APPENDIX I

A Bibliography of Works relating to Wilts or illustrating its Dialect.

Most of the works comprised in the following list have lately been read through, and compared with our own Glossary, and references to many of them will be found in the foregoing pages. Some may contain a more or less comprehensive Wiltshire Glossary; others only a few words. Some belong absolutely to our own county; others merely to the same group of dialects. But all are of value as bearing on the subject. The Berks, Dorset, Gloucester, Hants, and Somerset Glossaries of course contain a large proportion of words and uses that are either absolutely identical with ours, or vary but slightly therefrom, while such works as Amaryllis, Dark, Lettice Lisle, and Jonathan Merle on the one side, and Old Country Words and English Plant-names on the other, are full of examples and illustrations of the South-Western Folk-speech. Even where their scene is laid somewhat outside the borders of Wilts itself, the dialect, with but trifling alterations, would pass as ours.

S. Editha, sive Chronicon Vilodunense, im Wiltshire Dialekt, aus MS. Cotton. Faustina B III. Herausgegeben von C. Horstmann. Heilbronn: Gebr. Henninger, 1883. A handy reprint of this fifteenth century Chronicle.

Parochial Antiquities attempted in the History of Ambroseden, Burcester, and adjacent parts in Oxford and Bucks. By Bishop Kennett, 1695. Reprinted 1816 and 1818. Contains a few Wilts words. See Five Reprinted Glossaries.

Lansdowne MSS., 935-1042, British Museum. By Bishop Kennett. Also contain some Wilts words.

The Natural History of Wiltshire. By John Aubrey. (1656-91). Edited by John Britton. London, 1847.

Wiltshire: the Topographical Collections of John Aubrey. (1659-70). Edited by Rev. John Edward Jackson. London and Devizes, 1862.

Other works and MSS. by John Aubrey.

Collection of a few Provincial Terms used in North Wilts. An eighteenth century MS. Vocabulary, fully dealt with in Appendix II as Cunnington MS.

A Provincial Glossary. By Francis Grose. Second edition, 1790. Out of the twenty-eight words which Britton marks as given in Grose, only the following are credited to Wilts in this edition:—Allemang, Carriage, Contankerous, Dewsiers, Drowning-bridge, Dudge, Grom or Groom, Huff, Leer, Lowle-eared, Quirking, Rudderish, and Wasset-man. The remainder (Aneust, Axen, Beet, Bochant, Daddock, More, Quamp, Quarr, Quilt, Quop, Skiel, Sleepy, Tail-ends, Tallet, and Tid) are not there assigned to Wilts; but as Britton may very possibly have found them so localized in the revised 1811 edition, which we have not had an opportunity of consulting, we add (G.) to the whole of them, on his authority.

General View of the Agriculture of the County of Wilts, with observations on the means of its improvement. By Thomas Davis of Longleat, Steward to the Marquess of Bath. London, 1794. An Agricultural Report or Survey, afterwards much enlarged. The author died in 1807.

General View of the Agriculture of Wiltshire. Drawn up for the consideration of the Board of Agriculture and Internal Improvement. By Thomas Davis. London, 1809. New editions, 1811 and 1813. An enlarged and revised reprint of the Agricultural Report, edited by the Author's son. Contains an interesting Glossary of Agricultural Terms, arranged under subjects, as Soils, Barn Process, Implements, &c., at pp. 258-268; also a few additional words in the body of the work.

Archæological Review, March, 1888, vol. i, No. 1, pp. 33-39. Contains a reprint of Davis's Glossary, with notes by Professor Skeat, rearranged alphabetically, a few words and phrases being omitted as general or legal.

Some Specimens of the Provincial Dialect of South Wiltshire. By 'Mark.' Monthly Magazine, Sept. 1814, vol. xxxviii, p. 114. Noted in the Preface to Five Reprinted Glossaries. See Appendix III.

A Topographical and Historical Description of the County of Wilts. By John Britton. London, N.D. [1814?]. Vol. xv of 'The Beauties of England.'

The Beauties of Wiltshire, displayed in Statistical, Historical, and Descriptive Sketches, &c. By John Britton. 3 vols. London, 1801-1825. Vol. iii contains a list of Provincial Words of Wiltshire and the adjacent Counties, pp. 369-380. See Appendix II.

Five Reprinted Glossaries. Edited by Professor Skeat. Eng. Dialect Socy., 1879. Contains (a) Wiltshire Words, from 'Britton's Beauties of Wiltshire,' 1825; compared with 'Akerman's Glossary,' 1842, a few words being added from the Monthly Magazine, &c. (b) Dialectal Words, from 'Kennett's Parochial Antiquities, 1695.'

A Glossary of Provincial Words and Phrases in use in Wiltshire. By John Yonge Akerman. London, 1842. An unacknowledged enlargement of Britton's Word-list. See Five Reprinted Glossaries.

Wiltshire Tales. By J. Y. Akerman. London, 1853.

Spring-tide: or the Angler and his Friends. By J. Y. Akerman. London, 1850. Contains many Wiltshire and West of England words.

A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words. By J. O. Halliwell. London, 1846, &c.

Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English. By Thomas Wright. London, 1857, &c.

The Song of Solomon in the Wiltshire Dialect, as it is spoken in the Northern Division. By Edward Kite. Circa 1860. Privately printed for Prince L. Lucien Bonaparte.

Content: or the Day Labourer's Tale of his Life. By Mrs. Penruddocke, Fyfield Manor House, Wilts. Salisbury, 1860.

Peasant Life in the West of England. By F. G. Heath. 1872-80.

Fabellae Mostellariae: or Devonshire and Wiltshire Stories in Verse. London and Exeter, 1878.

Rhymes of the Wiltshire Peasantry, and other Trifles. By Edward Slow. Salisbury, 1874.

Wiltshire Rhymes: a Series of Poems in the Wiltshire Dialect. By Edward Slow. London and Salisbury, 1881. Also Third edition, 1885.

Wiltshire Rhymes. Fourth Series. By Edward Slow. Salisbury and Wilton, 1889. Contains a Glossary of about 200 words, pp. 9-14.

Glossary of Wiltshire Words. Compiled by Edward Slow. Wilton, 1892. Contains about 900 words, of which a few are of special interest.

Works of Richard Jefferies:—

A Memoir of the Goddards of North Wilts, 1873. The Gamekeeper at Home, 1878. Wild Life in a Southern County. 1879. The Amateur Poacher, 1879. Greene Ferne Farm, 1880. Hodge and his Masters, 1880. Round about a Great Estate, 1880. Wood Magic, 1881. Bevis, 1882. The Life of the Fields, 1884. The Dewy Morn, 1884. The Open Air, 1885. Amaryllis at the Fair, 1887. Field and Hedgerow, 1889. The Toilers of the Field, 1892, &c., &c.

The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies. By Walter Besant. 1888.

Some un-noted Wiltshire Phrases. By Rev. W. C. Plenderleath. Wilts Archæological Magazine, vol. xxii. p. 107.

Wiltshire Archæological and Natural History Magazine. All vols.

History of the Manor and Ancient Barony of Castle Combe in the county of Wilts, &c., &c. By G. Poulett Scrope. Privately printed, 1852.

Records of Chippenham, relating to the Borough from its Incorporation by Queen Mary to its Reconstruction by Act of Parliament, 1889, &c., &c. By Frederick H. Goldney. 1889.

Sarum Diocesan Gazette, Annual Reports of Flower-classes, by Mr. Hussey and Mr. Tatum.

The Flowering Plants of Wilts. By Rev. T. A. Preston. Published by Wilts Arch. Society, 1888.

The Birds of Wiltshire. By Rev. Alfred C. Smith. London and Devizes, 1887. Reprinted from Wilts Arch. Mag.

Glory: a Wiltshire Story. By Mrs. G. Linnæus Banks. London, 1876(?). New edition, 1892. Scene partly laid in and round Marlborough.

On the Upper Thames. By Miss E. Boyer-Brown. Leisure Hour, August, 1893. Contains many words belonging to the Castle Eaton and Marston Maizey district.

A Dictionary of English Plant-names. By James Britten and Robert Holland. E. D. S. 1878-86. A very valuable work, containing a small number of Wilts names, mostly from sources already referred to. The whole of the Plant-names in our Glossary have been sent to Mr. Britten from time to time, for use in the Supplement which he is now preparing.

English Dialects—their Sounds and Homes. By A. J. Ellis. E. D. S. 1890. Contains some remarks at pp. 24-29 on Wilts, with specimens of dialect from Christian Malford and Chippenham, accompanied by a rendering into Glossic.

A Glossary of Berkshire Words and Phrases. By Major B. Lowsley. E. D. S. 1888.

Upton-on-Severn Words and Phrases. By Rev. Robert Lawson. E. D. S. 1884. A reprint of his smaller Glossary, which originally appeared in The Nation in the Parish, by Mrs. Lawson.

The Dialect of the West of England, particularly Somersetshire. By James Jennings. 1825. Second edition, revised and edited by Rev. James K. Jennings. London, 1869.

Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect. By Rev. William Barnes. Glossary, pp. 459-467, edition 1888.

Glossary of the Dorset Dialect, 1863-86. By Rev. William Barnes. Also the additional Word-lists published by him from time to time in the Dorset County Chronicle.

Natural History, Folk Speech, and Superstitions of Dorsetshire. By J. S. Udal. A paper read before the Dorset Field Club at Dorchester, in February, 1889, containing a Glossary, which was given in full in the report in the local papers at the time.

A Glossary of Dialect & Archaic Words used in the County of Gloucester. By J. D. Robertson. Edited by Lord Moreton. E. D. S. 1890.

A Glossary of Hampshire Words and Phrases. By the Rev. Sir William H. Cope. E. D. S. 1883.

A Dictionary of the Sussex Dialect. By Rev. W. D. Parish. Lewes. 1875.

On the Dialects of Eleven Southern and South-Western Counties, with a new Classification of the English Dialects. By Prince Louis Lucien Bonaparte. E. D. S. 1877.

On the Survival of Early English Words in our present Dialects. By Rev. Richard Morris. E. D. S. 1876.

Old Country and Farming Words. By James Britten. E. D. S. 1880. Contains extracts from the following volumes, among which may be found a few additional Wilts words, as well as much information on our agricultural terms:—

Ellis, William. The Modern Husbandman. 1750.

Reports of the Agricultural Survey, 1793-1813.

Lisle, Edward. Observations in Husbandry. 1757.

Worlidge, J. Dictionarium rusticum. 1681.

Annals of Agriculture, &c. 1784-1815.

Morton, John C. Cyclopædia of Agriculture, 1863.

Folk-Etymology, a Dictionary of Verbal Corruptions, &c. By Rev. A. Smythe Palmer. London, 1882.

Lettice Lisle. By Lady Verney. 1870. Contains much excellent Hants talk.

The New Forest: its History and its Scenery. By J. R. Wise. London, 1871. Glossary, pp. 279-288, also words in text.

Jonathan Merle: a West Country story of the times. By Elisabeth B. Bayly. 1890. Affords many good illustrations of words used in Wilts, as the two following works also do.

Tess of the D'Urbervilles. By Thomas Hardy. 1891.

The Story of Dick. By Major Gambier Parry. 1892.

Dark: a Tale of the Down Country. By Mrs. Stephen Batson. London, 1892. The scene is laid in Berks, just over the borders, but the dialect, which is excellently done, is to all intents and purposes that of North Wilts.

A History of Marlborough College during Fifty Years. By A. G. Bradley, A. C. Champneys, and J. W. Baines. London, 1893.

John Darke's Sojourn in the Cotteswolds and elsewhere. By S. S. Buckman. 1890.

The Scouring of the White Horse. By Thomas Hughes. 1858.