The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets/Richard Carpenter

by Gerard Langbaine

Richard Carpenter.

This Author lived in the latter end of King James I. and the beginning of King Charles I. Publish'd one Play called,

The Pragmatical Jesuit new Leaven'd, 4to. A Play tends to Morality and Vertue; so 'tis doubted whether the Author was not a Divine, there being Three Sermons Publish'd under the same Name, in the latter end of the Reign of King James I.