{0a} Pronounced _Lav'en-gro_, not _Lav-en'gro_, the two first syllables exactly like those of _lavender_. Borrow meant it to stand for "word- master, philologist," but--_nomen omen_--already in Grellmann (1787) _latcho lavengro_ stood for "a liar." {1a} On 5th July 1803, at East Dereham, Norfolk, 17 miles west-north- west of Norwich. {1b} Captain Thomas Borrow (1758-1824), the youngest of a family of eight (three daughters and five sons). {1c} Trethinnick, near St. Cleer. {2} "In Cornwall are the best gentlemen."--_Corn. Prov._ (B.) {4a} Earl of Orford. Borrow's father rose from private to sergeant in the Coldstream Guards, and, passing in 1792 to the West Norfolk Militia, was six years later promoted adjutant with the rank of captain (Knapp, i. 7-16). {4b} Dereham. {4c} Ann Perfrement (1772-1858). They married in 1793 (Knapp, i. 16- 26). {7} John Thomas Borrow (1800-1833), ensign and lieutenant in his father's regiment, art student under Old Crome and Benjamin Haydon, and from 1826 a mining agent in Mexico. {19} Norwegian ells--about eight feet. (B.) {22} Dereham. {31a} Charles Hyde Wollaston (1772-1850), vicar from 1806--my mother's uncle. {31b} James Philo (1745-1829), an old soldier, for fifty years parish clerk. {33} In 1810. {37} Whittlesea Mere. In 1786 it measured 3.5 miles from east to west by 2.5 miles, and it was drained in 1850-51. {44} Much such a man, perhaps a descendant, travelled East Anglia about 1866. He used to visit schools to exhibit his snakes. {48} Better _bengesko_ or _beng's_, devil's. {50} _Tiny tawny_ is not Romany. _Tarno_ means "small" or "young." {52} _Sap_, snake; _sapengro_, snake-charmer. {65} Berwick-upon-Tweed. Its walls are not lofty. {69a} In 1813. {69b} South-western. {71} Borrow and his brother seem to have been at the High School in March 1814, probably only for the one winter session. James Pillans was rector, and the four under-masters were William Ritchie, Aglionby Ross Carson (Borrow's), George Irvine, James Gray. {72} William Bowie; probably from Gaelic _buidhe_, yellow, and so not Norse at all. {75} Northern. {79} David Haggart (1801-21), thief, was born and hanged at Edinburgh. He enlisted as a drummer in July 1813, and killed a Dumfries turnkey in 1820. His curious _Autobiography_ is written largely in thieves' cant. {82a} Northern. {82b} Perhaps two hundred feet. {88} Fifteen months. {89a} Harwich. {89b} Cork Harbour. {90} Cork. {93} Clonmel. {98} Elzevirs are not generally huge. {104} In Tipperary county, twenty miles north of Clonmel. In 1816. {131} Norwich. {132a} Till 1886 a prison, and now a museum. A square Norman keep. {132b} The tower is Norman, the spire Decorated, 215 feet high. {133} The Bishop's Bridge (1295) over the Wensum. {134} Horatio, Viscount Nelson (1758-1805), was born at Burnham-Thorpe Rectory, Norfolk, near Wells.