Passages selected by distinguished personages, on the great literary trial of Vortigern and Rowena; a comi-tragedy. ... Volume I.
Dudley, H. Bate,Sir(Henry Bate),1745-1824.
Dudley, Mary Bate.
London : printed by H. Brown, for J. Ridgway,
[1798?]
A satire on the leading public characters of the day in a series of passages professing to be quotations from William Ireland's play; it originally appeared from time to time in the 'Morning herald' and was written by Dudley and his wife (D.N.B.).
Dedication signed: Ralph Register, i.e. Sir Henry Bate Dudley and Mary Dudley, his wife.
Preface of vol 1 dated: "Oct.5, 1795.".
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