[4a] Lavengro, page 2. References to Borrow’s works throughout this volume are to the Standard Edition, published by John Murray.
[4b] Ann, the third of eight children born to Samuel Perfrement and Mary his wife, 23rd January 1772.
[4c] Locally, the name is pronounced “Parfrement.” This is quite in accordance with the Norfolk dialect, which changes “e” into “a.” Thus “Ernest” becomes “Arnest”; “Earlham,” “Arlham”; “Erpingham,” “Arpingham,” and so on. In Norfolk there are grave peculiarities of pronunciation, which have caused many a stranger to wish that he had never enquired his way, so puzzling are the replies hurled at him in an incomprehensible vernacular.
[5] Married the Rev. Wm. Holland, rector of Walmer and afterwards rector of Brasted, Kent.
[6a] Lavengro, page 5.
[6b] Lavengro, page 5.
[7a] George in honour of the King, it is said, and Henry after his father’s eldest brother.
[7b] Lavengro, page 6.
[7c] Lavengro, page 6.
[7d] Lavengro, page 6.