Item I/ii/20 - Two Plaies. The City Match: A Comedy and The Amorous Warre: A Tragi -Comedy

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GB 2014 WS-01-GRE-I/ii/20

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Two Plaies. The City Match: A Comedy and The Amorous Warre: A Tragi -Comedy

Date(s)

  • 1957 (Accumulation)
  • 1658 (Publication)

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4to, 1 volume

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Name of creator

(1604-1672)

Biographical history

MAYNE, JASPER, son of Jasper Mayne, Hatherleigh, Devon; bapt. Hatherleigh, Devon mettayer 23 Nov 1604; at school under Wilson (G. Langbaine, An Account of the English Dramatick Poets, 1691); Jesus Coll. Cambridge, adm. sizar 23 Dec 1623; migrated to Christ Church, Oxford, adm. as servitor, matr. 10 Oct 1628, aged 20, Canoneer Student 1627 – expelled 2 Oct 1648 by Parliamentary Visitors for non-submission; BA 1628; MA 1631; BD 1642; DD 1646; acquired the Oxford reputation of being “a quaint preacher and a noted poet”; ordained; Rector of Cassington, Oxfordshire 1639 – c. 1652; Vicar of Pyrton, Oxfordshire 30 Mar 1648-56; reinstated in benefices and Studentship at Restoration; Archdeacon of Chichester from 2 Jul 1660; Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, from 27 Jul 1660; Chaplain in Ordinary to Charles II; wrote a number of verses; translated some of Lucian’s Dialogues; author of plays The City Match, 1639, and The Amorous War, 1648; d. 6 Dec 1672. Buried Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. DNB.

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Access to rare books is granted to bona-fide researchers, by prior appointment, in cases where the item in unavailable at another UK repository.

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A reprographics service is available to researchers subject to the access restrictions outlined above. Copying will not be undertaken if there is any risk of damage to the item. Copies are supplied in accordance with Westminster School's Policy on Archive and Heritage Collections, and under provisions of any relevant copyright legislation. Permission to reproduce images of items in the custody of Westminster School must be sought from its Governing Body.

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  • English

Script of material

  • Latin

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City Match stitched, uncut; Warre from another source, disbound

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WS-GRE-I/ii/20

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GB 2014

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Final

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Partial

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  • English

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  • Latin

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