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.

  • Hoyland, John, 1750-1831.
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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    fri may afford a criterion by which to judge if they hare all had one orig’n. By thus tracing them to that source, we may possibly discover the occasion of their peculiarities; and if the means hitherto employed to counteract them, have proved unsuccessful, we may he prepared to consider of others, better adapted to correct the errors of their education. Conceiving that any scheme for ameliorating the condition of the Gypsies, would not only be premature, but might prove highly injudicious, before obtaining a knowledge of their history, the author has endeavoured to collect, from the most authentic European autho- rities to which he could have access, a general view of this people, in the different parts of the world to which they have resorted ; and from these and the other sources of information, he has subjoined accounts of their state in Great Britain, and of the suggestions offered by other individuals for their improvement; concluding the subject with a review of tbe whole, and proposing a plan to be set ou foot for accomplishing this desirable object.