9. Reverting now to the former attributions of the play to Dr. Bridges and Bishop Still, it is clear, to take the former first, that Dr. Bridges was not "Mr. S." Further, he did not belong to Christ's College, but to Pembroke. These two facts make it difficult to understand why the author of the _Martin Marprelate_ tracts should have thrice claimed for him the authorship of this play, once in the _Epistle_ (1588) and twice in the _Epitome_. In the first the attribution is somewhat ambiguous; but in the others the writer evidently believed what he stated. Dr. Bradley suggests in explanation that as Dr. Bridges was resident at Cambridge in 1560 he may have assisted William Stevenson in the composition or revision of the play. [In a recent letter to the Editor, Dr. Bradley observes, on reading this article, that "if the arguments offered for an Edwardian date are valid, of course Bridges cannot have been the author, though he may well have revised the play for its performance in 1559-60. I suspect he was rather the sort of man to boast of the authorship, even if his real connection with it was slight."] "Bridges might have written comedy in his youth." His writings "abound in sprightly quips, often far from dignified in tone; and his controversial opponents complained, with some justice, of his buffoonery." [Illustration: A pretie and Mery new Enterlude: called the Disobedient Child. Compiled by Thomas Ingelend late student in Cambridge. Imprinted at London in Flete Strete, beneath the Conduit by Thomas Coldwell. [_Reduced Facsimile of Title-page of "The Disobedient Child," from a Copy in the British Museum._]]