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Memoirs Of Andrew Brice.
About 17 to he set up a printing-press at Truro , but the distance waf so IrlS from thence to Exeter , where he still coirtumed his buii ess that it is not at all surprising the scheme should fail . In a K time , therefore , he removed the materials of his Corn , h 1 « Pdcnfiited his concerns to his native city . Here he might ' competencyand have been enabled to at
Ce acquired a genteel , down Shis old year * in independency ; but unfortunately his eccentric disposition always kept him from the direct point necessary o secure that important end . Among other evils he , had too strong an attachment to theatrical amusements . The wandering children tf Thespis ever met with a graciotis reception from Ato fl * himself
Merry , the appellation with which he had honoured In i 745 these ^ ge " y were prosecuted as vagrants by the statute and were necessitated to abandon their theatre at Exeter which was soon after purchased by the Methodists and converted So a conventicle . Every one , knows that at that period this novelsect caused considerable alarm , and even the leaders of the church
aftected to treat it as boding serious consequences to tne estamisnm ^ . The lower classes , in general , treated the self-created teachers with neat opprobrium . In no part-of the kingdom , perhaps , did they £ fl £ more outrage than in the West of England , and particular ^ in Exe er Of this we are sorry to attribute a principal share to the factious zeal of Mr . Brice . On the flig ht of his Wis of the riation of their dram ^ templehe
buskin , and the singular approp c , published a low but humourous poem , » lflecl / ' The Pay-house Church , or New Actors of Devotion . " 1 his piece had such an effect upon the populace that the Meeting-house was nearly demohshedfand the Methodists were obliged to fly in theirturn . Indeed for many years after no preacher of that sect could venture to haof his lite ¦
rano-ue in that city without manifest danger . The players soon returned and reoccup ied their former situation under the auspices of Mr . Brice , who sometimes sported his own fio-m-e , which was theatrical enough , upon the boards of the Lxeter st ° a " e . His speech was as remarkable as his dress and manne - The singularity of his character , therefore , induced that excellent exhibit him in Lord Oleby in the
ClandescSeSS , Mr . W to g iine Marriage . They who have heard Mr . King m that part , may have a full Sea of the voice and behaviour of Andrew Brice , ¦ He aW * kept a bountiful table , generally filled with p layers and his poor relations . To these he allowed victuals , but made them find their own liquor . By these and other extravagancies for such surely we cannot ' help stiling them , he contrived to keep
himself in a constant state of necessity . T „„„„ r ™ Wra 1 In 17-1-6 he commenced his " Geographical and Topograp hical Dictionary , " which he published , in folio , in 1757 . The design at this work was good , but the execution is by no means commendable It was indeed compiled without judgment , ancl published , without care . Its chief merit consists in the large notice taken o \ the counties of Devon and Cornwall ,-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Memoirs Of Andrew Brice.
About 17 to he set up a printing-press at Truro , but the distance waf so IrlS from thence to Exeter , where he still coirtumed his buii ess that it is not at all surprising the scheme should fail . In a K time , therefore , he removed the materials of his Corn , h 1 « Pdcnfiited his concerns to his native city . Here he might ' competencyand have been enabled to at
Ce acquired a genteel , down Shis old year * in independency ; but unfortunately his eccentric disposition always kept him from the direct point necessary o secure that important end . Among other evils he , had too strong an attachment to theatrical amusements . The wandering children tf Thespis ever met with a graciotis reception from Ato fl * himself
Merry , the appellation with which he had honoured In i 745 these ^ ge " y were prosecuted as vagrants by the statute and were necessitated to abandon their theatre at Exeter which was soon after purchased by the Methodists and converted So a conventicle . Every one , knows that at that period this novelsect caused considerable alarm , and even the leaders of the church
aftected to treat it as boding serious consequences to tne estamisnm ^ . The lower classes , in general , treated the self-created teachers with neat opprobrium . In no part-of the kingdom , perhaps , did they £ fl £ more outrage than in the West of England , and particular ^ in Exe er Of this we are sorry to attribute a principal share to the factious zeal of Mr . Brice . On the flig ht of his Wis of the riation of their dram ^ templehe
buskin , and the singular approp c , published a low but humourous poem , » lflecl / ' The Pay-house Church , or New Actors of Devotion . " 1 his piece had such an effect upon the populace that the Meeting-house was nearly demohshedfand the Methodists were obliged to fly in theirturn . Indeed for many years after no preacher of that sect could venture to haof his lite ¦
rano-ue in that city without manifest danger . The players soon returned and reoccup ied their former situation under the auspices of Mr . Brice , who sometimes sported his own fio-m-e , which was theatrical enough , upon the boards of the Lxeter st ° a " e . His speech was as remarkable as his dress and manne - The singularity of his character , therefore , induced that excellent exhibit him in Lord Oleby in the
ClandescSeSS , Mr . W to g iine Marriage . They who have heard Mr . King m that part , may have a full Sea of the voice and behaviour of Andrew Brice , ¦ He aW * kept a bountiful table , generally filled with p layers and his poor relations . To these he allowed victuals , but made them find their own liquor . By these and other extravagancies for such surely we cannot ' help stiling them , he contrived to keep
himself in a constant state of necessity . T „„„„ r ™ Wra 1 In 17-1-6 he commenced his " Geographical and Topograp hical Dictionary , " which he published , in folio , in 1757 . The design at this work was good , but the execution is by no means commendable It was indeed compiled without judgment , ancl published , without care . Its chief merit consists in the large notice taken o \ the counties of Devon and Cornwall ,-