The Elizabethan Stage, Vol. 3

by E. K. Chambers

For ascriptions see Edward IV, London Prodigal, Merry Devil of Edmonton, Sir T. More, and Thomas Lord Cromwell in ch. xxiv.

The complete series of his work for the Admiral’s during 1597–1602 is as follows:

(i) Mother Redcap.

Payments, with Munday, Dec. 1597–Jan. 1598.

(ii) The Welshman’s Prize, or The Famous Wars of Henry I and the Prince of Wales.

Payments, with Chettle and Dekker, March 1598. Greg (Henslowe, ii. 192) thinks that the play may have had some relation to Davenport’s Henry I of 1624 entered as by Shakespeare and Davenport in S. R. on 9 Sept. 1653.

(iii) 1 Earl Godwin and his Three Sons.

Payments, with Chettle, Dekker, and Wilson, March 1598.

(iv) 2 Earl Godwin and his Three Sons.

Payments, with Chettle, Dekker, and Wilson, May to June 1598.