{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.
{140} Borrow clean omits his two years (1816-18) at Norwich Grammar School, under Edward Valpy (1764-1832), headmaster 1810-29. This was probably because, horsed on James Martineau"s back, he was flogged for running away to turn smuggler or freebooter. Sir James Brooke was another schoolfellow.
{142} The Rev. Thomas D"Eterville, a Norman _emigre_.
{146} The Yare.
{147} Earlham Hall.
{148} Joseph John Gurney (1788-1847), Quaker banker of Norwich, and philanthropist, a brother of Mrs. Fry. See A. J. C. Hare"s _The Gurneys of Earlham_ (2 vols., 1895).
{152} Tombland Fair, on Norwich Castle Hill, the day before Good Friday.
{154} _Cf._ Introduction, p. xxv.
{156} Snake-charmer.
{157} Monschold (p.r.o.n. _Muzzle_) Heath, near Norwich.
{158} Better _Tarno Tikno_, little baby.
{161} _Petulengro_, farrier, the esoteric Romany name of the Smith family. It is derived from the Modern Greek _petalon_, horse-shoe, if that, indeed, is not borrowed from the Romany.
{162a} Truth, brother.
{162b} Book.
{162c} Hill.
{163a} Pa.s.sing bad money.
{163b} Gypsies.
{163c} Better _gaujoes_, non-Gypsies or Gentiles.
{164a} Yes.
{164b} Magistrate of the town.
{165a} Child.
{165b} In the town, telling fortunes.
{166a} House.
{166b} Going.
{169a} In Vol. i. p. 320 of _Etymologicon Universale_ (3 vols., 1822- 25), by the Rev. Walter Whiter (1758-1832), from 1797 rector of Hardingham, near Wymondham, occurs this suggestion: "It will perhaps be discovered by some future inquirer that from a horde of vagrant _Gipseys_ once issued that band of st.u.r.dy robbers, the companions of Romulus and of Remus, who laid the foundations of the _Eternal City_ on the banks of the Tibur." This sounds truly Borrovian; and scattered through the amazing _Etymologicon_ are twenty-six Romany words, very correctly spelt, which I used to think Whiter must have learnt from George Borrow. But there are words that Borrow does not seem to have known--_poshe_, near; _kam_, sun; _ria_, sir (vocative), and _petalles_, horse-shoe (accusative). Whiter appears to have known Romany better than Borrow. Borrow certainly meant to write a good deal about Whiter, for in a letter to John Murray of 1st December 1842 he sketches _Lavengro_: "Capital subject--early life; studies and adventures; some account of my father, William Taylor, Whiter, Big Ben, etc. etc." (Knapp, ii. 5). But he barely mentions Whiter in chap. xxiv. of _Lavengro_. In the _Gypsy Lore Journal_ (i.
1888, pp. 102-4) I had an article on Whiter. That on Whiter by Mr.
Courtney, in vol. lxi. of the _Dictionary of National Biography_ (1900), shows that he was writing on the Gypsy language in 1800 and 1811.
{169b} Fighter.
{170a} Husband.
{170b} Gentleman.
{170c} London.
{170d} Song.
{178} Borrow"s _Wild Wales_ gives a full account of his Welsh studies at this period.
{180} He was articled on 30th March 1819 to Messrs. Simpson & Rackham solicitors, for five years.
{198} Klopstock. (B.)
{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, G.o.dwin, 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.