Note 15 — SOME ACCOUNT OF MIDDLETON AND HIS WORKS.

Id. ibid. There can be no question that this is the piece which, according to Mr. Collier, in a part of Henslowe’s Diary not cited by Malone, is called The Chester Tragedy. Hist. of Engl. Dram. Poetry, vol. iii. p. 102. When Malone (ubi supra) observed, that Randall Earl of Chester “was probably The Mayor of Queenborough,” he must have utterly forgotten the subject of the latter play.

Weber erroneously states that Middleton “wrote in combination with Ford.” Introd. to Works of Beaumont and Fletcher, p. xliv.