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The Life of George Borrow [218]

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it appears in The Bible in Spain, pages 1-3.

{154a} The Bible in Spain, pages 73-4.

{154b} Letter to the Rev. J. Jowett, 30th Nov. 1835.

{155a} Dr Knapp states that upon this expedition he was accompanied by Captain John Rowland Heyland of the 35th Regiment of Foot, whose acquaintance he had made on the voyage out.--Life of George Borrow, i., page 234.

{155b} Letter to Rev. J. Jowett, 30th Nov. 1835.

{155c} Letter to Rev. A. Brandram, 15th Dec. 1835.

{159a} Letter to Dr Bowring, 26th December 1835.

{159b} The Bible in Spain, page 67.

{159c} Dated 8th and 10th January 1836, giving an account of his journey to Evora.

{160a} The Bible in Spain, page 78.

{160b} The Bible in Spain, pages 77-8.

{161a} The Bible in Spain, page 87.

{161b} The Bible in Spain, page 88.

{162a} The Bible in Spain, page 99.

{162b} Lavengro, page 191.

{162c} The Bible in Spain, pages 97-8.

{162d} Not 5th Jan., as given in The Bible in Spain.

{162e} The Bible in Spain, page 103.

{164a} The Bible in Spain, Preface, page vi.

{164b} The Gypsies of Spain, page 179.

{164c} "Throughout my life the Gypsy race has always had a peculiar interest for me. Indeed I can remember no period when the mere mention of the name Gypsy did not awaken within me feelings hard to be described. I cannot account for this--I merely state it as a fact."--The Gypsies of Spain, page 1.

{165a} The Gypsies of Spain, pages 184-5.

{165b} The Gypsies of Spain, page 186.

{166a} The Bible in Spain, page 109.

{166b} Dr Knapp states that the wedding described in The Gypsies of Spain took place during these three days.--Life of George Borrow, by Dr Knapp, i., page 242.

{167a} The Bible in Spain, page 162.

{167b} "I am not partial to Madrid, its climate, or anything it can offer, if I except its unequalled gallery of pictures."--Letter to Rev. A. Brandram, 22nd March 1836.

{167c} 24th February 1836.

{167d} Letter to his mother, 24th February 1836.

{168a} Letter to his mother, 24th February 1836

{168b} Ibid.

{168c} Ibid.

{168d} Ibid.

{169a} The Bible in Spain, page 173.

{170a} Born 1790, commissariat contractor in 1808 during the French invasion, he was of great assistance to his country. In 1823 he fled from the despotism of Ferdinand VII.; he returned twelve years later as Minister of Finance under Toreno. He resigned in 1837, was again in power in 1841, and died in 1853.

{170b} George William Villiers, afterwards 4th Earl of Clarendon, born 12th Jan. 1800; created G.C.B., 19th Oct. 1837; succeeded his uncle as Earl of Clarendon, 1838; K.G., 1849. He twice refused a Marquisate, also the Governor-generalship of India. He refused the Order of the Black Eagle (Prussia) and the Legion of Honour. Lord Privy Seal, 1839-41; Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, 1840-1, 1864-5; Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, 1847-52. Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 1853-8, 1865-6, 1868-9. Died 27th June 1870.

{171a} The Bible in Spain, page 165.

{173a} Extracts accompanying letter to Rev. A. Brandram, 22nd March 1836.

{173b} Ibid.

{173c} Ibid.

{174a} Letter of 22nd March 1837.

{175a} Letter to Rev. A. Brandram, 22nd May 1836.

{175b} Letter to Rev. A. Brandram, 22nd May 1836.

{175c} Letter dated 6th April 1836.

{175d} Letter to Rev. A. Brandram, 20th April 1836.

{175e} Ibid.

{176a} Letter to Rev. A. Brandram, 20th April 1836.

{176b} Ibid. Borrow's destitution was entirely accidental, and immediately that his letter was received at Earl Street the sum of twenty-five pounds was forwarded to him.

{177a} Letter to Rev. A. Brandram, 20th April 1836.

{178a} Letter of 9th May 1836.

{178b} Letter to Rev. A. Brandram, 30th June 1836.

{178c} Ibid.

{178d} Ibid.

{179a} The Duke's secretary who had shown so profound a respect for the decrees of the Council of Trent.

{179b} Late of the Royal Navy, who for sheer love of the work distributed the Scriptures in Spain, and who later was to come into grave conflict
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