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64  Know no more of this Author, than that he writ five Plays in the time of K. Charles I. which follow:

Albertus Wallentein; a Tragedy, 1640. Acted at the Globe on the Bank ide by his Majety’s Servants. See the German writers of Ferdinand the 2.d’s Reign. Spondanus’s Continuation of Baronius, &c.

Argalus and Parthenia, a Tragi-Comedy, 4 to. 1639. This Play was preented before the King and Queen at Court; and afterwards Acted at the private Houe in Drury Lane by their Majeties Servants. Plot from Sir Philip Sidney’s Arcadia, fol.

The Hollander; a Comedy, 4 to. 1640. Acted at the Cock-Pit in Drury Lane, as alo at Court before their Majeties.

The Ladies Priviledge; a Comedy, 4 to. 1640. Acted both at Court before their Majeties, and at the Cock-Pit in Drury Lane, by their Majeties Servants.

Wit in a Contable; a Comedy, 4 to. 1640. Acted at the Cock-Pit in Drury Lane, by their Majeties Servants.

He alo Publihed a Poem call’d Whitehall, which are Printed in Quarto 1639. E was born about the year 1592. began his Studies at Wetminter-School, finih’d them at Christ-Church, Oxon, whether he remov’d at Eighteen. He went out Batchelor of Divinity, and had the Living of Eat-Clandon in Surrey, and a Xantippe to his Wife, whoe Tongue, &c. he could not bear o indifferently as ometimes, but as my Author oberves, let it horten his Days. He was Buried in the aid Parih-Church, 1627. and has written divers Poetical Pieces: His Plays five in Number, follow:

The CareleSS 3 ShepherdeSS 3, a Patoral, 4 to. 1656. Acted at Salisbury-Court, before their Majeties the King and Queen with good Applaue. To which Play is added an Alphabetical Catalogue of all Plays till that time publihed in English, but very Erronious.

The Couragious Turk; or, Amurath the First, a Tragedy, 8 vo. 1656. Acted by the Students of Chrit-Church in Oxon. For the Plot, ee Leunclavius, Chalcocondylas, Knolles, &c. in the Reign of Amurath.

Cretes his Tragedy, 8 vo. 1636. Acted also by the Students of Chrit-Church in Oxon. Plot from Euripides’s Oretes; or, Sophocles’s Electra. Raging