[420a] Wild Wales, page 150.
[420b] These carvels were written by such young people as thought themselves “endowed with the poetic gift, to compose carols some time before Christmas, and to recite them in the parish churches. Those pieces which were approved of by the clergy were subsequently chanted by their authors through their immediate neighbourhoods.” (Introduction to Bayr Jairgey, Borrow’s projected book on the Isle of Man.)
[422] Painted by H. W. Phillips in 1843.
[423a] Vestiges of Borrow: Some Personal Reminiscences. The Globe, 21st July 1896.
[423b] The Anglo-Saxon scholar (1795–1857), who though paralysed during the whole of her life visited Rome, Athens and other places. She was the first woman elected a member of the British Association.
[423c] To judge from Borrow’s opinion of O’Connell previously quoted, “notoriety” would have been a more appropriate word in his case.
[424] Given to the Rev. A. W. Upcher and related by him in The Athenæum, 22nd July 1893.
[425a] Lavengro, page 361.
[425b] The Romany Rye, page 309.
[425c] Wild Wales, page 285.