A historical survey of the customs, habits, and present state of the Gypsies; designed to develope the origin of this singular people, and to promote the amelioration of their condition / By John Hoyland.

  • John Hoyland
Date:
1816
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A historical survey of the customs, habits, and present state of the Gypsies; designed to develope the origin of this singular people, and to promote the amelioration of their condition / By John Hoyland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    knowledginent, “ Jar tee are unable to help ourselves and certainly there is hut too much reason to conclude it is strictly true, respecting the instruction of this forlorn and destitute race, According k> the enumeration of Gypsey lodgers, given in Section X, their families ave- rage 52 in number. This exceeds by one half, what is reported to be the average of England in general. If we take Gypsey population at 18,000, their children will be 12,000. Sup- posing two-thirds of these to be under twelve years of age, there would be 8,000 to educate. Beckoning half that number to be girls, 4,000 boys would be to be apprenticed after leaving school. And if these, after their apprentice- ship, married Gypsey girls, who had been brought up to service in families, twenty thou- sand useful subjects might be calculated upon, as gained to the State in the first generation. Should the efforts of individuals, require assistance from the State, to render their plans effectual; surely they may depend on the co- operation of a British legislature, to promote tire
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