The Heir, a Tragi-Comedy, 4 to. 1633. Acted by the Company of Revels. This was accounted an ingenious and modeſt Play, and much commended by Mr. Thomas Carew, who has a Copy of Verſes to that purpoſe, printed with the Play.
The Old Couple, a Comedy, 4 to. 1651. This Play has been formerly in repute, and the chief Deſign of it ſeems to be against Coveteouſneſs.
Two of the above Plays, (viz.) Agrippina and Antigone, are uſually bound together in a ſmall Volume, 12 mo. This Author has publiſh’d a Tranſlation of Lucan’s Pharſalia, 8 vo. 1635. and Virgil’s Georgicks, with Annotations, 1622. alſo a Hiſtory of the late Civil Wars in England, which he calls, A Breviary.
Robert Mead.
He liv’d in the Time of King James and King Charles the Firſt, was of Chriſt-Church-College, Oxon, and writ one Play, which was publiſh’d after his Death. The Title of his Play is,
The Combat of Love and Friendship, a Comedy, formerly preſented by the Gentlemen of Chriſt-Church in Oxon, 4 to. printed at London, 1654.
Matthew Medbourn.
An Actor in the Duke’s Company, being a Papiſt and committed to Newgate about the Popiſh Plot, where he died; but ſome Years before he publiſhed one Play, called,
Tartuffe; or, the French Puritan, a Comedy, 4 to. 1670. Acted at the Theatre Royal; and dedicated to the Right Honourable, Henry, Lord Howard, of Norfolk. Tranſlated from the French of Molliere.
Thomas Meriton.
THis Scribler liv’d ſince the Reſtauration, and accounted the dulleſt and moſt impotent of Dramatick Poets in his Time, he publiſh’d Two Plays:
Love and War, a Tragedy, 4 to. 1658. and dedicated to the truly Noble, Judicious Gentleman, and his moſt eſteemed Brother, Mr. Geo. Meriton. I do not find this Play was ever acted, or deſerved acting.
