. Devonshire characters and strange events. teen apprenticed to aprinter. His earliest biographer ^ states :— Mr. Bliss, a printer of Exeter, wanting a personcapable of correcting the press, young Brice (aged 17)was proposed to, and accepted by him as an apprenticefor the term of five years. However, having longbefore his service expired inconsiderately contractedmarriage, and being unable to support a family of awife and two children, he enlisted as a soldier in orderto cancel his indentures; and, by the interest of hisfriends, very soon procured his discharge. Bliss inhis paper, the Mercury,
. Devonshire characters and strange events. teen apprenticed to aprinter. His earliest biographer ^ states :— Mr. Bliss, a printer of Exeter, wanting a personcapable of correcting the press, young Brice (aged 17)was proposed to, and accepted by him as an apprenticefor the term of five years. However, having longbefore his service expired inconsiderately contractedmarriage, and being unable to support a family of awife and two children, he enlisted as a soldier in orderto cancel his indentures; and, by the interest of hisfriends, very soon procured his discharge. Bliss inhis paper, the Mercury, 30 December, 1715, insertedthis advertisement: Whereas Andrew Brice, who ismy Lawful Apprentice, hath, without any Cause, in themidst of a Flush of Business, and when I was disabledby Illness from working myself, roguishly abscondedand deserted my Service to my present great Loss ofBusinress [_sic\, and Damage, this is to forbid all Persons Entries in an old Bible, in the Western Antiquary, 1885, p. 196. Universal Magazine for 1781. S02. ANDREW BRICE, PRINTERReproduced by kind permission/rovt a pTnnt in the possession of Dr. Brnshfield ANDREW BRICE, PRINTER 503 to entertain or Employ the said Andrew Brice in anyBusiness, or upon any Account, whatsoever; for, actingby the Advice of the Learned in the Law, I am resolved,upon Notice thereof to prosecute such as shall so do. Ifhe returns not to my Business in a very short Time, Ishall apply myself to the Magistrates of this City forJustice in this Case. I am informd his dependence is on ; but I am greatly deoeivd, if He is not aPerson of more sense; and better understands whatbelongs to an Apprentice, than to encourage such aRascal as shall so basely leave his Master without theleast Cause. Joe Bliss. What became of Brice during the next two years isnot known, but in 1717 he was back in Exeter, for on22 March of that year Bliss inserted the following para-graph in his Protestant Mercury: Havingreceived reitera
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