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158 The Combat of Caps, a Masque which is mentioned in divers Catalogues, but I could never see one.

The Commmons [sic] Condition, a Comedy, of which I can give no Account.

The Constant Nymph; or, The Rambling Shepherd, a Pastoral, 4to. 1678. acted at the Duke's Theatre.

The Cornish Comedy, 4to. 1696. acted at the Theatre Royal in Dorset-Garden, by his Majesty's Servants, this Play was writ by a Cornish Attorney, as I am inform'd, who had better have kept to the other Offices of the Quil, so very different from those of Parnassus. 'Tis dedicated by Mr. Powel to Christopher Rich, Esq; one of the Patentees of his Majesty's Theatre; and usher'd in, like other Plays that miss of Success, with a Preface in its Vindication, let its Fate be never so just.

The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth; or, The Restauration of the Protestant Religion, and the Downfal of the Pope, 4to. 1680. being a most excellent Play, as it was acted both at Bartholomew and Southwark Fairs, with great Applause. This is only a Droll, but the Success the Current of the Times gave it, met with a Bookseller to make it pass the Press; but there is no great Poetry to be expected from it, or any Mastery of Design or Conduct; yet if the Readers have a mind to see a particular Account of the Transactions of that glorious Queen, I wou'd advise them, besides our Chronicles of Stow, Speed, Baker, &c. to read the great Cambdens Elizabeth, and Dr. Burnets History of the Reformation.

The Costly Whore, a comical History, 4to. 1633. acted by the Company of Revels.

The Contention between York and Lancaster, two Parts, with the Death of the good Duke Humphrey, and the Banishment and Death of the Duke of Suffolk, and the Tragical End of the Proud Cardinal of Winchester, with the notable Rebellion of Jack Cade, and the Duke of York's first Claim to the Crown, a Tragedy, 4to. 1600. This Play differs very little from the second Part of Shakespear's Henry the Sixth, fol.

The Counterfeits, a Comedy, 4to. 1679. acted at the Duke's Theatre. Plot from a translated Spanish Novel, called, The Trapanner Trapann'd, 8vo.'' 1655. Some account this Play to be John Leanard's, a great Plagiary''.

The Counterfeit Bridegroom; or, The Defeated Widow; a Comedy, 4to. 1677. acted at his Royal Highness the Duke's Theatre. 'Tis only an old Play of Middleton's, call'd, No Wit like a Woman's, 8vo.

Cromwell's Conspiracy, a Tragi-Comedy. This I never saw. Cruel