Note 30 — SOME ACCOUNT OF MIDDLETON AND HIS WORKS.

Letters, p. 123, ed. 1678. The letter is dated “Aug. 15, 1623;” and the last Editor of Dodsley’s Old Plays, after citing the passage, says, “This remark was made in the August of the year preceding the calling of Middleton before the Privy Council, and must therefore allude to some other play than the Game of [at] Chess,” vol. v. p. 279. Let us hear Oldys: “The first edition [of Howel’s Letters] in Qo 1645 is in Six Parts or Sections; but no dates to any of the Letters: Hence so many Errors when he did date them.” MS. note on Langbaine’s Account of Engl. Dram. Poets, p. 279. (British Museum.)