Gerard Langbaine, The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets… (1698)
“ Laws, who compos’d the Musick, dedicating it to the Right Honourable, John, Lord Viscount Brackley, Son and Heir Apparent to John, Earl of Bridgewater, Viscount Brackley, Lord President of Wales, and one of his Majesty’s most Honourable Privy Council; before whom it was presented. He writ besides, divers Pieces in Poetry and History, as Paradise Lost, 8 vo. and Fol. with Sculptures ”
