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Rymer, çala (20  April  1803) Could be item #933 or # 1384:
Rymer, ThomasThe tragedies of the last age, consider'd and examin'd by the practice of the ancients, and by the common sense of all ages, in a letter to Fleetwood Shepheard, Esq. 1678
WG's sale catalog lists:
Rymer's (T.) Tragedies of the last Age Examined, and Short View of Tragedy, with Reflections on Shakespeare 1692-93 (item 636).
OR
Papers of Thomas Rymer in a collection relating to the history and government of England, made for his ‘Foedera,' published as follows:
Rymer, ThomasSanderson, Robert (editor)Foedera, conventiones, literae, et cujuscunque, generis acta publica, inter reges Angliae, et alios quosvis imperatores, reges, pontifices, principes, vel communitates, ab ineunte saecula duodecimo, viz: ab anno 1101, ad nostra usque tempora, habita aut tractata, ex autographis infra secretiores archivorum regiorum thesaurarias et per multa saecula reconditis, fidelitor excripta. Ex schedis Thoma Rymer postissium edidit Robertus Sanderson, Tomus 16. 1615
WG's biography of Chaucer cites:
Rymer, Foedera, Tom. XI, 9 Edv. 4, Apr. 24 (1:60).

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