I assume this as possible because Borrow misstates the age of his boy friend in _Lavengro_.

Ambrose was actually a year younger than Borrow, whereas when George was eight years of age he represents Ambrose as 'a lad of some twelve or thirteen years,' and he keeps up this illusion on more than one later occasion.
However, we may take it as almost certain that Borrow received his first impression of the gypsies in these early days at Norman Cross.
C.EDINBURGH AND DAVID HAGGART .-- Three years separated the sojourn of the Borrow family at Norman Cross from their sojourn in Edinburgh--three years of continuous wandering.

The West Norfolk Militia were watching the French prisoners at Norman Cross for fifteen months.

After that we have glimpses of them at Colchester, at East Dereham again, at Harwich, at Leicester, at Huddersfield, concerning which place Borrow incidentally in _Wild Wales_ writes of having been at school, in Sheffield, in Berwick-on-Tweed, and finally the family are in Edinburgh, where they arrive on 6th April 1813.

We have already referred to Borrow's presence at the High School of Edinburgh, the school sanctified by association with Walter Scott and so many of his illustrious fellow-countrymen.