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at the Theatre in Little
Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, and
in the fummer feafon, yet
met with very good fuccefs.
The Innocent Ufurper ; or,
The Death of the Lady Jane
Gray. Trag. by J. Banks,
4to. 1694. This play was
prohibited the ftage on ac-
count of fome miilaken cen-
fures and groundlefs infinu-
ations that it reflected on
the government. The au-
thor in his dedication,
however, has vindicated
himfelf from that charge,
by fetting forth, that it was
written ten years before, fo
that it could not poilifaly
have been meant to call a
reflection on the prefent go-
vernment. It is far from
being the worft of his dra-
matic writings ; and al-
though it falls lhort of Mr.
Rowe's Tragedy on the
fame ftory, yet it excells it
with reipect to the pathos,
and a ftrict adherence to
hiitoricaLfact. The plot is
built on the fuffer.ngs of
that fair unfortunate victim
to the ambition of her rela-
tions ; and the fcene lies in
the Tower.
The Incculator Com. by.
George Saviile Carey, 8vo.
1766. .
The In qui fit ion. F. by J .
Philips,, gyp. 1 7 17. This
piece was -never performed,
but is luppofed to be acted
at Child's CoiFee-houfe., and
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the King's Arms Tavern in
St. Paul's Church-yard,
The fubject of it is the con-
troverfy between the Bifhop
of Bangor and Dr. Snape.
The Infatiate Couhtefs,
Trag. by J. Marfton, 4J0.
1603.
The Infignificanis. Com.
of five acts, by Dr. Bacon,
8vo. 1757.
The Infolvent ; or, Filial
Piety. Trag. by Aaron
Hill. Aaed at the Hay-
market, 8vo. 1758. This
play was altered by Mr.
Hiil from an old manufcript
play, called, The Gmltlefs
Adulterefs, which had long
been in the hands of the
managers of Drury-Lane,
and was fuppofed to have
been written by Sir Wm.
Davenant.
The lnjlitution of the Order
of the Garter. Dramatic
Poem, by Gilb. Weil, 4 to.
1742. This piece was never
intended for the itage, yet
is truly dramatic, and has
many very good things in
it. It is republiined in
Dodfley's Collection of
Poems in fix volumes, 1 2mo.
Dr. Johnfon obferves, that
this piece is written with
fufficient knowledge of the
manners that prevailed in
the age to which it is re-
ferred, and with great ele-
gance of diction ; but for
want of a procefs of events,
neither knowledge nor ele-
gance