A Historical Survey of the Customs, Habits, & Present State of the Gypsies

John Hoyland (1750-1831), writer on the Gypsies, was variously designated as 'of Sheffield, Yorkshire', and as 'formerly of York'. It was, however, in the counties of Northampton, Bedford, and Hertford that he had opportunity to observe the condition of the Gipsy race, whom he began to study in the summer of 1814.