Thomas Stanley, Eſq;
A Learned Gentleman of Cumberloe-Green, in Hertfordſhire, who in the time of King Charles the Firſt, writ the Hiſtory of the Philoſophers, and in that a Play of Ariſtophanes, called,
The Clouds, a Comedy, fol. 1687. Tranſlated from Ariſtophanes, printed with his Hiſtory of Philoſophy, Re-printed about Ten Years ſince. He tranſlated Æſchylus’s Tragedies into Latin; also Anacreon and Moſchus, from the Greek. He has publiſh’d likewiſe divers Tranſlations from Latin, Spaniſh, and Italian; beſides his Poems in Engliſh, 8 vo. and two ſmall Romances or Novels, 8 vo.
Sir Robert Stapleton.
A Learned Author who was Gentleman Uſher of the Privy Chamber to King Charles the Second; and is, I ſuppoſe, ſtill living. He writ Two Plays:
Hero and Leander, a Tragedy, 4 to. 1669. dedicated to her Grace, the Dutcheſs of Monmouth. Plot from Ovid’s Epiſtles, and Muſæus’s Erotopagnion, Greek, and Latin.
The Slighted Maid, a Comedy, 4 to. 1663. dedicated to his Grace, the Duke of Monmouth. Plot from Mart. Epigr. 4. &c.
John Stephens.
THis Author, who liv’d in the Reign of King James the firſt, writ one very long Play, call’d,
Cynthia’s Revenge, a Tragedy, 4 to. 1613. Plot from Lucan’s Pharſalia, and Ovid’s Metamorphoſis, lib. 13.
William Strode.
POet and Divine in the Reign of King Charles the Frſt; he was born in Devonſhire, entred at Nineteen, and admitted Student of Chriſt-Church, Oxon; having taken moſt of his Degrees, was choſe Univerſity-Orator, and after that commenc’d Doctor, and was made a Cannon by the King. He died March 11. 1644, and was buried at Chriſt-Church afore-ſaid.
The Floating Iſland, a Comedy, 4 to. 1655. acted by the Students of Chriſt-Church, before his Majeſty, at Oxon. 1639. The Airs and Songs were set by Mr. Henry Lawes. The Author had tranſcri-
