A Historical Survey of the Customs, Habits, & Present State of the GypsiesHoyland, John
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A Historical Survey of the Customs, Habits, & Present State of the Gypsies
Hoyland, John
Romanies
Were they to be educated during the whole of the year, it is obvious that
some establishment would be necessary for their maintenance and clothing.
The author of this Survey is not aware of any Institutions so much
adapted to their case, as the charity schools for boys and girls, which
are common to every part of the kingdom. It is not probable that Gypsey
population would furnish more than two boys, and two girls, for each of
these schools. Their being placed among a much greater number of
children, and those of settled, and in some degree of civilized habits,
would greatly facilitate the training of Gypsies to salutary discipline
and subordination; and the associations it provided for them out of
school hours, being under the superintendence of a regular family, would,
in an especial manner, be favorable to their domestication.
Charity schools, by admitting children so early as at six years of age,
and continuing them to fourteen, seem particularly suited to the case of
Gypsies, in supplying all that is requisite until the boys are at an age
to go out apprentices, and the girls to service in families.
Gypsies being the children of a whole county, if not of the nation at
large, perhaps the expense of their maintenance might, without
inconsistency, be defrayed out of county rates, which would prevent its
being burdensome to any particular district. By a process so simple and
easy, expensive establishments on the account of Gypsies, might be
entirely avoided. And many parents among them, express a willingness to
part with their children, for education, provided they were cared for in
other respects.
After several centuries, a degree of solicitude being at length apparent
in the Gypsies, for the improvement of their children, the time has
arrived when some effectual benefit may be communicated to them.
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