Edward Phillips Brother to John Phillips aforesaid, the Judicious Continuator of Sir Richard Bakers Chronicle; which will make his name Famous to Posterity, no less than his Genuine Poems upon several occasions, in which he comes not far short of his Spritely Brother.

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Mr. THOMAS SPRAT.

Mr. Thomas Sprat, whose judicious History of the Royal Society, for the Smoothness of the Stile, and exactness of the Method, deserveth high Commendations; He hath also writ in Verse a very applauded, tho little Poem, entitled The Plague of Athens.

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WILLIAM SMITH.

William Smith the Author of a Tragedy entituled Hieronymo; as also The Hector of Germany.

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Mr. JOHN LACEY.

Mr. John Lacy, one of the noted’st Wits of these Times, who as William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlow before him, rose from an Actor to be an Author to the Stage, having written two ingenious Comical Pieces, viz. Monsieur Ragou, and the Dumb Lady.

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Mr. WILLIAM WHICHERLY.

Mr. William Whicherly, a Gentleman of the Inner Temple, who besides his other learned Works, hath contributed largely to the Stage, in his Comedies of Love in a Wood, The Gentleman Dancing-Master, The Country Wife, &c.

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Sir ROGER L’ESTRANGE.

And so we have reckoned up all the most Eminent Poets which have come to our knowledge, craving pardon for those we have omitted.  We shall conclude all with Sir Roger L’Strange, one whose Pen was never idle in asserting the Royal Cause, as well before the King’s Restoration, against his open Enemies, as since that time against his Feigned Friends.  Those who shall consider the Number and Greatness of his Books, will admire he should ever write so many, and those who have Read them, considering the Stile and Method they are writ in, will more admire he should Write so well.  And because some people may imagine his Works not to be so many as he hath written, we will give you a Catalogue of as many as we can remember of them.

Collections In Defence of the King. Tolleration Discussed. Relapsed Apostate. Apology for Protestants. Richard against Baxter. Tyranny and Popery. Growth of Knavery. Reformed Catholique. Free-born Subjects. The Case Put. Seasonable Memorials. Answer to the Appeal. No Papist. The Shammer Shamm’d. Account Cleared. Reformation Reformed. Dissenters Sayings in Two Parts. Notes on Colledge. Citizen and Bumkin in Two Parts. Further Discovery of the Plot. Discovery on Discovery. Narrative of the Plot. Zekiel and Ephraim. Appeal to the King and Parliament. Papist in Masquerade. Answer to the Second Character of a Popish Successor.

These Twenty Six, with divers others, he writ in Quarto; Besides which he wrote divers others, viz.