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 (xxxix) Hoffman.

July-Dec. 1602, but apparently not finished. Vide supra.

(xl) Felmelanco.

With Robensone (q.v.), Sept. 1602.

(xli), (xlii) 1, 2 The London Florentine.

Part 1 with Heywood, Dec. 1602-Jan. 1603; one payment had been made to Chettle for Part 2 before the diary entries stopped.

(xliii) [Unnamed play].

'for a prologe & a epyloge for the corte', 29 Dec. 1602.

(b) Plays for Worcester's, 1602-3

(xliv) [Unnamed play. Collier's Robin Goodfellow is forged]. A tragedy, Aug. 1602, but perhaps not finished, unless identical, as suggested by Greg (Henslowe, ii. 229), with the anonymous Byron. (xlv) 1 Lady Jane, or The Overthrow of Rebels. With Dekker (q.v.), Heywood, Smith, and Webster, Oct. 1602. (xlvi) Christmas Comes but Once a Year.

With Dekker, Heywood, and Webster, Nov. 1602.

(xlvii) [Unnamed play. Collier's Like Quits Like is forged]. With Heywood, Jan. 1603, but apparently not finished, or possibly identical, as suggested by Greg (Henslowe, ii. 235), with (xlviii). (xlviii) Shore.

With Day, May 1603, but not finished before the diary ended.

THOMAS CHURCHYARD (1520?-1604).

The best account of Churchyard is that by H. W. Adnitt in ''Shropshire Arch. Soc. Trans.'' iii (1880), 1, with a bibliography of his numerous poems. For his share in the devices of the Bristol entertainment (1574) and the Suffolk and Norfolk progress (1578), of both of which he published descriptions, cf. ch. xxiv. He was also engaged by the Shrewsbury corporation to prepare a show for an expected but abandoned royal visit in 1575 (Mediaeval Stage, ii. 255). His A Handful of Gladsome Verses given to the Queenes Maiesty at Woodstocke this Prograce (1592) is reprinted in H. Huth and W. C. Hazlitt, Fugitive Tracts (1875), i. It is not mimetic. His own account of his work in Churchyard's Challenge (1593) suggests that he took a considerable part in Elizabethan pageantry. He says that he wrote:

'The deuises of warre and a play at Awsterley. Her Highnes being at Sir Thomas Greshams',

and

'The deuises and speeches that men and boyes shewed within many prograces'.

And amongst 'Workes gotten from me of some such noble friends as I am loath to offend' he includes:

'A book of a sumptuous shew in Shrouetide, by Sir Walter Rawley, Sir Robart Carey, M. Chidley, and M. Arthur Gorge, in which book was the whole