grand-aunt's.

{168} Cake.

{169} Rod.

{170} Aunt.

{174a} Poisoned.

{174b} Fortune-telling spirit. I never met the English Gypsy that used
_dook_.

{177} Gentile's coming.

{188} In my _Gypsy Folk-Tales_ (1899, pp. 293-95) I have discussed with
some fulness Bunyan's possible Gypsy ancestry. The most interesting
point is that in 1586 at Launceston a child was baptized "Nicholas, sonne
of James Bownian, an Egiptian rogue."

{201} Ellis Wynn (_c._ 1671-1741). Borrow himself at last printed his
translation of _The Sleeping Bard_ at Yarmouth in 1860, and himself next
year reviewed it in the _Quarterly_.

{238} Rhys Prichard (1579-1644).

{246} Hat of beaver.

{247} Good day, brother.

{249a} Seems meant for "hang-woman," but there is no such word.

{249b} Gipsy-wise--an odd form.

{250a} Good old blood. Should be _rat_, not _rati_.

{250b} Horse.

{251} Brother, comrade.

{252a} Aunt.

{252b} Poisoning pigs.

{253a} Poisons; not Anglo-Romany.

{253b} Better, _nashado_, hanged.

{254a} Magistrate.

{254b} Runner, detective.

{255a} Woman. Rightly _juvel_.

{255b} No such word.

{256} Seemingly "gallows," but no such word.

{257a} Gypsy chap.

{257b} _Engro_ is a mere termination, like _-er_ in _runner_.

{259} Fool.

{260} Fists. Prizefighters' slang.

{263} Blacksmith.

{264a} Tell fortunes.

{264b} Hill Town, Norwich, but better, _Chumba Gav_.

{264c} "Go with God." Not English Romany.

{267} Horse-shoe.

{268a} Better, _yogesko chivs_.

{268b} Probably "brother," but not English Romany.

{268c} Unknown to English Gypsies.

{268d} Beating.

{268e} Questionable.

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