 | Peter Lock (of North-Moulton.) - English language - 1839 - 88 pages
...fidler, (one Peter Lock, of NorthMoulton, or its neighbourhood, who was a man of some humour, and though his skill and dexterity as a musician is said to have recommended him to the notice of the great, his mone common converse with the lower class of people gave him frequent opportunities of hearing and... | |
 | Walter William Skeat, Frederick Thomas Elworthy - History - 1879 - 244 pages
...may be sometimes impertinent to, and beside their Purpose, provided they are sufficiently abusive. The following Collection was originally made about...retain and repeat them. This attracted the Notice i of a neighbouring Clergyman, who by the Fidler's Assistance put the Exmoor Scolding into the Form... | |
 | English language - 1879 - 458 pages
...may be sometimes impertinent to, and beside their Purpose, provided they are sufficiently abusive. The following Collection was originally made about...enabled to retain and repeat them. This attracted the Notice1 of a neighbouring Clergyman, who by the Fidler's Assistance put the Exmoor Scolding into the... | |
 | English Dialect Society - 1883 - 490 pages
...the Beginning of the present Century, by a blind itinerant Fidler, (one Peter Loci; of North-Monlton, or its Neighbourhood) who was a Man of some Humour...enabled to retain and repeat them. This attracted the Notice1 of a neighbouring Clergyman, who by the Fidler's Assistance put the Exmoor Scolding into the... | |
 | Frederick John Snell - Exmoor (England) - 1903 - 482 pages
...fiddler (one Peter Lock of North Molton or its neighbourhood), who was a man of some humour ; and though his skill and dexterity as a musician is said to have...the notice of a neighbouring clergyman, who by the fiddler's assistance put the Exmoor Scolding into the form in which we now have it, and before his... | |
 | Bruno Schulze - Courtship - 1913 - 192 pages
...fidler, (one Peter Lock, of North-Moulton, or its neighbourhood) who was a man of some humour, and though his skill and dexterity as a musician is said to have...the notice of a neighbouring clergyman, who by the fidler-s assistance put the -Exmoor Scolding- into the form in which we now have it, and before his... | |
 | English philology - 1913 - 694 pages
...of some humour, and though his skill and dexterity äs a musician is said to have recommended hirn to the notice of the great, his more common converse...hearing and observing their phrases and diction; and äs persons deprived of sight have generally a good memory, he was thereby the better enabled to retain... | |
 | Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art - Devon (England) - 1917 - 582 pages
...was followed, in the same magazine, in July, 1746, by the Scolding, which, according to Mr. Elworthy, is the same in substance as the version in Brice's...the Notice of a neighbouring Clergyman, who by the Fidler's Assistance put the Exmoor Scolding into the Form in which we now have it, and, before his... | |
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The following Collection was originally made about the Beginning of the present Century, by a blind itinerant Fidler, (one Peter Lock, of North-Moulton, or its Neighbourhood) who was a Man of some Humour; and tho' his Skill and Dexterity as a Musician... 