ittle memorandum among my papers which bears Mrs. Borrow's signature
may well find place here:

In the year 1797 I was at Canterbury. One night at about one
o'clock Sir Robert Laurie and Captain Treve came to our
lodgings and tapped at our bedroom door, and told my husband to
get up, and get the men under arms without beat of drum as soon
as possible, for that there was a mutiny at the Nore. My
husband did so, and in less than two hours they had marched out
of town towards Sheerness without making any noise. They had to
break open the store-house in order to get provender, because
the Quartermaster, Serjeant Rowe, was out of the way. The
Dragoon Guards at that time at Canterbury were in a state of
mutiny.

ANN BORROW.

[Illustration: THE BORROW HOUSE, NORWICH

The house is situated in Borrow's Court, formerly King's Court, Willow
Lane, St. Giles's, Norwich, and here Borrow lived at intervals from 1816
to his marriage in 1839. His mother lived here for thirty-three years
until 1849; his father died here, and is buried in the neighbouring
churchyard of St. Giles's.]

FOOTNOTES:

[9] 24th May 1856. Dining at Mr. Rathbone's one evening last week (21st
May), it was mentioned that Borrow, author of _The Bible in Spain_, is
supposed to be of gypsy descent by the mother's side. Hereupon Mr.
Martineau mentioned that he had been a schoolfellow of Borrow, and
though he had never heard of his gypsy blood, he thought it probable,
from Borrow's traits of character. He said that Borrow had once run away
from school, and carried with him a party of other boys, meaning to lead
a wandering life (_The English Notebooks of Nathaniel Hawthorne_, vol.
ii. 1858).

[10] Samuel and Maria Perfrement were married in 1766, the latter to
John Burcham. Two of her brothers survived Ann Borrow, Samuel Perfrement
dying in 1864 and Philip in 1867.

[11] _Lavengro_, ch. xviii.

[12] _Lavengro_, ch. xxxvii.

[13] In May 1913 the Lord Mayor of Norwich (Mr. A. M. Samuel) purchased
the Borrow house in Willow Lane for L375, and gave it to the city for
the purpose of a Borrow Museum.

[14] This Thomas King was a cousin of my mother; his father built the
Borrow House in Norwich in 1812. The only allusion to him I have ever
seen in print is contained in a letter on _Lavengro_ contributed by
Thomas Burcham to _The Britannia_ newspaper of June 26, 1851:--'With
your criticism on _Lavengro