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 from two young men, for which they paid 6s. 8d. Hardly any of the 1597-8 new plays are extant. The two parts of Robin Hood are The Downfall of Robert Earl of Huntingdon, and The Death of Robert Earl of Huntingdon, printed without Munday's name as Admiral's plays in 1601. Haughton's A Woman will have her Will was entered on the Stationers' Register on 3 August 1601, and printed with the alternative title of Englishmen for my Money in 1616. Phaethon probably underlies Dekker and Ford's The Sun's Darling, and it is a plausible conjecture of Mr. Fleay's that ''Love Prevented may be 1 The Two Angry Women of Abingdon'', printed as an Admiral's play in 1599, and not to be traced elsewhere in the diary. The payments for four plays during the year, besides the puzzling A Woman will have her Will, were incomplete. I take it that the £2 paid to Chettle, Dekker, Drayton, and Wilson for Pierce of Exton was transferred to the account for 2 Earl Godwin, which otherwise lacks just that amount of the full £6; that Chettle failed to deliver A Woman's Tragedy; that Chapman's Isle of a Woman was held over until 1598-9; and that a projected tragedy of Ben Jonson's was similarly held over, and then indefinitely postponed owing to the tragedy in real life of Spencer's death. There are two entries with regard to this. On 3 December 1597, Henslowe lent Jonson 20s. 'vpon a boocke which he showed the plotte vnto the company which he promysed to deliver vnto the company at Cryssmas next'. On 23 October 1598, a month after the duel, not Jonson, but Chapman, received £3 'one his playe boocke & ij ectes of a tragedie of Bengemenes plotte'. I think that Chapman's own play was The Four Kings and that he finished it in 1599; but I see no sign that he ever did anything with 'Bengemenes plotte'.

Of older plays the Admiral's revived at the beginning of the year Chapman's success of the previous spring, ''The Comedy of Humours; also the perennial Dr. Faustus'', and two pieces which, as they formed no part of the 1594-7 repertory, may have been brought in by Pembroke's men, Hardicanute and Bourbon. They bought for £8 from Martin Slater 1 and 2 Hercules, Phocas, Pythagoras, and ''Alexander and Lodowick'', all of which had been produced between May 1595 and January 1597, and had evidently been retained by Slater when he left the company. These books presumably do not include that which became the subject of the law-suit between Slater and the Admiral's men, and as they had afterwards to buy back some of their old books in a precisely similar way from Alleyn, it is probable that a retiring member