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
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
See Disquisition on the Gipsies
418-425
Meeting between English and American Gipsies, in Maryland
430
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
The profession of, 56, zeal in the calling of
ARABS.
English Gipsies say they are a cross between Arabs and Egyptians
14, 467
How Arabs protect shipwrecked Christians
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
His plan for improving the Gipsies
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
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
Chase after John Young, a Gipsy, resembling a fox hunt
The unabashed hardihood of Gipsies under suspicion
Old Will of Phaup’s five years’ warfare with the Gipsies
Assault of the Gipsies on Pennicuik House
The slaughter of William Baillie, a Gipsy chief
206
How the Gipsies acquired a foothold in Yetholm
Will Faa’s twenty-four children, and pompous christenings
The language spoken by the Gipsies in the Highlands
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
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
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”
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
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
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
BORROW, GEORGE.
His publications on the Gipsies, since this work was written
6, 64
In error on the subject of Gipsies stealing children
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
Spanish Gipsy counts, n107, 397, n468—Act of Charles II. against Spaniards, for protecting the Gipsies
Gipsies poison swine, and eat their flesh
English Gipsy surnames—Travelling Gipsies have two names
The character of Spanish Gipsy women
On the Law of Charles III., ameliorating the condition of the Spanish Gipsies
Meeting between a French and Spanish Gipsy, in the heat of a battle
On the education of the Spanish Gipsies
Religion among the Moscow Gipsies—He preaches to the tribe in Spain
Shuffling of the Gipsies regarding marriage with ordinary natives
Characters in Lavengro and the Romany Rye
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
On the hatred entertained by the Gipsies for other people
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
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
The difficulties in acquiring the Gipsy language
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
Method of selling cargoes, at Jedda, to the Turks
His discoveries discredited
537
BUNSEN, CHEVALIER, ON SOUND JUDGMENT AND SHALLOW MINDS
BUNYAN, JOHN.
His family history illustrated by the author’s visit to a Gipsy, met with at St. Boswell’s
309
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”
He alludes to the Falls, of Dunbar, in his tour
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.
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.
CHAMBERS’ JOURNAL—On the disappearance of the Gipsies
CHAMBERS’ MISCELLANY—An account of Peter Young, a Gipsy
CHILD STEALING BY THE GIPSIES
CHURCH OF SCOTLAND.
Mission among the Scottish Gipsies
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
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
401
COLLIERS, SCOTCH, SLAVES
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
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
Remarks on the slavery of these Gipsies—Gipsies as spies, in the late Russian war
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
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
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
DISGUISES OF THE GIPSIES
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
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
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
Little difference if the father is a native—Town Gipsies visit the tent in their youth
Fair-haired Gipsies, 381—They are superior to the others—the two kinds will readily marry
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
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
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
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
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
The Gipsies proud of their ancestors, though thieves and robbers
409
Border and Highland thieves and robbers, 409—Sir Walter Scott’s ancestors
Gipsy and Highland thieving—The McGregors and the Gipsies
411
Fitz-James’ address to Roderick Dhu, in the “Lady of the Lake”
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
Scottish vagabonds, noticed by Fletcher of Saltoun, in 1680, were doubtless Gipsies
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”
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
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
Respectable Scottish Gipsies, and the Gipsy language: “Are ye a’ Tinklers?”
432
The Gipsy language in America—In Spain
The number of words sufficient for every-day use in any language
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
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
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
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,
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
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
The Jews are not apt to notice the present work
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE.
The number of words sufficient for every-day use, in any language
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
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
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
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
Mr. Borrow’s description of the English Gipsies, and the English dialect spoken by them
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
FARMERS.
Their property protected by the Gipsies
47, 363, 434
How they sometimes treat the Gipsies
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”
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
He is nearly frightened out of his wits, under very ludicrous circumstances
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
The unabashed hardihood of Gipsies in the face of suspicion
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
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
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
Gipsy Dances—Charles Stewart, 179—George Drummond—Gipsy dance at Moscow
180
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.)
FLETCHER OF SALTOUN on Scottish vagabonds, in 1680
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
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
GORDON, THE DUCHESS OF, saves two Gipsies from the gallows
470
GOVERNMENT AMONG THE GIPSIES
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
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
Gipsies under and after punishment
The habit of Gipsy women after childbirth
Gipsy working in iron—Gipsy smiths in Hungary
The Gipsies will eat of any animal but a horse
The secrecy of the Gipsies in the matter of their language
The Gipsy language unintelligible to the common natives
On the education of Hungarian Gipsies
The origin of the idea that the Gipsies came from India
329
On the variations in the Gipsy language in different countries
How the Gipsies resist the extremes of the weather
The circumstances under which Gipsy women are confined
The physical properties of the Gipsy race
On the colour and appearance of Gipsies who change their habits
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
He mentions the execution of thirteen Gipsies, at the Suffolk assizes
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
HOYLAND, JOHN.
The religious character of the Gipsies
73
Baillie Smith, of Kelso—Report on the Yetholm Gipsies
245
The difficulty in Gipsies acquiring settled habits
Mr. George Offor says he was led captive by a Gipsy girl
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
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
Marriage customs among the Russians, and Christians of Mesopotamia and Chaldea
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
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
They change their names in various countries
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
They dedicated horses to the sun, in the time of Josiah
Hindoo sacrifice of the horse and the scape-goat in Leviticus compared
279
The language of the Jews during the seventy years’ captivity
Neglect of women among Jews—A Jew’s morning prayer
Jews and Gipsies compared in a sermon by Mr. Borrow
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
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
The Gipsies have excellent memories, but shuffle when bored by people of whom they expect money
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
The Scottish peasantry, in some places, do not greatly despise the Gipsies
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
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
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”
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
Sir Walter Scott interested in the Gipsies—He is afraid they might injure his plantations
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
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
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
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”
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?”
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?”
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
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
The Sclavonic in the Gipsy language—Variations in the Gipsy of different countries
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
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
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
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
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
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
The Scottish Gipsy marriage ceremony described
260-263
Singular marriage customs among other tribes—“Hand-fasting” among Scottish Highland chiefs
Recent instances of Scottish Gipsy marriages, 263—A Gipsy on the Presbyterian form of marriage
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
The Gipsy priest given to good ale, and chastising his tribe without mercy
266
MILLER, HUGH, on the slavery of Scotch colliers and salters
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
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
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
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
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
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
The Gipsies prefer self-mutilation to impressment
345
Sir Walter Scott meets a Prussian Gipsy soldier, a sentinel in Paris
The Gipsies accept the bounty and desert—Burns’ “Jolly Beggars:” “My bonny lass, I work in brass.”
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
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
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
Irish Gipsy mechanics in Edinburgh, England, and the Untied States
358
The Gipsies charged with cowardice—The Scottish Gipsies make excellent soldiers
359
An interesting meeting between a French and Spanish Gipsy, in the heat of a battle
Supposed danger from Gipsies in time of war equally applicable to Jews and Freemasons
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
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
Neglect of females among the Jews—A Jew’s morning prayer
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
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
The civilization and improvement of the Gipsies—An Hungarian nobleman’s opinion
367
The restless nature of the Gipsies—How it is manifested
The language of the Gipsies should be published, and the tribe encouraged to speak it openly
369
The difficulty in distinguishing some of the tribe from common natives
The Gipsies marry among themselves, like the Jews, and “stick to each other.”
369
PRINCIPAL GIPSY FAMILIES IN SCOTLAND.
Faw
Baillie
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
PYRENEES, The Gipsies of the, resemble the inferior class of Scottish Gipsies
86
QUAKERS.
Gipsy-Quakers, or Quaker-Gipsies
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
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
“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
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
In a letter to Captain Adam Ferguson, he alludes to the trial of Kennedy, a tinker
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
He causes his eldest daughter to sing “Hughie the Græme” to the author
He is interested in the Gipsies, but afraid they might injure his plantations
A list of Gipsy words sent to him for inspection
59, 334
He meets a Prussian Gipsy soldier, in Paris
Feudal robbers—Extract from his life by Lockhart
Highland robbers—Fitz-James and Roderick Dhu, in the “Lady of the Lake,”
On the disappearance of the Scottish Gipsies
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
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
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
The Gipsies insult James V., and, for that reason, are ordered to leave Scotland, in 1541
104
Faw’s diplomacy on the occasion
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
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
Origin of the slavery in Scotland which was abolished during last century
Gipsies now colliers in the Lothians
Fletcher of Saltoun’s estimate of the beggars and vagabonds in Scotland, in 1680
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
Gipsy policy and cunning—Modifications of the term Gitano
Great outward change in the Gipsies at that time—Surnames and general policy
116
English and German Gipsy and Jewish surnames
The Gipsies claim bastard kindred with the Scottish aristocracy and gentry
117
They have a profound regard for aristocracy
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
SHEPHERD KINGS, Gipsies probably the descendants of the
20, 415
SHERIFFS OF SCOTLAND, their reports on the Gipsies in Scotland
SKENE, WM. F.
“Hand-fasting,” previous to marriage, practised among Scottish Highland chiefs
The plundering principles and habits of Scottish Highlanders
410
SLANG, in connexion with the Gipsy language
SLAVES, the religion of
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
SOLDIERS, Gipsies as
SOUTHEY, ROBERT.
He says Bunyan was bred to the business of a brazier
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
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
STEALING AMONG THE GIPSIES
SURNAMES AMONG THE GIPSIES
THIMBLE-RIGGERS AND THIMBLE-RIGGING
319-325
TIMOUR’S CRUELTIES on over-running India
38
TITLES AMONG THE GIPSIES
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
Braxy—Mr. Borrow on the Gipsies poisoning and eating swine
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
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
Female Gipsies fight as well as males—‘Becca Keith, the heroine of Dumblane
194
The trifling occasions of Gipsies fighting, and agreeing among themselves
The fencibles and the clergy called out to quell and disperse the Gipsies
Assault of the Gipsies on Pennicuik House
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
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
In indulging his sarcastic wit, Baillie insults the judge on the bench
203
The deportment of Hungarian Gipsies during and after punishment
Baillie’s numerous crimes and sentences
204
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
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
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
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
Mary Yorkston and her “boontith,” 227—Her terrible prediction
228
Recent instances of “sorning,” or masterful begging, among the Scottish Gipsies
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
Fortune-telling punishable by Act of Parliament
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
VIDOCQ.
On the disguises and plundering habits of the Continental Gipsies
WILKINSON, SIR J. GARDNER.
Thimble-rigging among the ancient Egyptians
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
The Gipsies of Yetholm—Baillie Smith’s account, 245—Mr. Blackwood’s contribution
251
Tradition of the first settlement of the Gipsies at Yetholm
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