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102 of Numbers us’d in his Friends Patoral: What Authority he may have for it, I don’t know. HE Birth and Parentage of this Author I know nothing of; the firt Figure he made was,in the part of Tall-Boy, on the Stage, for which, being taken Notice, he was advanc’d on the Theatre, till he got into the Family of the late Lord Chancellor Jefferies; from whence he return’d to the Stage, where he continued till he was kill’d in Norfolk-Buildings, London. He has publih’d three Plays.

Greenwich-Park, a Comedy, 4 to. 1691. Acted at the Theatre Royal, by their Majeties Servants, and dedicated to the Right Honourable, Algernon, Earl of Eex, Vicount Malden, &c. This is a very pretty Comedy, and has been always received with general Applaue.

The Injur’d Lovers; or, The Ambitious Father, a Tragedy, 4 to. 1688. the Dedication is to the Right Honourable, James, Earl of Arran, Son to his Grace, the Duke of Hamilton. This Play did not ucceed as the Author wih’d.

The Life and Death of Dr. Fautus, made into a Farce, with the Humours of Harlequin and Scaramauch, as they were everal times acted by Mr. Lee and Mr. Jevoa, at the Queen’s Theatre in Doret-Garden, newly reviv’d at the Theatre in Lincoln’s-Inn-Fields.

The Succesful Strangers, a Tragi-Comedy, 4 to. 1690. Acted by their Majeties Servants, at the Theatre Royal. Its Dedication is to the Right Honourable, Thomas (now Lord) Wharton, Comptroller of his Majety’s Houhold. The Catatrophe from The Rival Brothers, in Scarron’s Novels. This Play omewhat exceeded the preceding one.

E was accounted a Third Rate Poet, who liv’d in King Charles the Firt’s Time, there is publihed of his Writings, Eight Dramatick Pieces, which follow in Alphabetical Order:

The Bride, called, a pleaant Comedy, 4 to. 1646. Acted firt, Two Years before, at the Private Houe in Drury-Lane, by their Majeties