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is not known, but there are two Letters of his Name put to the Title Page; (viz.) W. R. Master of Arts.

The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth; or, The Restauration of the Protestant Religion, &c.

Mr. S. Master of Arts.

The Author of this ancient Play, printed in a Black Letter, is styled by him, A right Pithy, Pleasant, and Merry Comedy, called,

Gammer Gurton’s Needle; a Comedy, 4to. 1561. acted at Christ’s-College, Cambridge, near a Hundred Years ago.

J. S.

UNder these Two Letters are publish’d these following Plays, viz.

Andromama; or, The Merchants Wife, a Tragedy, 4to. 1660. Plot from Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia, in the Story of Plangus, p. 155.

Masquerade du Ciel, a Masque, 4to. 1640. and dedicated to the Queen.

Phillis of Scyros, a Pastoral, 4to. 1655. Translated from the Italian of C. Guidubaldo di Bonarelli.

The Prince of Priggs Revels; or, The Practises of that grand Thief, Captain James Hinde, a Comedy, 4to. This Piece I cou’d never yet get a Sight of.

S. S.

THis Author publish’d only this single Play, entituled,

The Honest Lawyer, a Comedy, 4to. 1616, acted by the Queen’s Servants.

J. T.

UNder these two Letters we may find two Plays printed, viz.

Grim, the Collier of Croyden; or, The Devil and his Dam, with the Devil of St. Dunstan's, a Comedy, 8vo. 1662. Plot from Machiavel's Marriage of Belphegor, a Novel, fol. ’tis also printed with Quevedo's Novels, 8vo. and in the Ternary of Plays.

Troas, a Tragedy, 4to. 1686. translated from Seneca.

C. W.