FIVE QUERIES AND NOTES ON BOOKS, MEN, AND AUTHORS

1. *Newburgh Hamilton*.—Can any of your readers inform me who Newburgh Hamilton was? He wrote two pieces in my library, viz. (1.) *Petticoat Plotter*, a farce in two acts; acted at Drury Lane and Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, 1720, 12mo. This has been mutilated by Henry Ward, a York comedian, and actually printed by him as his *own* production, in the collection of plays and poems going under his name, published in 1745, 8vo., a copy of which I purchased at Nassau's sale, many years since. (2.) *The Doating Lovers, or the Libertine Tamed*, a comedy in five acts; acted in Lincoln's Inn Fields.…