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of veneration wherever they went; but. their real 
disposition speedily betrayed itself; they proved a 
lawless gang of depredators, deceiving the credulous, 
plundering their benefactors, and rendering them- 
selyes obnoxious to all civilized nations, Every arm 
was lifted against them ; they were driven from place 
to place; and at length the very name of being 
a gypsey, was esteemed a crime deserving capital pu- 
nishment. It is not unlikely, that the severity of the 
enactments directed against them, had the effect of di- 
viding and spreading their hordes still farther, to avoid 
the penalties of a permanent.residence. But, the bar- 
barous and unsettled condition of the different Eur 
states, was a powerful obstacle to the establishment of a 
vigorous police ; and it is only in recent times, that the 
kingdoms, in which we dwell at, peace, have been freed _ 
from vagabonds and beggars, who, invading the cotta- 
ges of the peasantry, demanded alms in a manner that 
their inhabitants durst.not refuse. ; 
“have had 
GY P SLES. 
eing found in Scotland. Four gypsies named Faa, were. 
tik pat RIE I Ke oo peeing 
ission to remain. Two more of this name 
were tried in 1616 ; and in 1624, Captain John Faa, and 
igyptians, 
committed petty thefts. 
commuted to 
gradually disappearing from England, where they seem 
one 
British ste Gypsies’ are always included in the statutes re- residence of men who liye in a state of idleness cannot 
tutesre- — specting vagabonds ; and in the year 1531, they were be permanent: and. they, will either or their 
garding commanded at once to depart from England within six- habits. will be assimilated. to those around them, while 
steed teen days. The laws of Scotland exhibit repeated in- themselves are slowly absorbed in the great mass 
stances of the light in which they were subsequently, 
viewed; for an ordinance of the Privy Council of 1603, 
converted to a perpetual act in 1609, decreed, that the 
whole race should quit the kingdom under pain of 
death. Nevertheless they found means to evade com- 
pliance ; they continued roving about the country ; and, 
as is well known, one of them having seduced the affec- 
tions of a Countess of Cassilis from her husband, per- 
suaded her to elope with him. In the criminal records, 
several of the same name as this adventurer appear to 
have been brought to trial for petty. offences, and for 
on the Gypsies; Laborde’s, View of Spain ; Olivier 
Voyages, tom. ii. ; and Pottinger’s Zravels. See alse 
Free Masonry. @ ' 
GYPSUM. See Mineraroey. 
GYRATION, Centre or, See Mecnaicsi. 
