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.