Chapter X (12)

AFRICANS.
Comparison between Africans, in America, and Gipsies
generally 50, 493
How they lost their language and superstitions in America 50
The prejudice against Africans in America 54, 441
AFRICAN GIPSIES 428, _n_429
AMERICAN GIPSIES.
Many arrived during the Revolution, as impressed soldiers, and
volunteers 345
English Gipsies married to native Americans 377
A Gitano has a cigar store in Virginia. Egyptians in
Louisiana _n_389
_See Disquisition on the Gipsies_ 418-425
Meeting between English and American Gipsies, in Maryland 430
The Zincali Society in the city of New York, _n_438--Address to
the American Gipsies 440
There should be no prejudices against Gipsies in America 441, 524
AMERICAN INDIANS.
Comparison between them and the Gipsies generally 53, 55, 446
AMERICAN READER, to the 6, 7, 440, 524, 525
AMUSEMENTS OF GIPSIES 124, 126, 179, 182, 224
ANTIQUARIES.
Prejudices of, against the Gipsies _n_7
The profession of, 56, zeal in the calling of _n_57
ARABS.
English Gipsies say they are a cross between Arabs and
Egyptians 14, 467
How Arabs protect shipwrecked Christians _n_203
They strip people of their clothes in the desert 210
BAILLIES OF LAMINGTON.
Their influence of great service to the Scottish Gipsies
121, 205, 213, 470
The connexion between them and the Gipsy tribe of Baillie 185
BAIRD, REV. JOHN.
His report on the Gipsy mission to the Church of Scotland 64
His collection of Gipsy words, collated with those of the author 334
On the absence of slang in the Gipsy language _n_338
His plan for improving the Gipsies 368, _n_369
BATTLES, GIPSY.
At Stirling, 147, Romanno, 188, Hawick, 190, Eskdale moor, 193,
Dumblane 194
BIGGAR.
The face of the country about Biggar 141
Gipsy turbulence in Biggar fair 196
BIRTH OF THE ORIGINAL KIND OF GIPSIES 356, _n_357
BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE.
The author's articles in, 8, 56, 64--Poetical notice of them 66
Hints at a philosophical account of the Gipsies 25
Extracts of Scottish public records, taken from 113
Unintentional attempt of a Gipsy to rob his own clergyman _n_124
Chase after John Young, a Gipsy, resembling a fox hunt _n_144
The unabashed hardihood of Gipsies under suspicion _n_155
Old Will of Phaup's five years' warfare with the Gipsies _n_179
Assault of the Gipsies on Pennicuik House _n_195
The slaughter of William Baillie, a Gipsy chief 206
How the Gipsies acquired a foothold in Yetholm _n_252
Will Faa's twenty-four children, and pompous christenings _n_252
The language spoken by the Gipsies in the Highlands _n_338
The Nuts or Bazegurs of India supposed to be the parent stock of
the Gipsies 339
The purity of Gipsy blood, and child stealing--Mr. Borrow's
"Gipsies in Spain" 375
The numberless descendants of Billy Marshall, a Gipsy chief _n_388
The Duchess of Gordon saves two Gipsies from the gallows 470
BLACKWOOD, WILLIAM.
His four letters to the author 56
He originates the idea of a history of the Gipsies _n_59
Letter to him, describing the escapes and execution of Peter
Young, a Gipsy 145
His contribution on the Gipsies in Tweed-dale 196, on the
Border 251
BORDER GIPSIES.
The district in which the Faas travelled 236
The tribes of Faa and Baillie in a state of hostility 236
Quarrel in an English Gipsy family, in America: "the Faas and
Baillies over again" _n_237
Henry Faa sits at the tables of people in public office, and
receives blackmail from men of considerable fortune 237
The mercantile house of Fall, of Dunbar, founded by Gipsies 237
Captain Fall a member of parliament--the family rule the
political interests of Dunbar 237
Mrs. Fall works, in tapestry, a group of the founders of the
family, with their asses, &c. 237
Anecdotes of the Falls with reference to their tribe and
origin _n_238
The extensive nature of the Fall firm, and the cause of its
ruin 233
Miss Fall marries Sir John Anstruther, of Elie, baronet 238
The rabble insult her at an election, in which Sir John is a
candidate 239
The song of "Johnny Faa, the Gipsy Laddie" 239
The Earl of Cassilis the husband of her who absconded with the
"Gipsy Laddie" 241
Adventure of a relative of Sir Walter Scott among the Gipsies 241
The original of Meg Merrilies, 242--The execution of her sons,
243--She is drowned by the rabble, at Carlisle, for being a
jacobite 244
The grandfather of Sir Walter Scott is feasted by the Gipsies,
on Charter-house moor 244
Contribution of Baillie Smith, of Kelso, to Hoyland's "Survey of
the Gipsies" 245
Attachment of the Yetholm Gipsies to their mode of life, their
independence, peculiar points of honour, honesty when trusted,
the number of the tribe in the county, 245--Their employment
given to hunting and fishing, 246--The nature of their leases,
the late proprietor calls them his body-guard, his successor
grants no more leases to the tribe, they stay at home during
the winter months only, they seldom marry out of the tribe,
247--Their physical peculiarities, occasional migrations,
burials, education, church attendance and baptism, 248--un-
steadiness of disposition, they will pay their rents only when
it suits themselves, 248--They resent an interference with the
Debatable Lands, 249--Sir Walter Scott points out a Gipsy,
250--Will Faa, the Gipsy king, claims kin with the Messrs.
Fall, merchants, of Dunbar, Will's death and burial, 251--
Report on the Gipsies by the sheriffs _n_251
Contribution from Mr. Blackwood, towards a history of the
Gipsies 251
Yetholm first occupied by the Faas and the Youngs, tradition
of their first settlement, _n_252--Will Faa and the Falls of
Dunbar, Will thrice married, his twenty-four children, and
pompous christenings, has charge of Marlfield house, the
sheriff becomes his security, his corpse escorted by 300
asses, 252--His son and successor, his brother a lieutenant
in the East India Company's service, Gipsy fights, recovery
of a stolen mare, quarrels among the tribe, 253--The Walker
family, and civilized Gipsies about Yetholm, Gipsy
connexions, education, no female Gipsy educated, the colony
free of imputed crime for fifty years 254
The author's visit to Yetholm--Handling the cudgel 254
A smuggling adventure of Will Faa--His appearance--A lament on
his death 255
His relations in New York--A great many of the tribe scattered
over the world _n_255
BORROW, GEORGE.
His publications on the Gipsies, since this work was written 6, 64
In error on the subject of Gipsies stealing children _n_9, _n_342
On the Gipsy language, 23, _n_281, _n_298, _n_338, _n_431--On
Timour overrunning India 38
In error in saying that the Gipsies obtained the name of
Egyptians from others 39
Description of English Gipsies, and the English dialect spoken by
them _n_93
Spanish Gipsy counts, _n_107, 397, _n_468--Act of Charles II.
against Spaniards, for protecting the Gipsies _n_114
Gipsies poison swine, and eat their flesh _n_186
English Gipsy surnames--Travelling Gipsies have two names _n_219
Chastity among young Spanish Gipsy females, _n_257--Spanish
Gipsy marriage ceremony _n_262
The character of Spanish Gipsy women _n_285
On the Law of Charles III., ameliorating the condition of the
Spanish Gipsies _n_313, 392
Song of a female Gipsy, at Moscow, _n_317--On the Sclavonic in
the Gipsy language _n_338
He meets with a rich Gipsy in Spain, _n_347--How Gipsies resist
cold weather _n_354
Meeting between a French and Spanish Gipsy, in the heat of a
battle _n_360
On the education of the Spanish Gipsies _n_365
Religion among the Moscow Gipsies--He preaches to the tribe in
Spain _n_366
A half-blood Spanish Gipsy captain, 372, _n_373, 377--Civilized
Gipsies in Moscow 374, 399, _n_408
Shuffling of the Gipsies regarding marriage with ordinary
natives _n_375
Characters in Lavengro and the Romany Rye _n_375, 508, _n_509
The Spanish Gipsies generally; _See Disquisition on the
Gipsies_ 385-397
The natural capacity of Gipsies--different classes in Spain,
Turkey, and Russia 398
No washing will turn the Gipsy white, 413--Moorish Gipsies in
Africa 428
He is taken for a Gipsy in Spain, 397, and at Moscow 430
On the grammatical peculiarities of the Gipsy language _n_431
On the hatred entertained by the Gipsies for other people _n_433
On Gipsy ingratitude--lawlessness in Spain 435
Mr. Borrow as an authority on the Gipsies 448, 450, 523
On the Russian Gipsies owning flocks and herds 466
Description of a superior Spanish Gipsy, in 1584 _n_468
BRIGHT, DR. (TRAVELS IN HUNGARY.)
The phenomenon of the existence of the Gipsies 7
The existence of the Gipsy language little short of the
miraculous 24
He hopes to see a satisfactory account of the Gipsies 25
Description of Gipsy life in England 30
Description of Gipsy dwellings, and their locations, in
Hungary _n_141
Spanish Gipsy marriage ceremony, _n_261--Spanish Gipsy
widows _n_274
The difficulties in acquiring the Gipsy language _n_281
He suggests that the Gipsy language should be collated with
vulgar Hindostanee 330
An Hungarian nobleman's opinion on the civilization of the
Gipsies 367
BRUCE, JAMES, (TRAVELS IN AFRICA.)
Account of the Arabs protecting shipwrecked Christians _n_203
Method of selling cargoes, at Jedda, to the Turks _n_312
His discoveries discredited 537
BUNSEN, CHEVALIER, ON SOUND JUDGMENT AND SHALLOW MINDS _n_518
BUNYAN, JOHN.
He alludes to Gipsy women stealing children, _n_80--He is bred
to the business of a brazier _n_206
His family history illustrated by the author's visit to a Gipsy,
met with at St. Boswell's 309
His wife before Judge Hale, _n_313, 517--His description of his
early habits, or "youthful vanities" _n_402
His nationality, and that of his tribe; _See Disquisition on the
Gipsies._ 507-523
The name of Bunyan calculated to raise up that of the Gipsies 530
He is still unacknowledged, though his fame will be as lasting
as the pyramids 535
Some people imagine it would degrade Bunyan, to say he was a
Gipsy 536
BURNS, ROBERT.
His "Jolly Beggars;" "My bonny lass, I work in brass" _n_346
He alludes to the Falls, of Dunbar, in his tour _n_406
CANADA.
A Scottish Gipsy family in, 18--Gipsies in 424
A criticism on this work, while in prospect, by a Scotch editor
in 537
CAPPADOCE FAMILY, VICISSITUDES IN THE RELIGIOUS HISTORY OF THE 497
CARLYLE, DR. ALEXANDER.
Execution of Jock Johnstone, _n_201--Jenny Fall, afterwards Lady
Anstruther _n_239
CASSILIS, THE COUNTESS OF.
Elopes with John Faa, a Gipsy chief, 108--The song of "Johnny
Faa, the Gipsy Laddie," composed thereon 239
CASTE.
In India, 28--In Great Britain, 52, 54, 440, 443, 516, 522--In
America 54, 441, 525
CHAMBERS' GAZETTEER.
Description of Yetholm, _n_141--Gipsy scenes at St. Boswell's
fair _n_353
CHAMBERS' JOURNAL--On the disappearance of the Gipsies _n_449
CHAMBERS' MISCELLANY--An account of Peter Young, a Gipsy _n_146
CHILD STEALING BY THE GIPSIES 9, 45, _n_80, 342, 375
CHURCH OF SCOTLAND.
Mission among the Scottish Gipsies 6, 55, 64, _n_369
A Gipsy one of the committee of the missionary society 6
Gipsies clergymen in the Scottish Church 6, 412
Mission of enquiry to the Jews; the Gipsies of Wallachia _n_73
CHURCH, THE.
Religious journals decline entertaining the question, "Was John
Bunyan a Gipsy?", 522, 525--The Church should do its duty to the
Gipsy race generally 440, 443, 533, 535, 536
CLARKE, DR., (TRAVELS IN RUSSIA, &c.)
Characters or the Gipsies in Wallachia, 74--Gipsy dances in
Moscow 180
COLLIERS, GIPSY--In the Lothians, _n_111--In the English mines 401
COLLIERS, SCOTCH, SLAVES _n_111, _n_121, 506
CONSTABLES.
A Gipsy constable murdered, another hanged, and a third
banished 215-218
Gipsies formerly employed as county constables--Their
peculiarities 343
Gipsy constables at the present day 348
A mixed Gipsy makes a good constable and thief-catcher _n_348
CONTINENTAL GIPSIES.
The times at which the tribe appeared in the different countries
in Europe 69
The appellations given to them, in various countries 69
Notice of the Gipsies, as they appeared at Paris, in 1427 70
Their original country unknown--At first, they receive passports
as pilgrims 70
Persecutions in Spain, France, and Italy, in Denmark, Sweden,
the Netherlands, and Germany 71
A general extermination never took place 72
Theft and robbery, and "sorning," or masterful begging, the
causes of these persecutions 72
The habits of the Gipsies everywhere the same, 72--They have no
religion peculiar to themselves 73
The condition and classes of the Gipsies in the Danubian
Principalities 73
Allusion to these Gipsies, in a mission of enquiry to the Jews,
in 1839 _n_73
Remarks on the slavery of these Gipsies--Gipsies as spies, in
the late Russian war _n_74
The Gipsies in the Turkish empire, in Italy, Poland, Lithuania,
Germany, and France 75
Remarks on Grellmann's alleged disappearance of the Gipsies from
France _n_76
The Gipsies in Spain, according to Dr. Bright 76
The Gipsies of Syria, the Crimea, Persia, and India 77
The population of the Gipsies in Europe, and the world generally 77
The imposing titles and equipage of the leaders of the Gipsies,
on their arrival in Europe 77
The nature and form of government among the Continental Gipsies 78
An account of German Gipsy bands, translated by Sir Walter
Scott, for Blackwood's Magazine 78
Baron Trenck, in his wanderings, falls in with a German Gipsy
band 86
The Gipsies of the Pyrenees--Their resemblance to the inferior
class of Scottish Gipsies 86
COOKING AMONG THE GIPSIES 88, 187, 232
COUNTERFEITING AMONG THE GIPSIES 174, 204
CRABB, REV. JAMES.
The Gipsies, as they become civilized, avoid the barbarous part
of the tribe _n_283
The Hindostanee and the Gipsy languages, _n_334--His plan for
improving the Gipsies 368
CRITICS.
A word or two to--A criticism on this work, while in prospect,
by a Scotch editor in Canada 537
DANCING AMONG THE GIPSIES 179, 180, 182
DEAD, THE BURIAL OF THE, AMONG THE GIPSIES _n_128
DISGUISES OF THE GIPSIES 129, 150, 162, 169, 177, 213, 222, 320,
_n_323, 349, 355
DISQUISITION ON THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OF GIPSYDOM.
Points omitted by the author--The philosophy of the Gipsy
subject 371
Gipsydom a _terra incognita_--Its origin, language, and habits
strange to other people 371
Natural perpetuation of the tribe--Mixed Gipsies hold by the
connexion 372
The prejudice of caste--A half-blood Spanish Gipsy captain 372
An iron-master marries a Cinderella, 373--Civilized Gipsies in
Moscow, and Scotland 374
The Gipsies mix their blood--No full-blood Gipsies in Scotland 374
The Edinburgh Review and Blackwood's Magazine on the purity of
Gipsy blood 374
How Gipsies shuffle on the point--The case of Ursula, in the
Romany Rye _n_375
The physical peculiarities of mixed Gipsies 375, and other mixed
races 376
Appearance of the half-blood captain--The Gipsies partial to
fair hair 377
Mixed Gipsies common everywhere--Grellmann on the colour of
Gipsies _n_377
American mixed Gipsies, 377--The Gipsies receive males rather
than females into their tribe 378
How female Gipsies "manage" natives, when they marry them 378
How Gipsies are brought up to adhere to their race 379
Remarks of Mr. George Offor on young female Gipsies generally _n_380
Little difference if the father is a native--Town Gipsies visit
the tent in their youth _n_380
Fair-haired Gipsies, 381--They are superior to the others--the
two kinds will readily marry _n_382
The peculiarities of black and fair Gipsies--The _pons
assinorum_ of the Gipsy question 383
The destiny of European-like Gipsies, and of the tribe generally 383
The philosophy of the mixture of Gipsy blood--The issue always
Gipsy 384
Mr. Borrow on the Spanish Gipsies generally.
If no laws are passed against them 385
Their social position, intermarriages, the law of Charles III.
on the prejudice against the tribe 386
Gipsyism like Freemasonry, _n_387--Mrs. Fall's ancestral group
of Gipsies 387
A Scotchman on the destiny of the Gipsies, 387--Nothing
interferes with the question of tribe 388
Scottish _literati_ on the destiny of the Gipsies--A cloud of
ignorance protects the tribe _n_388
The Gipsies "declining," according to Mr. Borrow, 388--His
singular inconsistencies 389
Change in the habits of Gitanos--They are to be found in Cuba,
Mexico, and the United States 389
Mr. Borrow leaves the question of the Spanish Gipsies where he
found it 390
The Gipsies "decreasing," by changing their habits, and
intermarriages 390
Gipsies ashamed of the name before the world--Two kinds of
Gipsies in Badajoz 391
The law of Charles III., 392--Its real meaning--Causes of
Spanish Gipsy civilization 393
The law of Charles III. little more than nominal, 394--The
Church did not annoy the Gitanos 395
Mr. Borrow's Spanish Gipsy authorities--The tribe the same in
Spain as in Great Britain 395
"Strangers" among English Gipsies, "foreign tinkers" among
those in Spain 396
Mixed Gipsies in Spain--Persecutions against the Spanish and
Scottish Gipsies 397
The tinkers and Rothwelsh in the Austrian dominions 397
The natural capacity of Gipsies--Opinions of Grellmann,
Bischoff, Borrow 398
Various classes of Gipsies, according to Mr. Borrow, Spanish,
Turkish, and Russian 399
The original Scottish Gipsies, how they encreased, mixed their
blood, and spread 399
Their internal polity and numbers, style of life, 400--How
English Gipsies leave the tent 401
The natural vicissitudes of an English Gipsy, after leaving the
tent 401
Gipsy ambition, 401--John Bunyan's early habits as described by
himself _n_402
The character of Scottish Gipsies, and their opinion of
themselves and tribe 402
Phases of history through which the Scottish Gipsies have passed 402
The vicissitudes in the history of a respectable Scottish Gipsy
family, settling in a town 404
Gipsies among the best Edinburgh families--An eminent Scottish
Gipsy clergyman 405
The Falls, of Dunbar, Gipsies--Burns visits them, _n_406, they
are noticed in the Statistical Account of Scotland _n_406
They divulge their tribe, over their cups--Will Faa their
relative--The Scottish Gipsies claim them 406
Their ancestors Gipsy kings--The Gipsy language in the family 407
Miss Fall, afterwards Lady Anstruther, her feelings--The other
connexions of the Falls 408
Mr. Borrow's visit to, and description of, the Gipsies of
Moscow _n_408
The Gipsies proud of their ancestors, though thieves and
robbers 409
Border and Highland thieves and robbers, 409--Sir Walter Scott's
ancestors _n_410
Gipsy and Highland thieving--The McGregors and the Gipsies 411
Fitz-James' address to Roderick Dhu, in the "Lady of the
Lake" _n_411
A Gipsy is a Gipsy, whether barbarous, civilized, educated, or
Christianized 412
Pritchard on the Hungarian race, past and present 413
Civilized Scottish Gipsies--What they say of themselves 414
The Gipsies should be judged by a standard different from that
applicable to ordinary natives 414
The circumstances attending a wild Gipsy make him only half
responsible 414
The race, in its development, should be more leniently treated
than others 415
The antiquity of the Gipsies, they are probably the descendants
of the shepherd kings 415
The confession of the Scotch clergyman unintelligible, unless
fully explained 415
What might be expected of the Gipsy tribe, the Scottish Gipsies
especially 415
Population of the Scottish Gipsies, and the British Gipsies
generally 416
The Gipsies are afraid of strange Gipsies, when at home--A
French and German Gipsy in New York _n_416
Scottish vagabonds, noticed by Fletcher of Saltoun, in 1680,
were doubtless Gipsies _n_417
Scottish Gipsy encrease, since 1506, Sir Walter Scott's opinion
on the destiny and number of the Scottish Gipsies, letter of
James IV. to the king of Denmark in favour of Anthonius Gawino,
Gipsy trials, Gipsies banished and hanged, the descendants of
the Gipsies "prodigiously numerous" _n_418
America, Gipsies banished to, 418--A Gipsy colony in New
England--Colonial Gipsies would not likely take to the
tent--Their occupations 419
European Gipsies in America, 420--Arrival and modes of life of
English Gipsies 421
Fortune-tellers: their mode of travelling, tricks, captures,
and escapes 422
The Slave States naturally suitable to the Gipsies--Travelling
Gipsies in Canada 424
Scottish Gipsies in the United States and Canada--Gipsies
everywhere 424
Resemblance between the formation of Gipsydom and that of the
United States 425
The peculiar feelings of Gipsies--Highland and Lowland
feuds--Gipsy resentment 425
The prejudice against the Gipsies compels them to hide their
nationality 426
What is it that frightens the educated Gipsies? The word Gipsy 426
In what other than a hidden state could we expect to find the
Gipsies? 427
The difficulty in discovering who are, and who are not, Gipsies,
at the present day 428
Gipsy blood changed into almost pure black, in Africa, as well
as white, in Europe 428
Gipsies found near the sources of the Senegal and Gambia _n_429
The universality of the Gipsies--Meeting between English and
American Gipsies 430
Language of the Gipsies in England and Scotland--Rivalry in its
pronunciation 431
The construction of German and Spanish Gipsy, 431--The purity
of Hungarian Gipsy _n_432
Respectable Scottish Gipsies, and the Gipsy language: "Are ye
a' Tinklers?" 432
The Gipsy language in America--In Spain _n_432
The number of words sufficient for every-day use in any
language _n_432
The Gipsy language in Great Britain mixed, but still serves
the purposes of a speech 432
The Scottish Gipsies the last to forget the language--The
causes of its perpetuation 433
Hatred of the Gipsies for other people--Mr. Borrow on that
hatred _n_433
The treatment of the Gipsies made them worse than they might
have been 434
Gipsy gratitude, 434--Gipsy law--Borrow and Grellmann on Gipsy
ingratitude 435
Unreasonableness of expecting much gratitude from Gipsies 435
Gratitude among mankind generally--The nature of benefits
conferred on Gipsies 435
Means of improving the Gipsies--The feeling between them and the
ordinary natives 436
The name of Gipsy should be raised up, and the tribe respected
according to merit 437
Respectable Scottish Gipsies are Scotch people, and should come
forward, and own themselves up 437
The Zincali society in the city of New York _n_438
An appeal to the Scottish Gipsies, 438, and to those in America 440
The prejudices of British people against Gipsies, 440, and
Americans against Negroes 441
What is to be the future of the Gipsy race?--Gipsydom immortal 441
The introduction of the Gipsies to the society of mankind,
442--The hereditary prejudice of centuries 443
Missions among heathen and Jews, 443--The Gipsies should, at
least, be countenanced 444
The Gipsies are Gipsies everywhere, and under all circumstances 444
The way in which the Gipsies should be received into the society
of other people 445
The Gipsies are a people that exist, and not such as disappear,
like the American Indians 446
The popular idea of Gipsies and Jews--Gipsies that preach the
gospel, and argue the law 447
Erroneous ideas of writers generally as to the Gipsies--Mr.
Borrow 448
The Gipsies a question of people--Billy Marshall and his
descendants 448
No distinction has been made between race and habits,
448--Chambers' Journal _n_449
The Gipsies compared to a clan, in the olden time--The McGregor
clan 449
English, American, and Gipsy races mixed, 450--Mixed races
illustrated by individual families, 451
The mixture of Gipsy blood always leaves the issue Gipsy--Jewish
Gipsies possible 451
How the subject of the Gipsies has hitherto been treated--It is
necessary to sound the mind of the Gipsy 452
The life of a superior Gipsy compared to a continual conspiracy
against society 453
The position occupied by the popular kind of Gipsy--His ideas on
the persecutions of his race 453
The condition from which all Gipsies have sprung--Popular
prejudices and ideas 454
The introduction of German blood into Great Britain and America 454
How the Gipsies have encreased and spread--Native blood has been
lost among them 455
The introduction of Huguenot blood into Great Britain and
America 455
The Gipsies have hitherto been "strangers in the land,"
unacknowledged by others 456
The principles of Gipsy nationality--Gipsies like Free-masons 456
Gipsydom is not a creed, but a work stamped by Providence on the
heart of the tribe 457
Blood, language, a cast of mind, and signs specially constitute
the Gipsy nationality 457
The possession of a special religion not necessary to constitute
a people distinct from others 457
The same principle illustrated in races, clans, families, or
individuals, living in the same community 458
The existence of the Gipsies is natural, it resembles that of
the Jews; neither is miraculous 458
Philosophical historians on the existence of the Jews since the
dispersion 458
By what human means can Jews cease to be Jews, individually or
nationally? 459
A writer on the Christian Evidences, in describing the existence
of the Jews, gambles away revelation 459
His language on the subject of the Jews very applicable to the
existence of the Gipsies 459
No outward difference between many Gipsy and native Scotch 460
How Scottish Gipsies deport themselves on meeting--Civilised and
_bush_ Gipsies 460
The general difference between Gipsy and native Scotch people 461
A mixed Gipsy has sometimes "various bloods" to contend for 461
What Scottish Gipsies think of their ancestors and language 462
The Scottish Gipsies, as they acquire education, become superior
in character 462
The children of civilised and barbarous Gipsies compared 463
The singular position of the Gipsies, from generation to
generation, and century to century 464
How the gulf between the Gipsies and the native race is to be
bridged 465
The Gipsies, on their arrival in Europe, were barbarous, like
other races 465
A superior Scottish Gipsy in 1540, and 1840 466
The Gipsies never were a nomadic race, in the ordinary sense of
the word 466
General description of the occupations and characters of the
original Gipsies 467
The superior characters of the early Scottish Gipsy chiefs--Their
treatment by the natives 467
The character of a superior Spanish Gipsy, in 1584, _n_468
Mixture of "the blood" on arrival, 468--Intermarriages under
certain circumstances 469
The plans of the Gipsies to secure their position in the
country--Illegitimate children 469
The attachment of Jewesses and Gipsies to their respective races 470
The protection of the Baillies, of Lamington, to the Gipsies of
that name 470
Two Gipsies pardoned through the intercession of the Duchess of
Gordon 470
Scotland became the home of the tribe, as much as that of the
ordinary natives 471
Effects of the mixture of Gipsy blood--Intermarriages among
natives of different ranks 472
The census need not be consulted for the number of the Gipsy
population 472
How the Jewish race is perpetuated--Their religion of secondary
importance 473
Christian Jews--Their feelings of nationality--No prejudices
against them, or civilized Gipsies 474
The rearing of Gipsies and Jews, in what respect they resemble
each other 475
The Gipsies stand towards religions, as Christianity does towards
races 475
The purity of Jewish blood a figment, 475--What may be termed a
"pure Jew" 477
The relative positions of Jews and Gipsies: Gipsies troublesome,
but not scoffers at religion 477
The want of a religion among the Gipsies--Their feelings in
regard thereto 478
The ways of Scottish Gipsies and Highland Scotch 478
Scottish Gipsies are British subjects--Their romantic descent 479
Tacitus' account of the destruction of the Druids, in the island
of Anglesey _n_479
The weak position of the Gipsies--Jewish and Gipsy literature 480
The being a Gipsy, as distinguished from objectionable habits,
immaterial to the world 481
The probable result of the word Gipsy being as much respected as
it is now despised 481
The Gipsies originally a wandering, tented tribe, with habits
peculiar to itself 481
The difficulties in the way of the tribe becoming settled and
civilized 482
The manner in which the Gipsies gradually acquire honest habits 482
Public sympathy for the Gipsies, in preference to the Jews 483
No prejudice should be entertained for well-behaved Gipsies 484
The Jews are disliked, and are, to a certain extent, strangers
everywhere 484
They are rebels against Heaven--"Which of the prophets have
they not persecuted?" 484
The interest of the Christian in their history--Their
crucifixion of the Messiah--How they treat his mission 485
Their antagonistic position towards every people and religion,
486--Their personal characters 487
The destruction of Jerusalem confirmed the Jews in the idea
that theirs was a scattered people 487
The existence of the Jews, since the dispersion, not in itself
wonderful 488
The Jew's nationality is everywhere--His aversion to forsake
his own race or community 488
The Jews are a race--A Christian Jewish church possible--Its
position and aspects 488
The present position of Christian Jews, 488--The relation of a
Christian Jewish Church to the Mosaic law 489
The scriptural idea of a Messiah--Christian Jews _incog._--The
conversion of Jews generally 489
It is no elevated regard for Moses that prevents Jews
entertaining the claims of Jesus Christ 490
But rather the phenomena connected with the history of their
race 490
The Jews exist under a spell--The prophecy of Moses regarding
the Gipsies _n_491
The Jews are not apt to notice the present work _n_491
The population of the Gipsies scattered over the world 491
How the laws passed against the Gipsies were generally
rendered nugatory 492
Grellmann's estimate--The probable number of Gipsies in Europe
and America 493
The population of the Jews scattered over the world _n_493
Christians delude the Jews in regard to the existence of their
race being a miracle 493
The Jew's idea of the existence of his race is the greatest
bar to his conversion to Christianity 494
The "mixed multitude" of the Exodus was doubtless the origin
of the Gipsies 494
The meaning of Gamaliel's advice--St. Paul before the Jewish
council _n_494
The history of the Gipsies and the Jews greatly illustrate
each other 496
The distinction between an Englishman and an English Jew 496
Persecutions of races generally--How to prevent a Gipsy being
a Gipsy 496
Tacitus on the religion of slaves _n_496
Birth and rearing constitute Jews, Gipsies, and Gentiles 497
Christian Jews persecuted by their own race--The Disraeli and
Cappadoce families 497
Christianity was not intended, nor is it capable, to destroy
the nationality of Jews 498
The Jew may be crossed out by intermarriage--The Gipsy absorbs
other races 498
Gipsies and Jews have each a peculiarly original and distinct
soul of nationality 499
Each race maintains its identity in the world, and may be said
to be even eternal 499
Comparison and contrast between Gipsies and Jews 499
The existence of the Jews, like that of the Gipsies, rests upon
a question of people 501
The religion or the Jews, 501--Their idea of a Messiah 502
Difference between Judaism and Christianity 502
The position of Jews towards Christianity and other religions 502
The persecutions of Jews and Gipsies--The extent of a Gipsy's
wants 502
The Jews show little regard for their religion, when tolerated
and well treated 503
The prejudice against Jews--Their ideas of their race, as
distinguished from others 503
The treatment of Christians by Jews 504
What has the Jew got to say to this subject generally? 504
The philosophy of the Gipsies--Popular ideas in regard to them--A
mental phenomenon 505
A regard to facts--The Gipsy language--Two races living on the
same soil 506
The Gipsies hide their race--The kind of them that should be
despised 506
John Bunyan a Gipsy, whose blood was mixed 507
All the Gipsies tinkers, either literally, figuratively, or
representatively 507
Lord Macaulay on Bunyan: "the tinkers a hereditary caste" 507
In what respect are the tinkers a _native_ "hereditary caste?" 507
Characters in Mr. Borrow's Lavengro and Romany Rye--English
Gipsies 508, _n_509
Prejudice against Gipsies--The legal responsibility--the Act
of Queen Elizabeth 510
Bunyan's tribe--His great desire to ascertain whether he was
an Israelite 510
A Gipsy family (809-818) that illustrates that of Bunyan 511
The reason why Bunyan imagined he was a Jew 511
The Jews not then tolerated in England--The curiosity of the
Gipsies regarding the Jews 511
Southey on tinkering and Bunyan's education--Bunyan had
doubtless a Gipsy pass 512
The Dublin University Magazine on Bunyan's nationality 512
The philosophy of race, and the prejudice of caste against the
Gipsies 513
Justice Keeling threatens to have Bunyan hanged for
preaching _n_513
Bunyan a Gipsy beyond question--Lord Macaulay on the Pilgrim's
Progress 514
Religious writers averse to it being said that Bunyan was a
Gipsy 514
Sir Walter Scott and Mr. George Offor on Bunyan's tribe or
nationality 515
Bunyan's nationality unacknowledged, owing to popular
ignorance and prejudice 515
Southey on Bunyan's family and fame--The popularity of the
Pilgrim's Progress 516
Bunyan's reserve--His friends and enemies--He cannot get
justice done to him 517
Bunyan and the Gipsy language--He was perhaps capable of
writing in it 517
The prejudice of the present day--Bunsen on sound judgment and
shallow minds _n_518
The world should feel relieved by it being shown that Bunyan
was a Gipsy 518
Bunyan's pedigree--He had very probably no English blood in
his veins 518
The world claims Bunyan as a man; England, the formation of
his character 519
Bunyan's biographers unjust to his memory--His general as well
as moral character 519
Though pious and peaceable, he yet repelled slanders with
indignation 520
The style of Bunyan's language indicates the Gipsy in some
degree 520
The indignities cast upon Bunyan--The way in which he treated
them 521
Remarks upon Bunyan's enemies, who professed themselves to be
servants of Christ _n_521
The prejudice of caste in Great Britain exists against the
Gipsies exclusively 521
The day is gone by when it cannot be said who John Bunyan was 523
Scantiness of information in Mr. Borrow's works on the subject
of the Gipsies 523
American people are not expected to indulge in the popular
prejudice against the Gipsies 524
American religious journals decline to entertain the question:
"Was John Bunyan a Gipsy?" 525
The peculiarities of Scottish people unfavourable to the Gipsies
owning themselves up in Scotland 525
The nature of Scottish quarrelsomeness, 526--The classes
favourable and unfavourable to the Gipsies 527
A "model Scot," after his kind, 528--No one in particular to
blame for the position occupied by the Gipsies 529
The Gipsy subject interesting, and not necessarily low or
vulgar, though more or less barbarous 529
The wild Gipsies should be reached indirectly--Their high
opinion of themselves 529
John Bunyan's celebrity--His name of great use in raising up
that of the Gipsies 530
A little judgment is necessary in dealing with wild or any kind
of Gipsies 530
The peculiar sensations felt in coming in contact with wild
Gipsies 531
Gipsies are Gipsies to the last drop of the original blood 532
The history of the Gipsies a singular work of Providence 532
It would have been a miracle had the Jews been lost among
mankind 533
What a miracle is--The existence of the Jews is in exact harmony
with every natural law 533
A prophecy of Moses regarding a people who are to provoke and
anger the Jews 533
A thousand years hence the Gipsies will be found existing in the
world 534
A word or two to the Gipsies, and especially the Scottish
Gipsies 534
A word or two to the Church, and people generally: "Was John
Bunyan a Gipsy?" 535
The reason why we know so little about the Gipsies 536
A word or two to some of the critics 537
A criticism on the present work, while in prospect 537
DISRAELI, the present, a Jew, though a Christian 497
DIVORCE CEREMONIES OF THE GIPSIES, AND SACRIFICE OF HORSES.
The Gipsies not licentious in their personal morals--They are
strict with their wives, in the matter of chastity 266
Divorces among the Gipsies are attended with much grief and
mourning 267
Natural that the Gipsies should have as singular a form of
divorce as that of marriage 267
The nature of sacrifices--Their universality among mankind 267
Why was the Gipsy sacrifice of the horse not known in Scotland
before? 267
The Gipsies have a great affection for the horse--They will not
eat of that animal _n_268
Writers have made no discovery, among the Gipsies, of a
religious nature 268
The Gipsy sacrifice of the horse a proof that the people come
from Hindostan 268
The idea of Gipsies being Tartars strengthened by their sacrifice
of the horse 269
Other nations who have sacrificed horses--The Jews in the time
of Josiah _n_269
Popular tradition, among the natives, that Gipsies separated
over dead horses 270
Instances accidentally and partially noticed by the natives 270
"Patricos" performed ceremonies over dead horses, in England,
prior to 1674 271
Preliminary remarks on the sacrifice of horses--"The sun must be
at its height" 271
A description of the ceremony of sacrifice and divorce 272
The horse considered in the place of the woman, 272--Sometimes
both are sacrificed 273
The woman dismissed, with a bill of divorce--The husband and his
friends then eat the heart of the horse 274
The husband may marry again, but the wife never 274
Her fate, if she loses her bill of divorce, or passes herself
off as never having been married 274
Spanish Gipsy widows, according to Dr. Bright _n_274
A Gipsy, in a passion, shoots his horse, and performs the
ceremony of divorce, forthwith 274
The sacrifice of the horse observed by the Gipsies in Russia 275
They do it in the woods, under night, for fear of the police 275
The Gipsies, of Yetholm, knock down their asses, when they
separate from their wives 276
The sacrifice of the horse in ancient India, known as the
_Assummeed Jugg_ 276
The explanation of the mystic meaning contained in that
sacrifice 277
The very acme and enthusiasm of allegory in an Asiatic genius 279
The ancient Hindoo sacrifice of the horse and the scape-goat of
the Jews compared 279
The Gipsy and ancient Hindoo sacrifice of the horse compared 279
Both offered to the sun--Travelling Gipsies change their names
at noon 280
Robert Southey and Colonel Tod on the sacrifice of the horse in
India 280
The sacrifice of the horse by the Gipsies, a proof that the
people came from India 280
DRESS OF THE GIPSIES 43, 77, 79, 108, 116, 129, 145, 149, 154, 157,
162, 171, 177, 182, 186, 197, 202, 209, 213, 214
DRUIDS, destruction of the, in the Island of Anglesey _n_479
DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE.
The number of words sufficient for every-day use, in any
language _n_432
Bunyan's nationality: "Was John Bunyan a Gipsy?" 512
EDINBURGH REVIEW, The, on the purity of Gipsy blood--Mr. Borrow's
"Gipsies in Spain" 374
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION.
The discovery and history of barbarous races illustrate the
history of man, and natural and revealed religion 27
Barbarism within, and barbarism without, the circle of
civilization 27
The Gipsies an anomaly in the history of civilization, and merit
great consideration 27
European civilization progressive, and homogeneous in its nature 28
Asiatic civilization stationary and, in some countries, divided
into castes 28
The nature of caste in India 28
The natives of certain parts of Oceanic Asia 29
The condition of the most original kind of Gipsies, in Great
Britain--Their secrecy 29
Description of Gipsy life in England, by Dr. Bright 30
The first appearance of the Gipsies in Europe--Attempts at
elucidating their history 31
The political state of Europe at the beginning of the fifteenth
century 31
The great schism in the church--Three Popes reigning at one time 32
The educational end social condition of Europe about that time 33
The manner in which the Gipsies stole into Europe 35
The influx of the Greeks into Europe--The literary pursuits of
the age, 37--English travellers 38
The Gipsies not Sudras--Timour--The Gipsies at Samarcand previous
to his invasion of India 39
The Gipsies did not obtain the name of Egyptians from others, as
Mr. Borrow supposes 39
The Gipsies are not the Egyptians mentioned by the Prophet
Ezekiel 40
What misleads writers in their ideas that the Gipsies are not
Egyptians 41
The relative position borne by the early Gipsies to the various
classes of society 41
The travelling Gipsies much fallen below those of the olden
times 43
The dread always entertained for the tribe, 44--Fire-raising and
child-stealing 45
The Gipsies frighten children, 46--And act as police, or scare-
crows, for farmers 47
The ferocity of Gipsy women, 47--Sir Walter Scott's recollections
of the original of Meg Merrilies 48
The intercourse between the tribe and the farmers, in pastoral
districts 48
The timidity of the Gipsies, when accosted under certain
circumstances 49
Comparison between Africans, in America, and the Gipsy race
generally 50
Some of the causes of the isolation of the Gipsies from the rest
of the world 51
The history of the Gipsies somewhat illustrated by that of the
American Indians 53
The prejudice against Africans and Gipsies contrasted 54
EDITOR'S PREFACE.
When this work should have been published--It has been brought
down to the present time 5
Inducements to hazard a publication of it at one time 5
Sir Walter Scott's judicious advice regarding the publication of
the work 5
The abuse of reviewers and the ire of wandering Egyptians
deprecated 5
Mr. Borrow's publications since this work was written 6
Scottish Church Gipsy mission--Scottish Gipsy clergyman of
eminence 6
The Gipsies have encreased since the peace of 1815, but have
retired from observation 6
The reason for this work being published in America--Popular
prejudice against the Gipsies 6
Scottish antiquaries--Their apathy and contempt for the subject
of the Gipsies _n_7
The present work illustrates the Gipsies everywhere--The subject
hardly known to the world 7
Tinkler the name generally applied to the Scottish Gipsies--tinker
a Gipsy word _n_7
The subject interesting--Observation necessary to solve the
problem 8
Professor Wilson travels with the Gipsies--The author's
associations with them 8
The nomadic Gipsies only a part of the race, 8--The blood of the
tribe much mixed--Causes thereof 8
Persecutions--Children stolen and incorporated with the tribe--Mr.
Borrow's remarks thereon _n_9
Prejudices against the Gipsies--Their love of race and language 10
The primitive state of the tribe--Causes and manner of leaving
the tent 10
Associations after leaving the tent, and feelings towards the
community 11
Their resentment of the popular prejudice--Their boast of
ancestry 11
Ideas and feelings of the natives, 12--The Gipsy's love of
language--His associations 13
Speculations on the origin of the Gipsies, 13--They are the
"mixed multitude" of the Exodus 14
Mode of escape from Egypt, 17--Entrance into India, and formation
of their character as s people 21
Their present language acquired in India--Mr. Borrow's remarks
on its antiquity 23
The philosophy of the preservation of the Gipsy language in
Europe till now 23
Sir Walter Scott's intended account of the Gipsies--The difficulty
as to their language 25
He urges the publication of the present work--Its character as a
history of the tribe 25
It is a contribution towards the filling up of a void in
literature 25
EDUCATION AMONG THE GIPSIES 65, 125, 248, 254, 303, 364, 369
EGYPT.
The Gipsies originated in, 14, 39--They are the "mixed multitude"
of the Exodus 14, 494
ENGLISH GIPSIES.
Their arrival about the year 1512--A description of them in a
work, published in 1612 90
Act of 22d Henry VIII.--Burnet's allusion to English Gipsies,
in 1549, 91
Act of 27th Henry VIII.--A fine of forty pounds for every Gipsy
imported 91
Act of Queen Elizabeth--Felony for strangers to associate with
the Gipsies 92
Last of the executions under Charles II.--The Gipsies still
liable under the Vagrant Act 92
Number of Gipsies in England during the time of Queen Elizabeth 92
Estimate of their present number, by Mr. Hoyland, and a member
of parliament 92
Author's remarks, and editor's comments thereon _n_93
Mr. Borrow's description of the English Gipsies, and the English
dialect spoken by them _n_93
English Gipsies travel in Scotland--A description of a camp of
them 93
Adventure of a Scotchman among the Gipsies in England 95
Crime among the English Gipsies--Report on the prisons in
Northumberland 96
Sketch of an English Gipsy family arriving in Scotland, by Sir
Walter Scott 96
EXECUTIONS AMONG THE GIPSIES 85, 119, 133, 143, 201, 513
FALLS, Merchants, of Dunbar, Gipsies 108, 237-241, 251, 252, 406
Will Faa, the Gipsy king, claims them as his relatives _n_238, 251
FARMERS.
Their property protected by the Gipsies 47, 363, 434
How they sometimes treat the Gipsies 48, 55, 56, 187, _n_179, 220,
221, 226, 242, 361
FIFE AND STIRLINGSHIRE GIPSIES.
The county of Fife contained, at one time, a great many nomadic
Gipsies 140
The tribe, at one time, possessed a foundry near St. Andrews,
called "Little Carron" 140
Lochgellie Gipsies more particularly described 140
Description of Lochgellie and other places, illustrative of
Gipsy quarters, in olden times 140
Description of Falkland "scrapies" _n_140
Principal names of Lochgellie Gipsies and their connexions 141
The tribe feared all over the shires of Fife, Kinross, Perth,
Angus, and Aberdeen 141
Old Charles Graham--"The auld thing again, my lord, but nae
proof" 142
His wife banished to Botany Bay--Marries a Gipsy there, and
returns rich 142
Young Charles Graham apprehended--His irritation at the crowd
staring at him--He steals a farmer's horse, sells it, steals it
again, and returns it to the original owner, 142--Robs a factor,
and gives the money to a needy widow--He is apparently penitent
at the gallows, 143--But kicks off his shoes, and addresses the
people 144
Hugh Graham stabbed by John Young, who is hunted like a fox,
before he is apprehended 145
Jenny Graham leaves her protector, to follow the gang, and take
care of its stolen articles 145
Margaret Graham, a woman of uncommon bodily strength 145
John Young, who stabbed Hugh Graham, although five feet ten
inches in height, is called by his mother, "The dwarf o' a' my
bairns" 145
Peter Young, a generous man--He breaks out of many prisons
before he is hanged 145
Old John Young, on being asked where his sons were, replied,
"They are all hanged" 145
Charles Brown, killed in a Gipsy battle at Raploch, near
Stirling 147
Alexander Brown steals and carries off an ox in disguise 148
Billy Marshall robs the Laird of Bargally, and saves an innocent
man from the gallows _n_148
He is nearly frightened out of his wits, under very ludicrous
circumstances _n_148
Alexander Brown's capture and audacious escape--His style when
in full dress, 149--His disguise as a mounted man of quality,
150--His capture by Highlanders, and desperate resistance, and
execution 151
Martha, mother of Alexander Brown, steals sheets while attending
his execution 152
William Brown is run down by the military--His threatened rescue
by the tribe--He sets fire to the jail, but is put in irons by a
soldier--His execution 152
Lizzie Brown, in a Gipsy fray--"In the middle o' the meantime,
where's my nose?" 153
The connexions of the Gipsies, and the ramifications of their
society 153
Charles Stewart--His royal blood, style of dress, and audacity
of conduct 153
Grellmann's description of the attire of a Gipsy _n_154
The unabashed hardihood of Gipsies in the face of suspicion _n_155
Jamie Robertson, a great musician--He resents an imagined
affront to an absent friend 155
His wife sentenced to Botany Bay, but, owing to her advanced
age, set at liberty 156
Joyce Robertson's daring robbery while in prison--His deliberate
escape--He steals a watch, and has the crowd at his heels 156
Charles Wilson, very respectable in his appearance and
character, as a horse-dealer, 157--Received and vended stolen
goods through the country--Was chief of his tribe, and, as such,
issued passes, 158--He returns money stolen from a young
countryman--Becomes reduced to poverty in his old age, and dies
in full communion with the church 161
Charles Wilson's daughters--One of them kept by an Adjutant--Their
disguises and pilferings--The Brae Laird of Kinross-shire 162
Stirlingshire Gipsies contributed their full share to the
gallows 163
The Gipsies a predatory tribe originally--Two kinds of them at
the present day 164
Other people robbers besides the Gipsies--Spartans, Abyssinians,
Moors, East Indians, Coords, Kamtschadales, Scotch _n_164
Training of the Gipsies to theft by the women, 167--A Gipsy
picks a countryman's pocket with great dexterity 168
Thieves formed into bands--Modes of operation, and division of
the spoil 169
Vidocq on the pilfering habits of the Continental Gipsies _n_169
Male Gipsies cut purses with palms, the females with rings 170
Mode of thieving among the Gipsies in Hungary 171
A magistrate, in the West of Fife, locks up the Gipsies during
the fair 171
Stylish habits of the Gipsies at the inn or the North
Queensferry 171
Fashionable cavalcade of female Gipsies departing from the ferry 173
Intimacy between the boatmen and their friends--"The lads that
take the purses" 173
Trick of a gillie of a Gipsy horse-dealer, played upon an
Highlander 173
Counterfeiting--An audacious Gipsy counterfeiter 174
The Gipsies not murderers--They are accurate in their journeys
and halting places 175
Pursuit, capture, escape, and recapture of a Gipsy murderer 176
Indecent trick of a Gipsy woman to obtain clothes from the
natives 177
A handsomely dressed female Gipsy, from gratitude, saves a
native from destruction 177
Old Will of Phaup's five years' war with the Gipsies _n_179
Gipsy Dances--Charles Stewart, 179--George Drummond--Gipsy dance
at Moscow 180
Afghan dance _n_181--George Drummond a singular Gipsy 181
James Robertson, his wife, and sisters dance like bacchanalians 182
Occupations, amusements, cock-fighting, dress, and generous
habits of the Gipsies 182
The Gipsies sometimes attend church, and baptize their own
children 183
Their disputes with clergymen on points of morals--Government--
division of property 183
A landed gentleman went off with the Gipsies, 183--His daughters
common Gipsies 184
FIGHTING AMONG THE GIPSIES--(_See also Battles._) 125, 144, 188,
_n_193, _n_195, 206, 215, 253
FLETCHER OF SALTOUN on Scottish vagabonds, in 1680 _n_111, _n_417
FORTUNE-TELLING.
Fortune-telling women frighten the natives of the other sex 47
_See Tweed-dale Gipsies_ 228-231
Fortune-telling in America--_See Disquisition on the Gipsies_ 422
FREEMASONRY AND THE GIPSIES 12, _n_360, _n_387, 456
GENTOO CODE OF LAWS IN ANCIENT INDIA.
Division of plunder among thieves 165
The elder married before the younger, 259--Sacrifice of the
horse, 268--The scape-goat among the Jews 279
GERMANS, how they become lost in the population of Great Britain
and America 454
GERMANY, Gipsy bands in 79
GITANO, modification of the term _n_115
GORDON, THE DUCHESS OF, saves two Gipsies from the gallows 470
GOVERNMENT AMONG THE GIPSIES 78, _n_103, 183, 187, 216, 253, _n_256,
422
GRATITUDE OF THE GIPSIES FOR OTHER PEOPLE 68, 130, 138, 155, 164,
177, 187, 198, 211, 222, 225, 241, 360, 434, 483
GRELLMANN.
Children frightened by the Gipsies _n_46, 75
On the destiny of the French Gipsies 76, 492
He divides the Gipsies in Transylvania into four classes, 74--The
population of the Gipsies 77, 493
Gipsy government, 78--Attire, _n_154--Plundering, 171--Fighting
_n_193
Gipsies under and after punishment _n_204
The habit of Gipsy women after childbirth _n_227
Gipsy working in iron--Gipsy smiths in Hungary _n_234
The Gipsies will eat of any animal but a horse _n_268
The secrecy of the Gipsies in the matter of their language _n_281
The Gipsy language unintelligible to the common natives _n_298
On the education of Hungarian Gipsies _n_303
The origin of the idea that the Gipsies came from India 329
On the variations in the Gipsy language in different
countries _n_339
How the Gipsies resist the extremes of the weather _n_354
The circumstances under which Gipsy women are confined _n_357
The physical properties of the Gipsy race _n_358
Gipsies as soldiers, _n_359--As spies _n_360
The religion of the Gipsies, _n_366--Their civilization _n_367
On the colour and appearance of Gipsies who change their
habits _n_377
The natural capacity of Gipsies, 398--Gipsy ingratitude 435
Gipsies "always merry and blithe" 483
HALE, SIR MATTHEW.
His touching interview with Bunyan's wife _n_313
He mentions the execution of thirteen Gipsies, at the Suffolk
assizes _n_513
HATRED OF THE GIPSIES FOR OTHER PEOPLE 63, 130, 164, 177
_See Disquisition_ 433-436
HEBER, BISHOP, notices the Gipsies in India, Persia, Russia, and
England. 77
HINDOSTAN, the Gipsies supposed to originate in 18, 38, 40, 65, 268,
280, 329, 339
HOGG, JAMES.
Motto--_Title page._
He notices a Gipsy scuffle and murder in Blackwood's Magazine 216
He says that Lochmaben is "stocked" with Gipsies _n_381
HOYLAND, JOHN.
The religious character of the Gipsies 73
The capacity of the early Gipsies, _n_99--English Gipsy
surnames _n_219
Baillie Smith, of Kelso--Report on the Yetholm Gipsies 245
The difficulty in Gipsies acquiring settled habits _n_368
Mr. George Offor says he was led captive by a Gipsy girl _n_380
HUGUENOTS introduced into England and America 455
HUME, BARON.
Scots acts of 1608, and 1609, against the Gipsies 111
Executions among the Gipsies, under these sanguinary
laws 117, _n_418
Trial of two Gipsies, in 1786, 189--Baillie, in 1714, 204--And
Pinkerton, in 1726 207
He would make the black eyes evidence against the Gipsies 341
HUNGARIANS, past and present, 413--They know nothing of their
origin 495
HURD, DR.
The appearance of the Gipsies when they first arrived in Paris 70
The Gipsies called spies of the Turks _n_72
Marriage customs among the Russians, and Christians of
Mesopotamia and Chaldea _n_262
IMPROVEMENT OF THE GIPSIES 364, 367, 415, 436, 440, 443, 445, 529, 534
INTRODUCTION.
Attention directed towards the Gipsies by the publication of Guy
Mannering 55
The classes interested--A mission founded by the Scottish Church
among the Gipsies 55
Articles sent to Blackwood's Magazine--Letters from Mr.
Blackwood 56
Article by Sir Walter Scott on the Buckhaven fishermen--The zeal
of an antiquary _n_57
Letters from Sir Walter Scott, and William Laidlaw 58-61
The Scottish Gipsies a branch of the same tribe to be found in
every country 61
Comparisons between the Gipsies and Jews--The Jews' letters to
Voltaire 61
Discontinuation of articles in Blackwood's Magazine--The author's
authorities 64
The difficulties in the way of a research into the subject of
the Gipsies 65
A "Blowing up" from a Gipsy chief 65
Notice from Professor Wilson, in Blackwood's Magazine, and Sir
Walter Scott, in Quentin Durward 66
INVERKEITHING, GIPSY SCENES AT 284, 288, 292, 293, 298, 302, 304,
326, 328, 348, 353, 355
IRISH GIPSIES IN SCOTLAND 6, 98, 324-329, 356, 493
JEWS, THE.
The Gipsies the "mixed multitude" that left Egypt with the
Jews 14, 494
Circumstances under which the Jews left Egypt 14-21
They were separated from the Egyptians by the prejudice of
caste 15
They termed Jesus Christ "Beelzebub"--the prince of devils 16
Their reception of Christ as the Messiah 16
Their condition while in Egypt 17
Their contemptuous description of the "mixed multitude" that
followed them 19
Their circumstances after leaving Egypt, 20--The destiny that
awaited them 21
Comparisons between the Jews and the Gipsies 55, 61, 62
Letters of the Jews to Voltaire--The universality and
differences in the Jews _n_61
They change their names in various countries _n_117
The elder sister married before the younger, 259--Jewish
marriages 260
When they blow rams' horns in September, they imagine they drive
away the devil _n_265
They dedicated horses to the sun, in the time of Josiah _n_269
Hindoo sacrifice of the horse and the scape-goat in Leviticus
compared 279
The language of the Jews during the seventy years' captivity _n_318
The Gipsies dislike the Jews, _n_358, 459--Jews during time
of war _n_360
Neglect of women among Jews--A Jew's morning prayer _n_365
Jews and Gipsies compared in a sermon by Mr. Borrow _n_366
They marry among themselves, like the Gipsies 369
The money that is squandered on the conversion of Jews 443
The subject of the Jews more or less familiar to people from
infancy 447
The Gipsies, without any necessary outward peculiarities, have
yet a nationality, like the Jews 447, 457
The mixture of Gipsy and Jewish blood--A Jewish Gipsy possible 451
In what respect the existence of the Gipsies differs from that
of the Jews 458
Philosophical historians on the existence of the Jews since the
dispersion 458
No analogy between the Jews and any other people but the Gipsies 459
A Christian writer on the existence of the Jews since the
dispersion 459
His description thereof, though erroneous, very applicable to
the Gipsies 460
The attachment of Jewesses and Gipsies to their respective races 470
How the Jewish race is perpetuated--Religion of secondary
importance 473
Jewish Christians--Their feelings of nationality, and social
position 474
The rearing of Gipsies resembles that of Jews--The purity of
Jewish blood a figment 475
Half-blood Jews sometimes follow the synagogue, and sometimes
the Christian church 476
Many Jews who are not known to the world as such 477
Jewish physiognomy--What may be termed a "pure Jew" 477
The relative position of Jews and Gipsies 477-480
The Jews have a church, a history, and a literature 480
Public sympathy for the Gipsies, in preference to the Jews 483
The philosophy of the existence of the Jews since the dispersion
_See Disquisition on the Gipsies_ 484-505
John Bunyan asked himself whether he was of the Israelites 511
The Jews readmitted into England, under Cromwell--Manasseh Ben
Israel 511
The natural curiosity of the Gipsies regarding the Jews 511
The Gipsies have existed, in Europe, a greater length of time
than the Jews dwelt in Egypt 532
It would have been a miracle had the Jews been lost among
mankind 533
A prophecy of Moses regarding a people who are to provoke and
anger the Jews _n_491, 533
LAIDLAW, WILLIAM.
His letter to the author, 58--A Gipsy "blowing up," alluded to
by him 65, 309
LANGUAGE OF THE GIPSIES.
The love of Gipsies for their language, 10, 13--They keep it a
profound secret 12, 13, 25
It is for the most part Hindostanee--Mr. Borrow's remarks on its
antiquity 23
The philosophy of the preservation of the Gipsy language 24, 406,
433
The Scottish Gipsies very reserved and tenacious in the matter
of their language 281
Its existence, but as slang, scarcely credited by people of the
greatest intelligence 281
Grellmann, Bright, and Borrow on the difficulties in acquiring
the Gipsy language _n_281
The Gipsies have excellent memories, but shuffle when bored by
people of whom they expect money _n_282
The causes of the reserve among the Scottish Gipsies: 1st. The
sanguinary laws. 2d. The popular prejudice. 3d. Their natural
secrecy 282
A Scottish Gipsy works all his life in a shop, and no one
discovers him to be a Gipsy 283
Two Gipsy women nearly killed by colliers, for not explaining
the meaning of two Gipsy words 283
As the Gipsies become civilized, they avoid intercourse with the
barbarous part of the race _n_283
The Scottish peasantry, in some places, do not greatly despise
the Gipsies _n_284
The use of the Gipsy language in markets--The pride of the
people as linguists 284
Seven years' trouble in getting a Gipsy woman to own up to her
language 284
She is afraid the public would treat her with horror and
contempt, for knowing the language 285
The character of Spanish Gipsy women, according to Mr. Borrow _n_285
A Gipsy woman maintains she was speaking Latin, when discovered
conversing in Gipsy 285
The general difficulties in the way of acquiring the Gipsy
language 286
The way in which the author learned what he knew of the Gipsy
language 286
How the use of Gipsy affected the tribe--Ludicrous scenes 287
How old Gipsy women were affected--"You are no gentleman, sir,
otherwise you would not insult us in that way" 288
A woman, in a dreadful passion, threatens the author with
apprehension, as the head of a band of thieves, for asking her,
if her _chavo_ (son) was a _chor_ (thief) 288
A female Gipsy "blabs" with the author, but expresses great
surprise, when addressed in Gipsy, before a third party 288
These people afraid of the sanguinary laws passed against the
tribe 290
Sir Walter Scott's advice in prosecuting an enquiry into the
Gipsy language 291
The Scottish Gipsies a branch of the tribe to be found
everywhere 291
A Gipsy as distinguished from his language--The race comes
before the speech _n_292
An old woman and her two daughters--"No harm in the least, sir,
in speaking the Gipsy language" _specimens_ 292
Two girls, of the name of Jamieson--"You gentlemen understand
all languages now-a-days" _specimens_ 292
Four or five children--"You are a Gipsy, yourself, sir, or you
never could have got these words" _specimens_ 293
Ruthven addresses her child in Gipsy--"I know that the public
are trying to find out the secrets of the Gipsies, but it is in
vain" 293
The threats of the tribe against those teaching the language to
"strangers" _n_294
A female Gipsy, with three or four children, begging--"Curse you,
take the road"--"Mother, mother, come away"--An innkeeper
anxious to learn the words that dismiss importunate beggars 294
Young Andrew Steedman, of Lochgellie, communicative--Old Andrew
shakes and trembles in his stable--"Rob that person" _specimens_ 295
The woman who baffled the author for seven years--"It is in our
hearts, and as long as a single Tinkler exists, it will be
remembered" _specimens_ 296
A women and four children--"You know quite well what he says"--"I
am sure he is a tramper, and can speak as good cant as any of
us" _specimens_ 298
A brother and a cousin of the Jamieson girls--"So I saw, for he
understood what I said"--"To show you I am no impostor, I will
give you the names of everything in your house"--"My speech is
not the cant of packmen, nor the slang of common thieves" 301
Gipsy-hunting like deer-stalking--Modern Gipsy-hunting 302
Jamieson returns--"I have been bred in that line all my life"--
"You are welcome to as many as you please"--"We can converse and
have a word for everything in our speech"--He sings a song in
English, and turns it into Gipsy--"Had I, at first, been aware
you did not know my speech, I would not have given you a word of
it" _specimens_ 304
The songs composed by the Gipsies illustrate their plunderings,
robberies and sufferings, and quarrels among themselves 306
The Gipsies very fond of the Border marauding songs--"Hughie the
Græme," as a specimen 308
Sophia Scott, afterwards Mrs. Lockhart, sings "Hughie the Græme"
to the author, at Abbotsford _n_308
Sir Walter Scott interested in the Gipsies--He is afraid they
might injure his plantations _n_309
The author visits St. Boswell's fair, and becomes acquainted
with a Gipsy family there 309
He introduces himself by saying who his ancestors were--"God
bless you! Ay, those days are gone; Christian charity has now
left the land" 309
The head of the family a very superior man; merry and jocular,
like many of his race 309
Their language--"The Tinklers have no language of their own,
except a few cant words" 310
The author addresses them in Gipsy--"Preserve me, he kens a'
about us!" 310
He enumerates their clan--"Say not another word, but call
at ----" 310
The surprise among the natives--"Yon was queer looking wark
wi' the Tinklers" 310
An innkeeper ashamed, or afraid, of a customer that is a
gentleman 311
A little factory of horn-spoons--"No such language exists,
except a few cant words" 311
Gipsy obstinacy--The word "Gipsy" a terror to the tribe--The
Gipsy forfeits his promise 311
Laughter from another apartment--The Gipsy starts to his feet,
and takes hold of the author--"Farewell, I will know you when
I see you again" 311
Revisit to the factory of horn-spoons--The Gipsy ashamed to
give his language 312
A promise or secrecy--The Gipsy cheerful, he hesitates, but at
last fulfills his oath _specimens_ 312
Circumstances illustrative of the history of the family of
John Bunyan _n_313
The Gipsies a tribe of Ethiopian thieves and robbers, 315--The
pronunciation of their speech--It is copious, but not written--
"So long as there exist two Gipsies in Scotland, it will never
be lost" 316
Gipsy horse-dealers--"Several thousand in Scotland acquainted
with the Gipsy tongue" 316
The children of Gipsies instructed in Gipsy, from their
infancy--Their pride in their language 316
The character of an intelligent Gipsy chief 316
The Gipsy sings a song in Gipsy--The Gipsies have doubtless an
oral literature _n_317
A great alarm in the family, 317--"Give to the world what had
been theirs for 350 years" 318
Smith on the language of the Jews during the captivity--How the
Gipsy tribe will relish the present work _n_318
A tinker at Grangemouth--"Yes, the dog is not bad"--"What do you
mean? I don't understand you--Yes, the dog is hairy" 319
Thimbling Gipsies--"_Chee, chee,_" (hold your tongue)--"But,
sir, what was that you said to them, for they seem afraid?" 319
The author taken for a Thimbler--"I tell ye, woman, the man you
spoke to was nothing but one of these villains" _n_321
A Thimbler's sign--"Where can you find a shop without a sign?
and where's the other person that gets a sign from the public
for nothing?" _n_321
Thimblers' traps, 321--A victim drowns himself 322
Thimblers' conversation--"Bloody swells"--"I will require three
men to take care of that boat" 323
Is that man a Gipsy?--"Ask himself, sir" 323
An old thimbling Gipsy attempts to inveigle some youths on
Arthur's Seat--"Wasn't he a slippery old serpent, after all?" _n_323
The science of thimbling, _n_324--Thimble-riggers, and their
ancestry--Ancient Egyptian thimbling _n_325
English, Scottish, and Irish Gipsies speak the same language,
and assist each other, when they meet 324
An Irish Gipsy family--An ass bearing a "bundle of bones"--
"Good-day, sir, God bless you" 326
Two Irish Gipsies in court--"Three days, and be banished the
town" 326
A Gipsy wife a go-between--"The scoundrel shall lie in prison
till the last hour of his sentence" 327
An escape, and a "banishing the town," 327--"A fight for the
sake of friendship" _specimens_ 328
A horde of Irish Gipsies--The town-clerk ashamed of his company 328
A Gipsy quizzes his friend--"You will put me out, by speaking to
me in that language" _specimens_ 329
Irish Gipsies in Scotland--Their number, appearance, and
occupations 329
The origin of the idea that the Gipsies came from India 329
Scottish Gipsy words collated with vulgar Hindostanee 330
John Lobbs, a low caste native of Bombay, examined _specimens_ 330
Rev. Mr. Crabb's annual Gipsy festival--The Hindostanee and
Gipsy languages _n_334
Gipsy words sent to Sir Walter Scott, collated with the Rev. Mr.
Baird's collection 334
Scottish Gipsy words that bear a relation to Sanscrit 336
A comparison between Gipsy and various oriental languages 337
The language of the Gipsies mixed--How it has got corrupted 338
Rev. Mr. Baird's remarks thereon--The language of the Gipsies in
the Scottish Highlands _n_338
The Sclavonic in the Gipsy language--Variations in the Gipsy of
different countries _n_338
The Gipsies supposed to originate in India--The tribe originally
thieves and robbers 339
The Nuts, or Bazegurs, supposed to be the parent stock of the
Gipsies 339
_See Disquisition on the Gipsies_ 431-433
LINLITHGOWSHIRE GIPSIES.
The Gipsies of this county more daring than the other bands in
Scotland 123
They take up their quarters near the Bridge of Linlithgow 123
Their sagacity--The district populous--Much business passes
through it 124
The names of the tribe--They have no connection with native
vagrants 124
Their occupations--Horses, music, feasting, and dancing 124
The Gipsies very civil and honest with their neighbours, but
plunder others at a distance 124
A Gipsy unintentionally attempts to rob his own clergyman _n_124
The tribe form strong attachments to individuals of the
community 125
Terrific fighting among themselves, on dividing their spoil 125
Their children attend school--None dare taunt them, or their
parents, though thieves and robbers 125
The magistrates of Linlithgow dare not interfere with the tribe 126
They play with them at golf, and admit them to social meetings
and dinner parties 126
The authorities being passive, the Gipsies plunder at pleasure 127
The chief of the tribe taken off, when attempting highway
robbery 127
His funeral attended by the magistrates, and other people of
respectability 128
The Gipsy mode of burying the dead 128
The deceased chieftain succeeded by his son, who exceeds him in
audacity and daring 129
The band very numerous, having lieutenants, like a military
company 129
Appearance, acquirements, and habits of the new chieftain, and
his brother-in-law 129
By means of trained horses, the chief plays many tricks 129
Description of his wife, and for what she was greatly respected 130,
137
The Gipsies protect their friends, but vindictively torment
their enemies 130
Peculiarities of the Gipsies in the matter of robbing people--
Gipsy passports 131
The chief and his brother-in-law condemned to be hung 133
Threatened rescue by the tribe--Precautions taken, 133--Execution
of the criminals 135
The chief's wife before, and after, the execution--Touching and
terrible scenes 135, 136
Attempted resuscitation of the bodies--They are interred in the
church-yard of Linlithgow 137
They are torn up by the populace, and buried in a moor, in the
neighbourhood 137
The chief divorced from his first wife, over a horse, sacrificed
for the occasion 137
Her character, and that of her successor, who continues her old
practices 137
She returns to a friend a purse, stolen by the tribe in a fair 138
Her two nephews pursued, tried, and executed for robbing the
mail 139
Sizes of these two Gipsies--Mixed Gipsies a strong race of
men _n_139
LOCHGELLIE once the headquarters of Gipsies, 140--Description of
the neighbourhood, 141--Scenes among the Lochgellie Gipsies 159, 167,
295
LOCHMABEN is said, by James Hogg, to be stocked with Gipsies _n_381
MACAULAY, LORD.
John Bunyan's tribe and nationality, 507, 516--The Pilgrim's
Progress 514
McLAURIN'S CRIMINAL TRIALS.
He speaks of John Faw, "Earl of Little Egypt," as "this peer" 107
On the trial of William Baillie, in 1714, 204--On the mercy
shown to James Baillie 213
MARRIAGE CEREMONIES OF THE GIPSIES.
The Gipsies all marry young--Few or no illegitimate children
among them 257
A Gipsy stabs another, for seducing his sister, who is afterwards
married to him 257
The virtue of young Spanish Gipsy females--They are dressed in a
kind of drapery _n_257
Gipsy courtships--The younger sister not married before the
elder 258
The Gipsy multiplication table--The Gipsies obey one of the
divine laws at least _n_258
A parallel between the ancient Hindoos and the Jews during the
time of Laban 259
The nuptial ceremony of the Gipsies of great antiquity, and one
the longest to be observed 259
Marriage customs generally--Those of the Gipsies should be made
public 260
Sir Walter Scott not squeamish about delicacies, when knowledge
is to be acquired 260
The ideas of prudes and snobs on this chapter _n_260
The Scottish Gipsy marriage ceremony described 260-263
The Spanish Gipsy marriage ceremony, according to Bright,
_n_261--and Borrow _n_262
Singular marriage customs among other tribes--"Hand-fasting"
among Scottish Highland chiefs _n_262
Recent instances of Scottish Gipsy marriages, 263--A Gipsy on
the Presbyterian form of marriage _n_264
Description of Peter Robertson, a famous celebrator of Gipsy
marriages 264
In his will, he gives away, during his life, more than a county,
but reserves to himself a "pendicle," and the town of
Dunfermline 265
Remarks on rams and rams' horns _n_265
The Gipsy priest given to good ale, and chastising his tribe
without mercy 266
MILLER, HUGH, on the slavery of Scotch colliers and salters _n_121
MINSTRELSY OF THE SCOTTISH BORDER.
The Scott clan agree to give up all friendship with common
thieves, &c. 113
Song of "Johnny Faa, the Gipsy Laddie,"[331] 289--Of "Hughie the
Græme" 307
MIRACLES.
There is no miracle in the existence of the Jews since the
dispersion 458, 459, 494, 533
They are to be found in the Old and New Testaments only 494
They are things that are contrary to natural laws 533
It would have been a miracle had the Jews been lost among
mankind 533
MIXTURE OF GIPSY BLOOD 9, _n_80, _n_92, 341, 342, 374, 377-379,
399, 468
MIXED GIPSIES, PECULIARITIES OF 10, _n_195, 372, 373, 375, 377,
381-385, 391, 395, 397, 403, 412, 414, 427, 451, 455, 460-462, 470,
472, 498, 499, 508, _n_509, 532
MOSES.
His difficulties in inducing the Jews to undertake the Exodus 16
The difference between his rank and that of Jesus Christ 16, 486
The character of Moses, 18--His troubles after leaving Egypt 20
How he apparently got rid of the "mixed multitude" that followed
him 20
OCCUPATIONS OF THE GIPSIES GENERALLY 124, 182, 215, 225, 226, 228,
234, 246, 347, 353, 401, 467
OFFOR, GEORGE, (Editor of Bunyan's works).
He avoids the Gipsies--His advice to the editor--He says Mr.
Hoyland was led captive by a Gipsy girl _n_380
What he says about John Bunyan 515
OWEN, JOHN, how he respected and appreciated John Bunyan 521
PARK, MUNGO, Marriage customs among the natives of Africa _n_260
PASSES.
The system of Passes among the Gipsies 218
The use of passes granted to the friends of the Gipsies among the
community 130, 131, 158, 159, 199
PENNECUIK, DR. ALEXANDER.
He alludes to the Gipsies in his poems and history of
Tweed-dale 185
He gives a description of a Gipsy battle, at Romanno 188
He erects a dove-cot on the spot, to commemorate the battle 189
PHILOLOGISTS AND THE GIPSY LANGUAGE 25, 56, 60, 291, 337, 338
PILGRIM'S PROGRESS, THE.
What Lord Macaulay says of it, 514--What Bunyan himself wrote of
it 517
PONS ASSINORUM, THE, OF THE GIPSY QUESTION _n_383
POPULATION OF THE GIPSIES 61, 77, 93, 297, 316, 367, 416, 493
PRESENT CONDITION AND NUMBER OF THE GIPSIES IN SCOTLAND.
Every author represents the Gipsies as all remarkably dark in
their appearance 341
The Scottish Gipsies of all colours--Fair-haired Gipsies in
Finland and Arabia 341
Children stolen and incorporated with the tribe--How its
appearance has been changed 342
Peculiarity of mixing "the blood" with native, in England _n_342
Gipsies formerly employed in Scotland as constables, peace-
officers, and "country-keepers" 343
The peculiarities of the tribe in such capacities--They make
matters a great deal worse 344
Impressments during the American and French wars greatly break
up the Gipsy bands 344
The tribe desert the ranks on landing in America _n_345
The Gipsies prefer self-mutilation to impressment 345
Sir Walter Scott meets a Prussian Gipsy soldier, a sentinel in
Paris _n_346
The Gipsies accept the bounty and desert--Burns' "Jolly Beggars:"
"My bonny lass, I work in brass." _n_346
The Gipsies are now crockery-dealers, horse-dealers, and
innkeepers; coopers, shoemakers, plumbers, and masons; tinsmiths,
braziers, cutlers, bell-hangers, umbrella-menders, and chimney-
sweeps, 347--constables in large and small towns, female
servants, lady's maids and housekeepers; ginger-bread dealers,
crockery, japan, and white-iron hawkers, &c., 348
English Gipsy constables--A Scottish clergyman married to a
Gipsy _n_348
A travelling Gipsy jeweller, disguised as a sailor, offers for
sale "a valuable gold watch, that cost him not less than ten
francs."--"Do not attempt to cheat us in this manner"--The
"sailor" makes his exit dancing, and twirling his bludgeon, in
the manner of his tribe 348
Thimble-riggers, tinkers, dealers in horn spoons--"Did you ever
make horn spoons?" 350
Popular ideas of Gipsies, and their numbers--Sir Walter Scott's
opinion 350
"Tinklers and vagabonds," since the peace of 1815 350
The Gipsies at St. Boswell's, 352--An Asiatic camp to be seen
after the fair 353
Description of the _tinkering_ Gipsies, at present in Scotland 353
The hardy constitution of the Gipsy race in resisting the
elements _n_354
Itinerant Gipsies--difficulty in pleasing them with hot rolls--
Gipsy beggars in towns 355
Travelling singing Gipsy impostors, 355--Gipsy mock country
labourers 356
Irish Gipsies in Scotland--A Gipsy woman gives birth to a child
in the open fields 356
Irish Gipsies in England--They are disliked by their English and
Scottish brethren _n_357
Irish Gipsy mechanics in Edinburgh, England, and the Untied
States 358
Infanticide among the Gipsies--The tribe physically, _n_358--
Female Gipsy recklessness _n_359
The Gipsies charged with cowardice--The Scottish Gipsies make
excellent soldiers 359
The Gipsies employed by European governments, as soldiers,
_n_359,--and spies _n_360
An interesting meeting between a French and Spanish Gipsy, in
the heat of a battle _n_360
Supposed danger from Gipsies in time of war equally applicable
to Jews and Freemasons _n_360
Scottish Gipsies distinguished for gratitude, in return for
civility and kindness 360
"Terrible," a Gipsy chief, offers to sell his all, to get a
farmer out of prison 361
Terrible's opinion of "writers" and lairds, but especially of
the writers 362
The feelings of the Gipsies in regard to the prejudice that
exists against them _n_362
Terrible's character--His mother a witch--He believed she could
have set the farmer free 363
The character of Gipsy chiefs generally--Education among the
Scottish Gipsies 364
How a Gipsy child became "spoiled," 364--Education among the
Spanish Gipsies, _n_365--Female Gipsies _n_365
Neglect of females among the Jews--A Jew's morning prayer _n_365
Religion among the Scottish Gipsies, 365--Their general political
sentiments 366
Grellmann on the religion of the Gipsies--Mr. Borrow preaches to
them in Spain _n_366
The number of the Gipsies in Scotland--Gipsies in all the towns,
and many of the villages 367
Few Gipsies now hanged--Their present punishment--They cannot
fail to encrease _n_367
The civilization and improvement of the Gipsies--An Hungarian
nobleman's opinion 367
The restless nature of the Gipsies--How it is manifested _n_368
The language of the Gipsies should be published, and the tribe
encouraged to speak it openly 369
The plan of the Rev. Mr. Crabb, _n_368, and the Rev. Mr. Baird
for the civilization of the Gipsies _n_369
The difficulty in distinguishing some of the tribe from common
natives _n_369
The Gipsies marry among themselves, like the Jews, and "stick to
each other." 369
PRINCIPAL GIPSY FAMILIES IN SCOTLAND.
Faw 101, _n_103, 106, 107, 108, _n_113, 118, 121, 188, 236, 250,
252, 255, 406
Baillie 101, _n_103, 118, 119, 120, 121, 185, 186, 188, 196, 197,
202-208, 212, 213, 215, 219, 236, 411
PRITCHARD on the Hungarian race, past and present 413
PROPHECIES.
"Scattering of the Egyptians," Ezek. xxix. 12-14, and xxx. 10,
23 and 26 40
"A people that are to provoke and anger the Jews," Deut. xxxii.
21, and Rom. x. 19 _n_491, 533
PYRENEES, The Gipsies of the, resemble the inferior class of
Scottish Gipsies 86
QUAKERS.
Gipsy-Quakers, or Quaker-Gipsies _n_380
The result of their society being dissolved 448
The nature of the perpetuation of their existence 494
QUEENSFERRY, NORTH.
Stylish habits of Gipsy plunderers at the inn at 171
Fashionable cavalcade of female Gipsies departing from 173
The boatmen and their friends--"the lads that take the purses" 173
Gipsy scenes at 288, 294
QUEENSFERRY, SOUTH.
Adventure of a Gipsy with an ox at 148
Gipsy scenes at 356
RELIGION AMONG THE GIPSIES 52, 73, _n_74, 87, _n_89, 161, 183, 226,
248, 365, _n_366, 475, 477, 478, 502
ROME, THE CHURCH OF.
The seventy years schism--Three Popes anathematizing each other 32
The Gipsies tolerated in the dominions of the Church, for the
sake of gain 75
The Gipsies despised and tolerated by the Church, in Spain 395
The attempted conversion of the Jews to the superstitions and
impostures of Rome 502
ST. BOSWELL'S, The author's visits to the fairs at--Gipsy scenes 93,
309, 352
ST. JAMES on the gratitude of wild animals 435
ST. PAUL before the Jewish Council--Gamaliel's advice on the
persecution of Christians _n_494
"SCOTSMAN" NEWSPAPER, Lament on the death of Will Faa, king of the
Scottish Gipsies, in October, 1847 255
SCOTT, SIR WALTER.
His judicious advice to the author regarding this work 5, 59, 60,
67, 291
The Gipsy language a "great mystery," 24, 58--His intended
publication on the Gipsies 25
He urges an enquiry into the subject of the Gipsies 25, 59
The original of Meg Merrilies, in Guy Mannering 44, 48, 242
An article on the Buckhaven fishermen--The zeal of an
antiquary _n_57
His three letters to the author, 58-61--His opinion of the Gipsy
language 58, 60
In a note to Quentin Durward, he urges a publication of the
present work 66
His translated article, in Blackwood's Magazine, on the Gipsies
in Germany 79
His article in Blackwood's Magazine--An English Gipsy family
arriving in Scotland 96
Billy Marshall the Gallowayshire Gipsy chief _n_148
In a letter to Captain Adam Ferguson, he alludes to the trial of
Kennedy, a tinker _n_192
He notices a scuffle and a murder among Gipsies 216
His description of a Gipsy feast 232
Adventure of a relative among Gipsies--The original of Meg
Merrilies 242
His grandfather feasted by the Gipsies on Charter-house moor 244
He discovers a Gipsy, when in the company of Baillie Smith, of
Kelso 250
He is not squeamish about delicacies when knowledge is to be
acquired 59, 260
His idea of the Scottish Gipsy population greatly erroneous _n_301,
350, _n_417
He causes his eldest daughter to sing "Hughie the Græme" to the
author _n_308
He is interested in the Gipsies, but afraid they might injure
his plantations _n_309
A list of Gipsy words sent to him for inspection 59, 334
He meets a Prussian Gipsy soldier, in Paris _n_346
Feudal robbers--Extract from his life by Lockhart _n_410
Highland robbers--Fitz-James and Roderick Dhu, in the "Lady of
the Lake," _n_411
On the disappearance of the Scottish Gipsies _n_417
What he says about John Bunyan 515
SCOTTISH GIPSIES, DOWN TO THE YEAR 1715.
Gipsies supposed to be in Scotland before the year 1460 98
McLellan of Bombie kills a Gipsy chief, and recovers the Barony
of Bombie 98
The Gipsies enter Scotland, from Spain, by way of Ireland _n_98
Armorial bearings--Act of James II. against vagabonds 99
Letter of James IV., in 1506, to the king of Denmark, in favour
of Anthonius Gawino, Earl of Little Egypt 99
Capacity of the early Gipsies in passing for pilgrims and men of
consequence _n_99
Treaty between James V. and John Faw, "Lord and Earl of Little
Egypt," in 1540 101
Policy of the Gipsies--The act of James V. the starting point in
the history of the Scoto-Egyptians _n_103
The Gipsies insult James V., and, for that reason, are ordered
to leave Scotland, in 1541 104
Faw's diplomacy on the occasion _n_106
Death of James V.--The Gipsies recover their position with his
successors 107
Remission of Gipsies for the slaughter of Ninian Small 107
Scottish Gipsy captains, and Spanish Gipsy counts _n_107
The Gipsies, at that time, men of importance, and allowed to
live under their own laws 107
The Countess of Cassilis elopes with John Faa 108
The Gipsies tolerated from 1506 till 1579, when James VI.
assumes the government 109
Act of James VI. against vagabonds in general, and the Gipsies
in particular 109
Mode prescribed for punishing the Gipsies and the other
vagabonds mentioned 110
Statute confirmed in 1592, when the Gipsies are again referred
to 110
Act of 1597 against "strong beggars, vagabonds, and Egyptians" 110
Coal and salt masters might apprehend and put such to labour _n_111
Origin of the slavery in Scotland which was abolished during
last century _n_111
Gipsies now colliers in the Lothians _n_111
Fletcher of Saltoun's estimate of the beggars and vagabonds in
Scotland, in 1680 _n_111
Act of 1600 declares previous ones ineffectual 111
Acts of 1608 and 1609 banish the Gipsies forever, on pain of
death 112
Act of 1617 directs the authorities how to proceed against the
Gipsies 113
Condition of the Scottish people generally, at this time 113
Acts against "famous and unspotted gentlemen" for protecting the
Gipsies 114
Similar acts passed against the nobility and commonalty in
Spain _n_114
Gipsy policy and cunning--Modifications of the term Gitano _n_115
Great outward change in the Gipsies at that time--Surnames and
general policy 116
English and German Gipsy and Jewish surnames _n_117
The Gipsies claim bastard kindred with the Scottish aristocracy
and gentry 117
They have a profound regard for aristocracy _n_117
Trials and executions of the Gipsies in Scotland--Baron Hume's
account 117
The Faas and Baillies the principal Gipsy tribes in Scotland 121
The influence of the Baillies, of Lamington, of great service to
the Scottish Gipsies 121
Proscription of Gipsies, and enslavement of colliers and
salters, in Scotland _n_121
SHEPHERD KINGS, Gipsies probably the descendants of the 20, 415
SHERIFFS OF SCOTLAND, their reports on the Gipsies in Scotland _n_251
SKENE, WM. F.
"Hand-fasting," previous to marriage, practised among Scottish
Highland chiefs _n_263
The plundering principles and habits of Scottish Highlanders 410
SLANG, in connexion with the Gipsy language 58, _n_59, 60, 281, 302,
_n_338, 506
SLAVES, the religion of 20, 21, 51, 496, _n_496
SMITH, ADAM, author of the "Wealth of Nations," carried off by the
Gipsies, when a child 45
SMITH, BAILLIE, OF KELSO.
His contribution to Hoyland's "Survey of the Gipsies," 245
SMITH'S HEBREW PEOPLE.
History of their language during the seventy years' captivity _n_318
SOLDIERS, Gipsies as 80, 182, 208, 253, 344, 345, _n_346, 359
SOUTHEY, ROBERT.
He says Bunyan was bred to the business of a brazier _n_265
On tinkering and Bunyan's education 512
Bunyan's family history and fame 516
He is unreasonable in styling Bunyan a "blackguard," 519
SPIES, Gipsies as _n_74, _n_360
STATISTICAL ACCOUNT OF SCOTLAND.
Description of Lochgellie, Fifeshire, and the Gipsies settled
there 141
Description of the Gipsies at Middleton, Mid-Lothian 341
Allusion to the Falls, merchants, at Dunbar _n_406
STEALING AMONG THE GIPSIES 52, 63, 72, 148, _n_155, 163, 164, 166-174,
177, 197, 210, 211, 228, 315, 339, 364, 482
SURNAMES AMONG THE GIPSIES 99, 101, 107, 117, 121, 124, 141, 153, 219,
252, _n_358
TACITUS on the destruction of the Druids, _n_479--On the religion
of slaves _n_496
THIMBLE-RIGGERS AND THIMBLE-RIGGING 319-325
TIMOUR'S CRUELTIES on over-running India 38
TITLES AMONG THE GIPSIES 77, 78, 79, 90, 99, 101, 107, _n_155, 169,
187, 190, 218, 253, _n_256
TRENCK, BARON.
In his wanderings, comes in contact with a band of German
Gipsies 86
TWISS, RICHARD, on the religious character of the Gipsies 73
On the virtue of Gipsy females, and honesty of Gipsy innkeepers,
in Spain 524
TWEED-DALE AND CLYDESDALE GIPSIES.
Description of Tweed-dale, in the time of Queen Mary 185
Dr. Pennecuik's works--The Gipsies never had a permanent
habitation in the county 185
The tribe attached to the district for three reasons: 1st, the
Baillies claimed it as their own, 185--2d, plenty of provisions--
3d, freedom from the laws 186
Alleged relation of the Gipsies to the Baillies of Lamington _n_185
Braxy--Mr. Borrow on the Gipsies poisoning and eating swine _n_186
Fashionable appearance and mounting of the Baillie tribe--Their
children left in huts 186
The Gipsies well treated by the tenantry, who accept dinners
from them 187
The Baillies specially mentioned--They give kings and queens to
the tribe 187
The quarrelsome disposition of the Gipsies--"A shower of horns,
hammers, knives, files, and fiery peats," 188
Dr. Pennecuik's account of a Gipsy battle at Romanno 188
He erects a dove-cot on the spot, to illustrate, by contrast,
the nature of the Gipsy 189
The same battle noticed by Lord Fountainhall, in his MS 189
A Gipsy battle at Hawick--Terrific wounds, but no slain 190
Sir Walter Scott's allusion to this battle _n_192
Another and decisive battle between the hostile tribes, at
Eskdale moor 193
The country people horrified at the sight of the wounded Gipsies 193
Grellmann's description of Hungarian Gipsies fighting _n_193
Female Gipsies fight as well as males--'Becca Keith, the heroine
of Dumblane 194
The trifling occasions of Gipsies fighting, and agreeing among
themselves _n_195
The fencibles and the clergy called out to quell and disperse
the Gipsies _n_195
Assault of the Gipsies on Pennicuik House _n_195
An insult offered to the mother of the Baillies resented, with
drawn swords 196
Contribution from Mr. Blackwood towards a history of the Gipsies 196
Pickpockets at Dumfries, headed by Will Baillie--How he and
his tribe travelled to fairs--He returns a farmer his purse,
197--The farmer, when intoxicated, goes to visit him--Baillie
pays a widow's rent, and saves her from ruin, 198--He borrows
money, and gives the lender a pass of protection, 199--The
pass, after scrutiny by two of the tribe, protects its bearer
--Baillie repays his loan with a large interest--The "Jock
Johnstone" gang of Gipsies, 200--Jock, in a drunken squabble,
kills a country ale-wife--His jack-daw proves a bird of bad
omen to him, and he a bird of bad omen to his executioner 201
Jock's execution, as described by Dr. Alexander Carlyle _n_201
William Baillie, a handsome, well-dressed, good-looking, well-
bred man, and an excellent swordsman 202
Like a wild Arab, he distributes the wares of a trembling
packman, who extols, wherever he goes, "the extraordinary
liberality of Captain Baillie," 203
Bruce on the protection given by Arabs to shipwrecked
Christians _n_203
In indulging his sarcastic wit, Baillie insults the judge on the
bench 203
The deportment of Hungarian Gipsies during and after
punishment _n_204
Baillie's numerous crimes and sentences 204
The nature of "sorning," _n_204--Gipsies carried arms in the
olden times _n_205
Baillie's policy in claiming kin with honourable families 205
He is slain by one of the tribe while in the arms of his wife 206
His murderer pursued by the tribe over the British Isles, till
he is apprehended and executed 206
Legal enquiry regarding the slaughter of Baillie, 206--The
trial of his murderers 208
William Baillie succeeded by Matthew Baillie--His descendants 208
Mary Yorkston, wife of Matthew Baillie, a Gipsy queen and
priestess 208
Her appearance and costume, on gala days, when advanced in years 209
Old Gipsy women strip people of their clothes, like the Arabs of
the desert 209
Mary Yorkston restores a stolen purse to a friend--Her husband
first counts its contents--"There is your purse, sir; you see
what it is, when honest people meet!" 210
A Gipsy chief chastises his wife for want of diligence or
success at a fair 211
Mary Yorkston and her particular friend, the good-man of
Coulter-park 211
She scorns alms, but demands and takes by force a "boontith," 211
Her son, James Baillie, condemned and pardoned again and again 212
The Baillies of Lamington's influence successful in his case 213
Stylish dress of the male head of the Ruthvens--The Gipsy
costume generally 213
Disguises of the tribe when plundering in fairs 213
Vidocq on the disguises of the Continental Gipsies, on a similar
occasion _n_213
A couple of mounted Gipsies taken for men almost of the first
quality 214
Straggling Gipsies--Their suspicious characters--A tinker and a
tinker's wife 215
A quarrel among three Gipsy constables, 216--A murder, a
capture, and a lamentation 217
One Gipsy constable murdered, another hanged, and the third
banished 218
Great falling off in the condition of the Scottish nomadic
Gipsies 218
The internal polity of the Gipsies--Their general system of
passes 218
The country divided into districts, under a king and provincial
chieftains--The pass of a Baillie conducts its bearer over all
Scotland 219
Surnames among the Tweed-dale Gipsies--Surnames among the
English Gipsies _n_219
Travelling Gipsies possess two and sometimes several names--
Superstitious ideas when travelling 219
Present condition of the Tweed-dale Gipsies--They dispense with
tents, but occupy kilns and outhouses 220
The number of the tribe sometimes collected together, 220--How
they are sometimes treated 221
How the Gipsies approach the farmers' premises, 222--How they
disguise their numbers 222
Their honesty, while on the farm--The resemblance between
Gipsies and ravens _n_223
Personal habits of the tribe while in their encampment 224
The males remain aloof, tinkering and manufacturing--The women
vend the goods 224
Athletic amusements of the Gipsies, 224--They despise the
peasantry, but boast of their own tribe 225
Their peaceable behaviour, 225--They do not attend church, or
worship any thing whatever 226
The musical talents of the Gipsies--Their pretensions to surgery
--Dr. Duds 226
How Gipsy women vend their wares, 225--They sometimes take, by
force, a "boontith," 227
Habits of the Hungarian Gipsy after child-birth _n_227
Mary Yorkston and her "boontith," 227--Her terrible prediction 228
Recent instances of "sorning," or masterful begging, among the
Scottish Gipsies _n_228
Gipsy fortune-tellers, 228--How they frequently obtain important
information 229
Travelling Gipsies--Gipsy fiddlers at parties--Gipsy lady's
maids 229
Fortune-telling by palmistry and the divining cup, 230--By the
corn riddle and scissors 231
Fortune-telling in Kamtachatka and the ancient Eastern
nations _n_230
Fortune-telling punishable by Act of Parliament _n_230
Anecdote of a Gipsy woman telling fortunes by the divining cup 231
Gipsies' meals--Sir Walter Scott's description of a Gipsy feast 232
The Gipsy mode of cooking poultry and butcher-meat 233
The Gipsy mode of working in iron--Its antiquity--Hungarian
Gipsy smiths _n_234
VIDOCQ.
On the disguises and plundering habits of the Continental
Gipsies _n_169, _n_213
WILKINSON, SIR J. GARDNER.
Thimble-rigging among the ancient Egyptians _n_325
The appearance of the Jews in the East differs from that in
Europe 477
WILSON, PROFESSOR.
He strolls with the Gipsies in his youth, 8--Was he then looking
at the "old thing?" 471
He notices the articles of the author in Blackwood's Magazine 66
YETHOLM.
Description of its situation _n_141
The Gipsies of Yetholm--Baillie Smith's account, 245--Mr.
Blackwood's contribution 251
Tradition of the first settlement of the Gipsies at Yetholm _n_252
The author's visit to Yetholm 254
The Gipsies at Yetholm knock down their asses, when they
separate from their wives 276
Yetholm the metropolis of Scottish Gipsydom, 426--"I come from
Yetholm" 443