Only 150 copies printed, for private distribution, at the expense of the editor, Sir Cuthbert Sharp.

*A Valuable Glossary of Ancient Durham Words will be found in The Charters of Endowment, Inventories, and Account Rolls of the Priory of Finchale;' edited by the Rev. JAMES RAINE. 8vo. Published by the Surtees Society, 1837.

Weardale Men and Manners, with Specimens of Dialects, by J. FEATHERSTON. With plates, 8vo. Durham, 1840.

*A Glossary of Provincial Words used in Teesdale, co. Durham. [By F. T. DINSDALE, LL.D., Leamington.] 12mo, pp. xv. and 151. London, J. R. Smith, 1849.

The author observes, at p. vii.—I must not omit to mention a MS. “Collection of Words used in the Bishoprick of Durham and some adjoining Counties," in the handwriting of Gray, the poet, which was recently purchased by Peter Cunningham, Esq. It contains 195 words, and was probably furnished to the poet by his friend Dr Warton. Ritson also appears to have made a collection of such words.'

The Song of Solomon in the Durham Dialect, as spoken at St. John's Chapel, Weardale. By THOMAS MOORE. 16mo. [London, 1859.]

Only 250 copies printed for H. H. Prince Louis Lucien Bonaparte.

See also the publications of the Surtees Society, several of which relate to the county of Durham.

East Anglia.—*The Vocabulary of East Anglia ; an attempt to record the vulgar tongue of the twin-sister counties, Norfolk and Suffolk, as it existed in the last twenty years of the eighteenth century, and still exists; with proof of its Antiquity from Etymology and Authority. By the late Rev. ROBERT FORBY, Rector of Fincham, Norfolk. 2 vols, post 8vo. Vols i. and ii., with a portrait, pp. 638. London, 1830.

A posthumous publication, edited by the Rev. Geo. Turner of Kettleburgh, with a memoir written by Dawson Turner, Esq. of Yarmouth. It contains a long and interesting Introduction on the Origin and Progress of Popular Language, with a particular view to that of East Anglia; also on the principal characteristics of East Anglian Pronunciation, and on the peculiarities of its Grammar; and an Appendix on the Popular Superstitions, Old Customs, and Proverbs of East Anglia.

An interleaved copy, with MS. additions by R. Bevan, of Bury, belonging to the London Philological Society (see Trans., 1845, ii. 189), has been lent to the E. D. S.

Another interleaved copy has also been lent, with MS. notes by Rev. E. S. Taylor and other.

The Vocabulary of East Anglia. By Rev. R. FORBY. Vol. iii. being a supplementary Volume. By the Rev. W. T. SPURDENS (1840). 12mo, pp. xiv. and 59. London, Nichols; Norwich, R. N. Bacon, 1858.

Printed after the author's death. Mr. Spurdens explains that he furnished Forby with a great part of the materials for his collection, and his remarks frequently furnish corrections fo Forby's book.

Norfolk words not in Forby's Glossary. See the Norfolk Archæologia, vol. v.; cf. vol. ii. p. 291.

Review of Forby's Glossary. See Gent. Maga. 1830, part i. p. 37.

Eastern England, from the Thames to the Humber. By WALTER WHITE, 2 vols, 8vo. London, Chapman and Hall, 1865.

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Contains a few notes on words used in Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, and Lincolnshire.

East Anglian, or Notes and Queries on Subjects connected with the Counties of Suffolk, Cambridge, Essex, and Norfolk, edited by Saml. Tymms. 3 vols, 8vo. 1858-69.

This publication has been since continued.

*Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft, a handbook for visitors, &c. With a history of the East Coast herring fishery; and an Etymological and Comparative Glossary of the Dialect of East Anglia. By J. G. NALL. Sm. 8vo; pp. 728. London, Longman and Co., 1866. [The dissertation on the dialect occupies pp. 422-504; the Glossary, pp. 505—698.] Essex. Vocabulary of the Essex Dialect, by Dan. Copsey; communicated to the Monthly Magazine, July 1, 1814; pp. 498-9; cf. p. 31. Additions to the same, by H. Narbal, appeared in the Monthly Magazine, March 1, 1815, p. 125.

Tiptree Fair in 1844, a curious specimen of the 'unlettered muse'. By J. B. H.' 8vo. Tiptree Heath (at Charles Clark's private press), 1848.

*John Noakes and Mary Stiles; or an Essex Calf's' visit to Tiptree Races; a Poem, exhibiting some of the most striking lingual localisms peculiar to Essex; with a Glossary. By CHARLES CLARK, Esq. of Great Totham Hall, Essex. 12mo, and also printed in post 8vo, pp. 48. London, J. R. Smith, 1839. [The Glossary occupies pp. 34-48.] *A Glossary of Provincial Words used in the County of Essex. 12mo, pp. 14. London, J. Gray Bell, 1851.

*Essay on the 'East-Saxon Dialect.' By the Rev. J. M. JEPHSON, M.A., F.S.A. See The Proceedings of the Essex Archæological Society (pr. at Colchester), vol. ii. (1863); the Essay begins at p. 173, and is followed by a Glossary of Essex Words, pp. 183-188.

See also Tusser's Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. Tusser was an Essex man, and uses many provincial terms.

It may be remarked that Ray's Glossary contains a considerable number of Essex words. Ray was born in the neighbourhood of Braintree.

Gloucestershire. The Rural Economy of Gloucestershire. By Mr MARSHALL. 2 vols, 8vo. First edition; London, 1789.

Second edition; Ib., G. Nicol, 1796.

See Vol. i., pp. 323-332, for Provincialisms of the Vale of Glocester.' The E. D. S. has reprinted these in Gloss. B. 4.

Abstracts of Records and Manuscripts respecting the County of Gloucester. By T. D. FOSBROOKE.

2 vols, 4to. Gloucester 1817.

Vol. i., pp. 132-5, contains remarks on the Provincial Proverbs, Dialect, &c.; the latter is illustrated by a Song, entitled 'George Ridler's Oven, a right famous old Gloucestershire Ballad.' Another version of this Ballad is given in The Scouring of the White Horse,' by T. Hughes. Sec Berkshire.

A Glossary of Provincial Words used in Gloucestershire; with proverbs current in that County. 12mo, pp. 14. London, J. Gray Bell,

1851.

Will shortly be reprinted for the E. D. S.

Our Vulgar Tongue. A Lecture on Language in general, with a few words on Gloucestershire in particular; delivered before the Literary and Scientific Association at Gloucester, Jan. 17, 1868... By the Rev. S. LYSONS, M.A., F.S.A. 8vo. pp. 51; with Tables, and an Appendix of 62 pages. London, Trübner, 1868.

*A Glossary of the Cotswold (Gloucestershire) Dialect. Illustrated by Examples from Ancient Authors. By the late Rev. R. WEBSTER HUNTLEY, A.M. of Boxwell Court, Gloucestershire. Crown 8vo, pp. 71. London, J. R. Smith; Gloucester, E. Nest, Westgate Street, [1868]. 220 Illustrations of Gloucestershire Dialect, compiled by F. G. BAYLIS. 12mo, 1870.

A Glosterzhur zong on the. Kerlock. [By PROFESSOR BUCKMAN.] A single sheet.

Hampshire.-MS. List of Words used in the neighbourhood of Alresford, Hants. By Rev. B. BELCHER. See Phil. Soc. Trans., 1845, ii. 109.

On application to the Secretary of the Philological Society, it appears that this collection has long been lost.

School-life at Winchester College; with a Glossary of words, &c., peculiar to Winchester College. By R. B. MANSFIELD]. Cr. 8vo, pp. 243, 2nd ed. London, J. C. Hotten, 1870. [The Glossary contains a few words that are really provincial, the rest being school slang.] *The New Forest; its history and its scenery. By J. R. WISE. 4to, pp. viii. and 336. London, Smith, Elder, and Co., 1871.

There is a Glossary of words used in the New Forest, at pp. 279-288; and other provincial words occur in the text. The publishers have kindly given leave to the E.D. S. to reprint these in the Glossary of Hampshire words which is being prepared for the Society by the Rev. W. W. Skeat.

A list of Hampshire words was printed at pp. 37, 38 of vol. iv. of Warner's Collections for Hampshire. 6 vols, 4to. London, 1795.

These are simply collected and copied from Grose's Provincial Glossary. A list of Hampshire words was also printed at p. 481 of Wheeler's Hampshire Magazine for 1828. After considerable trouble, it was discovered to be the very same list.

At p. 137 of the same Magazine is a Dialogue between a lawyer and his client. The client's talk is perhaps intended to represent the Hampshire dialect; but it is short and not remarkable. See also Notes and Queries, 1st Series, vol. x. pp. 120 and 256; 2nd S., xii, 493; 3rd S., i. 66.

*MS. Glossary of Hampshire words. By SIR F. MADDEN.

This autograph MS. has been purchased for the E. D. S. and has been transcribed for press by the Rev. W. W. Skeat.

*MS. Glossary of Words used in the Isle of Wight. To be edited, with additions, by C. Roach Smith, Esq. (brother of the compiler), for the E. D. S.

Herefordshire.-Collections towards the History and Antiquities of the County of Hereford. By JOHN DUNCUMB, A.M. 2 vols, 4to. Hereford, 1804-12.

See vol. i. pp. 212-215, for a list of provincial words and phrases. This list has been reprinted for the E. D. S. as Gloss. B. 12.

*A Glossary of Provincial Words used in Herefordshire and some of the adjoining counties. [By SIR G. C. LEWIS.] 12mo, pp. xii. and 132. London, J. Murray, 1839.

Kent. RAVENSCROFT'S Melismata, Musicall Phancies fitting the Court, Citie, and Country Humours. 4to. London, 1611, contains a wooing song in the Kentish Dialect, No. 22.

*MS. Glossary of 'Kenticisms.' By the Rev. SAMUEL PEGGE. Written in 1735.

This important collection, containing over 600 words, has been purchased for the E. D. S., and was printed in 1874 for the Kent Archæological Society, and will be reprinted for the E. D. S. It is followed by a collection of over

70 Kentish Proverbs.

*History and Antiquities of the Isle of Tenet (Thanet) in Kent. By the Rev. JOHN LEWIS. 2nd ed. 4to. London, 1736.

Contains a short Glossary of Kentish words, which has been reprinted for the E. D. S. as Gloss. B. 11.

Kentish Tales in Verse and other humorous poems, with Notes historical, wittical, critical, wag and pragmatical. By the late EDWARD NAIRNE. Second edition. 12mo, pp. 102. Sandgate, Purday & Sons [1824].

Contains a tale entitled 'Dame Hobday', partly in the Kentish Dialect. Dick and Sal; or Jack and Joan's Fair: A doggerel poem. Fourth edition, pp. 23. Dover; Rigden, n. d. [In the Kentish Dialect. See Notes & Queries, 4th S., vi. 17.]

Some copies of the fourth edition are dated Canterbury, 1830. There was also a fifth edition, undated. The date of the third edition is 1830.

The Dialect of Kent in the fourteenth Century. By RICHARD MORRIS, Esq. 8vo, pp. 24. Archæologia Cantiana. Vol. vi., 1866. (Reprint.) MS. list of Provincialisms of East Kent. By E. SANDYS, Esq. See Phil. Soc. Trans., 1845, ii. 109.

It appears that this collection has been long lost.

It was announced in Mr Russell Smith's Bibliographical List that 'Clement T. Smythe, Esq., of Maidstone, is preparing a Glossary of this County.' It never appeared.

Lambarde's Perambulation of the County of Kent (often reprinted) contains several useful hints. Other useful books are Somner's Forts and Ports; Somner's Antiquities of Canterbury; and Plot's History of Staffordshire, the author of which was a Kentish man.

Boys' History of Sandwich contains a few Kentish words. See the Addenda.

The best example of Kentish is The Ayenbite of Inwyt', or Remorse of Conscience, written by Dan Michel of Northgate, A.D. 1340. The best edition of this treatise is that by Dr Morris, published for the Early English Text Society, 1866. See also the Poems of William of Shoreham, edited by T. Wright for the Percy Society in 1849. Also, the Old Kentish Sermons in An old English Miscellany' (pp. 26-36), edited by Dr Morris for the E. E. T. S. in 1872.

In Notes and Queries, 1st Ser. i. 247, 339, there is mention of a Kentish ballad by Tom Durfey.

Lancashire. The following excellent account of the literature of this county is reprinted (with additions) from 'The Literature of the Lancashire Dialect. A Bibliographical Essay. By WILLIAM E, A. AXON, F.R.S.L. London, Trübner & Co., 1870'-a pamphlet of 24 pages. The additions are also chiefly contributed by Mr Axon, who has revised the whole with great care for the English Dialect Society. We are also indebted, for some suggestions, to Mr J. P. Morris. The Preface to Mr Axon's Essay is here reprinted below :

'None of our provincial dialects can boast of a literature so rich and extensive as that of Lancashire. The oldest known ballad it possesses dates from about the year 1548, and is entitled Warriken Fair. From that time to the publication of John Collier's "Lancashire Dialect Illustrated," in 1746, there is little of importance; but since that time to the present day there has been an unbroken succession of writers who have illustrated the quaint and strong folkspeech of the county of the Red Rose. Whoso desires to become thoroughly acquainted with the genius and manners of the Lancashire people must study the writings of Collier, of Robert Walker, of the Wilsons, and, in our own day, of Waugh, Brierley, and their fellowlabourers. The popularity of Mr Waugh's writings, particularly of his now famous lyric, "Come whoam to thy childher an' me," has given a new impetus to this local literature, and almost each day witnesses some addition to it. The present is the first attempt to register the literature of the Lancashire dialect, and, like all first attempts, it is doubtless imperfect, although, as will be seen, the list is a long one. Such as it is, it has cost the compiler much trouble, and he will gratefully receive any communications which will make it more complete. It is offered only as a bibliographical essay, and this will also explain why no philological remarks are given on the characteristics of the dialect. The question of a provincial glossary is now being discussed, and we have sanguine hopes that the work will be accomplished. Along with the glossary, however, we want a bibliography of dialectical literature, and specimens accurately transcribed into the only alphabet yet devised for their scientific notation -we mean the Glossic of Mr Alexander J. Ellis, F.R.S. If Mr Aldis Wright and his coadjutors will perform this labour, they will earn the gratitude of all those who love our noble English tongue, and