squire turned gypsy_.

JASPER PETULENGRO, _a Romany kral or tribal chief_, _horse-dealer and
blacksmith_ (petulengro=_lord of the horseshoe_). "_The Gypsy_."

FRASER, _a popish emissary or propagandist_, _known as the_ "_man in
black_." "_The Priest_."

TAWNO CHIKNO, _the little one_, _so called on account of his immense
size_; _the_ "_Antinous of the dusky people_;" _a great horseman and_
JASPER'S _brother-in-law_.

SYLVESTER, _another brother-in-law_, _an ill-conditioned fellow_, "_the
Lazarus of the Romany tribe_."

BLACK _or_ BLAZING JOHN BOSVILLE (_Anselo Herne_), "_the flaming tinman_"
_a_ "_half-in-half_" _itinerant tinker and bruiser_.

CATCHPOLE, _the landlord of a small inn_, _two miles from the Dingle_,
_and not far from Willenhall in Staffordshire_.

MR. HUNTER, _a radical_, _who wears a snuff-coloured coat and frequents
the inn above named_.

_A postilion_, _whose headquarters are The Swan_, _Stafford_.



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