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View of the Tragedies of the laſt Age; tho’ I cannot ſo much as agree with thoſe that allow moſt of the Errors he has found in Shakeſpear, Juſt; for I’m confident it may be made Evident, that not the fifth part have any Juſtice. He, ſince the Death of Mr. Shadwell, has the Place of Hiſtoriographer to his Majeſty, for which Office ’tis certain his Learning very well qualifies him.

Edgar; or, The Engliſh Monarch, an Heroick Tragedy, 4 to. 1678. dedicated to King Charles the Second. Mr. Ravenſcroft hath writ a Play on the ſame Subject, publiſhed the Year before this. For the Plot, conſult W. Malmsbury, H. H. Huntingdon, Rog. Hoveden, Pol. Virgil, and other Engliſh Chronicles: ſee alſo The Annals of Love, 8 vo.


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Thomas Sackvile, ſee Norton.

Thomas St. Serf.

The Author of one Play, called,

Tarugo’s Wiles; or, The Coffee-Houſe, a Comedy, 4 to. 1668. acted at the Duke of York’s Theatre; dedicated to the Right Honourable, George, Marqueſs of Huntley. One part of this Play is built on No Puedeſer; or, It cannot be, a Spaniſh Play: and another part on Sir Courtly Nice, written by Mr. Crown.

William Sampſon.

A Retainer of Sir Henry Willoughby’s Family of Richley in Derbyſhire, in the Reign of King Charles the Firſt. He writ one Play and part of another.

The Vow-breaker; or, The Fair Maid of Clifton, in Nottinghamſhire; a Tragedy, 4 to. 1633. acted by ſeveral Companies with great Applauſe; and dedicated to Mrs. Ann Willoughby, Daughter to Sir Henry, aforeſaid.

Herod and Antipater, a Tragedy, 4 to. See Markham, with whom he joined in this.

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