The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets/James Carlile
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He was born, as I'm informed, in Lancashire, he first appear'd in the World as a Player, and gave no small Promises of making considerable Progress in that way; he left the Stage while he was yet young, and took to the Wars; got no little Reputation in the Irish Expeditions under his Present Majesty, and with his Brother, lost his Life in the Bed of Honour. He gave us a Play called,
The Fortune Hunters; or, Two Fools well met. Com. 4to. This was Acted with Applause, as it has been lately revived by the Patentees Company.