perty. But the French exiles of the Edict
of 1685 _did_ worship there, even as did the Dutch refugees from Alva's
persecution a century before (1565-70).--4. Middle Age: Borrow's father
was thirty-four, and his mother twenty-one, at the date of their
marriage. John was born seven years after the marriage, and George ten.
The mother was, then, thirty-one at George's birth.--4. Bishop Hopkins:
Sermons.--4. Angola: More correctly _Angora_.--5. Foreign grave: Lieut.
John Thomas Borrow died at Guanajuato, Mexico, 22nd November, 1833.

Pages 12-13. "Snorro" Sturleson: Poet and historian of Iceland (1178-
1241). Harald (not _Harold_) III., called "Haardraade". Battle of
Stamford Bridge, A.D. 1066, same year as Norman Conquest. See Mallet's
_Northern Antiquities_, pp. 168-71 and 194; Snorro's _Heimskringla_, ii.,
p. 164, and his _Chronica_, 1633, p. 381, for the quotation; also
_Bibliog._ at end of _Romany Rye_.--13. Winchester: Rather _Winchelsea_,
according to the Regimental Records.--14. A gallant frigate: A
reminiscence of Norman Cross gossip in 1810-11. "Ninety-eight French
prisoners, the crew of a large French privateer of eighteen guns called
the _Contre-Amiral Magon_, and commanded by the notorious Blackman, were
captured 16th October, 1804, by Capt. Hancock of the _Cruiser_ sloop, and
brought into Yarmouth. They marched into Norwich, 26th November, and the
next morning proceeded under guard on their way to Norman Cross
barracks"--_Norwich Papers_, 1804.--15. Lady Bountiful: Dame Eleanor Fenn
(1743-1813).--15. Bard: William Cowper (1731-1800).--16. Some Saint:
Withburga, daughter of Anna, king of the East Angles, was the "saint" and
the "daughter" at the same time.--19. Hunchbacked rhymer: Alexander
Pope.--20. Properties of God, read _attributes_.--20. Rector: The Rev. F.
J. H. Wollaston.--20. Philoh: James Philo (1745-1829).--21. Tolerism,
read _toleration_.--24. Mere: Whittlesea Mere, long since drained.--31.
Bengui: See the vocabulary at the end for all Gypsy words in this
volume.--34. Jasper: The change from _Ambrose_ to Jasper was made in
pencil in Mrs. Borrow's transcript at the last moment in 1849, before
handing it to the printers.--38. Three years: Included in the subsequent
narrative, _not_ excluded from it as his Norwich school days (1814-15,
1816-18) were. They extend from July, 1811, to April, 1813--from Norman
Cross to Edinburgh. The chronology, according to the Regimental Records,
was as follows: