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List of Books, etc., written in or relating to the 
2, An Exmoor Scolding; in the Propriety and Decency of 
Exmoor Language, between two sisters, Wilmot Moreraan and 
Thomasin Moreman, as they were spinning. Exeter, 1746. 4to. 
Exmoor Courtship ; or a suitoring Discourse in the Devonshire 
Dialect and mode near the Forest of Exmoor. Exeter, 1746. 4to. 
This " Discourse " is printed in the Gentleman's Magazine for 1746 
from a copy furnished by a correspondent whose letter is signed " H. Oxon." 
Another correspondent signing " Devonienis " 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, 1802, 1818, 1827, 1830, and 1839. There is a Glos- 
sary at the end. 
A portion of the Courtship was printed in Blackwood's Magazine for 
February, 1819, with a paraphrase in blank verse, and notes. 
The correspondent of the Gentleman's Magazine states that the " Dis- 
course " 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have been " originally made about the beginning of the present century by 
a blind itinerant Fiddler (one Peter Lock, of North-Moulton, or its neighbour- 
hood)" ;— the Scolding having been put into its present form by a neighbour- 
ing 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." 
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), London, 
1795. 4to. 
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 
