[1184] Laneham, p. 32.

[1185] See Nichols's Progresses, vol. i. p. 57.

[1186] Laneham, p. 38-39. This was on Sunday evening, July 9.

[1187] The Creation of the World, acted at Skinner's-well in 1409.

[1188] See Stow's Survey of London, 1603, 4to. p. 94 (said in the title-page to be "written in the year 1598"). See also Warton's Observations on Spenser, vol. ii. p. 109.

[1189] The same distinction is continued in the second and third folios, &c.

[1190] See Malone's Shakesp. vol. i. part ii. p. 31.

[1191] Ibid. p. [37].

[1192] Ibid. p. [40].

[1193] See Malone's Shakesp. vol. i. part ii. p. 49. Here histories, or historical plays, are found totally to have excluded the mention of tragedies; a proof of their superior popularity. In an order for the King's comedians to attend King Charles I. in his summer's progress, 1636 (ibid. p. [144]), histories are not particularly mentioned; but so neither are tragedies: they being briefly directed to "act playes, comedyes, and interludes, without any lett," &c.