Transcribed from the 1831 edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org THE GIPSIES' ADVOCATE; OR, OBSERVATIONS ON THE ORIGIN, CHARACTER, MANNERS, AND HABITS OF The English Gipsies: TO WHICH ARE ADDED, MANY INTERESTING ANECDOTES, ON THE SUCCESS THAT HAS ATTENDED THE PLANS OF SEVERAL BENEVOLENT INDIVIDUALS, WHO ANXIOUSLY DESIRE THEIR CONVERSION TO GOD. BY JAMES CRABB, AUTHOR OF "THE PENITENT MAGDALEN." "The Son of Man is come to seek and to save that which is lost." "Let that mind be in you which was in Christ Jesus." LONDON: SEELEY, FLEET STREET; WESTLEY AND DAVIS, AVE-MARIA-LANE; HATCHARD, PICCADILLY; LINDSAY AND CO., SOUTH STREET, ANDREW STREET, EDINBURGH; COLLINS, GLASGOW; WAKEMAN, DUBLIN, WILSON AND SON, YORK. 1831. BAKER AND SON, PRINTERS, SOUTHAMPTON. TO THE JUDGES, MAGISTRATES, AND Ministers of Christ, AS THE ORGANS OF PUBLIC JUSTICE, AND REVEALED TRUTH, THE GIPSIES' ADVOCATE IS MOST RESPECTFULLY AND SINCERELY DEDICATED BY THE AUTHOR. PREFACE. The Author of the following pages has been urged by numerous friends, and more particularly by his own conscience, to present to the Christian Public a brief account of the people called Gipsies, now wandering in Britain. This, to many readers, may appear inexpedient; as Grellman and Hoyland have written largely on this neglected part of the human family. But it should be recollected, that there are thousands of respectable and intelligent christians, who never have read, and never may read either of the above authors. The writer of the present work is partly indebted for the sympathies he feels, and which he wishes to awaken in others toward these miserable wanderers, to various authors who have written on them, but more particularly to Grellman and Hoyland, who, in addition to the facts which came under their own immediate notice, have published the observations of travellers and others interested in the history of this people. A list of these authors may be seen in the Appendix.