Dr.Jessopp opines that the _Romantic Ballads_ must have brought their translator 'a very respectable sum after paying all the expenses of publication.' I hope it was so, but, as Dr.Johnson once said about the immortality of the soul, I should like more evidence of it.

When Borrow left Norwich for London, it is hard to say.

It was after the death of his father, and was not likely to have been later than 1828.

His only introduction appears to have been one from William Taylor to Sir Richard Phillips, 'the publisher' known to all readers of _Lavengro_.

Sir Richard was one of the sheriffs of London and Middlesex, and in addition to sundry treatises on the duties of juries, was the author of two lucubrations, respectively entitled _The Phaenomena called by the name of Gravitation proved to be Proximate Effects of the Orbicular and Rotary Motions of the Earth and On the New Theory of the System of the Universe_.