The Gipsies' Advocate or Observations on the Origin, Character, Manners, and Habits of English Gipsies

First published in 1831. To which are added many interesting anecdotes on the success that has attended he plans of several benevolent individuals, who anxiously desire their conversion to God. According to the Preface: 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;...
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First published in 1831. To which are added many interesting anecdotes on the success that has attended he plans of several benevolent individuals, who anxiously desire their conversion to God. According to the Preface: 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 Grellman 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.