third group a few which might alternatively have been brought into ch. xxiii under the name of a part-author or describer.] A. PLAYS _An Alarum for London > 1600_ _S. R._ 1600, May 27. ‘Allarum to London’ is included in a memorandum of ‘my lord chamberlens menns plaies Entred’ and noted as entered on this day to J. Roberts (Arber, iii. 37). 1600, May 29. ‘The Allarum to London, provided that yt be not printed without further Aucthoritie.’ _John Roberts_ (Arber, iii. 161). 1602. A Larum for London, or The Siedge of Antwerpe. With the ventrous actes and valorous deeds of the lame Soldier. As it hath been playde by the right Honorable the Lord Chamberlaine his Seruants. _For William Ferbrand._ [Prologue and Epilogue.] _Editions_ by R. Simpson (1872), J. S. Farmer (1912, _T.F.T._), and W. W. Greg (1913, _M.S.R._). The play has been ascribed to Shakespeare by Collier, to Shakespeare and Marston by Simpson, and to Lodge by Fleay, _Shakespeare_, 291, but no serious case has been made out for any of these claims. Bullen, _Marlowe_, 1, lxxiv, says that Collier had a copy with doggerel rhymes on the t.p. including the line, Our famous Marloe had in this a hand, which Bullen calls ‘a very ridiculous piece of forgery’. _Albion Knight > 1566_ _S. R._ 1565–6. ‘A play intituled a merye playe bothe pytthy and pleasaunt of Albyon knyghte.’ _Thomas Colwell_ (Arber, i. 295). Fragment in Devonshire collection. [The t.p. is lost, but the seventeenth-century play lists (Greg, _Masques_, xlvii) include an interlude called _Albion_. A fragment on Temperance and Humility, conjecturally assigned by Collier, i. 284, to the same play, is of earlier printing by thirty years or so (_M.S.C._ i. 243).] _Editions_ by J. P. Collier (1844, _Sh. Soc. Papers_, i. 55) and W. W. Greg (1910, _M. S. C._ i. 229).--_Dissertations_: M. H. Dodds, _The Date of A. K._ (1913, 3 _Library_, iv. 157); G. A. Jones, _The Political Significance of A. K._ (1918, _J. G. P._ xvii. 267). Collier suggests that this was the play disliked at court on 31 Dec. 1559, but, as Fleay, 66, points out, that would hardly have been licensed for printing. Dodds thinks it motived by the Pilgrimage of Grace (1536–7) and written shortly after. _Alice and Alexis_ A fragment (to iii. 1) of a play on the loves of Alice and Alexis, thwarted by Tanto, with an argument of the whole, is in _Douce MS._ 171 (_Bodl._ 21745), f. 48^v. The date ‘1604’ is scribbled amongst the pages. The manuscript also contains sixteenth-century accounts. There seems nothing to connect this with Massinger’s _Alexius, or the Chaste Lover_, licensed by Herbert on 25 Sept. 1639 and apparently included in Warburton’s list of burnt plays (3 _Library_, ii. 232, 249). _Alphonsus, Emperor of Germany > 1636_ _S. R._ 1653, Sept. 9. ‘A play called Alphonso, Emperor of Germany, by John Poole.’ _H. Moseley_ (Eyre, i. 428). 1654. The Tragedy of Alphonsus Emperour of Germany. As it hath been very often Acted (with great applause) at the Privat house in Black-Friers by his late Maiesties Servants. By George Chapman Gent. _For Humphrey Moseley._ [Epistle to the Reader. The B.M. copy of the play is dated ‘Novemb. 29, 1653’.] _Editions_ by K. Elze (1867) and H. F. Schwarz (1913), and in collections of Chapman (q.v.). _Alphonsus_ may reasonably be identified with the _Alfonso_ given before the Queen and the Elector Palatine at the Blackfriars on 5 May 1636 (Cunningham, xxiv). The ascription on the title-page to Chapman is repeated therefrom by Langbaine who rejects that of Kirkman in 1661 and 1671 (Greg,...