number follow no business; others are dealers in
horses and asses; farriers, smiths, tinkers, braziers, grinders of
cutlery, basket-makers, chair-bottomers, and musicians.

10. Children are brought up in the habits of their parents, particularly
to music and dancing, and are of dissolute conduct.

11. The women mostly carry baskets with trinkets and small wares; and
tell fortunes.

12. Too indolent to have acquired accounts of genealogy, and perhaps
indisposed to it by the irregularity of their habits.

13. In most counties there are particular situations to which they are
partial. In Berkshire is a marsh, near Newbury, much frequented by them;
and Dr. Clarke states, that in Cambridgeshire, their principal rendezvous
is near the western villages.

14. It cannot be ascertained, whether from their first coming into the
nation, attachment to particular places has prevailed.

15, 16, & 17. When among strangers, they elude inquiries respecting
their peculiar language, calling it gibberish. Don't know of any person
that can write it, or of any written specimen of it.

18. Their habits and customs in all places are peculiar.

19. Those who profess any religion, represent it to be that of the
country in which they reside: but their description of it, seldom goes
beyond repeating the Lord's prayer; and only a few of them are capable of
that. Instances of their attending any place for warship are very rare.

20. They marry for the most part by pledging to each other, without any
ceremony. A few exceptions have occurred when money was plentiful.

21. They do not teach their children religion.

22 & 23. Not _one_ in a _thousand_ can read.

24 & 25. Some go into lodgings in London, Cambridge, &c. during winter;
but it is calculated three-fourths of them live out of doors in winter,
as in summer.

Most of the answers are confirmed by Riley Smith, who, during many years,
was accounted the chief of the Gypsies in Northamptonshire. He being
much in request by some of the principal inhabitants of that county, as a
musician, had the address to marry the cook out of one of their families,
and afterward obtained a farm near Bedford; but being unsuccessful in
agriculture, he returned to his former occupation. John Forster and
William Carrington, respectable merchants of Biggleswade, and neighbours
to Riley Smith, procured answers from him to all the queries in the
Circular; but they cannot be made the basis o