The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets/Gervase Markham

by Gerard Langbaine

Gervase Markham.

THis Author was Son to Robert Markham, of Cotham in Nottinghamshire, Esq; was born in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, and liv’d to have a Captain’s Command in the Civil war, under King Charles the First. He writ curious Pieces of Husbandry, Horsemanship, and War, and one Play, in which one Sampson assisted, intituled,

Herod and Antipater, a Tragedy, 4 to. 1622. Plot from Josephus Hist. Jews, Book 14, 15, &c. Spondanus, Baronii Ann. Salian Torniel, &c.