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Borrow, George
England -- Fiction; Romanies -- Fiction
{199} John Crome, "Old Crome" (1768-1811), the great landscape-painter
of the "Norwich School."
{208} Lodowick Muggleton (1609-98), a London Puritan tailor, founded his
sect about 1651.
{211} William Taylor (1765-1836), "of Norwich," introduced German
literature to English readers, and corresponded with Southey, Scott,
Godwin, etc. He seems to have made an infidel of Borrow by 1824 (Knapp,
ii. 261-2). See Life of Taylor by Robberds (1843).
{225a} Samuel Parr (1747-1825).
{225b} See note on p. 169.
{230} John Thurtell (_c._ 1791-1824), the son of a Norwich alderman, was
hanged at Hertford for the brutal murder in Gill's Hill Lane of a fellow-
swindler, William Weare. He figures also in Hazlitt's "Prize-fight," and
Sir Walter Scott visited the scene of Weare's murder.
{233} Spinoza.
{239} Rather shaky Romany. _Chivios_ and _rovel_ should be _chido si_
and _rovenna_.
{240} Enough.
{249} Absolutely meaningless to any English Gypsy that ever walked.
Borrow seems to have fancied it was Hungarian Romany, but it isn't.
{264} Anglo-Hanoverian victory over the French, 1759.
{265} 2nd April 1824.
{270} Sir Richard Phillips (1767-1840), schoolmaster, hosier, stationer,
publisher, author, Radical, vegetarian, etc., removed from Leicester to
London in 1795, was knighted in 1808, and finally retired to Brighton.
{278} By the Rev. Legh Richmond (1772-1827). Elizabeth Wallbridge, the
dairyman's daughter, is buried at Arreton, in the Isle of Wight; and
2,000,000 copies of the tract, which was written in 1809, are said to
have been sold in the author's lifetime.
{287} _The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the famous Moll Flanders_, by
Daniel Defoe, appeared on 27th January 1722.
{293} Quite incredible. Norwich had its own papers.
{306} By Prof. Knapp identified with William Gifford (1757-1826),
translator of Juvenal, editor of the _Anti-Jacobin_, the _Quarterly
Review_, etc.; but Mr. Leslie Stephen argues, in _Literature_ (April 8,
1899, p. 375), that Gifford was then a rich bachelor with a sinecure of
1000 pounds a year, and that a much likelier identification is with John
Carey (1756-1826), the "_Gradus_ Carey," who edited Quintilian in 1822,
and did work for Sir Richard Phillips.
{316a} _Celebrated Trials_ (6 vols., 1825).
{316b} _The Universal Review_, March 1824-Jan. 1825.
{324} 29th April 1824.
{326} The ex-mayor, Robert Hawkes.
{328} Benjamin Robert Haydon (1786-1846), who shot himself in his
studio.
{335} George Borrow about this time suffered much from the horrors, and
meditated suicide (Knapp, i. 96-98).
{340} Byron's corpse, on its way from Missolonghi to Hucknall Church,
near Newstead in Notts, was removed on Monday, 12th July 1814, from Sir
Edward Knatchbull's house in Great George Street, Westminster, at 11 a.m.
{365} John Murray (1778-1843), publisher, the second of the name, the
first of Albemarle Street.
{386} _Tarno_ means simply "young" or "little."
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