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Title: Prologue to Albumazar. Acted by Young Gentlemen at Hackney School - April the: 25th: 1747
Author: Yorke, Charles
Attribution: Mr: C--- Y---e (verso of preceding leaf)
Date(s): 1747 (title)
Manuscript: Lt 119
Contents: A prologue to a performance by the schoolboys of Hackney School of the play Albumazar, by Thomas Tomkis, referring to the obscurity of the author. Cf. the next item (BCMSV 6675).
Title: Epilogue to be Spoken by Trincalo.
Author: Yorke, Charles
Attribution: Mr: C--- Y---e (verso of preceding leaf)
Date(s): 1747
Manuscript: Lt 119
Contents: Epilogue to a performance by the schoolboys of Hackney School of the play Albumazar, by Thomas Tomkis, in 1747; cf. the previous item (BCMSV 6674)
Title: Prologue to Shakespear's first part of Henry the Fourth (Spoken at the same place, April 16th; 1748, the Anniversary of the Battle of Culloden.)
Author: Yorke, Charles
Attribution: Mr: C--- Y---e (verso of preceding leaf)
Date(s): 1748 (title)
Manuscript: Lt 119
Contents: Prologue to a performance of Shakespeare's play Henry IV apparently at Hackney School (cf. the previous two items). praising the discernment of the audience and referring to the royal victory over the Jacobite rebels at the battle of Culloden in
1745
Title: Daniell Wray Esquire. Anagram Is Weary, queer, and ill. 1747.
Author: Yorke, Charles
Attribution: Mr: C--- Y---e (verso of preceding leaf)
Date(s): 1747 (title)
Manuscript: Lt 119
Contents: Acrostic on Daniell Wray Esquire, commenting on his poor health and present lack of wit. The phrase 'Is Weary, queer, and ill' in the title (an anagram of the same name) recurs within the poem.