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Rh The Honourable History of Fryar Bacon, and Fryar Bungy, a Comedy, 4to. For the Plot consult Plot's Hist. of Oxonshire, and ''Wood Antiquit. Oxon. &c.''

Looking-Glass for London and England. For this see the Account of Dr. Lodge, with whom he joined in this Divine Drama. This Author has writ divers other Pieces, most of them Printed in an old Black Letter.

UR Poet in the midst of the late Civil Wars, devoted himself to the Muses, and among their Productions is a Play, called,

The Queen of Arragon, a Tragi-Comedy, Fol. 1649. Acted both at Court and the Black-Fryars. He has a Book of Poems, called, Castara, 8vo. 1640. also the History or Chronicle of Edward the Fourth, Fol. 1640. Player yet living, and Brother to the Famous Organist of the City of London; he has been more than once aiming at Authority, by the Help of his Friends; he has Publish'd Two Plays under his Name, called,

The Mistakes, or the False Report, a Comedy, 4to. 1691. which Play, as I am inform'd, was originally compos'd by another, and put into his Hands, and so he made shift, by altering it, to spoil it.

The City-Bride, or the Merry Cuckold, a Comedy, Acted at the new Theatre in Little Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, by his Majesty's Servants; 4to. 1696. and dedicated to the Honourable Sir John Walter, Bar. This Play miscarried, tho' borrowed from John Webster's Cure for a Cuckold, whole Scenes being the same, but spoil'd by the Transposer; for which he wou'd seem to make amends, by the Performances of the Musicians, and so far he is in the Right. E was born at Oundle, in Northamptonshire, proceeded to Master of Arts, in Queens-College, Cambridge, in the Reign of Charles the