Historical and Legal Documents

1740 George II Act against rogues and vagabonds. Rare £18. Will be sent signed for. 
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1847 act publishing vagrants in Ireland.  Rare. £15. Will be sent signed for. 
1873 act to publish idle and disorderly vagrants.  Rare. £18. Will be sent signed for. 
George IV Vagrants Act 1821. Rare. £18. Will be sent signed for. 
1737 Plays Act 1937, amending the Act made in the reign of Queen Anne. Much to do with 'rogues and vagabonds.' Rare. £18. Will be sent signed for.
1713 Queen Anne Act against vagrants - Romanies not named but obviously included in the descriptions. Rare. £18. Will be sent signed for. ​
1706 Queen Anne Act against vagrants - Romanies not named but obviously included in the descriptions. Rare. £18. Will be sent signed for. ​
1698 Queen Anne Act against vagrants - Romanies not named but obviously included in the descriptions. Rare. £18. Will be sent signed for. 
Original fascinating document listing the cases at York Summer Assizes, July 1863. Several, possible Romanies in court but also some very interesting cases listed. See scans above for more detail.  The reason for thinking they;re Romani is that even for very minor offences they do not get bail yet some of the more serious defendants accused of crimes as serious as murder do! £35.
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Hawker License Law. Very rare original copy of an amendment to the law relating to hawkers' licences (and stamp duty) from  1859 requiring hawkers, pedlars etc to have a licence on which stamp duty must be paid.  Persons caught without a licence would be fined a quarter of the prosecution costs plus pay the costs. Bought for £85, reduced to £60.
Original extract from Century magazine of about 1890 about his visits to English Romanies in America. 8 pages and with 12 superb drawings by Jo Pennell. Unfortunately only one is named as a Lovell.  Rare. F condition. £20. 
Original copy of the Daily Graphic, 1890. Contains many woodcuts but one of GTs and a letter from George Smith of Coalville re Moveable Dwellings Act - fascinating. Back page almost detached otherwise VG for age. £16. 
Very rare copy of 'Vagrant Laws', returns under the vagrancy laws for England Wales for 1820-23.  Covers every county and is a treasury of names for the Romani/Traveller researcher and for the family history searcher. It's the names and 'crimes' of people committed to prison or house of correction under the vagrancy laws of that time. £75. 
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National Omnibus 1832 with review of the book 'Songs of the Gypsies', 1832, a very rare book indeed. £10.
Omnibus newspaper extract of c 1860  containing article about 'Gipsies'. £10.
Chambers Edinburgh Journal 1849 containing article about the Deccan Romanies. £10.
National Omnibus of March 1932 with review about the newly published ' Songs of the Gypsies.' Very rare book and this is a useful indicator of what the book is about. £10. 
A Peep behind the scenes. The engraved pictures from Mrs O.F. Walton's book from about 1875. 4 pictures in total, £4. 
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Esther Faa Blyth. Chambers Journal 1883 containing article  on Queen Esther Faa Blyth. (2 copies) £15.
Gipsies. Article in Chambers Journal Oct 1861, 'Gipsies'. £15. 
Fairs/Markets law. Copy of law from 1850 pertaining to markets and fairs and excepting 4 Sundays. £10. 
Petty Romany. Scarce original document on Petty Romani by Edward DJ Wilson. Covers early British Gypsy history and with little known detail. In 'Nineteenth Century Magazine' 1880. Scarce. £15. 
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