Craven. See Yorkshire. Derbyshire. The Rhymed Chronicle of Edward Manlove (reprinted from the original edition of 1653). By THOMAS TAPPING. 8vo. London, 1851. Contains a Glossary of Mining Terms at pp. 21-35; and a list of works upon Derbyshire mining customs at p. vii; to be reprinted for the E. D. S. as Gloss. B. 8. Rara Avis in Terris; or the Compleat Miner. In two Books, &c. By THOMAS HOUGHTON. 12mo. London, 1681. Contains a Glossary of Mining Terms, to be reprinted for the E. D. S. as Gloss. B. 9. Later editions: in three parts, 12mo., 1687; 12mo., 1688 (with the title The Complete Miner); 8vo., 1729; 8vo., 1738 (in a collection of Treatises upon Metals, Mines, &c.; see art. Metals in Bohn's Lowndes' Manual). Miner's Dictionary. By WILLIAM HOOSON. 8vo. Wrexham, 1747. Letter to William Hooson, a Derbyshire Miner, shewing the mistakes and errors in his 'Miner's Dictionary.' 8vo. Chester, 1747. *The Mineralogy and Glossary of Derbyshire. By J. MAWE. 8vo. London, 1802. [The Glossary of Mining Terms occupies pp. 201—211, to be reprinted for the E. D. S. as Gloss. B. 10.] *The Derbyshire Miners' Glossary; or an Explanation of the Technical Terms of the Miners, &c. By JAMES MANDER. 8vo.; pp. xvi. and 131. Bakewell, G. Nall, 1824. An edition in 1821 is mentioned in Mr Russell Smith's Bibliographical List; but this seems to be a mere misprint. A Dialogue in the Derbyshire Dialect. Printed in Bosworth's Anglo- In the Reliquary' are two separate Glossaries of Derbyshire Words by Mr Sleigh. The first appeared in the Reliquary, vol. v., pp. 156-164; the second in the Reliquary, vol. vi., pp. 92–96 and 157–171. The one reprinted was the former of these. The Ballads and Songs of Derbyshire; with illustrative Notes and Examples of the Original Music, &c. Edited by Llewellynn Jewitt, F.S.A. Sm. 8vo., pp. xvi. and 307. London, Bemrose and Lothian, 21, Paternoster Row; Derby, Bemrose and Sons, Irongate, 1867. Contains very little that is provincial. Owd Sammy Twitcher's Visit tut Gret Exibishun e Darby. [By JOSEPH BARLOW ROBINSON.] 8vo., pp. 24. Derby (?), 1870. Owd Sammy Twitcher's Second Visit tut Gret Exibishun e Darby wi Jim. 8vo., pp. 24. Derby (?), 1870. Owd Sammy Twitcher's Crismas Bowk for 1870, full a Fun, Tales, an Rhymes suitable for t' Season. By J. B. ROBINSON. 8vo., plates, 1870. Owd Sammy Twitcher's Visit tut Watter Cure Establishment at Matlock Bonk, with a Derbyshire Glossary. By J. B. ROBINSON. 8vo., plates, 1871. In reply to a query inserted in the Derbyshire Times, May 24, 1873, a letter appeared in the same paper in June, from Mr Joseph Barlow Robinson, stating that of the first of these four works eight editions, and of the second four editions were published. Both contain Glossaries of Words, and are now very scarce.' Mr Ellis finds that these works are not true to the dialect, and must by no means be trusted. Specimens of the Dialects of the Peak of Derbyshire are given at the end of Mr A. J. Ellis' paper on Varieties of English Dialects, reprinted from the Transactions of the Philological Society for 1870. Mr Ellis has kindly presented copies of this to members of the English Dialect Society. *Three separate MS. collections of Derbicisms' were made at different times by the Rev. SAMUEL PEGGE, in the eighteenth century. The autograph MS. of these important collections has been purchased for the E. D. S. For some further illustrations of the Derbyshire dialect, see the Monthly Magazine for 1815, part 2, p. 297; and for 1816, part 1, pp. 312 and 494. Devonshire. The following account is reprinted, with additions, from a List of Books, etc., written in, or relating to the Dialects of Devon,' compiled by JOHN SHELLY, originally printed among the Transactions of the Plymouth Institution. Mr Shelly has kindly revised it for the E. D. S. 1 (a) The Obliging Husband and Imperious Wife; or the West Country Clothier undone by a Peacock, with the Pleasant and Comical Humours of Honest Humphrey, his Man, in witty and ingenious Dialogues. 12mo. 1717. Woodcut frontispiece in compartments. A copy was offered by Mr Lilly in 1868 for £2 2s. (b) The Obliging Husband and Imperious Wife, or the West-country Clothier undone by a Peacock. In dialogues, one of which is between Mr Wilmot, a West-country Clothier at Crediton in Devonshire, and a Gentlewoman of good fortune in Exeter, and Honest Humphrey the Clothier's Man, with the Intrigues of their Courtship. London, 1722. (c) The Honest London Spy. Part 3. The Pleasant and Comical Humours of Honest Humphrey, in dialogues between an Obliging Husband and an Imperious Wife; between Mr Wilmot, a West Country Clothier at Crediton, undone by a Peacock, a Gentleman of good Fortune in Exeter, and Honest Humphrey his Man, &c., discoursing how extravagant Wives consume their Husbands' Estate and bring them to ruin. 1731. Frontispiece. This is a specimen of the Dialect of Devon. Davidson's Bibliotheca Devoniensis. An earlier specimen of the Dialect is to be found in some verses by the Rev. Wm. Stroud (or Strode) of Newnham (d. 1644), describing a visit to Plymouth. These are printed in N. & Q., 2nd S. x. 462, from a copy preserved among the Harl. MSS., and reprinted from N. & Q. in Worth's History of Plymouth (1871), p. 259. 2. An Exmoor Scolding; in the Propriety and Decency of Exmoor Language, between two sisters, Wilmot Moreman and Thomasin Moreman, as they were spinning. 4to. Exeter, 1746. Exmoor Courtship; or a suitoring Discourse in the Devonshire Dialect and mode near the Forest of Exmoor. 4to. Exeter, 1746. This 'Discourse' is printed in the Gentleman's Magazine for the months June, July, August, and November, 1746, from a copy furnished by a correspondent whose letter is signed 'H. Oxon.' Another correspondent signing 'Devoniensis' contributes an Exmoor Vocabulary' printed in the same volume of the Magazine, p. 405. A sixth edition of the Scolding and Courtship appears to have been published at Exeter in 1768, (the date is erroneously printed 1668). There were two editions (the seventh and eighth) in 1771, and subsequent editions in 1782, 1788, 1793, 1794, 1795 (with translation), 1802, 1818, 1827, 1830, and 1839. There is a Glossary at the end. A portion of the Courtship was printed in Blackwood's Magazine for February, 1819, p. 530, with a paraphrase in blank verse, and notes. The article was announced for continuation, but was never completed. The correspondent of the Gentleman's Magazine states that the Discourse was first written by a clergyman of Devonshire, near the forest of Exmoor.' In the preface to the seventh edition the collection is said to have been originally made about the beginning of the present [18th] century by a blind itinerant Fiddler (one Peter Lock, of North-Moulton, or its neighbourhood)';— the Scolding having been put into its present form by a neighbouring clergyman, by whom it was communicated to the editor of the first and subsequent editions, who perfected the Courtship. But Sir John Bowring says (Transactions of the Devonshire Association, part v., p. 28) the authors of the Exmoor Scolding and Exmoor Courting were Andrew Brice and Benjamin Bowring. The former was a learned and laborious bookseller in Exeter. The latter. . . . was the grandson of a John Bowring of Chumleigh, who was largely engaged in the woollen trade.' In Mr J. Russell Smith's Bibliographical List,' it is noted that one of the editions of 1771 was published at Exeter, in 12mo. ; and that the tenth edition was in 8vo., pp. 47; Exeter, W. Grigg, 1788. The seventh edition, edited by Mr Brice, is considered the best. The Scolding and Courtship are printed at length in a note to Polwhele's History of Cornwall, vol. v. (1816), p. 26. Cheap reprints have been recently published. 3. The Royal Visit to Exeter; a Poetical Epistle by John Ploughshare, a farmer of Morton Hampstead in the County of Devon. Published by PETER PINDAR, Esq. (DR WOLCOT). 4to. London, 1795. This is included in the collected Works of Peter Pindar, Esq., London, 1812, and will be found in vol. iii., p. 465. In vol. iv. are two poems in the dialect, Devonshire Hob's Love, p. 107, and the Middlesex Election, or Poetical Epistles, in the Devonshire dialect, by Mr Joseph Budge, in London, to Lord Rolle, at Weymouth, p. 429. 4. The Royal Progress to Maidstone; by Jan Ploughshare, of Devonshire. 8vo., 28 pp. Rochester, printed by W. Epps, Troy-town, n. d. Apparently an imitation of Peter Pindar. On the title page of the copy lent me by Mr W. W. Robinson, of Oxford, some person has written by Keys, a Dancing Master.' The running title is The Kentish Review, etc. It begins as follows: Jan Ploushare, once of Devonshire Among the volks o' the west,- Wi' the wize men o' the East. Jan having zeen the wond'rous zoights! A thoft of going home again, And hearing Maister King were bent Jan zaid a would go down along, And mix among the moighty throng 5. The Rural Economy of the West of England, including Devonshire, and parts of Somersetshire, Dorsetshire, and Cornwall. MARSHALL. 2 vols., 8vo. London, 1796. By Mr Vol. I. pp. 323-332, contains a Glossary of the Provincialisms of West Devonshire, which has been reprinted for the E. D. S. as Gloss. B. 6. 6. A provincial Vocabulary; containing, for the most part, such words as are current amongst the common people in Devonshire and Cornwall. Monthly Magazine, vol. xxvi. [1808], pp. 421, 544 ; vol. xxix. [1810], p. 431. This vocabulary is incomplete, extending only as far as Gi, and it does not appear to have been continued. There is a list of Devonshire words in Moore's History of Devonshire (1829), vol. i., p. 506; and another in the Topographical and Statistical Description of the County of Devon, by George A. Cooke; p. 302. London, n. d. (but 1825 ?). See also the Gent. Maga. for 1793, p. 1083. 7. A Cornish English Vocabulary; a Vocabulary of local Names, chiefly Saxon, and a Provincial Glossary. By the REV. ROBERT POLWHELE. 4to. Truro and London (Cadell), 1808. This forms also the 6th vol. of Polwhele's History of Cornwall (see ante, p. 25). The Glossary contains almost as many Devonshire as Cornish words, and many of those marked only C are used in Devonshire also. Indeed there is very little, if any, distinction between the dialect of E. Cornwall and W. Devon. 8. A Pamphlet called-Old England for ever: from a Devonshire Jogtrot, not of too high or low a rate. 8vo. Exeter, T. Flindell, 1819. 9. (a) A Dialogue in the Devonshire Dialect (in three parts). By A LADY; to which is added a Glossary, by J. F. PALMER. Post 8vo., pp. 107. London, Longmans, 1837. This is said to have been printed from an incomplete copy, but it differs in many respects from the next edition. Palmer's Glossary is much more copious than that of Phillipps, appended to the subsequent editions of the Dialogue. (b) A Devonshire Dialogue, in four parts: to which is added a Glossary, for the most part by the late Rev. JOHN PHILLIPPS, of Membury, Devon. Edited by MRS GWATKIN. 12mo., pp. 91. London, G. B. Whittaker, 1839. The Glossary occupies pp. 65-85. (c) The Courtship of Roger and Bet, with a Glossary. Devonport, 1868. A reprint of the edition of 1839. The Dialogue was written by Mrs Palmer, a sister of Sir Joshua Reynolds. It is in the Dialect of North Devon. Mrs Gwatkin was Mrs Palmer's daughter. 10. Traditions of Devonshire on the Borders of the Tamar and the Tavy. By MRS BRAY. 3 vols, 12mo. London, Murray, 1838. This is addressed in a series of letters to Robert Southey. It contains a considerable number of West Devon Provincialisms. The authoress (formerly Mrs Stothard) was the wife of the Vicar of Tavistock. 11. Rustic Sketches, being Poems on Angling, in the Dialect of East Devon, by PISCATOR [MR GEORGE PULMAN, of Axminster]. Taunton, 1842. There is a reprint of this, dated London, 1871. 12. Poetical Letters tu es brither Jan, and a Witch Story, tha old Humman way the urd Cloke, ur tha evil Eye, in the Devonshire Dialect. By NATHAN HOGG. Fourth edition, 12mo. London, 1860. By Mr Henry Baird of Exeter. This fourth edition is altered and enlarged. The 3rd edition is dated London, J. R. Smith, 1858. A still earlier edition is dated Exeter, 1847, and must be the 1st. The 2nd is dated London, Chapman and Hall, 1850. 13. A New Series of Poems in the Devonshire Dialect: including the Witch Story of Mucksy Lane, and the Kenton Ghost. By NATHIAN HOGG. Fourth edition, 12mo. London, 1866. 14. Nathan Hogg's Letters and Poems in the Devonshire Dialect. Fifth edition, with additions. Post 8vo. London, J. R. Smith, n. d. 15. The Song of Solomon in the Devonshire Dialect. From the authorised English Version. By HENRY BAIRD, author of 'Nathan Hogg's .Letters and Poems' in the same dialect. 16mo. [Londres, 1860.] 250 copies printed at the cost of Prince Louis-Lucien Bonaparte. 16. The Song of Solomon in the East Devonshire Dialect. From the authorised English Version. By GEORGE P. R. PULMAN. 16mo. [Londres, 1860.] 250 copies printed at the cost of Prince Louis-Lucien Bonaparte. 17. The Gospel of St Matthew, translated into Western English as spoken in Devonshire. By HENRY BAIRD. 16mo. Londres, 1863. 250 copies printed at the cost of Prince Louis-Lucien Bonaparte. 18. Brither Jan's visit ta tha Crismiss Pantymime; a poetical epistle in the Devonshire Dialect; with other effusions. By W. HARE. 2nd ed. 12mo., pp. 65. Exeter, W. Hare, 1863. 19. Language, with Special reference to the Devonian Dialects. By SIR JOHN BOWRING, LL.D., F.R.S., M.R.A.S., etc. Printed in the Transactions of the Devonshire Association, Part v. (1866), pp. 13-38. 20. Jim and Nell: A Dramatic Poem in the Dialect of North Devon. By a Devonshire man. Printed for Private Circulation. Sm. 8vo., pp. 56. London, 1867. A Poem in 137 six-line stanzas. A copious Glossary is appended, pp. 39–56. The author has kindly presented a copy to the E. D. S. 21. Glossary of the Devon Dialect. Preliminary list. A list of about 800 words printed on a sheet for private circulation by John Shelly, in November, 1868. Mr Shelly's MS. Glossary is to be printed for the E. D. S. |