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120 View of the Tragedies of the lat Age; tho’ I cannot o much as agree with thoe that allow mot of the Errors he has found in Shakepear, Jut; for I’m confident it may be made Evident, that not the fifth part have any Jutice. He, ince the Death of Mr. Shadwell, has the Place of Hitoriographer to his Majety, for which Office ’tis certain his Learning very well qualifies him.

Edgar; or, The Englih Monarch, an Heroick Tragedy, 4 to. 1678. dedicated to King Charles the Second. Mr. Ravencroft hath writ a Play on the ame Subject, publihed the Year before this. For the Plot, conult W. Malmsbury, H. H. Huntingdon, ''Rog. Hoveden, Pol. Virgil, and other Englih Chronicles: ee alo The Annals of Love, 8 vo.''

HE Author of one Play, called,

Tarugo’s Wiles; or, The Coffee-Houe, a Comedy, 4 to. 1668. acted at the Duke of York’s Theatre; dedicated to the Right Honourable, George, Marques of Huntley. One part of this Play is built on No Puedeer; or, It cannot be, a Spanih Play: and another part on Sir Courtly Nice, written by Mr. Crown. Retainer of Sir Henry Willoughby’s Family of Richley in Derbyhire, in the Reign of King Charles the Firt. He writ one Play and part of another.

The Vow-breaker; or, The Fair Maid of Clifton, in Nottinghamhire; a Tragedy, 4 to. 1633. acted by everal Companies with great Applaue; and dedicated to Mrs. Ann Willoughby, Daughter to Sir Henry, aforeaid.

Herod and Antipater, a Tragedy, 4 to. See Markham, with whom he joined in this. George