22. Some Inquiry into the Association of the Dialects of Devon and Cornwall. By R. N. WORTH. Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall, No. xi., 1870.

There is a list of four Devonian Provincialisms in the Transactions of the Philological Society, 1854, p. 84, and some will be found occasionally noted in Notes and Queries. In a bookseller's catalogue for July, 1873, is the following entry: History of Devonshire, with list of the Provincialisms. 4to, 400 pp., woodcuts, unpublished, no title. Bds. 4s. 6d., n. d." On application to the bookseller a few months after, he stated that it was sold, and he could give no further account of it. There are some remarks upon West-country words, with a word-list, at p. 125 of the Countryman's Conductor in reading and writing true English', by John White; Exeter, 1701.

Dorsetshire. The following list has been kindly revised by the Rev. W. BARNES.

1. Poems on several occasions, formerly written by John Free, D.D. The second edition. 12mo. London, E. Owen, 1757.

At pp. 81-84 is 'A Letter from a Parish Clerk in Dorsetshire, to an Absent Vicar, in the Dialect of the County.'

2. John Bull and Tom Stiles ; a Conversation between Two Labourers on the Times. 8vo., pp. 12. Blandford, 1838.

3. The Unioneers; a little tak about the Times, wi a new Fiable o' the Crow an' the Pig [in verse]. 12mo., pp. 11. Dorchester, 1838.

This originally appeared in the Dorset County Chronicle, December, 1838. 4. *Poems of Rural Life, in the Dorset Dialect; with a Dissertation and Glossary. By WILLIAM BARNES. 12mo. London, J. R. Smith, 1844.

All of these poems, and most of the other Dorset poems by the same writer, were first printed in the Dorset County Chronicle. *Poems of Rural Life, in the Dorset Dialect; with a Dissertation and Glossary. By WM. BARNES. Second ed.; the Dissertation and Glossary enlarged and corrected. 12mo., pp. 411. London, J. R. Smith, 1848. [The Dissertation occupies pp. 1-50; the Glossary, pp. 313-411.]

a third edition (without the Dissertation and Glossary). Ib., J. R. Smith, 1862.

4th ed., 12mo, pp. 211. Ib., 1866.

5. *Hwomely Rhymes: a second Collection of Poems in the Dorset Dialect. By WILLIAM BARNES. 12mo, pp. 216. J. R. Smith, 1859.

Second ed. 12mo, pp. 216. Ib., J. R. Smith, 1863.

London,

6. The Song of Solomon in the Dorset Dialect, from the Authorised Eng. version. By the Rev. WM. BARNES. 16mo., p. 19, 1859.

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

7. *A Grammar and Glossary of the Dorset Dialect; with the History, Outspreading, and Bearings of the South-Western English. By W. BARNES, B.D. 8vo., pp. 103. Published for the Philological Soc. by A. Asher and Co., Berlin, 1863.

8. *Poems of Rural Life, in the Dorset Dialect. By WILLIAM BARNES. A third Collection. London, J. R. Smith, 1863.

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9. Jay Apass'd; a Dorsetshire poem. By WILLIAM BARNES. In Macmillan's Magazine, May, 1864; p. 53.

10. At the Door; a Dorsetshire Poem. By WILLIAM BARNES. In Macmillan's Magazine, Sept. 1864; pp. 416-7.

11. Fellowship (in Dorset dialect). By WILLIAM BARNES. In Macmillan's Magazine, Nov. 1864; p. 56.

12. A Glossary of Provincial Words used in the County of Dorset. 12mo., pp. 8. London, J. Gray Bell, 1851. (Only 60 copies printed.) 13. A Harnet set in a hollow tree.' A Fable; 30 lines, signed

'OLD TOWLER.' Temple, March, 1858.

14. John Thomas and Phillus. Dree o'm a-taeken. A. single sheet. Blandford, 1862.

15. An Eclogue in the Dorset Dialect, in two parts. By ROBERT YOUNG. 12mo. Blandford, J. H. Bartlett, 1862.

16. Rabin Hill's Visit to the Railway, &c., in the Dorset Dialect. By ROBERT YOUNG. Small 8vo, pp. 20. Yeovil, Western Gazette'

Office. No date.

17. Rabin Hill's Visit to the Railway; what he zeed and done: and what he zed about it. By ROBERT YOUNG. Part Second. Small 8vo, pp. 16. The Hive; Sturminster Newton, 1864.

18. Rabin Hill's Excursion to Weston-Super-Mare, to see the opening of the New Pier, 5th June, 1867. By ROBERT YOUNG. Small 8vo, pp. 23. Yeovil, 'Western Gazette and Flying Post' Office, [1867]. 19. B'ye Mos' Ready. On a sheet, 112 lines. By ROBERT YOUNG. Sturminster Newton, 1868.

20. Epistle from Roger Coulter, of Dorsetshire, to his friend Giles Bloomfield, the Suffolk Farmer's Boy. (This poem of 28 lines, in the Dorset Dialect, is found at the end of Bloomfield's Poems, in some of the editions.)

21. MS. copy of Words and Phrases used in Dorsetshire. By DR CUMING. (A copy of this has been communicated to the E. D. S. by W. G. Stone, Esq. of Dorchester.)

Durham. See also Northumberland.

The Bishopric Garland, or Durham Minstrel; being a choice Collection of English Songs, relating to the above county. Edited by JOSEPH RITSON. 12mo. Stockton, 1784.

-Reprinted in the 'Northern Garlands,' by the same editor. 8vo.. London, 1810.

The Shields Song Book; being a Collection of Choice and Senti-
mental Songs never before published; written by gentlemen of the
neighbourhood. South Shields, G. W. Barnes, 1826.

The Bishoprick Garland: or, a Collection of Legends, Songs,
Ballads, &c., belonging to the County of Durham. 8vo, pp. 84.
London, 1834.

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 others.

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 for Forby's book.

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