The Winchester Confessions 1615-1616 - PDF download

The Winchester Confessions 1615-1616
Depositions of travellers, Gypsies, fraudsters and makers of counterfeit documents, including a vocabulary of the Romany language

Transcribed and annotated by Alan McGowan

These depositions, taken from ‘Counterfeit Egyptians’ - aka Gypsies - and other Travellers held in Winchester House of Correction in 1615-1616, give a fascinating picture of the Travelling community of the Jacobean period. Also included are 100+ Romany words and phrases, the earliest known record of the language in Britain.

This is a PDF download scanned from a printed book originally published by the RTFHS in 1996. 36 pages.