t from the dingle, on the
great North road.

{146} Louis Jeremiah Abershaw, hanged on Kennington Common, August 3,
1795. The Bald-faced Stag near Kingston was his headquarters.

{147a} See Introduction.

{147b} See Camden Pelham's 'Life and Adventures of Galloping Dick.'
Philadelphia, 1863.

{148} See p. 27, note.

{149} Gaol (cant).

{152} _I.e._, highwayman.

{161} John Broughton, pugilist (1705-1789).

{162a} April 11, 1750.

{162b} At Broughton's funeral Johnson and Big Ben acted as his
pall-bearers, with Humphries, Mendoza, Ward, and Ryan.

{163a} His real name was Francis Arden (Kn.).

{163b} Liverpool.

{164} Chester.

{165} See 'Lavengro,' i. 399; ii. 57.

{166} See Introduction.

{168} Sir James Brooke, Rajah of Sarawah, Borrow's old school-fellow at
Norwich (1816-1818).

{182a} Probably meant for 'gypsydom,' but properly old cant for
'London.' Rome is here Shelta, or Gaelic back-slang for _mor_, 'great.'

{182b} 'The girl she is black,
She lies on her back.'

which looks like a translation of some English ditty.

{183} Sham sailors (old cant).

{189} Fair, straightforward (dialect).

{199} See after, in the jockey's tale, p. 252.

{224} See Introduction.

{226a} Donkey-boy.

{226b} Transported.

{231} See Introduction.

{245} A witch hag. See Ralston's 'Russian Folk tales,' pp. 137, 399.

{250a} In Hungarian gypsy, properly _gulo rai_, 'sweet sir.'

{250b} German cant.

{252} The English rogue described in 'The Life of Meriton Latroon,' a
witty extravagant [by Richard Head], 4 vols. London, 1665-80.

{264} Mistress (cant).

{271} _I.e._, mathematics.

{279} John Thurtell, Borrow's old Norwich crony, 1817-20, hanged at
Hertford, January 9, 1824, for the murder of William Weare.

{280} Hertford.

{281a} July 17, 1820, at North Walsham, Norfolk. See 'Lavengro.'

{281b} _Cf._ the lines from a song which Borrow may have heard in
Ireland:

'And by this time to-morrow you'll see
Your Larry will be dead as mutton.
All for what? 'Caze his courage was good!'

{288a} Thimble-rigger.

{288b} Greenwich fair. See Introduction and 'Lavengro,' vol. ii., p.
22.

{291} Borrow really heard this tale in Cornwall, from the guide Cronan,
in January, 1854.

{296} Tipperary.

{303a} Civita Vecchia.

{303b} The Duke d'Angouleme.

{311a} South.

{311b} Boston.

{311c} Spalding.

{313} We first hear of th