Note 2 — SOME ACCOUNT OF MIDDLETON AND HIS WORKS.

In Harl. MS. 1116, fol. 115, is a note of this grant to William Middleton; but it supplies no information about his place of residence. The Middletons of Middleton Hall bore “Argent, a saltier ingrailed Sable:” he does not appear, however, to have belonged to that family; see Nicolson and Burns’s Hist. of West. and Cumb., vol. i. p. 255.

I may add, that from the dedication of The Triumphs of Truth to Sir Thomas Middleton, Lord Mayor of London in 1613, we learn that our dramatist was not related to him: “next, in that myself, though unworthy, being of one name with your lordship ... as if one fate did prosperously cleave to one name,” &c., vol. v. p. 217. The family of Sir Thomas Middleton was of Denbigh: he was brother to Sir Hugh Middleton.