The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets/Matthew Medbourn

by Gerard Langbaine

Matthew Medbourn.

An Actor in the Duke’s Company, being a Papist and committed to Newgate about the Popish Plot, where he died; but some Years before he published one Play, called,

Tartuffe; or, the French Puritan, a Comedy, 4 to. 1670. Acted at the Theatre Royal; and dedicated to the Right Honourable, Henry, Lord Howard, of Norfolk. Translated from the French of Molliere.