[16] This is Osborn's suggestion, p. 235.
[17] Fewer than 25 plays in Momus are missing from the index. Of these Shakespeare's Henry VIII and Sir Robert Howard's Committee are the most significant. The Index lists several plays which are omitted from the main list, most interestingly "Revenger's Tragedy, By C. T."
[18] Osborn, p. 240.
[19] Henry Burnel, Esq.; James Carlile; Sir John Denham; Joseph Harris; Will. Mountford; George Powel; John Stephens; Dr. Robert Wild; R. D.; J. W.
[20] "—Peaps" and "J. Swallow."
[21] Decker, Wonder of the Kingdom; Unknown, Robin Conscience; and Unknown, Woman Will Have Her Will.
[22] Although Langbaine claims to use "the best Edition of each Book" (Preface, [A3v]), one of his eighteenth-century annotators, Bishop Percy, is right in saying that "Langbaine's Work would have been more valuable if he had everywhere set down the First Editions," but "the editions referred to" are "such as he happened to have in his possession." Oldys had earlier expressed the same bibliographical regret more succinctly: "A woeful Chronologist art thou, Gerard Langbaine." These opinions are quoted by Alun Watkin-Jones in his survey of annotated copies of the Account: "Langbaine's Account of the English Dramatick Poets (1691)," Essays and Studies by Members of the English Association, XXI (1936), 77.
[23] For his biography and that of his father, Gerard Langbaine the Elder, see Anthony Wood, Athenae Oxonienses, ed. Philip Bliss (London, 1813-1820), III, 446-468. There is a note recording an illicit romance for the son in Andrew Clark, The Life and Times of Anthony Wood (Oxford, 1891), I, 237-238.
[24] Wood, III, 446.
[25] Wood, III, 366.