In the seventeenth century they had four principal points of rendezvous: one in Spain--the pass of Pancorbo; one in Germany--the glade called the Wicked Woman, near Diekirsch, where there are two enigmatic bas-reliefs, representing a woman with a head and a man without one; one in France--the hill where was the colossal statue of Massue-la-Promesse in the old sacred wood of Borvo Tomona, near Bourbonne les Bains; one in England--behind the garden wall of William Challoner, Squire of Gisborough in Cleveland, Yorkshire, behind the square tower and the great wing which is entered by an arched door.
VI.
The laws against vagabonds have always been very rigorous in England.
England, in her Gothic legislation, seemed to be inspired with this principle, _Homo errans fera errante pejor_.

One of the special statutes classifies the man without a home as "more dangerous than the asp, dragon, lynx, or basilisk" (_atrocior aspide, dracone, lynce, et basilico_).

For a long time England troubled herself as much concerning the gipsies, of whom she wished to be rid as about the wolves of which she had been cleared.

In that the Englishman differed from the Irishman, who prayed to the saints for the health of the wolf, and called him "my godfather." English law, nevertheless, in the same way as (we have just seen) it tolerated the wolf, tamed, domesticated, and become in some sort a dog, tolerated the regular vagabond, become in some sort a subject.

It did not trouble itself about either the mountebank or the travelling barber, or the quack doctor, or the peddler, or the open-air scholar, as long as they had a trade to live by.