ustom of the country, in diet, dress, and
language: consequently to abstain from feeding on cattle which have died
of distempers; not to go about in such unseemly dresses; and to
discontinue the use of their own particular language.

2. Not to appear any more in large cloaks; which are chiefly useful to
hide things that have been stolen.

3. No Gypsey, except he be a gold-washer, shall keep a horse.

4. Also the gold-washers must refrain from all kinds of bartering at the
annual fairs.

5. The magistrates of every place must be very attentive that no Gypsey
waste his time in idleness; but at those seasons, when they have no
employment, either for themselves or any landholder, to recommend them to
some other person, with whom they shall be compelled to work for hire.

6. They are to be kept particularly to agriculture; therefore

7. It is to be observed, where possible, that every territorial Lord,
who takes any Gypsies under his jurisdiction, do allot them a certain
piece of ground to cultivate.

8. Whoever is remiss in his husbandry, shall be liable to corporal
punishment.

9. They shall be permitted to amuse themselves with music, or other
things, only when there is no field work for them to do.

Such were the regulations adopted by the Emperor Joseph II. for the
purpose of civilizing, and rendering good and profitable subjects,
upwards of eighty thousand of miserable wretches, ignorant of God and of
virtue.

_Grellmann_.

SECTION V.

The Gypsies in Great Britain.

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The traits of character and the habits of the Gypsies on the Continent of
Europe, exhibited in this work, are sufficient for an examination, in
what degree these people correspond with those under the same
denomination in England.

The earliest account which the writer of this section has been able to
collect from British History, was printed in the year 1612; when a quarto
work, by S. R. was published, to detect and expose the art of juggling
and legerdemain; in which is the following description of the Gypsies.

"This kind of people, about a hundred years ago, beganne to gather an
head, as the first heere, about the southerne parts. And this as I am
informed, and can gather, was their beginning: Certain Egyptians banished
their country, (belike not for their good conditions,) arrived heere in
England, who for quaint