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Sir Thomas More, Troublesome Reign of King John, and Warning for Fair Women (cf. ch. xxiv), and in Greene's James IV and Shakespeare's Henry VI. JANE, LADY LUMLEY (c. 1537-77). Jane, daughter of Henry Fitzalan, 12th Earl of Arundel, married John, Lord Lumley, c. 1549. Iphigenia (?) [MS.] Brit. Mus. MS. Reg. 15 A. ix, 'The doinge of my Lady Lumley dowghter to my L. Therle of Arundell . . . [f. 63] The Tragedie of Euripides called Iphigeneia translated out of Greake into Englisshe.' Editions by H. H. Child (1909, M. S. R.) and G. Becker (1910, Jahrbuch, xlvi. 28). The translation is from the Iphigenia in Aulis. It is likely to be pre-Elizabethan, but I include it here, as it is not noticed in The Mediaeval Stage. THOMAS LUPTON (?-?). Several miscellaneous works by Lupton appeared during 1572-84. He may be the 'Mr. Lupton' whom the Corporation of Worcester paid during the progress of 1575 (Nichols, i. 549) 'for his paynes for and in devising [and] instructing the children in their speeches on the too Stages'. All For Money. 1558 < > 77

S. R. 1577, Nov. 25. 'An Enterlude intituled all for money.' Roger Ward (Arber, ii. 321). 1578. A Moral and Pitieful Comedie, Intituled, All for Money. Plainly representing the manners of men, and fashion of the world noweadayes. Compiled by T. Lupton. Roger Ward and Richard Mundee.

Editions by J. O. Halliwell (1851, Literature of Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries), E. Vogel (1904, Jahrbuch, xl. 129), J. S. Farmer (1910, T. F. T.).

A final prayer for the Queen who 'hath begon godly' suggests an earlier date than that of Lupton's other recorded work. Fleay, ii. 56, would identify the play with The Devil and Dives named in the anonymous Histriomastix, but Dives only appears once, and not with Satan.


JOHN LYLY (1554?-1606).

Lyly was of a gentle Hampshire family, the grandson of William, high master of St. Paul's grammar school, and son of Peter, a diocesan official at Canterbury, where he was probably born some seventeen years before 8 Oct. 1571, when he matriculated from Magdalen College, Oxford. He took his B.A. in 1573 and his M.A. in 1575, after a vain attempt in 1574 to secure a fellowship through the influence of Burghley. He went to London and dwelt in the Savoy. By 1578, when he