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 on a hint of P. A. Daniel, gave Rowley a collaborator in Middleton, and later (ii. 105) treated the play as a revision by Rowley of the Uther Pendragon produced by the Admiral's on 29 April 1597. This view seems to rest in part upon the analogous character of The Mayor of Quinborough. Howe thinks that Rowley worked up a sketch by Middleton later than 1621, and attempts a division of the play on this hypothesis. But Stork, Rowley, 58, thinks that Rowley revised Uther Pendragon or some other old play about 1608. F. W. Moorman (C. H. v. 249) suggests Dekker, and Wells Beaumont and Fletcher. Doubtful Plays

The ascription to Rowley on the t.p. of The Thracian Wonder is not generally accepted. His hand has been sought in The Captain, The Coxcomb, and Wit at Several Weapons (cf. s.v. Beaumont) and in Troublesome Reign of King John (cf. ch. xxiv) and Pericles. MATTHEW ROYDON (> 1580-1622 <). The reference to his 'comike inuentions' in Nashe's Menaphon epistle of 1589 (App. C, No. xlii) suggests that he wrote plays. GEORGE RUGGLE (1575-1622). Ruggle entered St. John's, Cambridge, from Lavenham grammar school, Suffolk, in 1589, migrated to Trinity, where he took his B.A. in 1593 and his M.A. in 1597, and became Fellow of Clare Hall in 1598. He remained at Cambridge until 1620, shortly before his death. ''Ignoramus. 8 March 1615''

[MSS.] ''Bodl. Tanner MS. 306, with actor-list; Harl. MSS.'' 6869 (fragmentary); and others.

S. R. 1615, April 18 (Nidd). 'Ignoramus Comœdia provt Cantabrigie acta coram Jacobo serenissimo potentissimo magnae Britanniae rege.' Walter Burre (Arber, iii. 566).

1630. Ignoramus. Comœdia coram Regia Majestate Jacobi Regis Angliae, &c. Impensis I. S. [Colophon] Excudebat T. P. [Prologus Prior. Martii 8. Anno 1614; Prologus Posterior. Ad secundum Regis adventum habitus, Maii 6, 1615; Epilogus.]

1630. Secunda editio auctior & emendatior. Typis T. H. Sumptibus G. E. & J. S. [Macaronic lines, headed 'Dulman in laudem Ignorami'.]

1658. Autore M^{ro} Ruggle, Aulae Clarensis A.M.

1659, 1668, 1707, 1731, 1736, 1737.

Edition by J. S. Hawkins (1787).

Chamberlain, describing to Carleton James's visit to Cambridge in March 1615, wrote (Birch, i. 304): 'The second night [8 March] was a comedy of Clare Hall, with the help of two or three good actors from other houses, wherein David Drummond, on a hobby-horse, and Brakin, the recorder of the town, under the name of Ignoramus, a common lawyer, bore great parts. The thing was full of mirth and variety, with many excellent actors; among whom the Lord Compton's