Royal King, and Loyal Subject, a Tragi-Comedy, 4 to. 1627. Acted by the Queen’s Servants, with good Applauſe. Compare this with the Loyal Subject, writ by Beaumont and Fletcher.
Wiſe Woman of Hogsden, a Comedy, 4 to. 1638, often times Acted with good Applauſe.
Woman Kill’d with Kindneſs, a Comedy. 4 to. 1617. Acted by the Queen’s Servants, with good Applauſe.
Our Author has Publiſhed ſeveral other Pieces, in Verſe and Proſe, as The Hierarchy of Angels, Fol. The Life and Troubles of Queen Elizabeth, 8 vo. The Lives of Nine Women Worthies, 4 to. The General Hiſtory of Women, 8 vo. An Apology for Actors, 4 to. and Pleaſant Dialogues and Dramas, 8 vo.
Henry Higden, Eſq;
I Know not whether this Gentleman be yet living or not; but he was a Barriſter of the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple: A Perſon known to all the converſable part of the Town, for his Pleaſant and Facetious Company; and allow’d to be a Man of Wit, tho’ it were to be wiſh’d he had not Publiſh’d his Play of
The wary Widdow, or, Sir Noiſy Parrat, a Comedy, 4 to. Acted at the Theatre Royal, by their Majeſties Servants, 1693. and Dedicated to the Right Honourable, Charles, Earl of Dorſet and Middleſex, &c. The ill Succeſs of this Play, the Author gives us in the Preface, which complains of the ungenerous Uſage the Bear-garden Criticks gave it with Catcalls, &c. which, how ſhort ſoever it may be of what might be expected from ſo celebrated a Wit, as Mr. Higden was eſteemed, it could never deſerve; since Sir Charles Sidley could think it worthy a Prologue of his making. ’Tis uſher’d into the World by Five Copies of Engliſh Verſe, and One of Latin.
Barton Holyday.
He was born in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, in All-Saints Pariſh in Oxon; his Couſin, Dr. Ravis, early entred, and choſe him Student of Chriſt-church; after his Degrees of Batchelor and Maſter of Arts, was made Archdeacon of Oxonſhire, died 1661. at Eifly, near Oxon, and was buried at Chriſt-Church in Oxon. He writ One Play, under the Title of
Τεχνογαμια, or, The Marriage of the Arts, a Comedy, 4 to. 1630. Acted by the Students of Chriſt-Church, aforeſaid, at Shrovetide. This Play was then in good Eſteem. He hath written divers Pieces, as his Tranſlation of the Satyrs of Juvenal and Perſeus,
