ity, devise
False freedoms, formal cheats, and holy lies,
Over their fellow fools to tyrannize.'

ROCHESTER.

THE END.

BILLING AND SONS, LTD., PRINTERS, GUILDFORD

Footnotes:

{0a} 'Lavengro,' i. 265.

{0b} _Ibid._, i. 340.

{0c} His 'Celebrated Trials' was published March 19, 1825.

{0d} Accounts of this fight, extracted from the _Times _and _Morning
Herald_, are given in Hone's 'Every Day Book,' vol. i., 1826.

{0e} References to the attempts of the authorities to suppress this fair
will be found in the _Times _of Tuesday, May 24, 1825, and a description
of the fair of 1825 is given in Hone's 'Every Day Book' of the following
year (1826).

{0f} Borrow says '_two _or _three _days passed by in much the same
manner as the first.' Since one of these days was Sunday, the latter
seems the more probable; but if only two days passed, then Borrow must
have left London one day later--_i.e._, Wednesday, May 25, 1825.

{0g} The fair-town lay, therefore, to the east of Willenhall.

{0h} For these astronomical calculations I am indebted to my colleague,
Mr. W. E. Plummer, of the Liverpool Observatory.

{0i} 'Life of Borrow,' i. 104.

{0j} His calculation, for instance, gives one day too many at Salisbury,
and places the poison episode and the Sunday with the preacher, which
were two consecutive days, on the 8th and 12th respectively!

{0k} This is the date given in Knapp's 'Life of Borrow,' and also as a
page heading in his edition of 'Lavengro,' p. 289. But in a note to his
edition of 'The Romany Rye,' p. 385, he says that the fair was 'on
Easter-Monday' (April 3).

{0l} Thorpe's 'Environs of London,' p. 48.

{0m} See chapter xxiv.

{0n} 'Life of Borrow,' i. 103. 'There were _Sells _at Norwich; their
great artist was John Sell Cotman.' And there have been _Sells
_elsewhere--_nomen omen_! to borrow one of Mr. Groome's favourite
quotations.

{0o} 'The Romany Rye,' Appendix, chapter ix.

{0p} _Ibid._, Appendix, chapter ii. 'He eats his own bread, and is one
of the very few men in England who are independent in every sense of the
word.'

{0q} It looks as if he met Jasper by appointment at the Welsh border.
But extraordinary rencontres are commonplace in Borrow's career. He
meets the Apple-woman's Armenian customer and restores his purse, he
meets Ardrey as h