Thomas Ingeland.
He was of Cambridge, in Queen Elizabeth’s Reign, writ a Play, intituled,
The Diſobedient Child, 4 to. which he calls, A Pretty Merry Interlude. ’Tis Printed in an old Black Letter, ſo long ſince, that it had not any Date of the Year.
Benjamin Johnſon.
WEſtminſter gave him Birth, and the Firſt Rudiments of his Learning, under Mr. Cambden; which St. John’s-College of Cambridge, and Chriſt-Church of Oxon finiſh’d, where he took his Maſter of Arts Degree; Neceſſity drove him thence, to follow his Father-in-Law’s Trade of a Bricklayer; working at Lincoln’s-Inn, with a Trowel in his Hand, and Horace in his Pocket, he found a Patron that ſet him free from that Slaviſh Employment. He was of an open, free Temper; blunt and haughty to his Antagoniſts and Criticks; a Jovial and Pleaſant Companion; was Poet Laureat to James and Charles the Firſt. He died in the Sixty Third Year of his Age, An. Dom. 1637. and is buried in Weſtminſter-Abby, near the Belfry, with only this Epitaph:
- O RARE BEN. JOHNSON.
His Dramatick Pieces, about Fifty in Number, follow:
The Alchymiſt, a Comedy, Acted by the King’s Majeſty’s Servants, firſt, 1610. and afterwards printed, viz. 1640. and 1692.
Bartholomew-Fair, a Comedy, Fol. 1640. and 1692. Acted firſt at the Hope, on the Bank-ſide, 1614, by the Lady Elizabeth’s Servants, and Dedicated to King James the Firſt; and Acted with good Applauſe, since King Charles the Second’s Reſtauration.
Cateline his Conſpiracy, a Tragedy, Fol. 1640. and 1692. and in 4 to. 1611. Acted firſt by the King’s Majeſty’s Servants, 1611. and ſometimes ſince the Reſtauration, with good Applauſe. Is Dedicated to William, then Earl of Pembrock. Plot from Saluſt. Hiſt. Plutarch in Vit. Cit.
Challenge at Tilt, at a Marriage, a Maſque, Fol. 1640, and 1692.
Chriſtmas’s Maſque, Fol. 1640, and 1692. This was firſt Preſented at Court, 1616.
