A History of the Gipsies: with Specimens of the Gipsy Language

by Walter Simson

INDEX.

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• 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], [n429]
• 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
• [n389]
• 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, [n438]—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
• [n7]
• The profession of, [56], zeal in the calling of
• [n57]
• ARABS.
• English Gipsies say they are a cross between Arabs and Egyptians
• [14], [467]
• How Arabs protect shipwrecked Christians
• [n203]
• 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
• [n338]
• His plan for improving the Gipsies
• [368], [n369]
• 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], [n357]
• 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
• [n124]
• Chase after John Young, a Gipsy, resembling a fox hunt
• [n144]
• The unabashed hardihood of Gipsies under suspicion
• [n155]
• Old Will of Phaup’s five years’ warfare with the Gipsies
• [n179]
• Assault of the Gipsies on Pennicuik House
• [n195]
• The slaughter of William Baillie, a Gipsy chief
• [206]
• How the Gipsies acquired a foothold in Yetholm
• [n252]
• Will Faa’s twenty-four children, and pompous christenings
• [n252]
• The language spoken by the Gipsies in the Highlands
• [n338]
• 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
• [n388]
• 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
• [n59]
• 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”
• [n237]
• 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
• [n238]
• 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 Charterhouse 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]—unsteadiness 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
• [n251]
• 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, [n252]—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
• [n255]
• BORROW, GEORGE.
• His publications on the Gipsies, since this work was written
• [6], [64]
• In error on the subject of Gipsies stealing children
• [n9], [n342]
• On the Gipsy language, [23], [n281], [n298], [n338], [n431]—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
• [n93]
• Spanish Gipsy counts, [n107], [397], [n468]—Act of Charles II. against Spaniards, for protecting the Gipsies
• [n114]
• Gipsies poison swine, and eat their flesh
• [n186]
• English Gipsy surnames—Travelling Gipsies have two names
• [n219]
• Chastity among young Spanish Gipsy females, [n257]—Spanish Gipsy marriage ceremony
• [n262]
• The character of Spanish Gipsy women
• [n285]
• On the Law of Charles III., ameliorating the condition of the Spanish Gipsies
• [n313], [392]
• Song of a female Gipsy, at Moscow, [n317]—On the Sclavonic in the Gipsy language
• [n338]
• He meets with a rich Gipsy in Spain, [n347]—How Gipsies resist cold weather
• [n354]
• Meeting between a French and Spanish Gipsy, in the heat of a battle
• [n360]
• On the education of the Spanish Gipsies
• [n365]
• Religion among the Moscow Gipsies—He preaches to the tribe in Spain
• [n366]
• A half-blood Spanish Gipsy captain, [372], [n373], [377]—Civilized Gipsies in Moscow
• [374], [399], [n408]
• Shuffling of the Gipsies regarding marriage with ordinary natives
• [n375]
• Characters in Lavengro and the Romany Rye
• [n375], [508], [n509]
• 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
• [n431]
• On the hatred entertained by the Gipsies for other people
• [n433]
• 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
• [n468]
• 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
• [n141]
• Spanish Gipsy marriage ceremony, [n261]—Spanish Gipsy widows
• [n274]
• The difficulties in acquiring the Gipsy language
• [n281]
• 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
• [n203]
• Method of selling cargoes, at Jedda, to the Turks
• [n312]
• His discoveries discredited
• [537]
• BUNSEN, CHEVALIER, ON SOUND JUDGMENT AND SHALLOW MINDS
• [n518]
• BUNYAN, JOHN.
• He alludes to Gipsy women stealing children, [n80]—He is bred to the business of a brazier
• [n206]
• His family history illustrated by the author’s visit to a Gipsy, met with at St. Boswell’s
• [309]
• His wife before Judge Hale, [n313], [517]—His description of his early habits, or “youthful vanities”
• [n402]
• 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”
• [n346]
• He alludes to the Falls, of Dunbar, in his tour
• [n406]
• 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, [n201]—Jenny Fall, afterwards Lady Anstruther
• [n239]
• 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, [n141]—Gipsy scenes at St. Boswell’s fair
• [n353]
• CHAMBERS’ JOURNAL—On the disappearance of the Gipsies
• [n449]
• CHAMBERS’ MISCELLANY—An account of Peter Young, a Gipsy
• [n146]
• CHILD STEALING BY THE GIPSIES
• [9], [45], [n80], [342], [375]
• CHURCH OF SCOTLAND.
• Mission among the Scottish Gipsies
• [6], [55], [64], [n369]
• 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
• [n73]
• 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, [n111]—In the English mines
• [401]
• COLLIERS, SCOTCH, SLAVES
• [n111], [n121], [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
• [n348]
• 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
• [n73]
• Remarks on the slavery of these Gipsies—Gipsies as spies, in the late Russian war
• [n74]
• 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
• [n76]
• 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
• [n283]
• The Hindostanee and the Gipsy languages, [n334]—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
• [n128]
• DISGUISES OF THE GIPSIES
• [129], [150], [162], [169], [177], [213], [222], [320], [n323], [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
• [n375]
• 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
• [n377]
• 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
• [n380]
• Little difference if the father is a native—Town Gipsies visit the tent in their youth
• [n380]
• Fair-haired Gipsies, [381]—They are superior to the others—the two kinds will readily marry
• [n382]
• 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, [n387]—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
• [n388]
• 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
• [n402]
• 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, [n406], they are noticed in the Statistical Account of Scotland
• [n406]
• 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
• [n408]
• The Gipsies proud of their ancestors, though thieves and robbers
• [409]
• Border and Highland thieves and robbers, [409]—Sir Walter Scott’s ancestors
• [n410]
• Gipsy and Highland thieving—The McGregors and the Gipsies
• [411]
• Fitz-James’ address to Roderick Dhu, in the “Lady of the Lake”
• [n411]
• 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
• [n416]
• Scottish vagabonds, noticed by Fletcher of Saltoun, in 1680, were doubtless Gipsies
• [n417]
• 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”
• [n418]
• 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
• [n429]
• 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
• [n432]
• Respectable Scottish Gipsies, and the Gipsy language: “Are ye a’ Tinklers?”
• [432]
• The Gipsy language in America—In Spain
• [n432]
• The number of words sufficient for every-day use in any language
• [n432]
• 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
• [n433]
• 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
• [n438]
• 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
• [n449]
• 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,
• [n468]
• 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
• [n479]
• 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
• [n491]
• The Jews are not apt to notice the present work
• [n491]
• 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
• [n493]
• 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
• [n494]
• 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
• [n496]
• 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], [n509]
• 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
• [n513]
• 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
• [n518]
• 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
• [n521]
• 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
• [n268]
• 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
• [n269]
• 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
• [n274]
• 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
• [n479]
• DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE.
• The number of words sufficient for every-day use, in any language
• [n432]
• 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
• [n7]
• 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
• [n7]
• 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
• [n9]
• 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
• [n93]
• Mr. Borrow’s description of the English Gipsies, and the English dialect spoken by them
• [n93]
• 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
• [n238], [251]
• FARMERS.
• Their property protected by the Gipsies
• [47], [363], [434]
• How they sometimes treat the Gipsies
• [48], [55], [56], [187], [n179], [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”
• [n140]
• 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
• [n148]
• He is nearly frightened out of his wits, under very ludicrous circumstances
• [n148]
• 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
• [n154]
• The unabashed hardihood of Gipsies in the face of suspicion
• [n155]
• 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
• [n164]
• 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
• [n169]
• 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
• [n179]
• Gipsy Dances—Charles Stewart, [179]—George Drummond—Gipsy dance at Moscow
• [180]
• Afghan dance [n181]—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], [n193], [n195], [206], [215], [253]
• FLETCHER OF SALTOUN on Scottish vagabonds, in 1680
• [n111], [n417]
• 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], [n360], [n387], [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
• [n115]
• GORDON, THE DUCHESS OF, saves two Gipsies from the gallows
• [470]
• GOVERNMENT AMONG THE GIPSIES
• [78], [n103], [183], [187], [216], [253], [n256], [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
• [n46], [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, [n154]—Plundering, [171]—Fighting
• [n193]
• Gipsies under and after punishment
• [n204]
• The habit of Gipsy women after childbirth
• [n227]
• Gipsy working in iron—Gipsy smiths in Hungary
• [n234]
• The Gipsies will eat of any animal but a horse
• [n268]
• The secrecy of the Gipsies in the matter of their language
• [n281]
• The Gipsy language unintelligible to the common natives
• [n298]
• On the education of Hungarian Gipsies
• [n303]
• The origin of the idea that the Gipsies came from India
• [329]
• On the variations in the Gipsy language in different countries
• [n339]
• How the Gipsies resist the extremes of the weather
• [n354]
• The circumstances under which Gipsy women are confined
• [n357]
• The physical properties of the Gipsy race
• [n358]
• Gipsies as soldiers, [n359]—As spies
• [n360]
• The religion of the Gipsies, [n366]—Their civilization
• [n367]
• On the colour and appearance of Gipsies who change their habits
• [n377]
• 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
• [n313]
• He mentions the execution of thirteen Gipsies, at the Suffolk assizes
• [n513]
• 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
• [n381]
• HOYLAND, JOHN.
• The religious character of the Gipsies
• [73]
• The capacity of the early Gipsies, [n99]—English Gipsy surnames
• [n219]
• Baillie Smith, of Kelso—Report on the Yetholm Gipsies
• [245]
• The difficulty in Gipsies acquiring settled habits
• [n368]
• Mr. George Offor says he was led captive by a Gipsy girl
• [n380]
• 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], [n418]
• 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
• [n72]
• Marriage customs among the Russians, and Christians of Mesopotamia and Chaldea
• [n262]
• 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
• [n57]
• 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
• [n61]
• They change their names in various countries
• [n117]
• 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
• [n265]
• They dedicated horses to the sun, in the time of Josiah
• [n269]
• Hindoo sacrifice of the horse and the scape-goat in Leviticus compared
• [279]
• The language of the Jews during the seventy years’ captivity
• [n318]
• The Gipsies dislike the Jews, [n358], [459]—Jews during time of war
• [n360]
• Neglect of women among Jews—A Jew’s morning prayer
• [n365]
• Jews and Gipsies compared in a sermon by Mr. Borrow
• [n366]
• 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
• [n491], [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
• [n281]
• The Gipsies have excellent memories, but shuffle when bored by people of whom they expect money
• [n282]
• 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
• [n283]
• The Scottish peasantry, in some places, do not greatly despise the Gipsies
• [n284]
• 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
• [n285]
• 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
• [n292]
• 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”
• [n294]
• 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
• [n308]
• Sir Walter Scott interested in the Gipsies—He is afraid they might injure his plantations
• [n309]
• 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
• [n313]
• 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
• [n317]
• 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
• [n318]
• 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”
• [n321]
• 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?”
• [n321]
• 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?”
• [n323]
• The science of thimbling, [n324]—Thimble-riggers, and their ancestry—Ancient Egyptian thimbling
• [n325]
• 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
• [n334]
• 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
• [n338]
• The Sclavonic in the Gipsy language—Variations in the Gipsy of different countries
• [n338]
• 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
• [n124]
• 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
• [n139]
• 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
• [n381]
• 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
• [n257]
• 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
• [n258]
• 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
• [n260]
• The Scottish Gipsy marriage ceremony described
• [260]-[263]
• The Spanish Gipsy marriage ceremony, according to Bright, [n261]—and Borrow
• [n262]
• Singular marriage customs among other tribes—“Hand-fasting” among Scottish Highland chiefs
• [n262]
• Recent instances of Scottish Gipsy marriages, [263]—A Gipsy on the Presbyterian form of marriage
• [n264]
• 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
• [n265]
• The Gipsy priest given to good ale, and chastising his tribe without mercy
• [266]
• MILLER, HUGH, on the slavery of Scotch colliers and salters
• [n121]
• 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], [n80], [n92], [341], [342], [374], [377]-[379], [399], [468]
• MIXED GIPSIES, PECULIARITIES OF
• [10], [n195], [372], [373], [375], [377], [381]-[385], [391], [395], [397], [403], [412], [414], [427], [451], [455], [460]-[462], [470], [472], [498], [499], [508], [n509], [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
• [n380]
• 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
• [n260]
• 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
• [n383]
• 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
• [n342]
• 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
• [n345]
• The Gipsies prefer self-mutilation to impressment
• [345]
• Sir Walter Scott meets a Prussian Gipsy soldier, a sentinel in Paris
• [n346]
• The Gipsies accept the bounty and desert—Burns’ “Jolly Beggars:” “My bonny lass, I work in brass.”
• [n346]
• 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
• [n348]
• 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
• [n354]
• 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
• [n357]
• Irish Gipsy mechanics in Edinburgh, England, and the Untied States
• [358]
• Infanticide among the Gipsies—The tribe physically, [n358]—Female Gipsy recklessness
• [n359]
• The Gipsies charged with cowardice—The Scottish Gipsies make excellent soldiers
• [359]
• The Gipsies employed by European governments, as soldiers, [n359],—and spies
• [n360]
• An interesting meeting between a French and Spanish Gipsy, in the heat of a battle
• [n360]
• Supposed danger from Gipsies in time of war equally applicable to Jews and Freemasons
• [n360]
• 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
• [n362]
• 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, [n365]—Female Gipsies
• [n365]
• Neglect of females among the Jews—A Jew’s morning prayer
• [n365]
• 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
• [n366]
• 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
• [n367]
• The civilization and improvement of the Gipsies—An Hungarian nobleman’s opinion
• [367]
• The restless nature of the Gipsies—How it is manifested
• [n368]
• The language of the Gipsies should be published, and the tribe encouraged to speak it openly
• [369]
• The plan of the Rev. Mr. Crabb, [n368], and the Rev. Mr. Baird for the civilization of the Gipsies
• [n369]
• The difficulty in distinguishing some of the tribe from common natives
• [n369]
• The Gipsies marry among themselves, like the Jews, and “stick to each other.”
• [369]
• PRINCIPAL GIPSY FAMILIES IN SCOTLAND.
• Faw
• [101], [n103], [106], [107], [108], [n113], [118], [121], [188], [236], [250], [252], [255], [406]
• Baillie
• [101], [n103], [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
• [n491], [533]
• PYRENEES, The Gipsies of the, resemble the inferior class of Scottish Gipsies
• [86]
• QUAKERS.
• Gipsy-Quakers, or Quaker-Gipsies
• [n380]
• 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], [n74], [87], [n89], [161], [183], [226], [248], [365], [n366], [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
• [n494]
• “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
• [n57]
• 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
• [n148]
• In a letter to Captain Adam Ferguson, he alludes to the trial of Kennedy, a tinker
• [n192]
• 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
• [n301], [350], [n417]
• He causes his eldest daughter to sing “Hughie the Græme” to the author
• [n308]
• He is interested in the Gipsies, but afraid they might injure his plantations
• [n309]
• A list of Gipsy words sent to him for inspection
• [59], [334]
• He meets a Prussian Gipsy soldier, in Paris
• [n346]
• Feudal robbers—Extract from his life by Lockhart
• [n410]
• Highland robbers—Fitz-James and Roderick Dhu, in the “Lady of the Lake,”
• [n411]
• On the disappearance of the Scottish Gipsies
• [n417]
• 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
• [n98]
• 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
• [n99]
• 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
• [n103]
• The Gipsies insult James V., and, for that reason, are ordered to leave Scotland, in 1541
• [104]
• Faw’s diplomacy on the occasion
• [n106]
• 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
• [n107]
• 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
• [n111]
• Origin of the slavery in Scotland which was abolished during last century
• [n111]
• Gipsies now colliers in the Lothians
• [n111]
• Fletcher of Saltoun’s estimate of the beggars and vagabonds in Scotland, in 1680
• [n111]
• 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
• [n114]
• Gipsy policy and cunning—Modifications of the term Gitano
• [n115]
• Great outward change in the Gipsies at that time—Surnames and general policy
• [116]
• English and German Gipsy and Jewish surnames
• [n117]
• The Gipsies claim bastard kindred with the Scottish aristocracy and gentry
• [117]
• They have a profound regard for aristocracy
• [n117]
• 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
• [n121]
• SHEPHERD KINGS, Gipsies probably the descendants of the
• [20], [415]
• SHERIFFS OF SCOTLAND, their reports on the Gipsies in Scotland
• [n251]
• SKENE, WM. F.
• “Hand-fasting,” previous to marriage, practised among Scottish Highland chiefs
• [n263]
• The plundering principles and habits of Scottish Highlanders
• [410]
• SLANG, in connexion with the Gipsy language
• [58], [n59], [60], [281], [302], [n338], [506]
• SLAVES, the religion of
• [20], [21], [51], [496], [n496]
• 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
• [n318]
• SOLDIERS, Gipsies as
• [80], [182], [208], [253], [344], [345], [n346], [359]
• SOUTHEY, ROBERT.
• He says Bunyan was bred to the business of a brazier
• [n206]
• 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
• [n74], [n360]
• 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
• [n406]
• STEALING AMONG THE GIPSIES
• [52], [63], [72], [148], [n155], [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], [n358]
• TACITUS on the destruction of the Druids, [n479]—On the religion of slaves
• [n496]
• 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], [n155], [169], [187], [190], [218], [253], [n256]
• 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
• [n185]
• Braxy—Mr. Borrow on the Gipsies poisoning and eating swine
• [n186]
• 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 s Gipsy battle st 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
• [n192]
• 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
• [n193]
• Female Gipsies fight as well as males—‘Becca Keith, the heroine of Dumblane
• [194]
• The trifling occasions of Gipsies fighting, and agreeing among themselves
• [n195]
• The fencibles and the clergy called out to quell and disperse the Gipsies
• [n195]
• Assault of the Gipsies on Pennicuik House
• [n195]
• 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
• [n201]
• 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
• [n203]
• In indulging his sarcastic wit, Baillie insults the judge on the bench
• [203]
• The deportment of Hungarian Gipsies during and after punishment
• [n204]
• Baillie’s numerous crimes and sentences
• [204]
• The nature of “sorning,” [n204]—Gipsies carried arms in the olden times
• [n205]
• 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
• [n213]
• 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
• [n219]
• 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
• [n223]
• 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
• [n227]
• Mary Yorkston and her “boontith,” [227]—Her terrible prediction
• [228]
• Recent instances of “sorning,” or masterful begging, among the Scottish Gipsies
• [n228]
• 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
• [n230]
• Fortune-telling punishable by Act of Parliament
• [n230]
• 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
• [n234]
• VIDOCQ.
• On the disguises and plundering habits of the Continental Gipsies
• [n169], [n213]
• WILKINSON, SIR J. GARDNER.
• Thimble-rigging among the ancient Egyptians
• [n325]
• 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
• [n141]
• The Gipsies of Yetholm—Baillie Smith’s account, [245]—Mr. Blackwood’s contribution
• [251]
• Tradition of the first settlement of the Gipsies at Yetholm
• [n252]
• 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]

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[331] The song of “Johnny Faa, the Gipsy Laddie,” appears in the Waverly anecdotes. It might have been included in the Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border.

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