Gentleman's Magazine. Vocabulary of the Lancashire Dialect in the Ghost of Owd Clock Case. [By JOHN SCHOLES.] Anonymous. Ghost of Tim Bobbin. [By GEORGE RICHARDSON.] Anonymous. Go tak thi Ragg'd Childer an' Flit. [By BENJAMIN BRIERLEY.] Anonymous. Go Whoam, an' Bhoyle the Yed. Manchester. Broadside. GREGSON (J. S.). Museum Chethamiense; or, a Choice Oratorical Catalogue of the rare and valuable Curiosities contained in the College Library, Manchester. Now first printed and published for the purpose of enabling purchasers to examine this truly noble collection at their leisure, and at the same time to put into their possession that unique rhetorical description which has been in use for a series of years, and which so greatly forwards the studies of those who visit the Reading Room. Manchester: printed and published by J. Pratt, Bridge-Street, 1827. 8vo, pp. 4. This amusing tract is a faithful report of the running commentary (in broad Lancashire) delivered by the Chetham Hospital Blue-coat boy in showing round country visitors. It was written by J. S. Gregson, the bookseller, better known by the name under which he published two rare vols.-Geoffrey Gimcrack, author of the Gimcrackiana and of the Code of Common Sense. The third edition of the catalogue was issued without date, but in 1828 with a slightly different title. HADFIELD (H. H.). Th' Triumph o' Pride; or, Th' History of Jim Boardman and Alise Sidewell, afore un aftur theyr'n wed, i' two parts an' a bit. To which is added an Appendix, wi' two letters in it: One fro' Alise, written i' th' Warkheawse to Jim, un t'uther fro' Jim, written fro' Lancaster Jail to Alise. By Tummus Yellond, commonly known by th' name o' 'Yellond o' th' Nook' an' th' author o' mony a score o' things which han nevur bin publisht, an' may be, nevur will. Manchester, [1860]. 8vo, pp. 30. Anonymous. HALLIWELL (J. O., F.R.S., etc.). A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, and Ancient Customs, from the Fourteenth Century. Second Edition. London, 1850. 8vo, 2 vols. Includes as specimens of the Lancashire Dialect: 1. Extract from Tim Bobbin. 2. A letter printed and distributed in the procession that was formed at Manchester in commemoration of free trade, signed Bury Muff. 3. A Lancashire Ballad (Warriken Fair). Palatine Anthology; a Collection of Ancient Poems and Ballads, relating to Lancashire and Cheshire. Edited by JAMES ORCHARD HALLIWELL, Esq., F.R.S. London, for Private Circulation only, 1850. 4to, pp. 284. Palatine Garland: being a Selection of Ballads and Fragments Supplementary to the Palatine Anthology. London, 1850. pp. 104. 4to, The Poetry of Witchcraft illustrated by copies of the Plays on the Lancashire Witches by Heywood and Shadwell. Reprinted under the direction of JAMES O. HALLIWELL, Esq., F.R.S., &c. Brixton Hill: printed for private circulation only. 1853. 4to, pp. 239. There are various editions of these plays. Thomas Shadwell's appeared first in 1682; Thomas Heywood and Richard Broome printed theirs in 1634. HARDWICK (C.). See Country Words. HARLAND (JOHN). The Ballads and Songs of Lancashire, chiefly older than the nineteenth century. Collected, Compiled, and Edited, with notes, by JOHN HARLAND, F.S.A. London, 1865. 8vo, pp. xvi. 281. 58., on toned paper, in cloth. Lancashire Folk-Lore: illustrative of the superstitious beliefs and practices, local customs and usages of the people of the County Palatine. Compiled and edited by JOHN HARLAND, F.S.A., and T. T. WILKINSON, F.R.A.S. London, 1867. 8vo, pp. xii. 308. Contains occasional illustrations of the dialect. Lancashire Lyrics: Modern Songs and Ballads of the County Palatine. Edited by JOHN HARLAND, F.S.A. London, 1866. 8vo, pp. xiv. 320. An Essay on Songs and Ballads illustrated by Examples from Shakespeare and those current in Lancashire. By the late JOHN HARLAND, F.S.A., and T. T. WILKINSON, F.R.A.S. Liverpool: 1871. pp. 34. From the Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire. Lancashire Legends, Traditions, Pageants, Sports, &c. With an appendix containing a rare tract on the Lancashire Witches, &c. &c. By JOHN HARLAND, F.S.A., and T. T. WILKINSON, F.R.A.S., &c. London [Edinburgh printed] 1873. 8vo, pp. xxxv. 283. With a portrait of John Harland and a memoir. Besides many incidental illustrations of the dialect in this book, there is at p. 181 a collection of 'popular rhymes, proverbs, sayings, and similes.' Ballads and Songs of Lancashire, collected by JOHN HARLAND, F.S.A. Second Edition. Revised and enlarged by T. T. WILKINSON, F.R.A.S. London: George Routledge and Sons, and L. C. Gent. 1875. Price 78. 6d. HARLAND (J.). See also under County Words. HARRISON (J.). Leatherhead Tea. Manchester. Broadside. Haunted Bridge. [By WILLIAM E. A. AXON and WILLIAM ROBERT CREDLAND.] Anonymous. HAWCROFT (J. M.). See HEYWOOD (A.). HAWS (T.). Specimen of the Lancashire Dialect with a list of Words by THOMAS HAWS in Monthly Magazine. March 1, 1815, p. 127. HEYWOOD (ABEL). Abel Heywood's Christmas Budget. Mr series of tales and songs for the merry season. E. A. AXON.] Manchester, [1870]. pp. 73. Pimpchook's Party; a [Edited by WILLIAM Contains the following 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. 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. Jack o' Dick's Visit to th' Queen abeawt th' hard toimes i' Lancashire, wi' a full acceawnt of heaw he geet turned into a Bishop, an' th' koind rode hur Majesty an' th' Prince o' Wales trated him, etc., etc. Manchester. 8vo. 4d. James o' Peters, a Rochdale local Ballad. JIM STEADMON. See MILLAR (W.). JODDRILL (OBADIAH HEZEKIAH JEREMIAH). See STATON (J. T.): 66 This song has passed into innumerable editions. The following quotation from Samuel Bamford's Walks in South Lancashire gives its literary history :-The celebrated song of Joan O'Grinfilt, beginning, "Sed Joan to his wife on a wot summer's day," of which, perhaps, more copies were sold amongst the rural population of Lancashire than of any other song known, has been generally ascribed to the pen of James Butterworth, the author of a poem called "Rocher vale," and other productions of considerable literary merit. The writer of this long held the common opinion as to the origin of Joan." The song took amazingly; it was war-time; volunteering was all the go then; and he remembers standing at the bottom of Miller-street, in Manchester, with a cockade in his hat, and viewing with surprise the almost rage with which the very indifferent verses were purchased by a crowd which stood around a little old-fashioned fellow, with a withered leg, who, leaning on a crutch, with a countenance full of quaint humour, and a speech of the perfect dialect of the county, sung the song, and collected the halfpence as quickly as he could distribute it. Some years ago the writer fell in with this same personage at Ashton-under-Lyne, and took the opportunity for acquiring further information respecting the origin of a song once so much in vogue. He accordingly invited the minstrel to a little rest and chat at a neighbouring tavern, where, over a pipe and a pot or two of ale, he learned all he wished to know on the subject, which he noted down in shorthand as the narrator gave it. It was a cold and rainy day in winter; the door was accordingly shut, the fire stirred up to a warm glow; the cripple sat basking before the fire with his lame leg thrown across his crutch, his other foot on the fender, when, after putting a quid of the tobacco into his mouth, and taking a swig of the ale, he went on gaily with his narrative for some minutes, until glancing towards the paper, and seeing uncouth figures multiplying upon it, he sprung on his one foot, and with a look of astonishment, not unmixed with concern, he exclaimed, Heigh! heigh! theer, I say, wot mack o' let-ters arto settin' deawn? Theer, I say, wot dusto ko those let-ters? dusto think at nobody knows wot theawrt doin? busithe, I'd hathe to know, at I know wot theawrt doin az weel az theaw dus thisel'. Theaw pretends to rule th' plannits, dusto? busithe I con rule um az weel az theaw con, an' that I'll let-te know, iv theaw awses to put ony othe tricks o' me." A hearty laugh, a brief explanation, and, more than both, a kindly invitation to the drink and tobacco, soon brought the guest to his seat again, and to his wonted jovial humour. He then said there were thirteen "Joan's O'Grinfilt" produced within a short time; but the original one, that above mentioned, was composed by Joseph Lees, a weaver residing at Glodwick, near Oldham, and himself, Joseph Coupe, who, at the time of the composition, was a barber, tooth-drawer, blood-letter, warper, spinner, carder, twiner, slubber, and rhymester, residing at Oldham. He said they were both in a terrible predicament, without drink, or money to procure any, after drinking all night. They had been at Manchester to see the play, and were returning to Oldham the day following, when, in order to raise the wind, they agreed to compose a song to be sung at certain public-houses on the road, where they supposed it would be likely to take, and procure them what they wanted, the means for prolonging their dissipation. A storm came on, and they sheltered under a hedge, and the first verse of the song was composed by him in that situation. Lees composed the next verse, and they continued to compose verse and verse, until the song was finished as afterwards printed; but it took them three days to complete it. They then "put it i' th' press," and, he said, "we met habin worth mony a hunthert peawnd iv widdin had sense to ta' care o' th' brass.' The popularity of this song has led to many imitations, as Jone O'Grinfilt's Return;' Jone O'Grinfilt's Ramble in Search o' th' Green Bag; Jone O'Grinfilt going to th' Rushan War; Jone O'Grinfilt's Visit to Mr Fielden. Specimens of these imitations are given in Harland's Ballads and Songs (pp. 212-230). The only one of any merit is that of Jone O'Grinfilt, junior, sometimes called 'Th' Owdham Weaver' (Aw'm a poor cotton wayver). Mrs Gaskell has printed this song in 'Mary Barton,' chap. iv. She remarks, ' to read it, it may, perhaps, seem humorous; but it is humour which is near akin to pathos, and to those who have seen the distress it describes it is a powerfully pathetic song.' Jone o' Jeffrey's. See HOLT (S.). JONES (T. E.). Heaw o Bobby geet dropt on wi' Molly, th' Cook, to which is added three humourous pieces: Eawr Toby, Eawr Poll un Eawr Joe. By TOM JONES. May be had from all Booksellers, or Wholesale from T. E. Jones, 7 Scholes St., Yorkshire St., Oldham. 12mo. pp. 12. On the cover is an advertisement of the following:—“ Lancashire Poems; Oudham uv a Setturday Next; Mi Gronfaythers Bible un Cheer; Postponed Visit to my Gronfayther; Foot Passengers keep to t' Right; Aw hardly know wich way to turn. Judd o' Ike's o' Jack's. See RICHARDSON (GEO.). JUNIOR. See MELLOR (J. W.). KAY-SHUTTLEWORTH (SIR J. P.). Scarsdale; or Life on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Border, thirty years ago. [By SIR JAMES PHILLIPS KAY-SHUTTLEWORTH, BART.] London, 1860. 8vo. 3 vols. Ribblesdale, or Lancashire Sixty Years Ago. London, 1874. 3 vols. KELSALL (J.). Can yo Tell us when Times are Beawnt Mend. Manchester. Broadside. KENNEDY (THEODORA). Farnorth: a novel. With an Illustration by the writer. Second |