He was the author of
A Compendious Regester of 1559. The dedication is addressed to
William Parr, 1st Marquess of Northampton. The
Register of Martyrs extends from 4 February 1555 to 17 November 1558, and consists of seventy-seven six-line
doggerel stanzas.
John Foxe found the
Register of use in the compilation of his
Acts and Monuments. A religious poem entitled
The Wishes of the Wise, in twenty verses of four lines each, concludes the work. The original edition was printed by
Richard Adams, who was fined by the
Stationers' Company for producing it without licence. Another surreptitious edition appears to have been issued about the same time, but no copy has survived. A second edition was "newly imprinted at the earnest request of divers godly and well-disposed citizens" in 1597. Several extracts from the book appear in the
Parker Society's
Devotional Poetry of the Reign of Elizabeth (161, 175), and the whole work was reprinted in
Edward Arber's
Garner. Two other books are attributed to Brice in the
Stationers' Registers, but nothing is now known of either of them. The first is
The Courte of Venus moralized, which
Hugh Singleton received licence to print about July 1567; the second is
Songs and Sonnettes, licensed to
Henry Bynneman in 1568. In 1570,
John Allde had licence to print
An Epitaphe on Mr. Brice, who may very probably be identified with the author of the
Register. ==References==