I should have hesitated to include John Thurtell among the subscribers, as he was hanged two years before the book was published, had I not the high authority of Mr.Walter Rye, but recently Mayor of Norwich, and the honoured author of a _History of Norfolk Families_ and other works.

Mr.
Rye, to whom I owe much of the information concerning the Thurtells published here, tells me that there was only this one, 'J.

Thurtell.' Borrow had doubtless been appealing for subscribers for a very long time.

I cannot, however, accept Mr.Rye's suggestion to me that Borrow left Norwich because he was mixed up with Thurtell in ultra-Whig or Radical scrapes, the intimidation and 'cooping' of Tory voters being a characteristic of the elections of that day with the wilder spirits, of whom Thurtell was doubtless one.

Borrow's sympathies were with the Tory party from his childhood up--following his father.
[72] _The Fatal Effects of Gambling Exemplified in the Murder of Wm.
Weare and the Trial and Fate of John Thurtell, the Murderer, and his Accomplices_.