[170d] Song.
[178] Borrow’s Wild Wales gives a full account of his Welsh studies at this period.
[180] He was articled on 30th March 1819 to Messrs. Simpson & Rackham solicitors, for five years.
[198] Klopstock. (B.)
[199] John Crome, “Old Crome” (1768-1811), the great landscape-painter of the “Norwich School.”
[208] Lodowick Muggleton (1609-98), a London Puritan tailor, founded his sect about 1651.
[211] William Taylor (1765-1836), “of Norwich,” introduced German literature to English readers, and corresponded with Southey, Scott, Godwin, etc. He seems to have made an infidel of Borrow by 1824 (Knapp, ii. 261-2). See Life of Taylor by Robberds (1843).
[225a] Samuel Parr (1747-1825).
[225b] See note on p. 169.
[230] John Thurtell (c. 1791-1824), the son of a Norwich alderman, was hanged at Hertford for the brutal murder in Gill’s Hill Lane of a fellow-swindler, William Weare. He figures also in Hazlitt’s “Prize-fight,” and Sir Walter Scott visited the scene of Weare’s murder.