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Lewis Macchin.
This Author liv’d in the Time of King Charles the Firſt, and writ one Play, called,
The Dumb Knight, a Comedy, 4 to. 1633. Acted by the Children of his Majeſty’s Revels. Compare this Play with one called, The Queen; or, The Excellency of her Sex: ſee alſo, The Complaiſant Companion, 8 vo. and 12 mo. and Bandello’s Novels, Tom. 1. Nov. 13, &c.
Maidwell.
A Gentleman yet living, who having made it his Buſineſs for ſome Years, to educate young Gentlemen, and initiate them in the Learned Tongues, has at length quitted this Ludum Literarium, for a quiet retreat, during his Application to this Buſineſs, he found time to write a Play, called,
The Loving Enemies, a Comedy, 4 to. 1680. Acted at the Duke of York’s Theatre in Dorſet Garden, and dedicated to the Honourable, Charles Fox, Eſq; The Author ſeems to have imitated the Virtuoſo, in this Play.
Dr. Jaſper Maine.
THis learned Author was born[1] at a place called, Hatherleigh, a Market Town in Devonſhire, An. Dom. 1604. and in the Time of King James the Firſt, paſſed from Weſtminſter-School, to Chriſt-Church, Oxon, An. Dom. 1623. in the Condition of a Servitor, where he was encouraged in his Studies by Dr. Duppa, and the next Year choſen into the Number of Students on that noble Foundation. He paſſed his Degrees till he entred into Orders, and Plurality of Two Livings near that Univerſity, both in the Gift of the College. After his being made Doctor of Divinity, and turn’d out by the Viſitation of the late Government of Oliver Cromwel, he was received into the Family of the Earl of Devon, having loſt both his Livings. In the Reſtauration of the King, he
- ↑ Wood Athenæ Oxonienſes, Vol. 2. p. 372, 373.
