Claim: Andrew Brice set up a printing business in 1740 after publishing a collection of stories and poems; he was a great patron of the stage and published a poem, The Play-house Church, or New Actors of Devotion when players were being praised in 1745.
Evidence: Soon after he published a collection of stories and poems with the title of Agreeable Gallimaufry, or Matchless Medley. In about 1740 Brice set up a printing business at Truro in addition to that at Exeter, but soon closed it. His disposition was mirthful, and he was a great patron of the stage. In 1745, when the players were being persecuted at Exeter, he published a poem defending their conduct and attacking the Methodists, to which he gave the name of The Play-house Church, or New Actors of Devotion.