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[82]In the 31st page of Sir Frederick Morton Eden’s Appendix to the State of the Poor, it appears that in 1426, a hay horse, for the Prior (we may suppose of prime quality) cost £1 6s. 8d. and a colt 4s. 6d.  And in the year 1448, page 34, the hay of one acre was estimated at 5s.

[89]Weirde, is derived from the Anglo-Saxon “wird;”i.e., fatum, or deafinie, and is used in this sense, in Hollinshed.

[94]Ballie is a material designation in Scotland, agreeing in rank with that of Alderman in England.

[201]Vol. vii. p. 496, 497.

[205]Vol. vii. p. 712.

[206]Vol. viii. p. 286.

[208]Vol. ix. p. 82, 83.

[211]Vol. ix. p. 278, 279, 280.

[212]Since writing the above, a friend has informed me that Norwood is now inclosed, and has ceased to be a rendezvous of Gypsies.

[217]Vol. ix. p. 554, 555.

[221]Frederick Smith, of Croydon, Surry.

[231a]Vide Crabbe’s Poems.

[231b]See No. 104, Sunday School Tracts.

[248]The benevolent Jonas Hanway took a Gypsey boy into his family, for the purpose of making an experiment, but the result has not come to the knowledge of the author.

[262]At page 691, is a Vignette of Gypsies washing gold in Hungary.

[264]Samuel Tuke, Author of a Description of the Retreat, &c.


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