Transcribed from the 1831 edition , email
to which are added,
many interesting anecdotes,
on the
SUCCESS THAT HAS ATTENDED THE PLANS OF SEVERAL
BENEVOLENT INDIVIDUALS, WHO ANXIOUSLY
DESIRE THEIR CONVERSION TO GOD.
BY JAMES CRABB,
author of “the penitent magdalen.”
“The Son of Man is come to seek and to save that which is lost.”
“Let that mind be in you which was in Christ Jesus.”
LONDON:
seeley, fleet street; westley and davis, ave-maria-lane; hatchard, piccadilly; lindsay and co., south street, andrew street, edinburgh; collins, glasgow; wakeman, dublin, wilson and son, york.
1831.
p. iibaker and son, printers, southampton.
p. iiito
THE JUDGES, MAGISTRATES,
and
Ministers of Christ,
as the
ORGANS OF PUBLIC JUSTICE, AND REVEALED TRUTH,
THE GIPSIES’ ADVOCATE
is most
RESPECTFULLY AND SINCERELY DEDICATED
by
THE AUTHOR.
The Author of the following pages has been urged by numerous friends, and more particularly by his own conscience, to present to the Christian Public a brief account of the people called Gipsies, now wandering in Britain. This, to many readers, may appear inexpedient; as Grellman and Hoyland have written largely on this neglected part of the human family. But it should be recollected, that there are thousands of respectable and intelligent christians, who never have read, and never may read either of the above authors. The writer of the present work is partly indebted for the sympathies he feels, and which he wishes to awaken in others toward these miserable wanderers, to various authors who have written on them, but more particularly to p. viGrellman and Hoyland, who, in addition to the facts which came under their own immediate notice, have published the observations of travellers and others interested in the history of this people. A list of these authors may be seen in the Appendix.
But his knowledge of this people does not entirely depend on the testimony of others, having had the opportunity of closely examining for himself their habits and character in familiar visits to their tents, and by allowing his door to be free of access to all those encamped near Southampton, when they have needed his help and advice.