Gerard Langbaine, The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets… (1698)
“ He was Comptroller to King Charles the First. An excellent Musician and Poet: made a Campaign with Gustavus, and was in Five Sieges, Three Battles, &c. he was at the Expence of 12000 l. to raise a Troop for the King. He writ Four Plays, viz. Aglaura, a Tragi-Comedy, fol. and 8 vo. presented at the private House in Black-Fryars. The Author has so alter’d the last Act, that ’tis at the Pleasure of the Actors to make it a Tragedy or Tragi-Comedy. Brenoralt; or, The Discontented Colonel; a Tragedy, 8 vo. presented by his Majesty’s Servants, / at the private House in Black-Fryars. ”
